| Timeline of Key Dates | Timeline of Empress Matilda of Key events |
| | Matilda was never actually crowned as Queen of England but she was the rightful heir as the daughter of King Henry I of England. She adopted the self-styled title of Empress but her cousin Stephen de Blois (King Stephen) seized the English throne |
| 1102 | Empress Matilda was born in 1102, her exact date of birth is unknown |
| 1120 | Matilda's elder brother William Audelin and heir to the English throne died in a ship wreck |
| 1125 | Matilda, was briefly married to the German Henry V, the Holy Roman Emperor but he died in 1125 |
| 1125 | Matilda returns to Normandy |
| 1127 | In January 1127 King Henry I forced the Barons to swear allegiance to Matilda |
| 1128 | Matilda marries Geoffrey of Anjou and they had three sons Henry, Geoffrey, Count of Nantes and her youngest son was called William |
| 1136 | Matilda's eldest son, Henry, was born on March 5, 1133 (later, King Henry II of England) |
| 1135 | King Henry I dies on December 1 |
| 1135 | Stephen seizes the throne of England on December 22 |
| 1136 | The civil war between Stephen and Matilda begins |
| 1139 | Matilda arrives in England and her greatest supporter was Robert Earl of Gloucester, who was an illegitimate son of Henry I and step-brother to Matilda |
| 1141 | Stephen captured at the Battle of Lincoln in February when Stephen laid siege to Lincoln Castle. He was then imprisoned |
| 1141 | April - Matilda was claimed Queen of England |
| 1141 | June - Matilda entered London for her coronation but had no support in London and was forced to flee the city. |
| 1141 | September 14 - The Rout of Winchester. Stephen's imprisonment was ended when he was exchanged for the Earl of Gloucester who had been captured by Stephen's supporters |
| 1142 | Matilda continued plotting against Stephen with the aid of Geoffrey de Mandeville |
| 1143 | September - Stephen arrested Geoffrey de Mandeville taking his lands and making him an outlaw and depriving Matilda of one of her most powerful allies |
| 1145 | King Stephen captured the castle at Farringdon from Matilda |
| 1147 | Robert, Earl of Gloucester died and Matilda gave up her fight for England and she conceded the throne to Stephen |
| 1147 | Start of the Second Crusade |
| 1147 | Matilda left England for Normandy and spent the rest of her life in a convent |
| 1147 | The eldest son of Matilda, Henry, attempted to invade England but he failed |
| 1149 | Henry again attempted to invade England but he was driven back to Normandy by Stephen |
| 1153 | Henry once again invaded England and Stephen was forced to agree that Henry, the son of Matilda, should be heir to the throne of England instead of his own son, Eustace |
| 1154 | King Stephen died in October. In December Henry, the son of Matilda, succeeded King Stephen as King Henry II of England |
| 1167 | Matilda died at Rouen in France on 10 September 1167 |
| 1167 | Matilda was buried in Rouen Cathedral |
