The Romans

• roads• Hadrian´s Wall• Antonine Wall

Anglo Saxon

• 3 kingdoms - Mercia - Northumbria - Wessex

The Normans

William of Normandy• Crowned 1066• Castels ( Windsor, Warwick)

Henry II• Ordering the murder of Thomas Becket

William Shakespeare• ,, England´s national poet,, ,, Bard of Avon• poet, playwright, actor• Romeo and Juliet• Hamlet• Macbeth

Henry VIII• six marriages (2 daugters: Mary, Elizabeth,1 son Edward)

• Catherine of Aragon ( Mary )• Anne Boleyn ( Elizabeth )• Jane Seymour ( Edward )• Anne of Cleves• Catherine Howard• Catherine Parr

Mary- Catholic- effort to restore

Catholism to England- ,, bloody Mary,,

Elizabeth I• The Vinrgin Queen, Gloriana, Good Queen Bess• Elizabeth era- English drama, seafaring power

Oliver Cromwell- 1st Lord Protector of the Commonwealth

Queen Victoria• sovereign from 1837 – 1901• empress of India from 1876• Daughter of Prince Edward• Housband Prince Albert ( 9 children)

• Great expansion of the British Empire

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer – Churchill• (1874 – 1965)• politican• statesman • officer in the British Army• historican• writer (Nobel Prize)

Elizabeth II• Housband Prince philip • 4 children: - Charles - Anne - Andrew - Edward

The Beatles• Liverpool 1960• John Lenon (rhythm guitar, vocals)• Paul McCartney (bass guitar,vocals)• George Harrison ( lead guitar, vocals)• Ringo Star (drums, vocals)