English Flash Cards 2
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- 43-420
- Roman occupation of Britain
- 450
- Anglo-Saxon invasion and conquest
- 597
- St Augustine arrives in Kent: beginning of Christian conversion of England
- 790s
- viking invasions of england
- 871-899
- reign of king alfred
- 1066
- norman conquest
- 1099-1204
- crusades
- 1154-1189
- reign of king henry II
- 1215
- magna carta
- 1336
- beginning of hundred years' war
- 1348
- black death
- 1415
- battle of agincourt
- 1453
- end of hundred years' war; loss of all french dominions
- c. 1455
- gutenberg bible
- 1455-1485
- wars of the roses (an english civil war)
- 1476
- Caxton introduces printing into england
- 1485-1509
- reign of henry VII (first Tudor king)
- 1509-1547
- Reign of Henry VIII
- 1517
- 95 theses of martin luther: beginning of the reformation
- 1534
- act of supremacy; end of papal power in england
- 1558-1603
- reign of queen elizabeth I
- 1588
- Spanish armada
- 1603-1625
- reign of James I, first stuart king
- 1605
- gunpowder plot
- 1607
- establishment of first permanent english colony at jamestown, virginia
- 1642-1649
- english civil war
- 1649
- execution of charles I. Beginning of Iterregnum (including protectorate of Oliver Cromwell)
- 1660
- end of protectorate; restoration of charles II
- 1688
- glorious revolution; beginning of reign of William III (william of orange)