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The United Kingdom is located between the North Atlantic Ocean in the west and the North Sea in the east, north of the English Channel, and off France's northern coast. The UK has only one land border, and that is on the island of Ireland. Formed by Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales and England. -
Saxons came from the north of Germany, the Angles are now south of Denmark, and The Hutes from the northern parts of Denmark. -
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Rome was already under huge pressure due to invasions that they were confronting -
He manages to defend Anglo-Saxon England -
He lost the crown after he was defeated by the Danes -
Normans became the rules of England after a long battle with the English people -
He rises as the ruler of England after succeding in his conquest. -
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Starts the confrontation between the House of Lancaster and the House of York for the English Crown -
Henry VII from the House of Lancaster defeats Richard III from the House of York -
The Houses of Lancaster and York got united due to the marriage between Henry VII of Lancaster and Elizabeth of York -
The second son of Henry VII and Elizabeth ascends to the throne after the death of his older brother Arthur -
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She succeeded to the throne after her father and half-siblings Edward and Mary. She was the last of the five monarchs of the House of Tudor -
Because Queen Elizabeth I had died unmarried and childless, the English crown passed to the next available heir, her cousin James VI, King of Scotland. England and Scotland now shared the same monarch under what was known as a union of the crowns. -
Started because Parliament forbade the King from dissolving it. Charles I opposed each proposition made to him by stating that they threatened the royal institution and his divine right to rule as he pleased. -
He got executed on 30 January 1649 at Whitehall, near Westminster, in London. -
This revolution ended with the execution of King Charles I. -
The monarchy got replaced by a republic with Oliver Cromwell as the head. -
England was afraid Scotland would not back them up in an upcoming war, they offered them funds and got them to join and become the Kingdom of Great Britain. Also known as The Acts of Union 1707 -
Then it becomes the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland -
The Victorian era begins, along with lots of technological developments, prosperity and progress due to the Industrial Revolution -
The end of the Victorian era, she died of a cerebral hemorrhage in her sleep at 81 -
The Balfour Declaration of the Imperial Conference recognized the full sovereignty of dominions. -
The London Declaration marked the birth of the modern Commonwealth and the adoption of its present name.