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Romans present in Britain from AD 43 to c.400, confined to the lowlands.
Two main waves bring the Anglo-Saxons (English) during c.450 to 550 and the Scandinavian
Vikings during c.800 to 1000.
Roman influence returns in 597 when St. Augustine of Canterbury began to convert the 'pagan' English and organize the English church.
The Vikings, or Norseman, take over.
Norman (French-speaking military aristocracy) duke William invades England to claim the throne from Harold II.
Harold II defeated at the Battle of Hastings and the conquer took the throne as William I.
1066-1485 Britain under the rule of the Normans and the Anglo-Saxon governing class basically
destroyed.
Normans build the infamous Tower Of London.
Normans reform the church and start a clash between church and state which continues through William II and Henry II.
Norman family, the Stuarts, succeed the Scottish throne in 1371.
Norman barons conquer much of South Wales and begin invasion of Ireland.
Henry II begins 'royal justice' marking the beginning common law which replaces Roman civil law (its adaptability and flexibility insured its importance in future English-speaking nations,
including the US).
Magna Carta, important in creation of the Parliament, granted in 1215.
Edward I's reign from 1272 to 1307 saw the renewal of expansion into Wales and Scotland.
Between 1347 and 1349 the Black Death, the Bubonic Plague, kills 1/4 of the English population.
Edward III (r. 1327-77) revived claimed of his ancestries to the territories in France starting the Hundred Years' War with France
Henry V defeats the French at the Battle of Agincourt and wins the right of succession to the French throne.
The royal houses of Lancaster and York conflicting ideas lead to the Wars of the Roses (1455-85).
Conflict ends when the Lancastrian Henry Tudor victored over Richard II at Bosworth Field in 1485. The new king, Henry VII, unites the two houses by marrying Elizabeth of York.
Since henry VII was a Welsh Tudor reconciled Wales to the union with England, formalized by the Act of Union in 1536.
Henry VIII's desire to divorce his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, leads to the Reformation.
Resolved by the long and successful reign of Elizabeth I, during this time the
Church of England achieved its permanent character.
Renewed voyages across the Atlantic, started by John Cabot.
The accession in 1603 of James VI of Scotland to the English. throne as James I brought personal union between Scotland and England
Conflict between Puritans and Anglican faiths during the regin of Charles I results in the English Civil War (1642-46).
England, Scotland, Ireland became a republic--called first the Commonwealth--with Cromwell as lord protector.
Charles II restored to the throne in 1660 however.
James II pursued a Catholicizing policy which united the Whig and Tory parties against him.
He is replaced with William of Orange a protestant, who becomes William III, in the Glorious Revolution of 1688 which leads to the Act of Union (1707).
The constitutional settlement of the Glorious Revolution in effect ensured the supremacy of Parliament as well as barring a Catholic from the throne.
Britain enters the wars against Louis XIV of France
In the Seven Years' War, Britain wins Canada and eliminates French power in India.
French and Indian wars (French/Indians against Britain) lead to the Revolutionary War in which Britain loses its 13 colonies in America.
Queen Victoria reigns from 1837 to 1901.
1870 primary education system established.
Britain fights in WWI and WWII.
Wartime leadership assumed by Winston Churchill.
1980s see Britain being under the strong Conservative government lead by Margaret
Thatcher.
Margaret Thatcher succeeded as prime minister by John Major.
