Architectural
Period. | Sovereigns. | Important Events. |
| Saxon or Pre-Norman | Saxon Kings from
Alfred the Great. | |
| Alfred, 871 | Danish invasions |
| Edward the Elder, 901 | |
| Athelstane, 925 | |
| Edmund, 941 | |
| Edred, 946 | |
| Edwy, 955 | |
| Edgar, 959 | |
| Edward the Martyr, 975 | |
| Ethelred the Unready, 978 | |
| Edmund Ironside, 1016 | |
| Danish Kings. | |
| Cnut, 1017 | |
| Harold Harefoot, 1036 | |
| Hardicanute, 1040 | |
| Saxon Kings. | |
| Edward the Confessor, 1042 | |
| Harold II. 1066 | Norman Conquest |
| Norman and Transitional, 1066-1190 | William I., 1066 | Domesday compilation |
| William II., 1087 | First Crusade, 1096 |
| Henry I., 1100 | |
| Stephen, 1135 | Civil war with Matilda throughout reign |
| Henry II., 1154 | Murder of Becket, 1170 |
| Early English, 1190-1280 | Richard I., 1189 | Third Crusade, 1189 |
| John, 1199 | The Interdict, 1208
Magna Charta, 1215
Invasion of Louis the Dauphin, 1215 |
| Henry III., 1216 | Battle of Lewes, 1264
First Parliament, 1265 |
| Decorated, 1280-1360 | Edward I., 1272 | War with Scotland |
| Edward II., 1307 | |
| Edward III., 1327 | The Black Death, 1349 |
| Perpendicular, 1360-1500 | Richard II., 1377 | Wat Tyler's Rebellion |
| Henry IV., 1399 | |
| Henry V., 1413 | Battle of Agincourt |
| Henry VI., 1422 | Wars of the Roses |
| Edward IV., 1461 | Wars of the Roses
Printing introduced |
| Edward V., 1483 | Murdered in the Tower |
| Richard III., 1483 | Killed at Bosworth |
| Tudor, 1500-1600 | Henry VII., 1485 | Discovery of America, 1492 |
| Henry VIII., 1509 | Field of the Cloth of Gold, 1520
Cardinal Wolsey, 1471-1530
Dissolution of the Monasteries, 1536 |
| Edward VI., 1547 | Copy of the Bible ordered to be placed in every church |
| Mary, 1553 | Persecution of Protestants |
| Elizabeth, 1558 | Execution of Mary Queen of Scots, 1587
Spanish Armada, 1588 |
| Jacobean | James I., 1603 | Gunpowder Plot, 1605 |
| Charles I., 1625 | Civil War began, 1642 |
| The Commonwealth, 1649 | |
| Charles II., 1660 | The Great Plague, 1665 |
| James II., 1685 | Monmouth's Rebellion, 1685
Revolution and landing of William of Orange, 1688 |
| Queen Anne | William and Mary, 1689 | |
| Anne, 1702 | Union of England and Scotland |
| Georgian | George I., 1714 | South Sea Bubble, 1720 |
| George II., 1727 | Rebellion of 1745
Taking of Canada, 1759 |
| George III., 1760 | American War of Independence, 1775
French Revolution, 1789 |
| George IV., 1820 | |
| William IV., 1830 | The first railway opened
Reform Act, 1832 |
| Victorian | Victoria, 1837 | The Chartists, 1848
Great Exhibition, 1851
Crimean War, 1854
Indian Mutiny, 1857 |
| Edward VII., 1901 | |
| George V., 1910 | |