If anybody wants to add on any dates, reply to this post and I'll add them in to make one long list.
1066 Battle of Hastings
1086 Domesday Book
1215 Magna Carta
26/08/1346 The Battle of Cressy, one of the most important battles of the Hundred Years' War because of the combination of new weapons and tactics used
1381 The Peasant's Revolt
1459 Battle of Bloor Heath Staffordshire - 1st battle War of the Roses, we lost.
1509-1547 Henry VIII
1538 Start of Parish Registers
1543-1567 Mary Queen of Scots
1547-1553 Edward VI
1553-1558 Mary I
1558-1603 Elizabeth I
1567-1603 James VI (of Scotland)
1597 Start of Bishop's Transcripts
1603-1625 James I (James VI of Scotland)
1612 Pendle Witches Trial Lancashire
1625-1649 Charles I
1642-1652 English Civil War
1649-1653 Protectorate
1649 Charles II crowned King in Scotland
1653-1658 Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell
1658-1659 Protectorate of Richard Cromwell
1660-1685 Charles II - House of Stuart restored
19/5/1662 Hearth Tax introduced (England and Wales)
1685-1688 James II of England James VII of Scotland
1689-1694 William & Mary
25/3/1689 Hearth Tax abolished
12th July 1690 - Battle of the Boyne - Williamite versus Jacobite forces.
1690 - August to September - 1st Siege of Limerick by the Williamite forces. Unsuccessful!
12th July 1691 - Battle of Aughrim, Ireland [over 7,000 men killed!]
1691 - August to October - 2nd Siege of Limerick by the Williamite forces. Successful.
1692 Massacre of Glencoe
1694-1702 William III
1696 Education Act ordained that there should be a school in every parish
1702-1714 Queen Anne
1714-1727 George I
1715 First Jacobite Rebellion
1727-1760 George II
1746 Battle of Culloden
1752 Gregorian Calendar
1760-1820 George III
1775-1783 American War of Independence
1796 Death duties began (England and Wales)
1799-1815 Napoleonic Wars
11/02/1810 Spire of St Nicholas' Church, Chapel Street collapsed as Sunday morning worship was about to take place. Among other victims, 24 little girls died. All from Moorfields' Charity School.
1880 Liverpool granted city status
1880 Liverpool Diocese created (from Chester Diocese) Church of England.
10/3/1801 Head count census, few remaining
1807 Britain banned the slave trade
27/5/1811 Head count census, few remaining
1820-1830 George IV
28/5/1821 Head count census, few remaining
1830-1837 William IV
30/5/1831 Head count census, few remaining
1834 Poor Law Reform Act - setting up of Union Workhouses
1835 Poor Law Unions began, lasting until 1929
1835 Kirkdale incorporated into borough of Liverpool
1837-1901 Queen Victoria
1/7/1837 Beginning of Civil Registration
6/6/1841 Census night
1845 Irish civil registration began for non-Catholic marriage
1848-1864 Griffiths Valuation of Irish Rateable Property
30/3/1851 Census night
1852/53 Burial Act for London then England and Wales allowing establishment of cemeteries.
1854-1856 Crimean War
1857 Matrimonial Causes Act allowing Divorce through the Law Courts
1858 Wills proven in the Probate Courts
1860's Women allowed to attend some universities
1861 Post Office Savings Bank opened
1861-1865 American Civil War
7/4/1861 Census night
1864 Sept qtr - Civil Registration of BMDs began in Ireland
1866 Age at death was included on the GRO index
1870 Married Women's Property Act
1870 Franco-Prussian War
2/4/1871 Census night
1872 Wavertree Town Hall built
1874 Birth and Death Act - compulsory registration of births
1874 Doctor's certification of cause of death required on certificates.
1876 School leaving age - 10 (England and Wales)
1878 Women allowed to take degree examination in London
1879 Zulu War
1880-1881 First Boer War
3/4/1881 Census night
1882 Married Women's Property Act
1882-1895 Egypt and Sudan Campaign
1885 Third Burma War
5/4/1891 Census night
1893 office of Lord Mayor created (replacing mayors)
1893 School leaving age - 11 (England and Wales)
1894 Incorporated as Urban Districts: Allerton, Garston, Much Woolton, Wavertree, West Derby.
1895 incorporated into city of Liverpool: Wavertree, West Derby
25/11/1896 first cremation at Anfield Crematorium.
1896 Palm House Sefton Park opened
1899 School leaving age - 12 (England and Wales)
1899-1902 Second Boer War
1901-1910 Edward VII
31/3/1901 Census night
1901 First complete census for Ireland
1903 incorporated into city of Liverpool: Garston
1907 Dead Wife's Sister's Act (man allowed to marry his sister in law)
1910-1936 George V
2/4/1911 Census night
1911 Census for Ireland
1/7/1911 Mother's maiden name included on GRO birth index
1/1/1912 Spouse surname included on GRO marriage index
1913 incorporated into city of Liverpool: Allerton, Much Woolton
4/8/1914 World War I - Great Britain declares war on Germany
18/5/1917 Conscription began
1918 Deliberate destruction by the Irish Government of the Irish censuses for 1881 and 1891
1918 School leaving age - 14 (England and Wales)
1918 Votes for women over 30
11/11/1918 the Armistice was signed with Germany
1920 Women allowed to take degree examination in Oxford
19/06/1921 Census Night
1921 Dead Husband's Brother's Act (woman allowed to marry her brother in law)
30/6/1922 Irish Public Records Office destroyed during the 'Battle of Dublin' in Irish Civil War
1923 Women allowed to take degree examination in Cambridge
1/7/1927 Register of Still Births began
1927 Adoption system began
1928 Votes for everybody over 21
1929 Legal age for marriage raised to 16 for both sexes (from 14 men, 12 women) parental consent still required up to age 21.
26/4/1931 Census night - documents destroyed in WWII
1936 Edward VIII and abdicated
1937-1952 George VI
29/9/1939 WWII National Registration
3/9/1939 WWII Britain declares war on Germany
1939 - 1945 No Electoral Registers during the war.
1941 May Blitz Liverpool
5/1/1941 Amy Johnson, 37 year old pioneering English flyer, vanished over the Thames Estuary. Crash site and her body never found
8/5/1945 Victory in Europe
15/8/1945 Victory in Japan (V-J Day)
1947 School leaving age - 15 (England and Wales)
1948-1960 National Service Act
1949 Marriage Act Section 28a added the Power to require evidence http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo ... ection/28A
08/04/1951 Census Night
1952 Queen Elizabeth II
7/6/1954 Alan Turing, widely considered to be the father of computer science and artificial intelligence, died aged 41
1956 Suez Invasion and withdrawal
23/04/1961 Census Night
1/1/1966 the first two forenames are shown in full in the birth indexes
1/4/1969 the precise date of birth was included in the death indexes and the first two forenames were shown in full
1969 Birth and Death certificates printed in portrait instead of landscape
1969 Age of majority reduced from 21 to 18 - new age for voting
25/04/1971 Census Night
1972/3 School leaving age - 16 (England and Wales)
1975 Access to original birth entry given to adult adopted persons
1976 - Liverpool & SWLancs FHS founded!
05/04/1981 Census Night
1982 Falklands War
1984 GRO Indexes began to be compiled on an annual basis
21/04/1991 Census Night
1991 Gulf War
29/04/2001 Census Night
5/12/2005 Civil partnerships were allowed in UK
27/03/2011 Census Night
29/03/2014 Same gender marriages allowed