Dates - Tracy 23

Question 1

450 AD

Answer 1

The Romans leave Britain and the Anglo-Saxon Conquest begins.
(The supposed age of King Arthur)

Question 2

597

Answer 2

– St. Augustine begins the early-medieval English conversion to Christianity.

Question 3

c. 740

Answer 3

– Beowulf composed as an oral poem based on a pagan tradition.

Question 4

1000

Answer 4

Beowulf written down by Christian monks.

Question 5

1066

Answer 5

The Norman Invasion of England (Know what it is).

Question 6

1170

Answer 6

– Saint Thomas á Becket murdered in Canterbury Cathedral

Question 7

1337-1453

Answer 7

– Hundred Years War with France over the possession of territory and the
England claim to the French throne

Question 8

1343-1400

Answer 8

Geoffrey Chaucer

Question 9

1400

Answer 9

The deposed Richard II is murdered in captivity

Question 10

1415

Answer 10

Henry V defeats the French at Agincourt.

Question 11

1431

Answer 11

– English burn Joan of Arc as a witch/heretic after she helps the French defeat the
English at Orleans

Question 12

1455-1485

Answer 12

– The War of the Roses between the Houses of Lancaster and York; a
struggle for the throne between the direct descendants of Edward III.

Question 13

1483

Answer 13

– Richard, Duke of Gloucester takes the throne as Richard III after the
disappearance of the princes of the Tower, Edward V and Richard, Duke of York

Question 14

1485

Answer 14

–Henry Tudor, earl of Richmond defeats the nasty, evil, twisted Richard III at the
battle of Bosworth Field, taking the throne as Henry VI and ending the War of the Roses
with his marriage to Elizabeth of York, Richard’s niece

Question 15

1517

Answer 15

Martin Luther nails his 95 theses to the door of Wittenberg Cathedral; the
beginning of the Protestant Reformation.

Question 16

1532-34

Answer 16

– Henry VIII divorces Catherine of Aragon, marries Anne Boleyn and declares
himself head of the English Church, taking control of all monastic property.

Question 17

1535

Answer 17

– Sir Thomas More beheaded for disagreeing with Henry VIII

Question 18

1558

Answer 18

Elizabeth I (Protestant) succeeds her Catholic sister Mary on the English throne. & The Spanish Aramada is wrecked off the coast of Ireland and defeated by Sir
Francis Drake.

Question 19

1593

Answer 19

Christopher Marlowe murdered in a tavern brawl in Deptford.

Question 20

1596

Answer 20

Spenser’s Faerie Queene published.

Question 21

1603

Answer 21

Death of Elizabeth I

Question 22

1608-1674

Answer 22

John Milton

Question 23

1616

Answer 23

Death of Shakespeare

Question 24

1623

Answer 24

Shakespeare’s First Folio is published by Ben Jonson

Question 25

1642

Answer 25

English Civil War

Question 26

1649

Answer 26

Charles I beheaded; beginning of the Puritan Commonwealth under Oliver
Cromwell.

Question 27

1660

Answer 27

– the Restoration of Charles II to the English throne

Question 28

1665

Answer 28

– The plague hits London with devastating effects.

Question 29

1666

Answer 29

The Great Fire of London.

Question 30

1667

Answer 30

Milton, completely blind, dictates Paradise Lost.

Question 31

1688

Answer 31

Glorious Revolution; Catholic James II asked to abdicate in favor of his
daughter and her husband, Protestants William and Mary.

Question 32

1690

Answer 32

James II defeated by William of Orange at the Battle of the Boyne