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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