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1 Prehistory
1.1 Stone Age
1.2 Later Prehistory
1.3 Genetic history of the English
2 Roman Britain
3 The Anglo-Saxon invasion
4 Heptarchy and Christianisation
5 Viking challenge and the rise of Wessex
6 English unification
7 England under the Danes and the Norman conquest
8 Norman England
9 England under the Plantagenets
9.1 Magna Carta
10 14th century
10.1 Black Death
11 15th century – Henry V and the Wars of the Roses
12 Tudor England
12.1 Henry VII
12.2 Henry VIII
12.3 Edward VI and Mary I
12.4 Elizabeth I
12.4.1 Elizabethan era
12.4.2 Foreign affairs
12.5 End of Tudor era
13 17th century
13.1 Union of the Crowns
13.2 Colonial England
13.3 English Civil War
13.4 Restoration of the monarchy
13.5 Glorious Revolution
14 Formation of the United Kingdom
15 Modern England, 18th–19th centuries
15.1 Industrial Revolution
15.2 Local governance
16 20th and 21st centuries
16.1 General history and political issues
16.2 Political history and local government
16.3 Recent changes
17 See also
17.1 Related historical overviews
17.2 Historical lists and timelines
17.3 Overviews of significant historical eras
17.4 Related English history topics
17.4.1 Societal overviews
17.4.2 Local government
17.4.3 Historical subtopics
18 References
19 Further reading
19.1 Primary sources