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1
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1969

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men and women age 18 voting rights

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2
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Daffodil

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Welsh national flower

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3
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David

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Wales patron saint

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4
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1 February

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St David day (Wales)

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5
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30 ~November

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St Andrew Day (Scotland)

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6
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23 April

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St George’s Day (England)

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7
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Ulster Fry

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Northern Ireland national food - full English

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8
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Crown dependencies - 2

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Isle of Man and Channel Islands

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9
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Territories - 2

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St Helena and Falklands

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10
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Skara Brae

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Neolithic monument on Orkney

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11
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6,000 years ago

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first farmers came to Britain from south east Europe

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12
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Bronze age burials

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round barrows

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13
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language of the stone age?

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Celtic

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14
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First coins - when?

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Iron age

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15
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Boudicca

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rebellion against Romans

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16
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Claudius in 43 AD

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successful invasion Britain

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17
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Forts: Vindolanda and Housesteads

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Roman forts - 2

18
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410AD

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Romans left after 400 yrs

19
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Hadrian’s Wall

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to keep out Picts

20
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Hadrian’s Wall

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to keep out Picts

21
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600 AD

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Anglo Saxon settlements after they invaded

22
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Christian missionaries - 3 - during Anglo Saxon period

PAC

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St Patrick
St Colombo
St Augustine
(PAC)

23
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Archbishop of Canterbury - 1st

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St Augustine

24
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789 AD

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Viking invasions from Denmark, Norway, and Sweden

25
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(King) Kenneth MacAlpin

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united people agaisnt Viking invasions, used term “Scotland”

26
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King Alfred the Great

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united people against Vikings and defeated them

27
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1066 AD

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Battle of Hastings

last foreign invasion

28
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William the Conqueror, Norman conquest

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defeated King Harold at Hastings in 1066

29
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Bayeux Tapestry

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in France, depicts the Harold-William battle at Hastings

30
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Domesday Book

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registry of land and assets per person in Normal times

31
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Duke of Normandy

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William the Conqueror. alt name?

32
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Middle Ages

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characterised by wars home and abroad

include Crusades and 100 Years War

33
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Robert the Bruce

Battle of Bannockburn

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Middle Ages - 1314

Scotland defeated England

34
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Statute of Rhuddlan

1284

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Start of Wales in the Middle Ages

35
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The Pale

1200

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English rule the Pale near Dublin

MIddle AGes

36
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King Henry V

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(Who) Defeated French in battle in 100 years war

Battle of Agincourt

37
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1348

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Black Death

38
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1215

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Magna Carta

39
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William Caxton

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Printed the Canterbury Tales

40
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The Bruce

BBB

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Poetry about the Battle of Bannockburn by John Barbour

BBB

41
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1400

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English spoken and written in court and parliament

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