Summary 2

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.

 Plague Fire and Revolution.

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)

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.

 

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.

 Into the Twenty-first Century:

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.