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The iberians brought their metal-working skills and they become the first real civilization in Britain. -
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. -
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The Celts invasions started on this period, they introduced their tribal organization and agriculture before they were forced westwards by the Romans. -
The Romans ruled Britain for over 200 years. They left behind three important things: roads, sites of important cities, and the seeds of Christianity. -
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. -
Picts raided Britain from the north, the Scots came from Ireland and the Jutes and Saxons attacked the country and its eastern coasts. -
When Germanic tribes invaded Britain, these tribes were the Saxons, the Angles and the Jutes. -
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. -
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.
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He defended England from the Viking Invasions and he also formulated a code of laws and fostered a rebirth of religious and scholarly activity.
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King Alfred offered Guthrum the Danish leader peace. The treaty of Wedmore divided Wessex from Danelaw (part of Englad occupied by the Danes). -
England falls under Danish rule. -
The King Canute manages to unite the Anglo-saxons and Danes at the beginning of 11th Century.
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The English accepted Sweyn Forkbeard as king after his several invasions to England. -
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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. -
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. -
Be continuing competence between England and France bristle tips and the Hundred years’ war.
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The illness known as Black Death killed about 30% of the people in England.
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Under the king Henry the eight passed acts of union extending English laws and norms into Wales.
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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.
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William Caxton was a writer and translator who set up the first the printing press at Westminster in 1476. -
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.
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When Henry VIII ascended to the throne
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The origin of the Early Modern English Period
When Henry VIII ascended to the throne -
He was considered the most influential playwriter of that period and he had 38 plays apparently written, modified or collaborated on. -
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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.
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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. -
The revolution ended with the execution of King Charles I on January 1649. -
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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 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. -
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 -
Queen Victoria dies in January 1901 on the isle of Wight at age 81, ending the Victorian Era.
