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A look at British history, fiches de synthèse et cours en Anglais LV1, Maxicours.com
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1. The Roman period Julius Caesar invaded Britain in 55 BC, and again in 54 BC, and finally in 43 AD. The Romans left England in 410 AD. 2. The Norman conquest In 1066, William the Conqueror and his Normans invaded Britain and fought King Harold for the throne of England at the Battle of Hastings. That was the last time Britain was invaded. 3. The Medieval times and the Middle ages a. Thomas Beckett Thomas Beckett, Archbishop of Canterbury, refused to obey the King of England, Henry II, and was assassinated in 1170 in his cathedral. In spite of that, the Church became subordinate to Rome. b. The War of the Roses, 1455-1485 Name given to a serie of battles fought by two rival branches of the Plantagenet dynasty for the control of the English throne in the 15th century. Each family had a rose as its emblem – white for the York family, red for the house of Lancaster. 4. The Tudors and the 16th century a. The reign of Henry VIII, 1509-1547 Famous King of England who had six wives : he divorced two, he killed two, one died and one survived him. The Pope refused to annul his first marriage, so he broke with the Catholic Church and proclaimed himself the ...
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