0. Key dates Flashcards
Stonehenge completed
3100 BC to 1600 BC
Julius Caesar’s raids on Britain
55 BC, 54 BC
Claudius conquest of Britain
43 AD
Boudicca’s revolt
60-61 AD
Hadrian Wall completed
122 AD
Roman rule ends in Britain:
383 AD
Beginning of Anglo-Saxon invasions of Britain:
449/410 AD
St. Patrick;s journey to christianise Ireland
433 AD
When did St. Augustine found a monastery at Canterbury?
598 AD
Explain the synod of Whitby (664 AD)
Ujednolicenie zwyczajów kościelnych w królestwie, zwłaszcza wyliczania daty, Wielkanocy itd
When did Venerable Bede write the History of the English Church and people?
731 AD
Reign of Alfred the Great
871-899
Explain the Treaty of Wedmore (878)
Agreement between Alfred the Great and the Vikings, the Viking leader got baptised
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, year:
~~890
Battle of Brunanburh (937) -explain
Concerned Celtic king, who decided to marry a Viking leader’s daughter, newly formed Celtic/Norse army. English king Aethlestan united Wessex & Mercia
Battle of Stamford Bridge
1066
Battle of Hastings
1066
Domesday Book
1086, writings of property
Magna Carta
1215
Simon de Montford’s parliament
1265S
Statute od Rhuddlan
1284
Model Parliament
1295
Battle of Bannockburn
1314
Hundred Years’ War
1337-1453
Battle of Crecy
1346
Black Death
1348
Great Revolt of the Peasants
1381
Revolt of Owain Glyndwr
1400-1415
Battle of Agincourt
1415
War of Roses
1455-1485
Battle of Bosworth
1485
Act of Supremacy
1534
Wales legally nicorporated by England
1536, 1542
Reign of Elizabeth I
1558-1603
Francis Drake circumnavigates the world
1577-1580
Defeat of the Spanish Armada
1588
Personal Union England & Scotland
1603
The Gunpowder Plot
1605
The Authorised version of the Bible
1611
1st English Civil War
1642-1646
2nd English Civil War
1648
3rd English Civil War
1650-1651
The Commonwealth
1649-1653
The Protectorate, Oliver Cromwell
1653-1660
Great Fyre of London
1666
Habeas Corpus Act
1679
Glorious Revolution, William Oranger
1688-1689
English Bill of Rights
1689
Battle of Boyne
1690
Foundation of The Bank of England
1694
Act of Settlement ensured the protestant succession
1701
Battle of Blenheim
1704
Act of Union with Scotland
(GREAT BRITAIN)
1707
Jacobite Revolution of fifteen
1715
Robert Walpole -prrime minister
1721
Battle of Culloden
1745
Battle of Plassey
1757
Captain Cook’s voyages
1768-1779
French Revolutionary War
1793-1802
Battle of Nile
1798
Union GB &Ireland
1801
Battle of Trafalgat
1805
Battle of Waterloo
1815
Cathilic Emancipation Act
1829
Great Reform Bill (First Reform Act)
1832
Abolition of slavery
1833
Reign of Queen Victoria
1837-1902
Chartist Movement
1838-1848
Crimean War
1854-1856
Indian Mutiny
1857-1858
British North America Act
1867The
The Boer War
1899-1902