History of Britain

 0    111 flashcards    KaczmarPL
tải về mp3 In chơi tự kiểm tra
 
câu hỏi câu trả lời
Roman and Anglo-Saxon England
bắt đầu học
55 BC - AD 1066
Cesar made two expeditions to Britain
bắt đầu học
55 and 54 BC
Claudian Conquest of Britain
bắt đầu học
AD 43
defensive wall (Emperor Hadrian) to protect Roman Britain against Scottish tribes
bắt đầu học
AD 120
The Anglo-Saxon Invasion (Angles, Saxons, Jutes)
bắt đầu học
(circa) ca. 446 - 577
Alfred the Great of Wessex (defended England against Vikings)
bắt đầu học
871 - 899
Early Middle Ages
bắt đầu học
1066-1202
Norman Invasion: Battle of Hastings (William of Normandy was crowned as King of England on Christmas day at Westminster)
bắt đầu học
1066
William I the Conqueror (King of England)
bắt đầu học
1066 - 1087
Henry I - (the first English Plantagenet King)
bắt đầu học
1100 - 1135
Henry II - King of England: wife: Eleanor of Aquitaine (enormous French possessions)
bắt đầu học
1154 - 1189
Richard the Lionheart (3 rd Crusade / Captured by Holy Roman Emperor)
bắt đầu học
1189 - 1199
Crisis of Royal Authority in the 13th century
bắt đầu học
1215 - 1272
John the Lackland (King of England)
bắt đầu học
1199 - 1216
MAGNA CARTA - it promised the protection of church rights, protection for the barons from illegal imprisonment, access to swift justice, and limitations on feudal payments to the Crown, to be implemented through a council of 25 barons
bắt đầu học
1215
Edward I ‘Longshanks’ (King of England: Conquest of Wales / waged war against Scotland and attempted to conquer it)
bắt đầu học
1272 - 1307
William Wallace (“Braveheart”) Rebellion
bắt đầu học
1305
Model Parliament - beginning of House of Commons
bắt đầu học
1295
Edward II (King of England: weak king / deposed by wife, the French Princess Isabella, and her lover, Mortimer)
bắt đầu học
1307 - 1327
Battle of Bannockburn lost by English
bắt đầu học
1314
Edward III (King of England: became King when his father was deposed / Shortly after his 18th birthday)
bắt đầu học
1327 - 1377
Edward III renewed claims of English sovereignty over Scotland
bắt đầu học
1333
Beginning of Hundred Years’ War - Edward III laid claim to the French crown
bắt đầu học
1337
England during the Hundred Years’ War
bắt đầu học
1337 - 1453
Battle of Crécy (Edward’s victory proved the effectiveness of the English longbow used en masse against armoured knights)
bắt đầu học
1346
Siege and capture of Calais / at the same time the Scots attacked from the north but were defeated in England at the Battle of Neville's Cross (October)
bắt đầu học
1346-47
Black Death
bắt đầu học
1348 - 1351
Battle of Poitiers (French King captured)
bắt đầu học
1356
Treaty of Bretigny (Edward III regained most of the Plantagenet estates in southern France, and was to hold them without doing homage to the French King)
bắt đầu học
1360
Richard II (King of England: he was 9 years old when he became king)
bắt đầu học
1377 - 1399
Richard managed to limit the influence of the Lords Appellant and of his uncle – John of Gaunt
bắt đầu học
1390s
Richard II banished Gaunt’s son Henry of Bolingbroke on a pretext
bắt đầu học
1399
Henry V (King of England)
bắt đầu học
1413 - 1422
Henry renewed English claim to the French Crown, culminating in the Battle of Agincourt
bắt đầu học
1415
Joan of Arc
bắt đầu học
1429
Battle of Castillon (end of Hundred Years’ War - exactly 116 years)
bắt đầu học
1453
The Tudor Age
bắt đầu học
1485 - 1603
Henry VII (King of England: diplomatic marriages)
bắt đầu học
1485 - 1509
Henry VIII (King of England: son Edward)
bắt đầu học
1509 - 1547
establishment of the Anglican Church
bắt đầu học
1533
Act of Supremacy - two acts passed by the Parliament of England in the 16th century that established the English monarchs as the head of the Church of England
bắt đầu học
1534
Dissolution of the Monasteries
bắt đầu học
1536 - 1539
The Six Articles - Henry wrested control over the English church from Rome
bắt đầu học
1539
Charles V sacked Rome (Sacco di Roma)
bắt đầu học
1527
Queen Elizabeth I
bắt đầu học
1558 - 1603
Act of Uniformity - Uniformity of Public Prayers and Administration of Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies, and for establishing the Form of making, ordaining and consecrating Bishops, Priests and Deacons in the Church of England.
bắt đầu học
1559
Beginning of the 80 Years’ War
bắt đầu học
1568
Treaty of Nonsuch
bắt đầu học
1585
Francis Drake - traveled round the world / led the English navy against the Armada
bắt đầu học
(circa) c. 1540-1596
The Scottish nobility turned against Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots
bắt đầu học
1567
Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots escaped from prison and raised an army but was once more defeated at the Battle of Langside
bắt đầu học
1568
The Babington Plot - a plan to assassinate Queen Elizabeth I, a Protestant, and put Mary, Queen of Scots, her Catholic cousin, on the English throne
bắt đầu học
1586
Mary of Scots is tried and executed
bắt đầu học
1587
SPAIN (King Philip II of Spain) declares war on ENGLAND
bắt đầu học
1585
in response to Mary Stuart' s death, the Spanish Armada sailed to England to depose Elizabeth
bắt đầu học
1588
Charles I (King of England: Charles continued to struggle with the Parliament over issues of prerogative (TAXES!))
bắt đầu học
1625 - 1649
First Bishops’ War
bắt đầu học
1438
Charles wanted to collect taxes to fund the war against Scottish Presbytarians, but his English subjects refused to sponsor it: the confrontation ended for Charles in a humiliating truce.
bắt đầu học
1639
the “Short” and the „Long” Parliament
bắt đầu học
1640
the Irish Rebellion
bắt đầu học
1641
WAR between King and Parliament BREAKS OUT
bắt đầu học
1642
Oliver Cromwell - NEW MODEL ARMY (nicknamed “the Ironsides”, The New Model Army was raised from among veteran soldiers who were zealous Puritans devoted to Cromwell)
bắt đầu học
1599 - 1658
Battle of Naseby, Ironsides’ decisive victory
bắt đầu học
1645
the Royalists were defeated and Charles surrendered himself to the Scots, who were later forced to hand the King over to the leaders of the New Model Army
bắt đầu học
1646
Battle of Preston - the Scots, afraid of Cromwell’s political radicalism, joined forces with the Royalists (King’s supporters) and attacked the New Model Army, but were defeated by Cromwell
bắt đầu học
1648
trial and execution of Charles I
bắt đầu học
1649
The English Commonwealth led by Cromwell as Lord Protector
bắt đầu học
1649 - 1660
Cromwell’s Conquest of Ireland
bắt đầu học
1649 - 1653
The Restoration - Charles I’s son, Charles, is returned to the throne as Charles II
bắt đầu học
1660
Act of Settlement
bắt đầu học
1701
Act of Union
bắt đầu học
1707
George I (King of England: First English monarch of the House of Hanover)
bắt đầu học
1714 - 1727
Robert Walpole - “1st Prime Minister of Great Britain”
bắt đầu học
1676 – 1745
Seven Years’ War - In North America, France lost to Britain all of its possessions east of the Mississippi; The war ended France's position as a major colonial power; Great Britain, meanwhile, emerged as the dominant colonial power in the world.
bắt đầu học
1756 – 1763
George III - The king under whom England lost its North American colonies.
bắt đầu học
1760 - 1820
American Revolution
bắt đầu học
1775 - 1783
Admiral Horatio Nelson
bắt đầu học
1758 – 1805
Battle of the Nile
bắt đầu học
1798
Battle of Trafalgar
bắt đầu học
1805
Irish Rebellion
bắt đầu học
1798
Act of Union (Union of England, Scotland and Ireland)
bắt đầu học
1800
Napoleon’s disastrous Russian campaign
bắt đầu học
1812 - 1813
the Allies entered Paris - Napoleon abdicated on April 6 - the victors exiled Napoleon to the island of Elba – Congress of Vienna starts
bắt đầu học
1814
Napoleon’s last stand -> defeated by the English under Wellington [Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington]at Waterloo.
bắt đầu học
1815
George IV (King of England: Peterloo Massacre at Manchester)
bắt đầu học
1820 - 1830
Great Reform Act - under Prime Minister Earl Grey -> the Act got rid of the inequities in the electoral system, The Act also increased the number of individuals entitled to vote, increasing the size of electorate by 50–80%
bắt đầu học
1832
Queen Victoria – British Imperialism and Social Reform
bắt đầu học
1837 - 1901
Robert Peel - Tory party is split: William Gladstone (Liberal), Benjamin Disraeli (Conservative)
bắt đầu học
1840s
Irish Potato Famine
bắt đầu học
1845 - 1852
Corn Law repealed
bắt đầu học
1846
Second Reform Act - enfranchised all male householders
bắt đầu học
1867
Ballot Act
bắt đầu học
1872
Representation of the People Act
bắt đầu học
1884
women over 30 given the vote
bắt đầu học
1918
full suffrage for women
bắt đầu học
1928
KING - George V
bắt đầu học
1910 - 1938
Triple Entente (UK, France, Russia)
bắt đầu học
1907
Battle of Gallipoli
bắt đầu học
April-Dec. 1915
David Lloyd George (Prime Minister: Winston Churchill -> Minister of Munitions in Lloyd George’s government)
bắt đầu học
1916 - 1922
Labour Party (win 29 seats in House of Commons)
bắt đầu học
1906
Ramsay MacDonald -> first Labour Prime Minister
bắt đầu học
1924
Easter Rising
bắt đầu học
April 1916
Irish War of Independence. Consequences? Ireland split into North Ireland [still within the UK] and the Irish free State
bắt đầu học
January 1919 - July 1921
KING Edward VIII abdicates
bắt đầu học
11 December 1936
George VI (king: Edward VIII's brother [Queen Elizabeth II’s father])
bắt đầu học
1936 - 1952
Neville Chamberlain (Conservative Prime Minister)
bắt đầu học
1937 - 1940
Winston Churchill - Prime Minister
bắt đầu học
1940 - 1945
the British announced their desire to terminate the Palestine mandate and withdraw - Israeli-Arab war breaks out: Israel gains independence
bắt đầu học
May 1948
India: Partition of India: India and East and West Pakistan gain independence (Lord Louis Mountbatten -> last Viceroy of India)
bắt đầu học
1947
Conservatives back in power, Churchill refuses to join The European Coal and Steel Community proposed by the French foreign minister Robert Schuman
bắt đầu học
1951
Africa: Suez Canal Crisis (under Prime Minister Anthony Eden) dealt a humiliating blow to UK’s post-war colonial ambitions
bắt đầu học
1956

Bạn phải đăng nhập để đăng bình luận.