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18 Cards in this Set
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43-ca. 420 |
Roman invasion and occupation of Britain. |
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ca. 450 |
Anglo-Saxon Conquest |
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597 |
St. Augustine arrives in Kent; beginning of Anglo-Saxon conversion to Christianity. |
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1066 |
Norman Conquest |
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1485 |
William Caxton's printing of Sir Thomas Malory's 'Morte Darthur', one of the first books printed in England & Accession of Henry VII inaugurates the Tudor dynasty |
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1534 |
Henry VIII declares himself head of the English church |
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1558 |
Accession of Elizabeth I |
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1588 |
Defeat of Spanish Armada |
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1603 |
Death of Elizabeth I and accession of James I, the first of the Stuart kings |
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1605 |
The gunpowder Plot, a failed effort by Catholic extremists to blow up Parliament and the king |
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1607 |
Establishment of first permanent English colony in the New World at Jamestown, Virginia |
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1625 |
Death of James I; accesion of Charles I |
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1642 |
Outbreak of civil war; theaters closed |
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1649 |
Execution of Charles I; beginning of Commonwealth and Protectorate, known inclusively as the Interregnum (1649-60) |
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1660 |
End of the Protectorate; restoration of Charles II |
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1688-89 |
The Glorious Revolution: deposition of James II and accession of William of Orange |
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1707 |
Act of Union unites Scotland and England, creating the nation of 'Great Britain' |
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1714 |
Rule by House of Hanover begins with accession of George I |
