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55
The roman conquest of England and Wales and Scotland
In 55 B.C. the Roman General Julius Caesar led his army from Gaul (present day France) to Britain. He wanted to make Britain part of Rome's empire. The British Celts fought bravely, and Caesar soon went back to Gaul. Next year, in 54 B.C. the Romans came back. They built straight roads, towns planned well, and hadrians wall -
1066
The battle of Hastings
The Battle of Hastings was fought on 14 October 1066 between the Norman-French army of William, the Duke of Normandy, (also known as the conqueror) and an English army under the Anglo-Saxon King Harold Godwinson, beginning the Norman conquest of England. The Battle of Hastings was a major turning point in English history because William won and became King. -
1215
The Magna Carta
The Magna Carta was a document between King John and the Barons forcing the King to agree to rules to prevent him ruling unfairly. -
1346
The Plague
Even though The Great Plague reached England in 1346, the last one lasted from 1665 to 1666, and was the last major epidemic of the bubonic plague to occur in England. The Great Plague killed an estimated 100,000 people - almost a quarter of London's population. -
The Great Fire of London
The Great Fire of London started on September 1666 in a baker's shop in Pudding Lane London and lasted for 4 days. One-third of London was destroyed and about 100,000 people were made homeless. -
The Glorious Revolution
The Glorious Revolution was the overthrow of King James II of England (James VII of Scotland) by a union of English Parliamentarians with the Dutch stadtholder William III, Prince of Orange. William's successful invasion of England with a Dutch fleet and army led to his ascension to the throne as William III of England jointly with his wife, Mary II, James's daughter, after the Declaration of Right, leading to the Bill of Rights 1689. -
The Battle of Waterloo
This battle where Napoleon was defeated brought an end to his rule as Emperor of France. He wanted to conquer Europe but was stopped by Britain, Germany, Holland, and Prussia. It was won mainly because of the Duke of Wellington's military skills. -
The First World War
World War I shaped the 20th century. It launched the United States as a world super power and helped commonwealth countries like Canada, Australia and New Zealand find a sense of National Identity. WWI fueled the Russian Revolution and her ascent as the world’s first communist state. The First World War helped occupied countries like Poland, Yugoslavia and Hungary to gain their independence but it also set the stage for World War II only a couple decades later. Yet, WWI began almost by accident. -
The Second World War
The carnage of World War II was unprecedented and brought the world closest to the term “total warfare.” On average 27,000 people were killed each day between September 1, 1939, until the formal surrender of Japan on September 2, 1945. The use of atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki was significant. -
The Invention of the world wide web
Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989. Sir Tim Berners-Lee is a British computer scientist. He was born in London, and his parents were early computer scientists, working on one of the earliest computers. As everyone knows, the internet changed the lives of everyone in the world.
