MONARCH	YEARS OF RULE	HISTORIC EVENTS
William the Conqueror	1066-1087	Battle of Hastings, 1066 Domesday Book 1086
William II (Rufus)	1087-1100
Henry I	1100-1135
Stephen	1135-1154
Henry II	1154-1189	Thomas a Becket 1170
Richard I (Coeur de Lion)	1189-1199
John	1199-1216	Magna Carta, 1215
Henry III	1216-1272
Edward I	1272-1307
Edward II	1307-1327	Battle of Crecy & Potiers The Black Death
Edward III	1327-1377
Richard II	1377-1399	Peasants Revolt (1381)
Henry IV	1399-1413
Henry V	1413-1422	Battle of Agincourt (1415)
Henry VI	1422-1461
Edward IV	1461-1470
Henry VI (Restored)	1470-1471	Wars of the Roses
Edward IV (Returned)	1471-1483
Edward V	1483
Richard III	1483-1485	Battle of Bosworth (1485)
Henry VII	1485-1509	Tudor monarchs
Henry VIII	1509-1547	Dissolution of Monastaries Wives of Henry VIII: Catherine of Aragon (mother of Mary I); Anne Boleyn (mother of Elizabeth I); Jane Seymour (mother of Edward VI); Anne of Cleves; Katherine Howard; Katherine Parr
Edward VI	1547-1553	Reformation  English Book of Common Prayer
Mary I	1553-1558	Brief restoration of Catholicism
Elizabeth I	1558-1603	Elizabethan Era Spanish Armada Shakespeare Mary, Queen of Scots
James I	1603-1625	Jacobean Era Stuart Kings King James Bible
Charles I	1625-1649	English Civil War
Commonwealth (Oliver Cromwell)	1649-1660	Execution of Charles I
Charles II	1660-1685	Restoration Great Fire of London (1666) Samuel Pepys diaries
James II	1685-1688
William (II) and Mary	1689-1694	Bloodless Revolution
William II	1694-1702
Anne	1702-1714
George I	1714-1727	Georgian Age House of Hanover
George II	1727-1760
George III	1760-1820	American War of Independence Napoleonic Wars (1793-1814) War of 1812 Regency: 1811-1820 (Prince of Wales as Regent)
George IV	1820-1830
William IV	1830-1837
Victoria	1837-1901	House of Saxe-Coburg Industrial Revolution Victorian Age

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