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5000 BCE
Britons
original inhabitans of Britain
Stonehenge -
500 BCE
Celts
known as barbarians
divided in clans
hill forts
farmers ( they invented the iron plough
druids
strong in battles
importance of women -
43
Romans
With the emperor Claudius
Adrian's wall
they built stone ruds, theatres, baths and aquedots -
410
Anglosaxons
they were from Jutland and Germany >warlike race>society ruled only by men> heptarchy>sutton hoo
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800
Vikings
they were from Scandinavia> modern ships> they were sailors,traders, fishrmen and farmers
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1066
Normans
The duke of Normandy conquered England after the Battle of Hastings> feudal system
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1215
Magna carta
•Forced by John 1,
known As Lackland -
1337
Beginning of the Hundred Years' War
fought between France and England> economic and political interests >3 impourtant battles: Crecy, Poiters, Agicourt
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1343
Birth of Geoffry Chaucer
he wrote The Canterbury Tales
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1346
Black death
future rise of the Middle class> caused by rats on merchant ships
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1381
Pool tax
first popular rebellion led by Wat Tyler
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1428
Birth of Joan of Arc
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1453
End of the Hundred Years' war
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1454
Beginning of the Wars of the Roses
It was fought between the house of the York and the house of Lancaster. It won.
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1485
Henry 7 Tudor
Beginning of the reinassance
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1501
Artur Tudor
He died when he was very young
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1509
Henry 8 Tudor
he was handsome>he was destined for religion>difensor fidei>Act of supremacy=head of the church
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1547
Edward 6 Tudor
Book of the common prayer
He was protestant -
1553
Lady Jane Queen
Also known as Nine Day Queen
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1553
Bloody Mary Tudor
She executed lots of protestants
She was really intollerant -
1558
Queen Elisabeth Tudor
known as the vergin queen>there was a period of peace>people loved her>she won against the Invencible Armada
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1564
Birth of Shakespeare
he was a poet who excelled in the dramatic genres such as comedies, tragedies and historical plays
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James 1 Stuart
2 parliaments
lord in Ireland
gunpowder plot
Pilgrims fathers -
Charles 1 Stuart
Absolute monarch
Short and long parliament
beginning of the civil war -
Cromwell
known as lord protector >Commonwealth
puritanism=closing of theatres -
Charles 2 Stuart
Restoration
great plague
great fire of london -
James 2 Stuart
Catholic
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Glorious Revolution
With William of Orange and his Life Mary,daughter of James 2;
Bill of rights >•toleration act
act of settlement -
Rise of the novel
•need for realism ( ordinary people)
• chronological sequence of events
•datails
•novelty of the stories -
Rise of the middle class
•No more feudalism
•black death
innovazione agricolture ( heavy pluough, 3 field sistem, energy producing devices)
•surplus food= growth of the population)
•middle class merged with aristocracy -
Queen Anne Stuart
Act of union = union of the crown,so we can talk about Great Britain
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George 1 Hannover
The first Hannoverian king
"alien king"
parlamentary monarchy -
Defoe= Robinson Crusoe
•born in 1660 in london
•presbiterian
•writer and business man
•author of Robinson Crusoe=
▪︎realistic novel
▪︎it seemed an autobiography
▪︎shipwrecked on a desert island
▪︎survivor
▪︎Friday -
Swift= Gulliver's travels
•1667 Ireland
•priest
•Household of William Temple
•satirical workshop
•"the battle of the books"
•"tale of Drapier's letters"
• "a modest proposal
•gulliver's travels
▪︎novel in 4 books
▪︎he mixed fantastic and the Real
▪︎utopian tale
▪︎pessimism -
George 2 Hannover
Jacobite ribellion with Charles Edward
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Augustan age
•theatres were reopened
•rebuilding of London (Christopher Wren)
•heirs of the Roman Empire
•neoclassicism
•upper class women (salons) -
First english dictionary
Epharaim chambers ( Cyclopaedia)
Johnson (quotations)
(Alexander pope) -
George 3 Hannover
british empire
