Great History of Great Britain

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Great History of Great Britain

Roman Britain

Julius Caeser invaded in 55 BC

Province Britannia (43-410 AD)

Hadrian’s Wall

King Arthur

Legendary British leader

Defended Great Britain from Saxon invaders (late 5 th – early 6 th centuries)

Merlin

Knights of the Round Table

Germanic Invaders

During the 5 th century

The Vikings

Where did Vikings come from?

The Vikings came from three countries of Scandinavia.

The name 'Viking' comes from a language called 'Old Norse' and means

'a pirate raid'.

“ Save us, O Lord, from the fury of the Northmen ”

But the “fury of the Northmen” was not so easy to avoid.

First settlements on the Isles

The Danes sailed to England.

The Norwegian and Swedish Vikings or 'Norsemen' sailed to Scotland and Ireland.

Danelaw (886-1018)

The Viking areas in east and northern England became known as Danelaw.

Alfred, King of Wessex, accepted the Danish colonisation of much of England.

William the Conqueror

1028 – 1087

Duke of Normandy

Won the Battle of Hastings in 1066

First Norman King of England (1066-1087)

Richard the Lionheart

1157 – 1199

King of England (1189-1199)

Crusader

Made England

very poor

Edward I Longshanks

1239 – 1307

King of England (1272-1307)

Hammer of the Scots

Conquered Scotland and Ireland

His son became the 1 st prince of Wales

Henry VIII

1491 – 1547

King of England (1509-1547)

Had six wives

Made the Church of England independent

Head of the Church

Father of the Royal Navy

Elizabeth I

1533 – 1603

Queen of England and Ireland (1558-1603)

Second daughter of Henry VIII

Connived at English piracy

England became ‘Mistress of the seas’

Mary, Queen of Scots

1542 – 1587

Known as Mary Stuart

Queen of Scotland (1542-1567)

Queen of France (1559-1560)

Mother of James I, King of England and Ireland

James I

1566 – 1625

James VI, King of Scotland (1567-1625)

King of England and Ireland (1603-1625)

Period of peace and low taxation

Guy Fawkes

1570 – 1606

Gunpowder Plot

Planned to blow up James I and the Parliament

Guy Fawkes Nights

Charles I

1600 – 1649

King of England, Scotland and Ireland (1625-1649)

English Civil Wars (1642-1648)

Beheaded

Oliver Cromwell

1599 – 1658

Military Commander (1642-1646)

Lord Protector of the Commonwealth (1653-1658)

Victoria

1819 – 1901

Queen of the United Kingdom (1837-1901)

Empress of India (1876-1901)

The British Empire

The British Empire

Winston Churchill

1874 – 1965

War correspondent (India, Sudan, South Africa)

World War I

Prime Minister of the UK (1940-1945, 1951-1955)

World War II

Russophobe

Cold War

Margaret Thatcher

1925 – 2013

Prime Minister of the UK (1979-1990)

‘ The Iron Lady’

Cold War

Falkland War

Theresa May

Born in 1925 

Prime Minister of the UK (since 2016)

Against immigration

Brexit

Russophobe

‘ Highly likely’