From the Gunpowder Plot to Global Warming
The Execution of a King.
On 4th November 1605 Guy Fawkes hid under the
Parliament around 20 barrels of gunpowder and they exploted when the King James
I opened the Parliament the next day. He was angry because he thought that the
King laws were unfair to the people of his religion. He was arrested and the
King was safe.
Afterwards Charles, James son wanted to close the
Parliament and govern him the country alone but the Civil War started in 1642
between the Royalists and the Parliamentarians. Finally, the Parliamentarians
won and Charles was beheaded.
Christmas is cancelled.
From 1649 to 1660 there was no King in the UK,
Cromwell became ‘Lord Protector’. Christmas was also banned by limiting
Christmas celebrations.
Charles II became the king after the Cromwell death.
There were two terrible events during his reign. The ‘Great Plague’ when around
the 20 % of the population of London death. And the other one was the ‘Great
Fire of London’ which destroyed many building of the capital.
After his death the new king was James II
England + Wales + Scotland + Ireland:
Anne baceme Queen. During her reign, twi political parties developed in Parliament: Whigs and Tories. This was thes tart of the modern British political system.
Two important acts: - No Roman Catholic could be king or queen (Act of Settlement)
- England and Scotland were 1 contry (Act of Union)
Two important acts: - No Roman Catholic could be king or queen (Act of Settlement)
- England and Scotland were 1 contry (Act of Union)
Anne died, without any children, so Britain had to look for a Protestant king, George, wasthe start of the Georgian Age in Britain.
During the reign of George III, Britain lost its colonies in America.
In 1801, the government introduced the Act of Union with Ireland.
During the reign of George III, Britain lost its colonies in America.
In 1801, the government introduced the Act of Union with Ireland.
The Industrial Revolution.
It began in the end of the eighteenth century. The new
machines changed the way that the people lived, and also they started to work
in factories. The Industrial Revolution made Britain rich, but it also created
problems like the bad living conditions for the works.. Coal was the main fuel
of the revolutions and a lot of children worked in the mines to get the coal.
The Victorian Age
A Young woman called Victoria became the queen of
England, and after she became the Empress of India. During her reign many
British men and women such as Dickens, Nightingale, Darwin… became
world-famous. In those days the society
changed so much the children weren’t allow to work and education became free,
also the railway system was better. But Queen Victoria and her government had
also a lot of problems at the end and many people moved to America. And after
that the government of India became Independence.
The Twentieth
Century.
The population grew from about forty million to sixty
million. The country was involved in two world wars and in other wars too. The
technological and scientific progress had a huge effect in the Uk too. In 1919
the Irish War of Independence began and finally they won and South of Ireland
became Independent.
Some Irish people wanted to unite all Ireland, and
this period is known as ‘the troubles’. After the Second World War a lot of
countries in the British Empire became independent. In the 60s the teenagers
had more freedom, and the role of women began to change the rules of society
were relaxed, this was the time of Beatles and the Rolling Stones. Also they
had a lot of changes in the second half of the twentieth century when it
entered to the European Community.
The Scottish Parliament, the National Assembly for Wales and the Northern Ireland Assembly make thos nations more independent. People face the problem of global warming.
From 2008 ther gave been economic problems.
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