•         Prehistoric Britain BC

•         Roman Britain 43 AD

•         Anglo Saxon Britain 450

•         Viking Britain 793

•         Medieval Britain 1066

•         Tudor Britain 1485

•         Stuart Britain 1603

•         Georgian Britain 1714

•         Victorian Britain 1837

•         Modern Britain 1902 +

Prehistoric Britain-BC

•         G.Britain: European continent à separate into island

•         Ancient people:

–        Gaelic people (in Ireland, Scotland)-speak Gaelic

–        Celtic people (from Central Europe)- in Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Cornwall

•         Famous Landmark: Stonehenge (Whitshire)

Roman Britain- 43 AD

•         England: Roman Empire (Julius Caesar)- as a new Roman province

•         England - called Britannia

•         Romans conquer Wales, and Scotland

•         Famous landmark: Hadrian’s Wall

(border of Scotland)

Anglo-Saxon Britain- 410

•         Tribes (Angle, Saxon, Jute) (Germany, Denmark, Holland): invade Britain from t.Roman

•         Basic English language: Germanic root

•         Angle land = England

Viking Britain-793

•         Invasion of Vikings (Denmark, Norway, Sweden)

•         King Alfred the Great: 1st famous English king (878)

•         Anglo-Saxon descents + Danishà English (people, language, culture)

•         Welsh, Scots, Irish: of Celtic origin

•         Edward the Confessor (Saxon): king

•         Westminster abbey: London

- Church

- Place of coronation and burial site for English monarchs

Normans Britain: 1066

•         Battle of Hasting: William the Conqueror (King)

•         Landmarks: Norman castles, Canterburry Cathedral, Tower of London, York Minster, Oxford University

•         Magna Carta (Charter of Freedom): signed by King John (worst king)

•         Battle of Stirling Bridge: William Wallace (Scot hero) defeats England à defeated

•         Hundred year’s war with France: king Edward 3rd claims          the throne of Franceà English defeats French.

•            War of Roses (civil war):

House of York   ><      House of Lancaster

Tudor Britain- 1485

•         King Henry 7th: end War of Roses

•         King Henry 8th: powerful, strongest, brutal

                        - forms Church of England (Anglican Church)- Protestant

                        - has 6 wives, 2 of whom were beheaded (Anne Boleyn, Catherine Howard)

•         Queen Elizabeth I (Anne & Henry 8th)- 45 years of reign; Anglican Church (Protestant) official religion of England

Stuart Britain- 1603

•         King James: unite Scotland & England

•         King Charles I: his son

•         Great Fire of London (1666)-

Destroy St Paul Cathed., city of London

•         English Bill of rights (1689)

            à Parliament & English monarchs

Georgian Britain-1714

•         George of Hanover (German): King

•         Sir Robert Walpole: 1st Prime Minister

•         Act of Union with Ireland(1800)

•         Battle of Waterloo:

Duke of Wellington (Arthur Wellesley-Sommerset) defeats Napoleon Bonaparte

Victorian Britain-1837

•         Queen Victoria (1837-1901):

            - tremendous change in the lives of British people

            - Britain managed to build a huge empire

            - most powerful and richest country in the world, with the largest empire “The sun never sets on British Empire”

Modern Britain- 1902

•         Queen Elizabeth 2nd:

            - great-great-grand daughter of Queen Victoria & Prince Albert (Germany)

            - constitutional monarch

•         Margaret Thatcher: Britain's first woman prime minister – “Iron Lady”