Timelines relevant to the Edexcel GCSE 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 TheTimelineGeek we have a huge number of timelines relevant to UK exam topics. Some have been produced specifically for a particular exam while others offer relevant and/or background information.
Listed below each topic are the timelines that are relevant for that subject
Edexcel GCSE History – Timelines for Paper 1 Topics
10 – Crime and Punishment 1000 – present
Crime and Punishment in Britain c1000 – present
10 – Whitechapel, c1870-c1900: crime, policing and the
inner city
11 – Medicine in Britain, c1250–present
Medicine in Britain c1250 – present
11 The British sector of the Western Front, 1914–18
12 Warfare and British society, c1250–present
12 London and the Second World War, 1939–45
Edexcel GCSE History – Timelines for Paper 2 Topics
B1 – Anglo Saxon and Norman England 1060 – 86
King Harold II (Godwinson) 10 22- 1066
King William I 1027 – 1087
The Norman Conquest 1064 – 1077
B2 – The reigns of King Richard I and King John
King Richard I 1157 – 1199
King John 1162 – 1216
B3 – Henry VIII and his Ministers 1509 – 1540
King Henry VIII 1491 – 1547
Thomas Wolsey 1473 – 1530
Thomas Cromwell 1485 – 1540
Pilgrimage of Grace 1536 – 1537
B4 – Early Elizabethan England 1558 – 88
Queen Elizabeth I 1533 – 1603
Mary Queen of Scots 1542 – 1587
The Spanish Armada Causes and Events 1534 – 1588
P1 – Spain and the New World 1490 1555
Christopher Columbus 1451 – 1506
P2 – British America, 1713–83: empire and revolution
The American War of Independence Causes and Events
P3 – The American West, c1835–c1895
The American West 1830 – 1892
P4 Superpower relations and the Cold War, 1941–91
International Relations: The Cold War 1945 – 1991
P5 – Conflict in the Middle East, 1945–95
Edexcel GCSE History – Timelines for Paper 3 Topics
30 – Russia and the Soviet Union, 1917–41
Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
Stalin’s Russia 1922 – 1953
31 – Weimar and Nazi Germany, 1918–39
Weimar and Nazi Germany 1918 – 1945
Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
32 – Mao’s China, 1945–76
Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
33 – The USA, 1954–75: conflict at home and abroad
American Civil Rights Movement 1865 – 1968
The Vietnam War Causes and Events 1887 – 1978
Published Sept 24, 2020 @ 6:10 pm – Updated – [last-modified]