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Great Britain Guided Notes Name____________________________

1. Up until the seventeenth century there had been four 'countries' in the British Isles:

_______________ ________________ ________________ _________________

2. By the end of the eighteenth century, all this changed. The word ___________ was used for the first time,Rule Britannia song was composed and the Union Flag created.

3. In 1543, during the Tudor times, __________ and _________ were united as one country. Scotland andIreland remained separate kingdoms, with their own parliaments and laws until the much later.

4. In 1603 England and Scotland shared the same _________. King James VI of Scotland became also James Iof England.

James I was very keen to be King of Great Britain, and from 1606 Scots were officially called English citizens.However, it wasn't until 1652, that the two countries were united together through force by __________

___________. The Scots had never accepted this action.

5. In 1707 the Act of Union meant that ____________ lost her _____________and her independence and became part of a new country to be called 'Kingdom of Great Britain'.

6. In 1801 a second Act of Union was passed, creating yet another new country, the 'United Kingdom of GreatBritain and ________________'.

7. The Anglo-Irish treaty of 1921 removed mainland ___________ from the UK. Six northern Irish counties(Northern Ireland) remained part of the UK.

8. The current name of the country, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, was adopted in ____________.


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The Normans(1066 - 1154)

King William I, the Conqueror 1066 - 1087 King Henry I 1100 - 1135 King Stephen 1135 - 1154 Empress Matilda 1141

Plantagenets(1154 - 1399)

King Henry II 1154 - 1189 King Richard I the Lionheart 1189 - 1199 King John 1 1199 - 1216 King Henry III 1216 - 1272 King Edward I 1272 - 1307 King Edward II 1307 - 1327 King Edward III 1327 - 1377 Richard II 1377 - 1399

The House of Lancaster(1399 - 1461)

Henry IV 1399 - 1413 Henry V 1413 - 1422 Henry VI 1422 - 1461, 1470 - 1471

The House of York(1461 - 1485) King Edward IV 1461 -1470, 1471 - 1483 King Edward V 1483 - 1483 King Richard III 1483 - 1485

The Tudors(1485 -1603)

King Henry VII 1485 - 1509 King Henry VIII 1509 - 1547 King Edward VI 1547 - 1553 Jane Grey 1554 Queen Mary I (Bloody Mary) 1553 - 1558 Queen Elizabeth I 1558 - 1603

The Stuarts(1603 - 1649) (1660 - 1714)

James I 1603 - 1625 Charles I 1625 - 1649 Charles II 1660 - 1685 James II 1685 - 1688 William III 1688 - 1702 and Queen Mary II 1688 - 1694 Queen Anne 1702 - 1714

The House of Hanoverians(1714 -1901)

King George I 1714 - 1727 King George II 1727 - 1760 King George III 1760 - 1820 King George IV 1820 - 1830 King William IV 1830 - 1837 Queen Victoria 1837 - 1901

Saxe-Coburg-Gotha and The Windsors(1901 -1910) (1910 - Today)

King Edward VII 1901 - 1910 King George V 1910 - 1936 King Edward VIII June 1936 King George VI 1936 - 1952 Queen Elizabeth II 1952 - present day

Anglo-Saxon 449-1066

Medieval 1066-1485

LITERARYTIME PERIODS

Renaissance 1485-1660

Restoration 1660-1798

Romanticism 1798-1832

Victorian 1832-1900

Modern 1900-
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