Timeline Flashcards

1
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Roman Invasion

A

43 AD

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2
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Roman period in Britania

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43 AD - 409 AD

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3
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City of London is founded

A

50 AD

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4
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Hadrian’s wall

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122 AD

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5
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Antonine Wall

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142 AD

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6
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Martyrdom of St. Alban

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304 AD

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7
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Emperor Constantine legitimizes Christianity

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313 AD

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8
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Saint Patrick

A

mid 400s

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9
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Roman legions withdraw

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409 AD

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10
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Anglo Saxons settle in Britain

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450 - 550 AD

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11
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Saint Columba

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mid 500s

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12
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Dark Ages

A

5th - 6th century

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13
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Battle of Badon

A

516 AD

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14
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Battle of Camlann

A

537 AD

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15
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Ethelbert of Kent

A

560 - 616 AD

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16
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St Augustine comes to Britain (Roman Christianity)

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595 - 597 AD

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17
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Anglo Saxon burial at Sutton Hoo

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625 AD

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18
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Appeared the comet-star, death of Saint Egbert in Iona

A

729 AD

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19
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King Offa of Mercia

A

757 - 796 AD

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20
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Viking invasions

A

790 - 900 AD

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21
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Fore-warnings over the land of the Northumbrians (the Vikings-heathen men, ravished the whole island, slaughter)

A

793 AD

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22
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King Alfred the Great

A

849 - 899 AD

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23
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King Arthur and Beowulf

A

1000 AD

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24
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Sweyn Forkbeard

A

1013 - 1014 AD

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25
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King Canute (Cnut)

A

1016 - 1035 AD

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26
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Edward the Confessor (final Saxon king)

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1042 - 1066 AD

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27
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Norman Conquest and Invasion

A

1066 AD

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28
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Battle of Hastings

A

1066 AD

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29
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Tower of London

A

1078 AD

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30
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Domesday Book (end of Dark Ages)

A

1086 AD

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31
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Murder of Thomas Beckett, Archbishop of Canterbury (indirect order of King Henry II)

A

1170 AD

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32
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Christmas liturgical drama

A

12th century

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33
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Magna Carta

A

1215 AD

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34
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Reign of Edward I.

A

1272 - 1307 AD

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35
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Winchester Round table

A

1275 AD

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36
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Battle of Falkirk, King Edward I.

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1298 AD

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37
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Reign of Edward II.

A

1307 - 1327 AD

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38
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Reign of Edward III.

A

1327 - 1377 AD

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39
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Geoffrey Chaucer

A

1343 - 1400 AD

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40
Q

Black Death

A

1348 AD

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41
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Chaucer trip to Italy

A

1373 AD

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42
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The Canterbury Tales published

A

1387 AD

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43
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King Henry IV. (1st king from the House of Lancaster, 1st king to speak English)

A

1399 AD

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44
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

A

14th century

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45
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Chaucer dies

A

1400 AD

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46
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Battle of Agincourt (Henry V)

A

1415 AD

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47
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Death of Henry V

A

1422 AD

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48
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The Wars of the Roses

A

1455 - 1485 AD

49
Q

Caxton brings printing to England (one of the first prints, The Canterbury Tales)

A

1476 AD

50
Q

Battle of Bossworth Field

A

1485 AD

51
Q

End of Medieval England, Beginning of Reneissance

A

1485 AD

52
Q

Columbus’ 1st voyage to the New World

A

1492 AD

53
Q

Death of Henry VII

A

1509 AD

54
Q

Mary I (Tudor Queen)

A

1516 - 1558 AD

55
Q

Edmund Spenser

A

1522 - 1599 AD

56
Q

Arioto’s Orlando Furioso (Medieval Chivalric Romance)

A

1532 AD

57
Q

Queen Elizabeth I (Tudor queen)

A

1533 - 1603 AD

58
Q

English Reformation

A

1534 - 1536 AD

59
Q

England leaves the Roman Catholic church

A

1536 - 1541 AD

60
Q

English Reformation Dissolution of the Monasteries

A

cca 1536 - 1541 AD

61
Q

The New World

A

cca 1544 AD

62
Q

Death of Henry VIII

A

1547 AD

63
Q

Elizabeth, as a prisoner, sent to the Tower of London

A

1554 AD

64
Q

Elizabethan Period

A

1558 - 1603 AD

65
Q

Book of Common Prayer

A

1559 AD

66
Q

Smallpox

A

1562 AD

67
Q

Plague

A

1563 AD

68
Q

Birth of Shakespear and Marlowe

A

1564 AD

69
Q

Shakespeare’s lifetime

A

1564 - 1616 AD

70
Q

King James I. of England and VI. of Scotland is born

A

1566 AD

71
Q

Sir John Davies

A

1569 - 1626 AD

72
Q

Ben Johnson

A

1572 - 1637 AD

73
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John Donne

A

1572 - 1631 AD

74
Q

Sir Francis Drake circumnavigates the globe

A

1577 - 1580 AD

75
Q

Spanish Armada (naval invasion)

A

1588 AD

76
Q

Speech to the troops at Tilbury, from Queen Elizabeth I.

A

1588 AD

77
Q

Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene

A

1589 AD

78
Q

Faerie Queene Book I

A

1590 AD

79
Q

Sir George Peele, His Golden Locks

A

1590 AD

80
Q

Decade of Sonnets

A

1590s

81
Q

Sir Philip Sidney, Sonnet 15, Sonnet 19

A

1591 AD

82
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Samuel Daniel, Sonnet VI from Delia

A

1592 AD

83
Q

C. Marlowe, The Tragedy of Dr. Faustus

A

1594 AD

84
Q

Edmund Spenser, Sonnet LXVII, Like as a huntsman

A

1595 AD

85
Q

Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

A

1595 - 1596 AD

86
Q

Davies, Orchestra or Poem on Dancing

A

1595 AD

87
Q

Daemonologie

A

1598 AD

88
Q

Shakespeare, Henry V.

A

1599 AD

89
Q

Globe theatre built

A

1599 AD

90
Q

Queen Elizabeth I., On Monsieur’s Departure

A

1600 AD

91
Q

Donne married

A

1601 AD

92
Q

Death of Queen Elizabeth I.

A

1603 AD

93
Q

Accession of King James I. (James VI of Scotland) (Jacobean Age)

A

1603 AD

94
Q

1st colony in Virginia

A

1607 AD

95
Q

Jamestown settlement (Virginia)

A

1607 AD

96
Q

Shakespeare Sonnets published (29, 64, 130)

A

1609 AD

97
Q

King James’ Bible

A

1611 AD

98
Q

Sir Walter Raleigh, On the Life of Man

A

1612 AD

99
Q

B. Johnson, To Penshurt

A

1616 AD

100
Q

Death of Shakespeare

A

1616 AD

101
Q

Puritans found colony in Plymouth Bay, Massachusetts

A

1620 AD

102
Q

Donne Dean of Saint Paul’s Cathedral

A

1620 AD

103
Q

1st Folio of Shakespeare’s works appears

A

1623 AD

104
Q

House of Stuart (King James)

A

1625 AD

105
Q

Massachusetts Bay Colony

A

1627 AD

106
Q

J. Donne, The Sunne Rising, The Flea, Holy Sonnet 10

A

1633 AD

107
Q

Commonwealth under Cromwell

A

1642 - 1651 AD

108
Q

King Charles I beheaded

A

1649 AD

109
Q

Rastoration of the monarchy

A

1660 AD

110
Q

Founding of the Royal Society

A

1660 AD

111
Q

Carolina (Colonies)

A

1663 AD

112
Q

Great Fire of London

A

1666 AD

113
Q

Alexander Pope

A

1688 to 1744 AD

114
Q

Alexander Selkirk, Juan Fernandez Islands

A

1704 AD

115
Q

Kingdom of Great Britain established

A

1707 AD

116
Q

Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe (The Age of Enlightenment)

A

1719 AD

117
Q

Simon Armitage translation (Sir Gawain and the Green Knight)

A

2007 AD

118
Q

the discovery of Richard III’s Skeleton under a car park

A

2012 AD