A HISTORY OF BRITAIN

THE GREAT BRITAIN

• England

• Scotland

• Wales

• Northern Ireland

THE UNITED KINGDOM

• England, Scotland, Northern Irlend, Canada, Australia, New Zealand Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Belize, Antigua and Barbuda, and Saint Kitts and Nevis

British Commonwealth of Nations, shown in blue.

ROMAN BRITAIN

• 55 BC Roman invasion of Britain by Julius Ceaser

THE CELTS

• Romans called all the people

in these area „Britons“

THE ANGLES AND SAXONS

• People started to call this area Angle- land

• Later it is name became „England“

NORMANS KINGS OF ENGLAND

• Normans were the last invasion of Britain

• 1066 The Battle of Hastings is won by Wiliam Conqueror

100- YEARS WAR (1337-1453)

HENRY VIII TUDOR (1509-1547)

• 1534 formed the Church of England, with

new head- the king

• He had six wife:

- Katarine of Aragon

- Ana Boleyn

- Jane Seymour

- Anne of Celves

- Catherine Howard

- Catherine Parr

ELIZABETH I TUDOR (1558-1603)

STUART KINGS OF ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND• 1707 Scotland joins England – The Great Britain

Jemes I Stuart 1603-1620

THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT

Palace of Westminster

POWER TO PEOPLE

• James Watt invented the steam engine in 1769

SAVANNAH„SAVANNAH“

„ROCKET“

JOHN MCADAM

Working-class homes in 19 century London

QUEEN VICTORIA (1837-1901)

THE BRITISH EMIPIRE

„The sun never goes down in The British Emipre“

FIONA BEDDALL, A HISTORY OF BRITAIN, PEGUIN READERS

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