Names, terms and dates from CHAPTER 1
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Chapter 1 – A GREAT CITY |
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| Queen Elizabeth the Second | current British monarch |
| Londinium | London’s Roman name |
| AD 43 | the year the Romans came to England |
| Angles, Saxons, Jutes | people who came to Britain from Germany, Holland and Denmark |
| October 14th, 1066 | the Battle of Hastings won by William the Conqueror of Normandy |
| William the Conqueror of Normandy (King William I; The Norman; 1066-1087) | defeated Danish King Harold at the battle of Hastings in 1066 |
| Henry VIII (The Tudors; 1509-1547) | the second Tudor Monarch, on throne from 1509 to 1547; had 6 wives |
| Elizabeth I (The Tudors; 1558-1603) | King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn’s daughter; during her reign great explorers discovered a lot of new lands and Shakespeare wrote many of his plays |
| Plague, the | and epidemic that killed lots of people around Europe from the 14th to the 17th century |
| 1665 | the Year of the Great Plague |
| 1666 | the Great fire of London |
| Pudding Lane | the Great Fire of London started here in a bakery |
| St Paul’s Cathedral | the most important cathedral in London, a new St Paul’s was built after the Great Fire of London |
| Queen Victoria (Hanoverian, 1837-1901) | had nine children; she ordered to build the Royal Albert Hall in the remembrance of her husband Albert who died |
| 1851 | the year of the Great Exhibition in London |
| Hyde Park | the largest park in London |
| Tube, the | London’s underground network, the first line was opened in 1863 (the Metropolitan line) |
| 1939-1945 | the Second World War |
GREAT BRITANNIA 