Events Flashcards
Battle of Hastings
William of Normandy conquered England - 1066
Battle of Bannockburn
Scottish King Robert the Bruce defeated the English - 1314
War of the Roses
Civil war between House of Lancaster (red rose) and House of York (white rose) to determine who should be king of England. Ended at Battle of Bosworth Field (1485). Henry Tudor of House of Lancaster became King Henry VII and married Elizabeth of York, uniting the two families as the House of Tudor (red rose with a white rose inside) - 1455
English Civil War
Parliament (supporters: Roundheads) vs the King (Cavaliers). Charles I introduced Prayer Book; Parliament, made of Puritans, didn’t back him. King’s army defeated at Battles of Marston Moor and Naseby. King Charles I executed - begins 1640s
Battle of Trafalgar
Lord Horatio Nelson (of Nelson’s Column) defeated French (Napoleon) + Spanish fleet - 1805
Battle of Waterloo
Lord Wellington defeated Napoleon - 1815
Battle of the Somme WW1
British forces suffered 60,000 causalities on the first day - 1916
Evacuation of Dunkirk
Rescue of 300,000 men by volunteers and small boats (WWII - 1940)
Battle of Britain
German/British aerial battle - 1940 WWII
Black Death
Killed over 1/3 of Britain. Fewer people meant less need for cereal crops as well as labour shortages, then increased wages. Movement into cities and towns. Gentry (landowners of large plots) and middle class developed - 1348
The Restoration (of the monarchy)
Charles (King of Scotland) invited to come back as King Charles II after Oliver Cromwell’s death - 1660
The Glorious Revolution
English Protestants asked Mary’s husband William of Orange (of the Netherlands) to proclaim himself king, as they didn’t want a Catholic king. He faced no resistance - 1688
The laws passed after the Glorious Revolution are the beginning of what is called ‘constitutional monarchy’.
Which event is the bombing of English cities by the Germans?
The Blitz
