Timelines relevant to the Edexcel A Level History specification are a useful way of learning about events, recognising cause and effect, seeing change over time as well as understanding things that are happening at the same time.
Across the Totally Timelines site there are numerous timelines that can help in the teaching, learning and revision of Edexcel A Level History topics. Some have been produced for a particular specification while others offer relevant and/or background information.
Listed below each topic are the timelines that are relevant for that subject
Edexcel A Level History Timelines for Paper 1 Topics
1A – The Crusades, 1095–1204
King Richard I – 1157 – 1199
1B – England, 1509–1603: authority, nation and religion
The Tudors 1485 – 1603
King Henry VIII
Queen Elizabeth I
1C – Britain, 1625–1701: conflict, revolution and settlement
The Stuarts 1603 – 1714
1D – Britain, c1785–c1870: democracy, protest and reform
1E – Russia, 1917–91: from Lenin to Yeltsin
Tsarist Russia
Stalin’s Russia
1F – In search of the American Dream: the USA, c1917–96
The American Dream United States of America 1915 – 1988
1G – Germany and West Germany, 1918–89
Weimar and Nazi Germany 1918 – 1945
1H – Britain transformed, 1918–97
Britain 1930 – 1997
Edexcel A Level History Timelines for Paper 2
2A1 Anglo-Saxon England and the Anglo-Norman Kingdom, c1053–1106
The Norman Conquest 1064 – 1077
Harold Godwinson 1022 – 1066
King William I (Conqueror) 1027 – 1087
King William II (Rufus) 1057 – 1100
2A2 – England and the Angevin Empire in the reign of Henry II, 1154–89
King Henry II 1133 – 1189
2B1 – Luther and the German Reformation, c1515–55
The Reformation 1517 – 1648
Martin Luther 1483 – 1546
2B2 – The Dutch Revolt, c1563–1609
2C1 – France in Revolution, 1774–99
The French Revolution Causes and Events
2C2 – Russia in revolution, 1894–1924
The Russian Revolution 1905 Causes and Events
The Russian Revolution 1917 Causes and Events
Tsarist Russia 1855 – 1922
Tsar Nicholas II 1868 – 1918
Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
2D1 – The unification of Italy, c1830–70
2D2 – The unification of Germany, c1840–71
2E1 – Mao’s China 1949–76
Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
2E2 – The German Democratic Republic, 1949–90
2F1 – India, c1914–48: the road to independence
2F2 – South Africa, 1948–94: from apartheid state to ‘rainbow nation’
2G1 – The rise and fall of fascism in Italy, c1911–46
2G2 – Spain, 1930–78: republicanism, Francoism and the re-establishment of democracy
2H1 – The USA, c1920–55: boom, bust and recovery
The American Dream 1915 – 1988
2H2 – The USA, 1955–92: conformity and challenge
The American Dream 1915 – 1988
Edexcel A Level History Timelines for Paper 3
30 – Lancastrians, Yorkists and Henry VII, 1399–1509
The Wars of the Roses Causes and Events
King Henry VII 1457 – 1509
31 – Rebellion and disorder under the Tudors, 1485–1603
The Tudors 1485 – 1603
King Henry VIII 1491 – 1603
The Pilgrimage of Grace 1536 – 1537
Queen Elizabeth I 1558 – 1603
32 – The Golden Age of Spain, 1474–1598
King Philip II 1527 – 1598
33 -The witch craze in Britain, Europe and North America, c1580–c1750
34 1 – Industrialisation and social change in Britain, 1759–1928: forging a new society
The Industrial Revolution 1708 – 1918
34 2 – Poverty, public health and the state in Britain, c1780–1939
35 1 The British experience of warfare, c1790–1918
35 2 – Britain: losing and gaining an empire, 1763–1914
36 1 – Protest, agitation and parliamentary reform in Britain, c1780–1928
36 2 – Ireland and the Union, c1774–1923
The Irish Rebellion 1798 Causes and Events
37 1 – The changing nature of warfare, 1859–1991: perception and reality
37 2 – Germany, 1871–1990: united, divided and reunited
Weimar and Nazi Germany 1918 – 1945
38 1 – The making of modern Russia, 1855–1991
Tsarist Russia
Stalin’s Russia
38 2 – The making of modern China, 1860–1997
Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
39 1 – Civil rights and race relations in the USA, 1850–2009
American Civil Rights Movement 1865 – 1968
39 2 – Mass media and social change in Britain, 1882–2004
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