🧠 QUICK MEMORY
STONE → ROME → SAXONS/VIKINGS → NORMANS → TUDORS → UNION/EMPIRE → WARS → MODERN UK
🕰️ High-yield history spine
43 ADRoman conquest begins
410Romans leave Britain
1066Battle of Hastings — William the Conqueror
1215Magna Carta — king subject to law
1348Black Death arrives
1455–1485Wars of the Roses
1485Henry VII — Tudor dynasty begins
1588Spanish Armada defeated
1605Gunpowder Plot
1642–1651English Civil War
1688Glorious Revolution
1707Great Britain formed
1801United Kingdom formed
1914–1918First World War
1939–1945Second World War
1948NHS founded; Empire Windrush arrives
1998 / 1999Good Friday Agreement / Devolution
2016 / 2020Brexit referendum / UK leaves EU
2022Elizabeth II dies; Charles III accedes
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Sections in this chapter
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🏛️ Early Britain
Stone Age hunters to 1066 — Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Vikings and the Norman Conquest.
✓2🏰 The Middle Ages
Magna Carta, the Black Death, and the Wars of the Roses that ended in 1485.
✓3👑 The Tudors and Stuarts
Henry VIII's six wives, the Reformation, Elizabeth I, and the Civil War.
✓4🌍 A global power
The Bill of Rights, Union with Scotland, the first Prime Minister, and Empire.
✓5⚔️ The 20th century
Two World Wars, the partition of Ireland, and the fight for the vote.
✓6🏙️ Britain since 1945
The NHS, the Windrush generation, and Britain's changing place in Europe.
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