THE TICKTUM COLLECTION
The Ticktum Collection contains items dating from the Roman period to the 20th Centuary.
However, the majority of the Collection relates to the period between 1500 and 1900.
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Henry VII Defeats the army of King Richard III at Bosworth
1500
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1540
Henry VIII undertakes the expansion of two palaces seized from Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, Whitehall and Hampton Court
1560
1580
Spanish monarch Phillip II sends the Armada, a fleet of 130 ships, to England in an attempt to overthrow Elizabeth
Maidenhead
1st Henry VIII
HenryVIII
W Rogers
Campanula
Osbourne
1480
15000
Parliament passes the Act of Supremacy, establishing the Church of England and declaring that the English monarch is its head and protector
Elizabeth daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, accedes to the throne
1600
S T U A R T
1620
The Pilgrim Fathers, a group of Puritan separatists, set sail for North America on the Mayflower.
1640
1660
Most of London is destroyed in a fire that rages for five days
1680
1700
A statue of the Baroque composer Georg Frideric Handel is erected at Vauxhall Gardens in London
Kings Lynn
Beccles
Cornish Bezzants
Puritan
Cork
De Laramie
James VI of Scotland ascends the throne of England as James I, the country's first Stuart monarch
Civil war breaks out in England as the culmination of a longstanding rivalry between Charles I and Parliament
The Battle of the Boyne
1720
G E O R G I A N
1740
The Battle of Culloden brings an end to the Jacobite Risings
King George II dies
1760
1780
William Pitt the younger, later Prime Minister, enters Parliament.
1800
1820
The world's first modern railway, the Stockton and Darlington Railway opens in England
Aberdeen
Onslow Fancy Back
Birmingham Fancy Back
Channel Islands
Dublin Sieve
Peterhead
Edmond Halley is appointed Astronomer Royal
Issac Newton Dies
King George III ascends the throne
The Iron Bridge is completed across the River Severn the first all cast-iron bridge ever constructed.
Great Britain passes the Act of Union to join Great Britain and Ireland into the United Kingdom
1840
V I C T O R I A N
1860
The first electric streetlight is installed in Wabash Indiana
1880
1900
Sugar Spoon
Naturalistic
Judy Spoon
UP
Queen Victoria marries Prince Albert
Britain issues the penny black the worlds first postage stamp
The first successful airship is built by Ferdinand Von Zeppelin
