Inghilterra bandiera

history of united kingdom

By elisabettaberga
  • 12,000 BCE

    stone ange

    • men migrated to Britain – Europe and Britain were connected – then, the rising water levels cut off Britain from Europe – those men left separeted from Europe
  • Period: 4000 BCE to 4000 BCE

    Neolitic Immigrants

    arrived from Europe and started to cultivate the
    land
  • Period: 2500 BCE to 2500 BCE

    Iron Age

    people began to divide into tribes
  • Period: 2000 BCE to 1300 BCE

    Celts

    arrived to Britain from Central Europe
  • Period: 58 BCE to 410

    Roman Invasion

    – they built roads still existing now
    – the Hadrian Wall on the Scottish border
    – they leave Britain in 410 A.D. and other invaders arrived
  • Period: 410 to 1066

    Norman Conquest

    – the Anglo-Saxon invaded the North and the West of Britain, and also
    Cornwall, Wales and Scotland.
    – The Saxon King was Edward the Confessor
    – Edward died in 1066
    – William duke of Normandy was crowned King of England with the name of
    William I
  • Period: 1066 to 1066

    The Normans

    unified England and took control of Wales and Ireland
    – they introduced the Feudal System made of nobles, knights, serfs
    – the lands belonged to the King
    – the serfs worked on the land, but could not posses them
  • Period: 1215 to 1215

    Magna Carta

    is a document which limited the power of the King – the Feudalism began to decline
  • Period: 1300 to 1400

    Black Death

    known as 'the Pestilence', a pandemic which killed 60% of Europe population
  • Period: 1357 to 1453

    The Hundred Years War:

    a War between England and France
  • Period: 1455 to 1485

    The War of the Roses:

    a war between the York and the Lancaster which created a new royal house: The Tudors
  • Period: 1485 to 1485

    Tudors

    on the throne : Henry Tudor ascended to the throne with the name of Henry VII
    – His son Henry VIII came after his death, and became famous for his 6
    marriages, in search of a male heir
    – the Pope didn't allow him to divorce, so Henry VIII became Head of the
    Protestant Church of England which took distance from the Catholic
    Church
  • Period: 1558 to

    Elizabeth I

    Henry VIII's daughter ascends to the throne, reigns until 1603
    – Elizabeth's reign was the most glorious era for Britain with
    explorations, colonizations, victories in wars
    – England became very important as trading nation.