A HISTORY OF BRITAIN

THE GREAT BRITAIN

England
Scotland
Wales
Northern Ireland

THE UNITED KINGDOM

England, Scotland, Northern Irlend, Canada, Australia, New Zealand Jamaica, Barbados,
the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Saint
Vincent and the Grenadines, Belize, Antigua and Barbuda, and Saint Kitts and Nevis

British Commonwealth of Nations, shown in blue.

ROMAN BRITAIN

55 BC Roman invasion of Britain by Julius Ceaser

THE CELTS

Romans called all the people

in these area Britons

THE ANGLES AND SAXONS

People started to call this area Angle- land

Later it is name became England

NORMANS KINGS OF ENGLAND

Normans were the last invasion of Britain

1066 The Battle of Hastings is won by Wiliam Conqueror

100- YEARS WAR (1337-1453)

HENRY VIII TUDOR (1509-1547)

1534 formed the Church of England, with

new head- the king

He had six wife:
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Katarine of Aragon

Ana Boleyn

Jane Seymour

Anne of Celves

Catherine Howard

Catherine Parr

ELIZABETH I TUDOR (1558-1603)

STUART KINGS OF ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND

1707 Scotland joins England The Great Britain

Jemes I Stuart 1603-1620

THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT

Palace of Westminster

POWER TO PEOPLE

James Watt invented the steam engine in 1769

SAVANNAH

SAVANNAH

ROCKET

JOHN MCADAM

Working-class homes in 19 century London

QUEEN VICTORIA (1837-1901)

THE BRITISH EMIPIRE

The sun never goes down in The British Emipre

 source:

FIONA BEDDALL, A HISTORY OF BRITAIN, PEGUIN

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