Dates and Kings

Germanic tribes settle in England

Pope Gregory sent Augustine to re-establish Christianity in England

Augustine becomes first Archbishop of Canterbury

England becomes Christian

The Pictish and the Scottish kingdoms united under a Scottish king

First Irish king, Brian Boru

Vikings invade England

Victory of King Alfred against the Vikings, Danelaw

First Welsh king to rule over all Wales

Battle of Hastings, Duke William of Normandy is king

Normandy and England under one ruler for the first time

Matilda and Stephen of Blois’s agreement

Murder of Thomas Becket

French king invades Normandy

Magna Carta

Simon de Monfort creates the parliament

Wales and England unite

Doubt about the Scottish throne, king Edward takes over

Auld Alliance

Murder of William Wallace

Scottish clergy writes to the Church refusing to recognise English authority

Edward III declares war on France: The Hundred Years War

Edward gives up his claim to the French throne

Peasants revolt

End of the Hundred Years War

Henry Tudor arrives claiming the throne

Scots defeated by the English in Flodden

Henry VIII becomes head of the English Church

New book on Protestantism

Irish rebellion

Declaration of war on Spain

The king who built a church in almost every village

The Saxon king who was defeated by William I “The Conqueror”, Norman, in the Battle of Hastings

Gave Saxon lands to his Norman nobles, and had feudalism under his reign

He rode to Westminster and was crowned king while his brother was away

Races to England to take the crown after Henry I’s death and quarrels with his daughter, Matilda. He ends up dying

He controlled more land than any previous king, but quarrelled with his family and died disappointed by his sons and the French king

He was brave, a good soldier, and he went to the Holy Land to make war on the Muslims

Financially abused all his reign, the reason for the Magna Carta

Grew up as a king, surrounded by people telling him what to do; when he grows up, he ignores those people, and the nobles created a council of nobles called parliament

He created the House of Commons and tried to take over Scotland in 1295

He is the one who declares the Hundred Years War claiming the right to the French Crown; also the one who introduced the idea of chivalry

The enemy in the peasants revolt because of the three-time-increased tax payment and his lies

He took the crown by force (the previous king died misteriously soon after) and had sown the seeds of the War of Roses

He renewed the claim to the throne of France (Hundred Years War) and managed to capture most of Normandy and the nearby areas

Simple-minded and book-loving king, an unsuitable king for such a violent society; the reason for the Wars of Roses

The first of the Yorks, manages to keep Henry VI away from the throne

Murders Edward IV’s sons and is not popular

Winner of the Wars of Roses, built the foundations of a wealthy nation state and a powerful monarchy; he remained friendly with neighbouring countries and recognised the importance of trade, building a large fleet of merchant ships

Tudor who kept a magnificent court and made the Church in England truly English, but wasted the wealth saved by his father: he spent money on warships and guns, making English guns the best in Europe

Really ruled by a Protestant council of nobles, because he was a child and died at 16

Catholic queen, she married King Phillip of Spain and began burning Protestants

Defeated the powerful army of Spain. Considered trade the most important foreign policy, matter, encouraged the merchant expansion and recognised Spain as her main trade rival and enemy