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3000 BCE
Iberians
The iberians brought their metal-working skills and they become the first real civilization in Britain. -
3000 BCE
United Kingdom History Start
The United Kingdom is located in northwestern Europe and includes the Island of Great Britain surrounding islands and part of Ireland. The country is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, the Irish sea and the English Channel. -
Period: 3000 BCE to Oct 10, 1066
Old English Period
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800 BCE
Celts invasions
The Celts invasions started on this period, they introduced their tribal organization and agriculture before they were forced westwards by the Romans. -
43
Romans invasions
The Romans ruled Britain for over 200 years. They left behind three important things: roads, sites of important cities, and the seeds of Christianity. -
122
Hadrian´s wall
Hadrian’s wall was built by orders of the Roman Emperor Hadrian when he visited Britain. This wall was built to separate the barbarians from the Romans. -
410
Invasions to the country
Picts raided Britain from the north, the Scots came from Ireland and the Jutes and Saxons attacked the country and its eastern coasts. -
560
Origin of the Old English
When Germanic tribes invaded Britain, these tribes were the Saxons, the Angles and the Jutes. -
597
Christianization
Pope Gregory sent the mission under St. Augustine, he chose him to lead a mission to convert the pagan Anglo-Saxons to the Christian faith. -
Period: 787 to 878
Vikings invations
They raided first England to plunder it, in the days of Alfred of Wessex they began to win the lands to plough and to rule. -
Period: 849 to 899
King Alfred the Great ruled United Kingdom
He defended England from the Viking Invasions and he also formulated a code of laws and fostered a rebirth of religious and scholarly activity. -
886
The treaty of Wedmore
King Alfred offered Guthrum the Danish leader peace. The treaty of Wedmore divided Wessex from Danelaw (part of Englad occupied by the Danes). -
901
Danish Rule
England falls under Danish rule. -
1001
Unite of Saxons and Danes
The King Canute manages to unite the Anglo-saxons and Danes at the beginning of 11th Century. -
1013
Sweyn Forkbeard the king
The English accepted Sweyn Forkbeard as king after his several invasions to England. -
1066
The Norman conquest
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1066
Middle English Period
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1066
King William of Normandy
On Christmas Day 1066, William of Normandy was made king in London, and over the next four years he completed his conquest of England and Wales. -
1204
King John
King John “Lackland” was the son of Henry II and Eleanor of Akutan, no land was given to him due to being the fourth child. In 1204 he lost all his Normandy possessions in France leading to a gradual decline of French as an official language in England. -
Period: 1337 to 1453
Hundred year’s war
Be continuing competence between England and France bristle tips and the Hundred years’ war. -
Period: 1348 to 1350
Black death
The illness known as Black Death killed about 30% of the people in England. -
Period: 1400 to 1500
Unite of Gales and England
Under the king Henry the eight passed acts of union extending English laws and norms into Wales. -
Period: 1455 to 1487
War of the Roses
The Wars of the Roses was a dynastic struggle between the English monarchy and nobility, which resulted in four decades of sporadic battles, murder, and execution plots. The nobility of England was split into two groups that were centred around the descendants of Edward III: The Lancasters and Yorks. -
1476
Printing press
William Caxton was a writer and translator who set up the first the printing press at Westminster in 1476. -
Period: 1486 to
Tudor Dinasty
Began: When the houses of Lancaster and York were united by the marriage of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York Ends: The Dynasty ended when Queen Elizabeth I died unmarried and without having a child. Therefore, the Tudor line ended, and the Throne went to the Scottish, House of Stuart. -
1509
The origin of the Early Modern English Period
When Henry VIII ascended to the throne -
Period: 1509 to
Modern english period
The origin of the Early Modern English Period
When Henry VIII ascended to the throne -
1564
William Shakespeare was born
He was considered the most influential playwriter of that period and he had 38 plays apparently written, modified or collaborated on. -
Elizabeth I die
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Period: to
Scotland and parts of Ireland became part of the United Kingdom
When Elizabeth I died in 1603, her cousin James VI of Scotland took the throne, so England and Scotland shared the same King. They joined and formed “Great Britain” in 1707. -
Union Jack
Is the National flag of United Kingdom. It combines the crosses of the three countries united under one Sovereign, The Kingdom of England and Wales, Scotland and Ireland. -
Charles I execution
The revolution ended with the execution of King Charles I on January 1649. -
Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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The Victorian Era starts
During the Victorian Age, Britain became the largest empire that had ever existed. At its height, the British Empire covered about one-fifth of the Earth’s land mass and Victoria ruled a quarter of the world’s population. There were also great changes and developments within Britain in science and technology, culture, and daily life. -
Queen Victoria marries Prince Albert
Queen Victoria marries Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, her first cousin. As queen, she was the one to propose. During their 21 years of marriage (until Albert died of typhoid in 1861) the couple had nine children. -
A Christmas Carol is published
Charles Dickens, one of the era’s greatest writers, publishes A Christmas Carol. Other works from the author during this period: Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, David Copperfield and Nicholas Nickleby, among others -
Victorian Era Ends
Queen Victoria dies in January 1901 on the isle of Wight at age 81, ending the Victorian Era.
