Life in the UK test

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  • 55 BCE

    Julius Caesar: unsuccessful Roman invasion

  • Period: 43 to 410

    Emperor Claudius: successful Roman occupation for 400 years

  • Period: 200 to 300

    First Christians communities in Britain

  • 600

    Anglo-Saxon kingdoms established in Britain

  • 789

    Vikings raided Britain

  • 1066

    Battle of Hastings: William The Conqueror became king of England

    William Duke of Normandy
    Harold Saxon King of England
  • Period: 1066 to 1485

    The Middle Ages / The Medieval Period

  • Period: 1094 to 1492

    The Crusades

  • 1200

    Ireland: English ruled Pale

  • 1215

    Magna Carta

    King is subject to the law
  • 1284

    Wales: Statute of Rhuddlan by King Edward I

  • 1314

    Scotland: Battle of Bannockburn, Robert the Bruce

  • Period: 1337 to 1453

    The Hundred Years War

  • 1348

    The Black Death

  • 1400

    English became the official language

  • 1400

    The Canterbury Tales: Geoffrey Chaucer

    William Caxton first person in ENgland to print books using a printing press
  • 1415

    Battle of Agincourt: King Henry V defeated the French

  • Period: 1445 to 1485

    The Wars of the Rose: Henry Tudor became King Henry VII

  • 1450

    English left France

  • Period: 1500 to

    Growth of Protestantism in England, Wales & Scotland

  • Period: 1509 to 1547

    King Henry VIII

  • Period: 1517 to

    The Reformation in Europe

  • Period: 1534 to

    The Church of England

  • Period: 1542 to 1567

    Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots: Catholic

  • Period: 1547 to 1553

    King Edward VI: Protestant

  • Period: 1553 to 1558

    Queen Mary I (Bloody Mary): Catholic

  • Period: 1558 to

    Queen Elizabeth I: Protestant

  • 1560

    Roman Catholic religious services became illegal

    Protestant Scottish Parliament abolished the authority of the Pope in Scotland.
  • Period: 1564 to

    William Shakespeare

  • Period: 1577 to 1580

    The Golden Hind: Sir Francis Drake

    First to circumnavigate the world

  • English defeat of the Spanish Armada

    Sent by Spain to conquer England and restore Catholicism.
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    King James I (King James VI of Scotland)

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    King Charles I

  • King Charles I recalled Parliament to ask for funds.

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    The Irish Rebellion

  • Civil war between King Charles I and Parliament

    Cavaliers supported the king and Roundheads supported Parliament.
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    Issac Newton

  • Battles of Marston Moor And Naseby

  • Parliament won the war - Charles was held prisoner

  • Charles I was executed and England declared itself a republic called the Commonwealth

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    Charles II declared King of Scotland by the Scots

  • Battle of Worcester: Charles II defeated by Oliver Cromwell

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    Oliver Cromwell: Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland

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    Charles II King of England, Scotland and Ireland

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    The Royal Society

  • The plague in London

  • The Great Fire of London

  • The Habeas Corpus Act became law

    Habeas corpus = ‘you must present the person in court’ - every prisoner has a right to a court hearing.
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    King James II (VII in Scotland): Roman Catholic

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    The Glorious Revolution

  • Battle of Killiecrankie: supported James II

  • Period: to

    William of Orange - King William III (II in Scotland): Protestant ruler of Holland

  • Ireland Battle of Boyne: William defeated James II

  • The Massacre of Glencoe

    The massacre was ordered upon them because of the Chief's failure to sign an oath of allegiance to King William III of England, Scotland and Ireland before 1 January 1692. However MacIain had intended to sign the oath but savage snow storms prevented him. Even though his attempt was known to the government they decided an example needed to be made and the massacre went ahead anyway.
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    Richard Cromwell: Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland