Note: The compilers have done their best to position the Blackett references on the timeline to correspond to the era concerned, however exact correlation has not been possible.
Blakheved/Blackett History Timeline 1300-1815 (showing descent to the founders of this website)
| 1300 | 1300 | Dante’s Divine Comedy written about this time | |
| 1314 | Battle Of Bannockburn – Robert the Bruce defeats Edward II and makes Scotland independent | ||
| 1314 | The old St. Paul’s Cathedral built | ||
| Richard Blachved of Woodcroft ( – 1349) | 1325 | 1327 | Edward II abdicates and is imprisoned in a well by his wife and her lover |
| 1329 | Robert the Bruce dies | ||
| 1330 | Edward, The Black Prince is born | ||
| 1337 | The Hundred Years’ War begins | ||
| 1340 – 1343 | Geoffrey Chaucer born | ||
| 1349 – 1351 | The Black Death kills about 2 million people in Britain | ||
| Richard Blakheved of Woodcroft (1327 – 1368) | 1350 | 1356 | Battle of Poitiers, where the Black Prince captures the French King, ‘John the Good’ |
| 1362 | A poll tax is levied for the first time (to fund the war with France) | ||
| 1362 | First version of Piers Plowman, the first major literary work written in English | ||
| 1375 | 1377 | Richard II, the 10 year old son of the Black Prince becomes king | |
| 1382 | First translation of Bible into English | ||
| 1386 | Chaucer begins ‘Canterbury Tales’ | ||
| 1397 | Dick Whittington becomes Lord Mayor of London | ||
| 1399 | Henry IV becomes king | ||
| John Blakheved of Woodcroft (1360 – 1418) | 1400 | 1400 | Geoffrey Chaucer dies |
| 1400 | Average life expectancy in England 38 years | ||
| 1415 | Henry V leads the English at the battle of Agincourt in France | ||
| 1417 | End of the great Schism | ||
| 1422 | Henry VI becomes king (aged 9 months) | ||
| John Blakheved of Woodcroft (1394 – 1462) | 1425 | 1431 | Joan of Arc burnt at the stake in Rouen |
| 1431 | Henry VI crowned King of France | ||
| 1437 | Assassination of James I of Scotland | ||
| 1440 | Gutenberg prints from the first movable type | ||
| 1450 | 1453 | The fall of Constantinople to Sultan Mehmet II | |
| 1455 | The Wars Of The Roses begin in England | ||
| 1461 | The Battle Of Towton fought near Leeds. The bloodiest battle fought on British soil. 24,000 die. | ||
| 1465 | Music is printed for the first time | ||
| Thomas Blakehed of Woodcroft (- 1494) | 1475 | 1477 | Caxton prints the Canterbury Tales |
| 1480 | The Spanish Inquisition begins | ||
| 1483 | Edward V becomes King aged 12 | ||
| 1485 | The Battle Of Bosworth Field takes place where Richard III is slain | ||
| 1492 | Christopher Columbus sets sail across the Atlantic for the Americas | ||
| 1494 | Whisky distilled in Scotland for the first time | ||
| Alexander Blakheved of Woodcroft (1468 – 1521) | 1500 | 1503 | Leonardo Da Vinci begins painting the Mona Lisa |
| 1509 | Michael Angelo paints the Sistine Chapel | ||
| 1509 | Henry VIII becomes King Of England aged 18 | ||
| 1519 | Magellan sets sail around the world and proves that it is round | ||
| Nicholas Blackett of Woodcroft (1500 – 1568) | 1525 | 1530 | The Reformation |
| 1533 | The first lunatic asylums established in England | ||
| 1539 | The suppression of monasteries in England | ||
| 1546 | The death of Martin Luther | ||
| 1547 | Ivan The Terrible crowned Tsar of Russia | ||
| 1547 | Henry VIII dies aged 57 | ||
| Richard Blackett of Shipley and Hole House ( – 1589) | 1550 | 1550 | Michel Nostradamus publishes his prophecies |
| 1558 | Mary Tudor dies aged 42 | ||
| 1558 | Good Queen Bess, Elizabeth I becomes Queen of England | ||
| George Blackett of East Shipley (1565 – 1627) | 1575 | 1587 | Mary Queen of Scots beheaded |
| 1588 | The Spanish Armada sets off to invade England | ||
| 1596 | Galileo invents the thermometer | ||
| 1600 | 1603 | Queen Elizabeth I dies. James VI of Scotland becomes James I of England | |
| 1605 | Guy Fawkes and others attempt to blow up the Houses of Parliament | ||
| 1618 | Sir Walter Raleigh executed | ||
| 1620 | Voyage of the Mayflower from Plymouth, England to the New World (the Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts, USA) begins | ||
| John Blackett of Hill House (1599-1664) | 1625 | 1625 | Accession of Charles I |
| 1642 | The English Civil War begins | ||
| 1642 | Income and property tax introduced to England | ||
| 1649 | British monarchy abolished | ||
| 1650 | 1653 | Oliver Cromwell becomes Lord Protector | |
| 1662 | The Royal Society For Improving Natural Knowledge is formed by Christopher Wren, Isaac Newton, Robert Boyle and John Evelyn. The Age Of Science begins | ||
| 1666 | The Great Fire of London destroys 10,000 houses and 80 churches | ||
| 1673 | The Test Act passed excluding Catholics from public office | ||
| John Blackett (1639 – ) | 1675 | 1680 | The last dodo dies |
| 1685 | Charles II dies and James II accedes | ||
| 1694 | The Bank Of England established | ||
| John Blackett of Kayslea (1658 – 1737) | 1700 | 1707 | The Act of Union (England and Scotland) passed creating “Great Britain” for the first time |
| 1709 | Cristofori invents the piano | ||
| 1712 | Last trial for witchcraft in England (Jane Wrenham) | ||
| 1714 | The first Hanoverian monarch of England, George I is crowned | ||
| 1721 | Sir Robert Walpole becomes the first British Prime Minister | ||
| Elizabeth Blackett of Kayslea (1685-) | 1725 | 1727 | King George I dies |
| 1731 | Invention of the seed drill by Jethro Tull | ||
| 1731 | 10 Downing Street built for the British Prime Minister | ||
| 1739 | Dick Turpin hanged at York | ||
| 1745 | Bonnie Prince Charlie (the New Pretender) defeats the English at Prestonpans | ||
| Cuthbert Blackett of West Pitts, Hamsterley (1703-1778) | 1750 | 1752 | The Gregorian calendar adopted |
| 1755 | Canal building begins in Britain | ||
| 1756 | 123 British soldiers die in the 20ft square Black Hole of Calcutta | ||
| 1770 | Captain James Cook discovers Australia | ||
| Cuthbert Blackett of Southside (1745 – 1809) | 1775 | 1776 | American Declaration Of Independence |
| 1779 | First spinning mills operational in Scotland | ||
| 1783 | The Montgolifier Brothers’ first balloon flight | ||
| 1789 | The Times newspaper printed for the first time in England | ||
| 1789 | The French Revolution begins | ||
| 1800 | 1805 | Nelson dies at the Battle of Trafalgar | |
| 1807 | The slave trade is abolished throughout the British Colonies | ||
| 1815 | The Battle of Waterloo takes place | ||
| 1815 | The first decent roads built in Britain as toll and turnpike road |
Blakheved/Blackett History Timeline 1825-2000
| Cuthbert (1778 – 1861) | Cuthbert (1778 – 1861) | Joseph (1780-1869) | Joseph (1780-1869) | 1825 | 1825 | The Stockton and Darlington railway opens heralding the beginning of the Railway Age |
| 1834 | The Poor Law Amendment Act passed leading to the creation of the infamous pauper workhouses | |||||
| 1837 | Charles Darwin writes ’The Origin Of Species’ | |||||
| 1837 | Queen Victoria is crowned Queen | |||||
| 1842 | The Chartist Movement begins | |||||
| Joseph (1806-1870) | Joseph (1806-1870) | Robert (1816-1903) | Ralph (1812-1889) | 1850 | 1851 | Prince Albert organises ‘the Great Exhibition’ in Hyde Park, London |
| 1853 – 1856 | Dr Livingstone crosses Africa | |||||
| 1861 | The American Civil War begins | |||||
| 1868 | William Mildin, 14th Earl Of Sheatham, who was shipwrecked at the age of 11 on the west African Coast, becomes inspiration for Edgar Rice Burroughs’ ‘Tarzan Of The Apes’ | |||||
| Joseph (1844-1934) | Joseph (1844-1934) | Ralph (1842-1905) | Albert (1859-1936) | 1875 | 1876 | Alexander Bell invents the telephone |
| 1888 | Jack the Ripper roams the streets of London | |||||
| 1895 | The first movie is shown in Paris, France | |||||
| Thomas Winship (1874-1947) | Joseph (1866-1940) | Robert William (1865-1952) | Albert (1887-1958) | 1900 | 1901 | Queen Victoria dies |
| 1903 | The first powered aeroplane flight by the Wright brothers | |||||
| 1909 | Bleriot flies across the English Channel | |||||
| 1912 | The Titanic sinks | |||||
| 1914 | The Great War starts | |||||
| Richard (1907-1965) | Margaret (1908-1992) | Julia (1897-1998) | Irene Evelyn (1932-2019) | 1925 | 1925 | Baird invents the television |
| 1926 | The General Strike declared | |||||
| 1928 | All women over 21 in Britain get the vote | |||||
| 1929 | The Wall Street crash leads to worldwide recession | |||||
| 1939 – 1945 | Second World War | |||||
| 1949 | The British National Health Service is established | |||||
| 1949 | George Orwell’s ‘1984’ published | |||||
| Eric (1934- 1980) | Pat Longbottom (1946-) | Allan Kirtley (1942-) | John Burnell (1959-2007) | 1950 | 1950 | British troops support UN forces in Korea |
| 1951 | The Festival of Britain is opened by George VI | |||||
| 1952 | Queen Elizabeth II accedes to the throne | |||||
| 1965 | Death penalty in UK abolished | |||||
| 1965 | Winston Churchill dies | |||||
| 1966 | England wins the World Cup | |||||
| 1967 | The Beatles release ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ | |||||
| Martin Blackett (1964- ) | 1975 | 1978 | First test tube baby born in Oldham, England | |||
| 1979 | Margaret Thatcher becomes first British woman Prime Minister | |||||
| 1989 | Tim Berners-Lee invents the worldwide web | |||||
| 1989 | The Berlin Wall falls as communist regimes collapse worldwide | |||||
| 1994 | First women priests ordained into the Church Of England |