History Of London Midterm Flashcards

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604

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St Pauls Cathedral founded

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886

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Reoccupation of City of London

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1014

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Viking attack on London

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1123

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St Barts founded

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1209

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London Bridge built in stone

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1290

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Expulsion of Jews

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1349

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Black Death

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1381

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Peasants revolt against poll tax

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1476

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Caxton's printing press

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1665

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Great Plague

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1666

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Great Fire

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1685

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Revocation of Edict of Nantes, Hugonaut influx

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1694

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Bank of England founded

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1750

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Westminster Bridge built

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1756

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London's first bypass

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1851

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Great Exhibition

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Roman imports

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Olive Oil, tableware, garum (fish sauce)

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Roman Exports

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slaves, oysters, dogs, hides

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Mithras

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Persian God promised afterlife, male only, 3rd century

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London Stone

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Cannon Street, center point of London

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Lundenwic

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AngloSaxon trading settlement 6th-8th centuries

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The Steelyard

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Headquarters of Hanseatic League on cannon street

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St Barts

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1123 church, hospital

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Hospitallers

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Knights of hospital of st john of Jerusalem

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Livery companies

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Vintners, fishmongers, gardeners

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Charter house

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1371, carthusian monks

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Guildhall

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1411-1440 seat of city government

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Inns of Court

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Greys Inn, Temple, lawyers trained

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Bridewell

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Palace built by henry viii @ fleet river, turned into reformatory for juvenile offenders

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The Globe

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Shakespeare's theatre 1599-1613, burned, rebuilt by Sam Wanamaker

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Memento Mori

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reminders of death

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The Queens House

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Greenwich, built by Inigo Jones, first neoclassical building--geometric

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Banqueting House

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Whitehall, neoclassical building

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Royal Society

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Oldest scientific society in the world 1662 Wren Newton Pepys were all members

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Huguenot trades

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Silk, felt

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Coffee Houses

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Lloyds coffee house, marine insurance market

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Roman remains

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Tower Hill, Guildhall, fort @ Museum, by mansion house

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Anglo-Saxon

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Barking, ealing, -ham, ton

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Monasteries

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Holy Trinity @ Aldgate, Bishopsgate nunnery

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Royal Residences

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Buckingham Palace, St James Palace, Kensington, Greenwich, Tower of London

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Royal Exchange

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Thomas Gresham 1571 upscale shopping now

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Early Town Planning

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Covent Garden, Bloomsbury Square

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Wren Churches

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St Pauls, St Stephen Walbrook, etc

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Crystal Palace

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Exhibition, glass, etc

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King Lud

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Legendary Founder of London

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Classicianus

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Tomb, refounder of London

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Boudicca

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Burned London

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Erkenwald

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Bishopsgate,Barking Abbey

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Thomas Becket

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Henry II chancellor, murdered in Canterbury Cathedral

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William Fitzstephen

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1st Londoner to write about London

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Henry FitzAilwyn

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First mayor 1189 served life term

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Peter De Colchurch

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Designed stone London Bridge

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Dick Whittington

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Died childless, left everything to London

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William Caxton

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Printing press, made fleet street into printing street

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Thomas Gresham

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Royal Exchange, Gresham college

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John Stow

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1st historian of London, walked every street, archivist

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Inigo Jones

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1st architect to master neoclassical, organized masques

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Peter Paul Rubens

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Painted ceiling of banqueting house

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Anthony van Dyck

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Charles I painter, died of plague

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Samuel Pepys

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Diarist, appendix out

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John Evelyn

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Friend of Pepys, diarist for 64 years

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Christopher Wren

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Architect, polymath, St Pauls, etc

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Nicholas Hawksmoor

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Wren's assistant, became major architect

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Hogarth

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Artist, satirist, etc

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Built the First Westminster Abbey

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Edward the Confessor

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Built Westminster Hall

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William II

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Dissolved the Monasteries

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Henry VIII

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Founded Chelsea Hospital

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Charles II

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Was painted by Van Dyck

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Charles I

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Rebuilt Westminster Abbey

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Henry III

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Was executed in Whitehall

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Charles I

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Founded Greenwich Hospital

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Wm and Mary

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Opened the Great Exhibition

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Victoria