[timeline]
timeline
| YEAR | MONARCH | HISTORICAL EVENTS | BURTON UPON TRENT |
| 55 BC | Julius Caesar invades Britain. | ||
| AD 43 | Claudius invades Britain. | ||
| 410 | Romans abandon Britain. | ||
| 654 | Chad (Cedd) begins to convert Mercia. | ||
| 669 | Chad (Cedd) becomes bishop of Mercia. | ||
| c. 690 | St Modwen arrives at Burton and lives in cell on island of Andressey in Trent. | ||
| 927 | Athelstan of Wessex | ||
| 939 | Edmund I | ||
| 946 | Eadred | ||
| 955 | Eadwig | ||
| 959 | Edgar I | ||
| 975 | Edward 'The Martyr' | ||
| 978 | Ethelred 'The Unready' | ||
| 1002 | Wulfric Spot endows Burton abbey with 48 estates and appoints King Ethelred its 'lord'. | ||
| 1004 | Monks at Burton abbey begin compiling Annals, continuing for every year to 1258. | ||
| 1013 | Swein Forkbeard | Danes conquer England. | |
| 1014 | Ethelred 'The Unready' | ||
| 1016 | Edmund II | ||
| Ironsides (Apr) | |||
| Cnut (Nov) | |||
| 1037 | Harold I 'Harefoot' | ||
| 1040 | Harthacnut | ||
| 1042 | Edward 'The Confessor' | ||
| 1066 | Harold II | Norman Conquest. | |
| 'Godwinson' (Jan) | |||
| William I of Normandy (Dec) | |||
| 1087 | William II 'Rufus' | ||
| 1094 | Abbot Geoffrey Mauland expelled. | ||
| 1100 | Henry I | ||
| 1135 | Stephen of Blois | ||
| 1154 | Henry II | ||
| 1159 | Abbot Robert expelled. | ||
| 1189 | Richard I | ||
| 1199 | John | ||
| 1200 | King John grants Abbot William Melburne right to hold three-day fair and weekly market. Marks birth of borough of Burton. | ||
| 1216 | Henry III | ||
| 1257 | Abbot Lawrence attends Henry III's Great Council at Westminster. | ||
| 1272 | Edward I | ||
| 1307 | Edward I | ||
| 1319 | Edward II appoints one of his officials to act as 'keeper' of the abbey. | ||
| c. 1320 | Abbot William Bromley builds 'great Hall near the waters of the Flete', which could be abbey infirmary. | ||
| 1322 | Battle of Burton bridge. | ||
| 1327 | Edward III | ||
| 1340-1453 | Hundred Years' War. | ||
| c. 1347 | Abbot John Ibstock builds private residence in abbey precinct. | ||
| 1348-9 | Black Death. | ||
| 1349 | Black Death reaches Burton. | ||
| 1361 | Black Death returns to Burton. | ||
| 1367 | Town inhabitants refuse to use abbey's mill, and 10 villeins refuse to carry out autumn labour services owed to abbey. | ||
| 1377 | Richard II | ||
| 1382 | Abbey so impoverished that monks unable to live decently. | ||
| 1399 | Henry IV | ||
| 1400 | Henry IV excuses abbey of a debt incurred by 'improvident governance' of Abbot Thomas. | ||
| 1404 | Abbot John Sudbury ravishes Margery, wife of Nicholas Taverner, in his chamber. | ||
| 1407 | Abbot John Sudbury pardoned for ravishing Margery and for offences of violence and theft. | ||
| 1410 | Charter grants right to celebrate mass at Seyne Park (Sinai Park House). | ||
| 1412 | Abbot John Sudbury pardoned for intrigues against Henry IV on condition he does not support any of the king's adversaries. | ||
| 1413 | Henry V | ||
| 1422 | Henry VI | At bishop's visitation, monks complain that Abbot John Sudbury does not sleep in the dormitory or eat in the refectory. Sudbury charged with maladministration and found guilty of adultery. | |
| 1424 | Abbot John Sudbury resigns. | ||
| 1455 | Abbot Ralph Henley suspended. | ||
| 1455-85 | Wars of the Roses. | ||
| 1461 | Edward IV | ||
| 1471 | Battle of Tewkesbury. | ||
| 1483 | Edward V (April) | ||
| Richard III (June) | |||
| 1485 | Henry VII | ||
| 1509 | Henry VIII | ||
| 1518 | In bishops' report, monks complain of inadequate 'holidays'. | ||
| 1535 | Valor Ecclesiasticus values Seyne Park at £8. | ||
| 1536-9 | Dissolution of the monasteries. | ||
| 1538 | Sir William Bassett removes statue of St Modwen from shrine on island and defaces tabernacle. | ||
| 1539 | Henry VIII's royal commissioner receives abbey's surrender. | ||
| 1541 | Abbey reconstituted as collegiate church of Christ and St Mary. | ||
| 1543 | Sir William Paget becomes one of two principal secretaries of state to Henry VIII. | ||
| 1545 | Collegiate church dissolved. | ||
| 1546 | Collegiate church and all its possessions granted to Sir William Paget. | ||
| 1547 | Edward VI | ||
| 1549 | On fall from power of duke of Somerset, Sir William Paget created a peer: Lord Paget of Beaudesert. | ||
| 1551 | Paget imprisoned in Tower of London and fined; later released. | ||
| 1553 | Jane (July) | ||
| Mary I (July) | |||
| 1558 | Elizabeth I | ||
| 1563 | Paget dies. | ||
| c. 1580 | Inventory of Pagets' Manor House shows over 60 rooms. | ||
| 1583 | Paget family estates confiscated and title lost because of 3rd baron's complicity in Throckmorton plot. | ||
| 1588 | Spanish Armada. | ||
| 1597 | William, 4th Baron Paget, restored to his estates. | ||
| 1603 | James I | William, 4th Baron Paget, restored to his title. | |
| 1605 | Gunpowder Plot. | Warrant to build new lodge at Seyne Park. | |
| 1621 | Manor House leased to Richard Almond. | ||
| 1625 | Charles I (executed 1649) | ||
| 1641-6 | English Civil War. | ||
| 1649 | England proclaimed a Commonwealth. | ||
| LORD PROTECTORS | |||
| 1653 | Oliver Cromwell | ||
| 1658 | Richard Cromwell | ||
| MONARCHS | |||
| 1660 | Charles II | Restoration. | |
| 1665-6 | Great Plague. | ||
| 1685 | James II | Monmouth's Rebellion. | |
| 1689 | William III & Mary II | ||
| 1702 | Anne | ||
| 1714 | George I | ||
| 1727 | George II | ||
| 1745-7 | Jacobite Rebellion. | ||
| 1756-63 | Seven Years' War. | ||
| 1760 | George III | ||
| 1772 | Market hall built by Abbot Thomas Feld (1472-93) demolished and replaced with town hall. | ||
| 1776-82 | American Revolution. | ||
| 1801 | General Enclosure Act. | ||
| 1803-15 | Napoleonic Wars. | ||
| Slave trade abolished. | |||
| 1820 | George IV | ||
| 1830 | William IV | ||
| 1837 | Victoria | ||
| 1854-6 | Crimean War. | ||
| 1861-5 | American Civil War. | ||
| 1867 | 2nd Reform Act enfranchises virtually all men in towns & extends franchise in country but excludes poorer agricultural labourers. | ||
| 1883 | Present market hall opened. | ||
| 1884 | 3rd Reform Act: uniform male suffrage in town & country; some 2 million farm workers get vote. | ||
| 1899-1902 | Boer War | ||
| 1901 | Edward VII | ||
| 1910 | George V | Burton Club established in probable infirmary building that later becomes The Abbey Inn. | |
| 1914-18 | World War I. | ||
| c. 1925 | Abbey gatehouse removed. | ||
| 1936 | Edward VIII (January) | ||
| George VI (December) | |||
| 1939-45 | World War II. | ||
| 1950-1 | Korean War. | ||
| 1950 | Sinai Park House ceases to be lived in. | ||
| 1952 | Elizabeth II | ||
| 1982 | Falkland War. |
