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British History Timeline
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British History Timeline
Middle Ages : 1154 -1485
Plantagenet
Henry, son of Empress Matilda, established stability after civil war between his mother and her rival Stephen (Ken Follet's The Pillars of the Earth). Henry II married Eleanor of Aquitaine, and two of their children became Kings: Richard Lion heart and John Lack land, who signed the Magna Carta in 1215
Roman Britain - 43 AD - 410 AD
Britain has been shaped by turmoil between its nations, and tension between state and church. But centuries of conflict would forge the power at the heart of the largest empire the world has ever seen.
Norman Britain - September 1066 - 4 December 1154
Following the conquest of the Britons, a distinctive Romano-British culture emerged as the Romans introduced improved agriculture, urban planning, industrial production, and architecture
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Britain
Templeborough Roman fort in Yorkshire. The reconstruction was created for Rotherham Museums and Galleries.
Iron Age
800 BC - 43 AD
Section of the Bayeux Tapestry showing Harold being killed at Hastings
Tudors - 17 June 1487 - 30 March 1603
The Romans called the Iron Age people of Western Europe Celts
Viking and Anglo-Saxons - 430 - 6 January 1066
The Great Torc from Snettisham on display in the British Museum. Snettisham is a village in the English county of Norfolk.
Material - Gold
Size - 20 cm diameter
weight - 1kg
Created - 100-75 BC
THe map below shows king Cnut's dominions in 1035
House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
House of Stuart
1603 - 1714
House of Windsor
from 1917 to present day
House of Hanover: 1714 - 1901
In 1901, when Queen Victoria died, her son and heir Edward VII became the first British Monarch of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Edward taking his family name from that of his father, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
Four Stuart kings ruled the British Isles, with an interregnum of parliamentary rule lasting from 1649 to 1660 as a result of the English Civil War. Following the Glorious Revolution in 1688, two Stuart queens ruled the isles: Mary II and Anne. Both were the daughters of James II
Under the terms of the 1701 Act of Settlement and the 1704 Act of Security, the crown passed from the House of Stuart to the House of Hanover.
From King George I to Queen Victoria
George V (1910–1936; in 1917, the name was changed and the royal house and family became known as Windsor)
Edward VIII (1936)
George VI (1936–1952)
Elizabeth II (1952–present)
From King Edward VII, who reigned from 1901 to 1910, until 1917, when King George V replaced the German-sounding title with the name of Windsor during the First World War, British monarchs belonged to the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
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