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What significant event occurred in 1066?
What significant event occurred in 1066?
- Signing of the Magna Carta
- Beginning of the Hundred Years' War
- Battle of Hastings (correct)
- First evidence of human life tools
The Domesday Book was a survey of land and a land register.
The Domesday Book was a survey of land and a land register.
True (A)
Who fought against the Vikings and won in 878?
Who fought against the Vikings and won in 878?
King Alfred
The ___ was signed in 1215, limiting royal power.
The ___ was signed in 1215, limiting royal power.
Match the following events with their corresponding dates:
Match the following events with their corresponding dates:
Which of the following was a result of the Great Famine in Ireland (1845-1852)?
Which of the following was a result of the Great Famine in Ireland (1845-1852)?
The Tudors Dynasty lasted from 1485 to 1603.
The Tudors Dynasty lasted from 1485 to 1603.
Which poem is considered the oldest and longest surviving poem of the Anglo-Saxon period?
Which poem is considered the oldest and longest surviving poem of the Anglo-Saxon period?
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Roman arrival in Britain
Roman arrival in Britain
The period in which the Romans first arrived in Britain.
Anglo-Saxon period
Anglo-Saxon period
The Anglo-Saxon period was a time of significant cultural and linguistic change in Britain.
Battle of Hastings
Battle of Hastings
The Battle of Hastings was a pivotal event in British history, resulting in the Norman Conquest and a change in the ruling dynasty.
Domesday Book
Domesday Book
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Magna Carta
Magna Carta
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Hundred Years' War
Hundred Years' War
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Peasants' Revolt
Peasants' Revolt
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Tudor dynasty
Tudor dynasty
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Study Notes
Early Human History and Development
- 250,000 BC: Earliest evidence of human tools (flakes of flint)
- 55 BC: Romans arrive
- 1400 BC: Drought
- 700 BC: Celts arrive
- 3000 BC: Henges, 2400 BC: Stonehenge
- 449 BC: Saxon invasions (Angles, Jutes, Saxons)
- 9th Century: Increased literacy
- 878: King Alfred defeats Vikings
- 1066: Battle of Hastings, William the Conqueror defeats Harold II, establishes Westminster Abbey
Medieval and Early Modern England
- 1000: Beowulf (Old English epic poem)
- 1086: Domesday Book (land survey)
- 6th Century: Christianity
- 1215: Magna Carta limits royal power
- 1337-1453: Hundred Years' War
- 1381: Wat Tyler's Revolt (peasant revolt)
- 1485-1603: Tudor Dynasty
- 1476: William Caxton - First printing press
- 1492: Columbus arrives in Americas
- 1513: Battle of Flodden
- 1536: Pilgrimage of Grace (rebellion)
- 1552: Protestant Prayer Book
- 1601: Poor Law
- 1606: 100 colonists depart England
- 1607: Chesapeake colonization begins
- 1608: Colonists search for gold
- 1609-1610: "Starving Time"
- 1619: First enslaved Africans arrive in Americas
- 1707: Act of Union (Great Britain)
British Empire and Colonization
- 1770: Captain James Cook lands in Australia
- 1776: American Independence
- 1788: First Fleet arrives in Australia (penal colony)
- 1801: Act of Union (United Kingdom)
- 1829: Australia establishes Perth as colony
- 1845-1852: Great Irish Famine (causes mass migration)
19th and 20th Century
- 1861-1865: American Civil War
- 1863: Gettysburg (American Civil War battle)
- 1865: Lincoln assassination
- 1901: Formation of Commonwealth of Australia
- 1916: Easter Rising
- 1920: Government of Ireland Act
- 1922: Irish Free State established
- 1942: Bombing of Darwin
- 1947: Cold War begins
- 1968: Martin Luther King Jr. assassination
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