Saxons to Tudors

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  • Period: 401 to 700

    Angles, Saxons and Jutes

    From invaders to settlers
    Settled new places
    Back and Forth-> Trade
    Mixing by marrying out
  • 476

    Fall of Rome

    Western Half falls
  • Period: 672 to 735

    The Venerable Bede

    The father of English history
  • 782

    An Englishman invents French

    Alcuin of York-> Charlemagne (teach latin)
    English Catholics spoke latin (religion)
  • 782

    Vikings invasion (for 200 years)

    N-E -> Only Wessex was left
  • 878

    Alfred the Great

    Defeated the Danes: battle of Edington
    Christianity + didn't push, just kept the kingdom
  • Period: 1016 to 1035

    King Cnut of England

    The North Sea Empire
    Cnut married the widow of the English King
    "Told the Waves to go Back"
  • 1066

    Battle of Hestings-> Norman England

    End of Anglo-Saxons England
    End of ties with North-> Beginning of ties with South (FR) Death of King Edward the Conqueror -> Election of King Harold Godswinson -> William (the Conqueror) invades from FR
  • Period: 1135 to 1154

    The Anarchy

    Civil war between Maud (daughter of King Henry I) and Stephen (Maud's cousin)
  • Period: 1154 to 1189

    Henry II

    1st Plantagenet King
    Henry <3 Eleanor of Aquitaine (previously married to the King of FR)
  • Period: 1154 to 1399

    Plantagenets Era

    Generally French speaking Kings
    Struggle to keep the power (EN + Normandy)
  • 1170

    Thomas Becket

    BFF of Henry the II
    Bechet; chancellor + wealth
    "Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest" -> yep: 4 knights kill him
    Death of the Archbishop of Canterbury 1162
  • Period: 1189 to 1199

    RICHARD I (The Lionheart)

    Son of Henry the II
    In 10 years he had been in England only 6 months-> FR speaking
  • Period: 1199 to 1216

    King John (Lackland)

    Youngest son of Henry II-> least amount of land
    The divine right of kings
    Excommunicated: 1206: refused the choice of the Bishop
  • 1215

    Magna Carta

    No freeman should be punished except trough the law of the land
    John abused his power (existed since Henry II)
    Justice is blind
  • 1314

    Battle of Bannockburn

    "And we can still rise up and be a nation again"
    Edward II beaten by the Scots (William Wallace)
  • Period: 1337 to 1453

    100 years war

    Edward III
    EN vs FR-> Reconquest FR
    Order of the Garter
  • 1348

    The Black Death

    1/2 died
    Labour shortage-> payed more-> more taxes (flat tax)
  • 1381

    Peasant's revolt

    Wet Tyler Killed while negotiating with the King Richard II (14 y.o.)
    After Poll-Tax
    "I am your King"
  • Period: 1399 to 1461

    House of Lancaster

    Henry IV
    Henry V of Agincourt
    Henry VI Lost France (Except Calais)
  • Period: 1455 to 1485

    War of the Roses

    Lancaster (Red)-> Henry Tudor
    York (White)-> Richard III Richard has an army, but not loyal-> betrayed by Stanley in battle
  • Period: 1461 to 1485

    House of York

    Edward IV
    Edward V
    Richard III