History+of+England

  =History Timeline =  = |||||| **BC:  ** **Prehistoric Britain **  || |||||| **The first men and women came to Britain over two and a half million years ago. They were hunters and gatherers of food who used simple stone tools and weapons.   **  <span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">   || = <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;"> The Romans were the first to invade Britain and came to it nearly 2000 years ago. They changed the country. The Roman Empire made its mark on Britain, and even today, the ruins of Roman buildings, forts, roads, and baths can be found all over Britain. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 24pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Britain was part of the Roman Empire for almost 400 years! By the time the Roman armies left around 410 AD, they had established medical practice, a language of administration and law and had created great public buildings and roads. Many English words are derived from the latin language of the Romans.
 * <span style="background-color: #000080; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20pt; line-height: 115%;">AD ** **<span style="background-color: #000080; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20pt; line-height: 115%;">30-410 <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20pt; line-height: 115%;">: **<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 24pt; line-height: 115%;">Roman Britain

= = <span style="background-color: #ffffff; border-collapse: collapse; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 220%;">450-779: **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; border-collapse: collapse; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Anglo-Saxon Britain ** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; border-collapse: collapse; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; border-collapse: collapse; color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 143%;"> <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14.85pt;">The Roman army left Britain about AD 410. When they had gone there was no strong army to defend Britain, and tribes called the Angle, Saxon, and Jute (the Anglo-Saxons) invaded. They left their homelands in northern Germany, Denmark and northern Holland and rowed across the North Sea in wooden boats. <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #000066; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Missionaries from Roman spread Christianity across southern Britain.
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">The Anglo-Saxons ruled most of Britain but never conquered Cornwall in the south-west, Wales in the west, or Scotland in the north. They divided the country into kingdoms. ||

<span style="background-color: #000080; border-collapse: collapse; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20.25pt; line-height: 115%;">**793-1055:** <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;"> <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18.9pt;">The Vikings <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16.9px; line-height: normal;">About the year 800, bands of fierce raiders began to attack our coasts. They were the Vikings. They came across the North Sea, juthe Anglo-Saxons had done 400 years earlier.In time, like the Anglo-Saxons, they made their home here. They drove the Saxons out of part of the country and took it for themselves. <span style="background-color: #000066; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 170%;">1066-1455: <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 24pt; line-height: 115%;">The Middle Ages - Medieval Britain (Normans) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 42px; line-height: 48px;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 151.2%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 80%;">**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 151.2%;">__The Middle Ages in Britain cover a huge period. They take Britain from the shock of the__ ****<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 151.2%;"> __Norman Conquest__ ****<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 151.2%;">__, which began in__ ** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120.96%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 80%;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**1066** **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 151.2%;">__, to the devasting Black Death of 1348, the Hundred Years' War with France and the War of the Roses, which finally ended in 1485.__ ** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120.96%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 151.2%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 151.2%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 151.2%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 80%;">**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 151.2%;">__The__ ****<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 151.2%;"> __Normans__ ****<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 151.2%;">__built impressive__ ** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120.96%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 80%;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**castles** **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 151.2%;">__, imposed a feudal system and carried out a census of the country.__ ** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: 800;">


 * <span style="background-color: #000080; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 105%;"> <span style="background-color: #000080; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 27px; font-weight: 800;">1485-1600: <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: x-large;">Tudor Britain

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">The Tudors were a Welsh-English family that ruled Britain from 1485 to 1603 - one of the most exciting periods of British history. Henry VIII's matrimonial difficulties led to the split with Catholicism. Henry made himself head of the Church of England.

<span style="background-color: #000080; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17.55pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="background-color: #000080; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 23.4px; font-weight: 800;">1603-1707: <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: x-large;">Stuart Britain ** <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">The Stuarts had ruled Scotland since 1371, but James VI of Scotland was the first Stuart king of England.

**<span style="background-color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">1714- ** <span style="background-color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> **<span style="background-color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">1834: <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 32px; line-height: 115%;">Georgian Britain ** <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">In 1714 the British throne passed to a German family, the Hanoverians.

<span style="background-color: #000080; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 24px; line-height: 115%;"> **<span style="background-color: #000080; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">1837 ****<span style="background-color: #000080; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">- ** **<span style="background-color: #000080; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">1901: <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 32px;">Victorian Britain ** <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 13.5pt;">The Victorians lived over one hundred and fifty years ago during the reign of Queen Victoria (1837 to 1901) and was a time of enormous change in this country. In 1837, most people lived in villages and worked on the land; by 1901, most lived in towns and worked in offices, shops and factories. <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> ||

**<span style="background-color: #000080; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">1902---: ** **<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px;">__Modern Britain__ **
 * * ** ** Britain defeats Dutch settlers in Boer War in South Africa **
 * *First World War **
 * *Second World War **
 * *Gulf War **
 * *The second Gulf War **

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