Names Flashcards
(149 cards)
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Henry’s 1st wife
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Catherine of Aragon. Had Mary. Divorce
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Henry’s second wife
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Anne Boleyn. Had Elizabeth.
Executed at Tower of London
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Henry 3rd wife
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Jane Seymour.
Son Edward. Died after birth
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Henry 4th wife
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Anne of Cleves. German princess. Divorce
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Henry 5th wife
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Catherine Howard. Cousin of Boleyn. Executed
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Henry 6th wife
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Catherine Parr. Widow.
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Who wrote Auld Lang syne
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When celebrating Hogmanay. Robert burns
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Curry house/ shampooing
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Sake Dean Mahomet
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What was Crimean war about
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Turkey, Britain and France v Russia. Media. Victoria Cross medal
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Thomas Gainsborough
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Portrait painter / country or garden scenery 1700/
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David Allan
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Scottish painter. Portraits - The Origin if Painting
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Joseph Turner
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Landscape painter in modern style. Raised profile of landscape painting
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John Constable
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Landscape. Works of Dedham Vale in suffllolk Essex border
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Pre Raphaelites
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Second half of 1800/ religious and literary themes in bright colors
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Who are Holman Hunt, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Millais
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Pre raphaelites
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Sir John Alavert
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N. Ireland . Painter royal fam
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Henry Moore
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Large bronze abstract sculptures
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John petts
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Welsh, engravings, Stained glass
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Lucian Freud
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German. Portraits
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David Hockney
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Pop art movement of 1960s
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Alfred Hitchcock
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Director, 39 steps
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David Lean
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Director of Brief Encounter: Lawrence of Arabia
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Carol Reed
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Director, The Third Man
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Frank Launder
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Director, the Belles of St Trinians
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ken Russell
Director, Women in Love
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Nicholas Roeg
Director, don’t look now
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Hugh Hudson
Director, chariots of Fire
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Roland Joffe
Director, the killing fields
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Mike Newell
Director, 4 weddings and a funeral
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Kevin MacDonald
Director, touching the void
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Jane Austen
Novelist. Pride and prejudice and sense and sensibility
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Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist and Great Expectations - Scrooge Mr McAwber
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Robert Louis Stephenson
Author for children. Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
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Thomas Hardy
Author and poet. . Novels on rural society. Far from the maddening crowd and Jude the Obscure.
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Scottish Dr and writer. Sherlock Holmes , fictional detective
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Evelyn Waugh
Satirical novels, Decline and Falk and Scoop; Brideshead Revisited
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Sir Kingsley Amis
English novelist and poet. Wrote more than 20 novels. Lucky Jim
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Graham Greene
Wrote novels rooted in religion. The heart of the matter, the honorary consul, Brighton Rock and Our Man in Havana
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Henry Purcell
Organist at Westminster Abbey
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George Frederick Handel
German composer. Water music for K George I and Music for Royal Fireworks for George 2. Messiah.
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Gustav Holst
Composer. The planets . Jupiter l. I vow to thee my country (hymn)
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Sir Edward Elgar
Composer. Pomp and Circumstance (played around last night of the Proms at Royal Albert Hall)
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
Wrote music for orchestras and choirs ; influenced. By traditional Englishb folk music
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Sir William Walton
Scores and opera. And marches for coronations of K George 6 and W Eliz 2. Facade became a ballet and Belshazzars. feast
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Benjamin Britten
Operas. Peter Grimes and Billy Budd. A Young Persons Gide to the Orchestra
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Sir Roger Bannister
Ran mile under 4 mins
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Sir Jackie Stewart
Scot. Formula one champ x3
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Bobby Moore
Captain English team. Won WC 66
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Sir Ian Botham
Captain, English cricket
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Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean
Gold for ice dancing Olympics 84
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Eid al Fitr
End of ramadan
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Eid Ul Adha
Muslim sacrifices Ibrhaim sacrificed own son
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Vaisakhi
Sikh festival - celebrates founding of Sikh community known as Khalsa
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Diwali
Oct or Nov for five days. Festival of Lights. Hindus and Sikhs
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When St David’s Day
1st March - Wales
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When is St George’s Day
23 April - England
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When is St Andres Day
30 Nov - Scotland
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Mary Peters
Olympic Gold in pentathlon 1972. Dame of British empire in 2000
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John Logie Baird
Invented TV. Scot. In 1920s. 1932 first tv broadcasts between London and Glasgow
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Sir Robert Watson-Watt
Developed radar. Proposed enemy aircraft could be detected by radio waves
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Alan Turing
Invented Turing machine - influenced dvpt of computer science and computer
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Sir Bernard Lovell
Built radio telescope at Jodrell Bank in Cheshire
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John McLeod
Discovered penicillin. Scot.
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Francis Crick
Structure of DNA molecule in 1953.
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Sir Frank Whittle
The jet engine was developed in Britain in 1930s
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Sir Christopher Cockerell
Hovercraft 1950s
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Concorde
Supersonic passenger aircraft. Britain and France. Flew in 1969. 1976 passengers. Retired in 2003
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Harriet
Jump
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James Goodfellow
ATM - Barclays in Enfield 1967
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Sir Robert Edwardsand Patrick Steptoe
IVF - Oldham,Lancashire
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Sir Ian Wilbur and Keith Campbell
Cloning a mammal
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Sir Peter Mansfield
MRI
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Sir Tim Bernard- Lee
Inventor of World Wide Web
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Clement Atlee
Labour MP.
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Sir Roger Bannister
Under 4m mile 1954
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Sir Steve Redgrave
Gold in rowing 4 consecutive. Olympics
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Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson
Wheelchair and won 16 Paralympic medals, 11 gold in 5 Paralympic Games. Won London marathon 6x and broke 30 world records
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Dame Kelly Holmes
Won 2 good for running in 04 Olympiad
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Dame Ellen MacArthur
Yachtswoman 2004 fastest person to sail world singlehanded
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Sir Chris Hoy
Scottish cyclist. Won 6 gold and one silver. Won 11 championship titles
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David Weir
Paralympic who uses wheelchair and won 6 gold over 2 games. Won London marathon 6x
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Sir Bradley Wiggins
Cyclist - 2012 first Briton to win Tour de France. Won 8 Olympic medals, 04/08/12/16
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Sir Mo Farah
British distance runner. Gold in 12 and 16 for 5k and 10k m and first Briton to win Gold in 10k metres
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Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill
Won 2012 gold in heptathlon and silver in 16 Olympic Games
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Sir Andy Murray
Tennis in 2012 won men’s singles in US open.
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Ellie Simmonds
Paralympic who won gold for swimming at 08,12 and 16 Paralympic Games
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Dylan Thomas
Welsh poet and writer
Under Milk Wood 1954
Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night
Memorials in Swansea - DT Center
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RA Butler
Richard Austen Butler conservative MP 1923. Education in 1941. Education (Butler) act 1944 - Free SS and division between primary and SS
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William Beveridge
British economist and social reformer - liberal MP and leader of liberals in House of Lords. 1942 Report Social Insurance and Aliied services to fight 5 giant evils
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Clement Atlee
Labour MP. Churchill’s Deputy PM in wartime coalition gvt. Prime Minister in 1945. Nationalism of coal and steel. Created NHS and implemented Beveridges plans for stronger welfare state
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Alexander Fleming
1927 discovered penicillin.
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Howard Florey and Ernst Chain
Made peen ill in into a usable drug
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Winston Churchill
Conservative MP 1900. PM in 1940. Lost 1945 election but returned in 1951
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Rudyard Kipling
India, US and U.K. Nobel prize for literature in 1907 - Just So Stories and the Jungle Book and If
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Women’s Franchise League
1889 by Emmeline Pankhurst
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Florence Nightingale
Treated in Turkey for Crimean war - 1860 training school at St Thomas in London
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Islamabad Kingdom Brunel
Tunnels, bridges railway lines and ships
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Statute of Rhuddlan
1284 - Kind Edward I - annexed Wales to Crown if England
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Conway and Carrnarvon
Castles busy to maintain power of K Edward I of England (who annexed Wales)
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When last Welsh rebellions defeated?
Middle of 15th cent / K Edward I of England
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Battle of Bannockburn
Middle Ages 1314 Scottish defeat English under Robert the Bruce
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Ireland in MId Ages
1200 the English ruled the Pale
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Middle Ages Wars Abroad
1. Crusades
| 2. 100 years war. Leave France in 1450s
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Most famous battle in 100 years war?
Agincourt 1415 K Henry 5s outnumbered army defeats the French
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Who used feudalism
Norman’s
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Language in Middle Ages
King and nobles spoke Norman French. Peasants spoke Anglo Saxon.
Park/beauty French
Cow/apple/summer Anglo
1400 written docs English
Scott’s Gaelic
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John Barbour
Wrote the Bruce about b of bannockburn . Wrote in Gaelic
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War of Roses 1455
House of Lancaster (red) v House if York (white)
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Battle of Bosworth Field
Last battle in War of Roses 1485. Richard 3 of York was killed and Henry Tudor of Lancaster became Henry 7. Henry 7 then married Richards neice Elizabeth of York
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Reformation
During Henry 8 - against pope and Roman Catholic Church
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Wales during Henry 8
Formally united with England by Act of Govt for Wales
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Edward 6
After Henry 8 - strong Protestant - Book it Common prayer
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Blood Mary
Half sister of Edward 6 - catholic
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Elizabeth I
Half sister of Mary takes over (daughter of Anne Boleyn. Protestant ).
Reestablished Church of England
1588 sp armada
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Reformation in Scotland
Protestant parliament abolish pope authority (but not a state church)
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Mary Stuart (q of Scots)
Q of Scotland - week old - France -husband murdered and she was suspected so fled to England - gave throne to Protestant son James 6 of Scotland. Elizabeth 1st suspected her of trying to steal throne and kept prisoner and executed
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Golden Hind
Sir F Drakes ship. One of first to circumnavigate globe
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James 6 Scotland
Took over after Elizabeth I as she didn’t have a son. Because K James 1 of England
King James Bible
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What was Ireland like during Tudor’s as Stuart’s period?
Almost all Catholic. Henry 8 took title of King if Ireland - rebellions - land taken away in Ulster
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James 1 and son Charles 1
Divine Right of Kings
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Charles I
Had to recall parliament when he faced trouble with Scotland 1640 - Tried to impose prayer book - unrest
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Ireland during the civil war
Rebellion when growing power of puritans - Parliament demand control Of English a army. Charles 1 Reacts by trying to arrest 5 leaders . Led to civil war 1642
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Battle Marston Moor and Naseby
Last battle English Civil War - parliament defeat King. Executed 1649
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Republic
End of Civil war “commonwealth” Oliver Cromwell
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Scottish response to civil war
Had not agreed to Charles 1 execution and wanted Charles 2 to be king so crowned K of Scotlan. Tried to take on Cromwell but taken out.
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Battles of Dubar and Battles of Worcester
Cromwell beats Charles 2 and Charles escapes oak tree fled to Europe post civil war
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Richard
After Cromwell Lord protector. Useless
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Restoration / Church of England reestablished
1660 - parliament invite Charles 2 back. Then plague, Great Fire written about by Samuel Pepys
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Royal Society under what king
Charles 2
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K James 2 in England Wales and Ireland and King James 7 of Scotland
Came after Charles 2 who didn’t have legit children - favours roman catholic’s arrested some bishops. Daughter both Protestant but then had a son
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Glorious Revolution
James 2s daughter Mary was married to cousin William of Orange and I’m aged England’ without resistance as James fled to France and William became William3
Laws passed are beg of constitutional monarchy / ministers become more important/ still low voting
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James 2
Changed his mind and tried to take back throne from William 3 but William won at Battle it Boyne Ireland 1690
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Battle of Boyne
In the glorious revolution .william 3 beats James 2. Led to restrictions on catholic’s
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Killiecrankie
Attempt at armed rebellion in support for James in Scotland. Resulted in Scottish clans to formally accept William as King but Macdonalds of Glenvoe were killed bc too slow
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Bill of Rights
1689 - parliament said king or queen must be Protestant. Elect parliament every 3 years. Beginning of party politics
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First Jews
1656
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Hugenots
1680 to 1720
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Act or Treatt of Union in Scotland
1707
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After Queen Anne (no children)
Partliament chose German George 1st - nearest Protestant relative. Attempt by Scott is jacobites to our James 2s son back but failed
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George 2
Faced challenge getting throne because people wanted to put a Stuart King back on the throne (Charles Edward Stuart) aka Bonnie Prince Charles but defeated at Battle of Culloden
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Battle of Culloden
George 2 beats Charles Edward Stuart. The clans lose power after Culloden And highland clearances in Scot
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Robert Burns
Scottish poet Auld Lang Syne
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B of Trafalgar
V France and Spain
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HMS Victory
Nelsons ship
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Battle of Waterloo
1815 ended French wars - Wellington was Iron Duke later PM
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When Ireland Unified
Act of Union 1800
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Crosses
St Andrew - diagonal white on blue
St Pat diagonal red on white
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1853 to 1913
13m emigrants
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Irish Home Rule
1913 - Propose self rule but still part of U.K. postponed WW1 but didn’t want to wit Easter Rising 1916. 1921 peace treaty 1922 2 countie/north Protestant Irish Free State republic in 1949
