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Legenda ofzoGreen: One of the historic thingies that needs to be learned by heart.
Belangrijke dingen KLV
Chapter 1: The British Context (history)
Je moet in grote lijnen weten wat er gebeurt is, leer de powerpoint en de verplichte
tijden. Thats kinda it.
Geloven die ‘poly’ zijn geloven in meerdere goden, mono in 1.
First Language: Gaelic.
Era’s:
Early Britain, Celtic Era: until 43 AD
3000 BC: Stonehenge, bouw monument
350-50 BC: The Battersea Shield
- Languages: Unknown and Celtic
- Religion: Celtic polytheism (Druidism)
-Early History-
Roman Era: 43-410 AD
43 AD: Invasion by the Roman emperor Claudius
Ca. 120: Hadrians Wall
Circa 409: Roman army withdrew from Britain, wars between the Celts
- Languages: Celtic and Latin
- Religions: Roman polytheism and Christianity (from the 4 th century)
Anglo-Saxon Era: 410-1066 AD
(Viking Settlement 8th – 9th century)
449: Invasions by Angles, Saxons, Jutes and Frisians began.
597: St. Augustine introduces Christianity in Southern-England.
789-796: Scandinavian (Viking) raids begin
- Languages: English (Anglo-Saxon), Brythonic and Gaelic.
- Dominant Religions: Germanic polytheism and Christianity (from 7 th century)
-The Early Middle Ages-
Anglo-Norman and Angevin Eras: 1066-1350 AD
1066: Battle of Hastings. Normans led by William, Duke of Normandy
1215: Magna Carta signed by King John (niemand boven de wet).
1348: The Black Death (plague) spreads in England, killing 1/3 of the population
- Languages: Norman French, English, Brythonic, Gaelic
- Religion: Western Christianity (Catholicism)
-The Late Middle Ages-
Late Middle Ages: 1350-1485 AD
Ca. 1375-1400: Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales written
1381: Peasant’s revolt (popular rebellion), led by John Ball.
1337-1453: Hundred Years’ War
,1455-1485: Wars of The Roses->
Between ________
House of York, House of Lancaster – tutors, 1 kreeg geen kids, ff googelen
- Languages: English, Welsh, Cornish, Gaelic
- Religion: Western Christianity (Catholicism)
-Towards The Nation State-
Tudor England 1485-1603 AD
1509-1547: Reign of Henry VIII (Catholic, then Anglican)
Lil Story:
Henry VIII started The Church of England,
He was married to Catherine of Aragon,
but he wanted a divorce, which isn’t allowed
in the Catholic Church.
Henry wrote a letter to the church
to ask for permission, which he was denied.
Then he started his “own church” so that he
could get a divorce.
This led to the famous ‘6 wives’
and the famous sentence ‘divorced,
beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived’.
1534: Act of Supremacy
1535: Wales annexed by England
1553-1558: Reign of Mary I (Catholic)
1564-1616: William Shakespeare
1558-1603: Reign of Elizabeth I (Anglican)
1560: Scots Confession passed by Parliament
1588: Spanish Armada
16th and 17th centuries: Conquest of Ireland
1603: Dynastic Union of England and Scotland under James VI (Union of 2 crowns)
- Languages: English, Welsh, Cornish, Gaelic
- Religions: Catholicism, Anglicanism, Scottish Presbyterianism, were mostly
Jewish (small community though).
Tudor Rose
Early Stuart Britain: 1603-1649 AD
1603-1625: James I King of England, Scotland and Ireland (Anglican)
1611: King James Bible
1625-1649: Reign of Charles I (Catholic Sympathies)
1649: Execution of Charles I, monarchy abolished (formally put to an end)
- Languages: English, Welsh, Cornish, Gaelic
- Religions: Anglicanism, Scottish Presbyterianism, Catholicism, mostly Jewish.
(Still small group)
Commonwealth: 1649-1660 AD
1639-1653: War in Scotland (began as a conflict over episcopacy)
1641-1653: War in Ireland (devolved into a conflict between Catholics and
Protestants)
, 1642-1649: War in England (English Civil War between Royalists and
Parliamentarians)
1653-1658: Oliver Cromwell ruled England as ‘Lord Protector’
Important: Oliver Cromwell is NOT A KING!
- Languages: English, Welsh, Cornish, Gaelic
- Religion: Puritanical Anglicanism, Scottish Presbyterianism, Catholicism.
Small Jewish community.
Restoration 1660-1688 AD
1660-1685: Charles II King of England, Scotland and Ireland (Anglican)
1685-1688: Reign of James II (Catholic)
1688: ‘Glorious Revolution’: Dutch invasion lead to the government of William III and
Mary (Anglican)
- Languages: English, Welsh, Cornish, Gaelic
- Religion: Anglicanism, Scottish Presbyterianism, Catholicism. Small Jewish
Community.
-The Eighteenth Century-
The Revolution and Its Aftermath: 1680-1714 AD
1688-1702: Reign of William III and Mary II (Anglican)
1689: Bill of Rights: free elections (for landowners), freedom of speech in parliament,
regular meetings parliament, having a ‘papist prince’.
1690: Battle of the Boyne
1702-1714: Reign of Anne
1707: Act of Union joined England (which already included Wales) and Scotland to
form Great Britain (Not Northern Ireland!)
- Languages: English, Welsh, Cornish, Gaelic
- Religion: Anglicanism, Scottish Presbyterianism, Catholicism. Still small
Jewish community.
-Vanaf hier blijven de talen en de religie ongeveer hetzelfde.-
Georgian Era 1714-1837 AD
1714-1727: Reign of George I (like all subsequent monarchs, Anglican)
1765-1783: American Revolution-> War of Indepencence
1769: Steam engine and spinning machine are invented
1775: Watt greatly improved the steam engine, accelerating the Industrial Revolution
(ca. 1765-1830)
1775-1783: American War for independence -> loss of 13 colonies
1793-1815: Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
-The Nineteenth Century-
1801: Act of Union joins Great Britain and Ireland (as a whole) -> The United
Kingdom, one parliament in London
Monarchs: George I -> George II -> George III -> George IV -> William IV
Growing middle class: increasing demand for novels, especially about middle class
characters: e.g. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe and Pride and Prejudice by Jane
Austen)
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