Senior House History Past Paper 2022 PDF
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Fairleigh
2022
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This is a past paper for a senior house history course. The document details historical periods and events in British history, presented in a chronological table format.
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**Senior House History** Objective: To be able to order the periods of British History chronologically and also know when key British and World events took place. Part 1: You will need to order and remember the dates for each period. +-----------------------------------+-------------------------...
**Senior House History** Objective: To be able to order the periods of British History chronologically and also know when key British and World events took place. Part 1: You will need to order and remember the dates for each period. +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | [Periods] | [Dates] | +===================================+===================================+ | Stone Age | 15,000 -- 2,500 BCE | | | | | Bronze Age | 3,000 -- 800 BCE | | | | | Iron Age/The Celts | 800 BCE -- 43 CE | | | | | The Romans | 43 -- 410 CE | | | | | The Anglo-Saxons & Vikings | 449 -- 1066 CE | | | | | The Normans | 1066 -- 1154 CE | | | | | The Plantagenets | 1154 -- 1399 CE | | | | | The House of York and Lancaster | 1399 -- 1485 CE | | | | | The Tudors | 1485 -- 1603 CE | | | | | The Stuarts | 1603 -1714 CE | | | | | The Georgians | 1714 -- 1837 CE | | | | | The Victorians | 1837 -- 1901 CE | | | | | The Edwardians | 1901 -- 1910 CE | | | | | World War 1 | 1914 -- 1918 CE | | | | | World War 2 | 1939 -- 1945 CE | | | | | Modern Britain | 1945 -- present day | +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ Part 2: You will need to order and remember the dates of these key events. +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | [Date (CE)] | [Event] | +===================================+===================================+ | 60/61 | Boudicca's uprising | | | | | 122 | Hadrian's Wall begun | | | | | 1066 | The Battle of Hastings | | | | | 1170 | Murder of Thomas Becket | | | | | 1215 | Magna Carta | | | | | 1348 | The Black Death (England) | | | | | 1415 | The Battle of Agincourt | | | | | 1485 | The Battle of Bosworth | | | | | 1492 | Columbus discovers America | | | | | 1517 | Martin Luther starts the | | | Reformation | | 1519 | | | | Cortes invades Mexico | | 1588 | (Conquistadors) | | | | | 1665 | The Spanish Armada | | | | | 1666 | The Great Plague | | | | | 1770 | The Great Fire of London | | | | | 1776 | Captain Cook colonises Australia | | | | | 1789 | The American Declaration of | | | Independence | | 1829 | | | | The French Revolution begins | | 1833 | | | | Stephenson's Rocket | | 1851 | | | | British Slavery Abolition Act | | 1963 | | | | The Great Exhibition | | 1969 | | | | Martin Luther King Jr speech "I | | 1989 | have a dream". | | | | | 1991 | Moon Landing | | | | | 1994 | The fall of the Berlin Wall | | | | | 2015 | World Wide Web is launched | | | | | | Nelson Mandela becomes President | | | of South Africa | | | | | | Queen Elizabeth II becomes | | | England's longest reigning | | | monarch | +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ At the end of the Autumn Term and the Summer Term, your teachers will test you in a history lesson to see how you are getting on. Your scores will then go towards your house and the house with the highest percentage wins House History that term.
