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Local
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Kings
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Wars
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Happenings
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Inventions
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2Million
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Paleolithic
(old stone age)
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8000BC
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Stone Age
(herding and agriculture)
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3500BC
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Bronze Age
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1500BC
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Iron Age
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650BC
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Invasion of British Isles by Celts.
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Celts bring Iron Age technology and Druidic religion. Hill forts built.
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100BC
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55BC - Caesar's invasion of Britain
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0AD
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410 - Roman legions withdrawn
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500
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802 - Egbert
855 - Aethelbald
860 - Aethelbert
866 - Aethelred
871 - Alfred (the Great)
924 - Athelstan
939 - Edmund I
946 - Edred
955 - Edwy
959 - Edgar
975 - Edward the Martyr
978 - Ethelred the Unready
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518 - British defeat the Saxons
878 - Alfred the Great defeats Guthrun
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1000
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1016 - King Cnut
1035 - Harold I
1040 - Hardecanute
1042 - Edward the Confessor
1066 - Harold II
1066 - William the Conqueror
1087 - William Rufus
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1066 - Battle of Hastings
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1086 - Domesday Book
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1100
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1100 - Henry I
1135 - Stephen
1154 - Henry II
1189 - Richard I
1199 - John
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1200
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1273 - First Cistercian Monks at Buckland Abbey
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1199 - John
1216 - Henry III
1272 - Edward I
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1215 - Magna Carta
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1300
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1307 - Edward II
1327 - Edward III
1377 - Richard II
1399 - Henry IV
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1347 - Start of Hundred Years War
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1348 to 51 - Black Death
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1400
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1413 - Henry V
1422 - Henry VI
1461 - Edward IV
1483 - Richard III
1485 - Henry VII
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1453 - End of Hundred Years War
1455 - Wars of the Roses begins
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1453 - Gutenberg prints first bible
1492 - Columbus arrives at America
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1500
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1540 - Francis Drake born
1541 Sir Richard Grenville purchased Buckland Abbey.
1558 - Virtuous Lady Mine Opened
1582 - Francis Drake purchased Buckland Abbey
1590 - Drake's Leat opened
1596 - Death of Sir Francis
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1509 - Henry VIII
1547 - Edward V
1553 - Mary
1558 - Elizabeth I
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1577 to 80 - Drake circumnavigates the world in Golden Hind
1588 - Spanish Armada
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1536 - Dissolution of monasteries
1566 - Tobacco introduced to England
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1600
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1689 - Devonport naval dockyard established
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1603 - James I
1625 - Charles I
1649 - Commonwealth
1660 - Charles II
1685 - James II
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1605 - Gunpowder plot
1618 - Thirty Years War
1642 - English Civil War
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1620 - Pilgrim Fathers sail
1661 - Postage stamps used
1665 - Great Plague
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1608 - Telescope - Galileo
1666 - Laws of Gravity - Newton
1698 - steam engine - Thomas Savery
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1700
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1720 - Anne
1714 - George I
1727 - George II
1760 - George III
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1756 - Seven Years War
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1760 - Start of Industrial Revolution
1768 - Encyclopaedia Britannica
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1731 - Sextant - John Hadley
1769 - Steam Engine - Watt
1784 - Threshing machine Andrew Meikle
1796 - Coal gas first used for lighting
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1800
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1806 - Dartmoor Prison opened
1807 - Virtuous Lady Mine Closed
1810 - Devon Friendship Mine (Near Mary Tavy)
1830 - Virtuous Lady Mine opened again
1898 - Burrator Reservoir opened
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1820 - George IV
1830 - William IV
1837 - Victoria
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1800 - Trafalgar
1815 - Napoleon defeated at Waterloo
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1807 - Slave Trade abolished
1835 - Great Western Railway
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1800 - Electric light Sir Humphrey Davy
1820 - electro-magnetic rotation - Faraday
1832 - Electric telegraph - Morse
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1850
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1870 - Virtuous Lady Mine Closed Again
1876 - Kelly College Opened
1895 - Yelverton Station Opened
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1853 - Crimean War
1861 - American Civil War
1879 - Zulu War
1881 - Boer War
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1884 - Greenwich Mean Time
1885 - National Trust formed
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1858 - First Atlantic cable laid.
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1900
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1910 - Devon Friendship Mine Closed
1940-45 - RAF Station Harrowbeer (Roborough Down)
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1901 - Edward VII
1910 - George V
1936 - Edward VIII
1936 - George VI
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1914-18 - First World War
1939-45 - Second World War
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1900 - Human speech by radio waves
1926 - Television - John Logie Baird
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1950
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1951 - Dartmoor National Park Formed
1952 - Lopwell Dam
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1952 - Elizabeth II
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1950 - Korean War
1959 - Vietnam War
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1957 - Sputnik I launched
1981 - First IBM PC
1994 - 15M people on internet
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