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40 Cards in this Set
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Roman invasion |
43 AD |
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Hadrian's wall |
122 AD |
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Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy |
500-850 |
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Bronze Age |
1500-500 BC |
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Norman Conquest |
1066 |
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Magna Carta |
1215 |
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The Hundred Years' War |
1337-1453 |
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War of the Roses |
1455-1487 |
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Battle of Bosworth |
1485 |
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The Tudor Era |
1485-1603 |
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Mary I |
1553-1558 |
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Elizabeth I. |
1558-1603 |
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James I. |
1603-1625 |
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Charles I. |
1625-1649 |
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English Civil War |
1642-1651 |
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Oliver Cromwell |
1649-1658 |
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Charles II. - Stuart Restoration |
1660-1685 |
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Glorious Revolution |
1688 |
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Bill of Rights |
1689 |
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Act of Union with Scotland |
1707 |
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George I. (PM: Robert Walpole) |
1714-1727 |
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George II. |
1727-1760 |
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George III. |
1760-1820 |
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Seven Years' War |
1756-1763 |
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Act of Union with Ireland--> UK |
1800 |
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Victorian Period |
1837-1901 |
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The Great Exhibition |
1851 |
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First Industrial Revolution |
ca. 1760-1830 |
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Sewage system in London |
1858 |
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Edwardian Era |
1901-1907 |
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Kitchener's Army |
1916 |
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Granted vote for women |
1918 |
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Republic of Ireland |
1922 |
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Blitz- bombing of London |
1940 |
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Independence of India (and Pakistan) |
1947 |
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UK own a hydrogen bomb |
1957 |
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Founding NATO |
1949 |
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Korean War |
1950-53 |
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Britain joined EEC (European Economic Community) - later EU |
1973 |
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Britain's last colony: Hong-Kong independence |
1997 |
