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67 Cards in this Set
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Caractacus resists invading Romans |
50ish |
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Hadrian's wall |
122 |
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Antonine wall |
142ish |
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St. Allan first martyr |
304 |
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Constantine declares Christianity |
313 |
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St. Patrick (apostole of ireland) missionary |
Mid 400s |
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St. Columba |
Mid 500 |
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Warrior king - Ethelbert of Kent |
560-616ish |
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St. Augustin's mission from Rome |
597 |
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The comet star - St Egbert dies in Iona(easter) |
729 |
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Arrival of the Vikings |
793 |
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King Alfred the Great |
849 |
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Monk's diary - Anglo saxon chronicles |
871-899 |
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Beowulf |
1000ish |
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Sweyn Forkbeard |
1013-1014 |
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King Cnut (Canute) |
1016-1035 |
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Final Saxom king - Edward the confessor |
1042 |
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Battle of Hastings |
1066 |
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Norman invasion and conquest - William the Bastard/Conquerer |
1066 |
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Tower of London |
1078 |
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Doomsday book (William and ownings) |
1086 |
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Murder of Archbishop - Thomas Becket |
1170 |
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The Magna Carta |
1215 |
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Corpus Christi Plays |
1264 |
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Westminister Abbey |
1268 |
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Reign of Edward I (Hammer of the Scots) |
1272 |
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Winchester Castle - round table on the |
1275 Henry VII |
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King Edward I defeats Scots (Longshanks) |
1298 |
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Reign of Edward II |
1307 Married to Isabella of France |
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Hundred years war |
1337 between the house of Plantagenet and Valois |
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Geoffrey Chaucer |
1343 - 1400 |
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Black Death |
1348 |
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The Caterbury Tales |
1387 |
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Sir Gawain and the Green night |
14th cent |
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Henry V |
1413 |
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Battle of Agincourt |
1415 |
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War of Roses |
1455 - York (white) agains Lancaster (red) |
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William Caxton - printing press |
1476 |
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Sir Thomas Malory: Morte d'Arthur |
1485 |
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Battle of Bisworth Field |
1485 - End of War of Roses |
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Voyage to the new world- Columbus |
1492 |
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Aristo's Orlando Furioso |
1532 ???? |
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Henry VIII |
1506 First reneissance monarch |
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Dissolution of the monasteries |
1536-1541 |
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The New World Map |
1546 |
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Edmud Spencer |
1552-1599 |
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(Bloody) Mary I |
1553 Roman Catholic |
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Elizabeth locked in Tower |
1554 conspiracy |
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Elizabeth I - The Virgin queen |
1558 the golden age |
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Smallpox |
1562 |
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Plague |
1563 |
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Sir Robert Sydney |
1563-1626 |
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William Shakespeare |
1564-1616 |
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Christopher Marlowe |
1564-1593 |
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Sir John Davies |
1569-1626 |
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Sirh John Donne |
1572-1631 |
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Tasso's Gerusalemmr Liberata |
1575 |
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London Theatre |
1576 |
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Sir Francis Drake around the Globe |
1577 |
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Tamburlaine the Great |
1587 |
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Spanish Armada |
1588 |
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Queen Elizabeth I - Speech to the troops at Tilbury |
1588 |
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Spencer: The Faerie Queene |
1589 |
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Sir George Peele |
1589 |
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Sir Phillip Sidney: Sonnet 15 and 19 |
1591 |
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Samuel Daniel: Sonnet VI |
1592 |
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Marlowe: The tragedy of Dr. Faustus |
1594 |
