1649 - Charles I beheaded. OLIVER CROMWELL - wanted to create puritan England. England - republic - Lord Protector (Cromwell) People missed not having king, but Cromwell rejected to take the throne, because in practice he had the same pow...
RULES 3-4 short tests (10 min) - basic questions 1 absence per semester allowed Credit - “zaliczenie” - based on the tests, participation, attendance BOOKS: Illustrated history of GB History of GB as easy as pie We don't have to know every detail, what we need is to select important informati...
QUEEN VICTORIA - last of Hanoverian Dynasty. Ruled for 64 years. VICTORIAN SOCIETY Upper class - barons, Queen, her family, nobles - all with aristocratic title, lords Middle class - wide section, industrialists, factory owners, merchants, traders, church, army, navy, banking. They had steady inco...
Map -1066 - Possesion of William I. Kingdom extended: England & Normandy. The same monarch: William was King of England & Duke of Normandy. Complicated political situation with France: William was the vassal to king of France, so he should...
REFORMATION - policital and religious movement. CATHOLIC COUNTRIES: Spain, France, Italy PROTESTANT COUNTRIES: Germany, The Netherlands, Denmark The dissolution of monasteries - it took 4 years. Thomas Cromwell was responsible for that. Pilgrimage...
HENRY II: “murderer” - stain on his honour The greatest prince in Western Europe - the Angevin Empire (he inherited many lands, also married Eleanor of Acquitane). In France Henry II (the vassal of French king) had more lands than the king himself. The Father of
THE STUARTS (1603-1714) Mary Stuart's son - James VI of Scotland became James I of England. He was holding two crowns - personal union between England and Scotland. Not political! Countries had separate parliaments. Political union was set later, in 1707. James descended from Henry VII. James I C...
COLONISATION OF AMERICA 1497 - Newfoundland - first colony 1584 - Sir Walter Raleigh - Virginia, but it didn't survive 1607 - first settlement of Jamestown - survived (established during the reign of James I) 1620 - Mayflower - Plymouth, Massa...
WILLIAM IV (1830-37) Younger brother of George IV. He was not trained, he had no idea how to rule the country. He was 64 when he got the throne (oldest monarch to be crowned). 1830 - Tory Government, believed that only property owners should be in Parliament. They wanted no reforms. Whigs - they ...
THE ANGLO-SAXON INVASION The year 449 has been traditionally accepted as the year of the Germanic conquest of the Island, although Germanic raids had been harassing (nękać) Britain for over two centuries prior to (przed czymś, wcześniej od czegoś) 449. 449 - The “Old English” begins. King Arthur -...
