What major event happened in England?

Answer 1

Before England was unified we were invaded and conquered several times, including the Roman Conquest (AD 43) then Anglo-Saxon and then the Norman Conquest (1066). England didn't really become a country until 927, through King Athelstan. In 1016 we were conquered by the Danes, but became a unified country again in 1042 under Edward the Confessor.

Christianity came to England in the late 6th century. The 16th century saw the reformation, with the Catholic Church being abolished. In that century there was a civil war between the Parliamentarians (who supported government) and the Royalists (who supported the monarchy). This led to the execution of the King. In the 18th century England, Scotland joined Wales and Ireland joined together to make up the United Kingdom.

We conquered many countries and created a vast Commonwealth. Moving things forward somewhat, we helped abolish slavery in 1807. We fought and won two world wars. As the men were fighting, women first started to join the work force. We lost a lot of money in both wars, and this was a major factor in our losing most of the Commonwealth countries.

In 1948 we created the National Health Service, which meant free health care for all. The 1950s saw an increase in immigration. There was the Gold Rush from the West Indies. In the 1960s things changed quite dramatically in some parts of England. With pop music, and Birth Control pills etc, things got a lot more liberal, mainly in cities. In the 1970s Idi Amin expelled Asians from Uganda. Most of them were in Uganda due to it previously being under British rule. The British wanted workers and soldiers who could handled the heat, so we encouraged Indians to move. Therefore, when they were expelled, we accepted many into Britain. In the 1980s we had a recession. A lot of people lost their jobs. Our Prime Minister Mrs Thatcher created a big divide between the middle class and the working class. We went to fight in Iraq. We fought in Bosnia. In 1993 we signed the Maastrict Treaty, and the European Union came into effect. This led to free movement across Europe, and as more countries in Eastern Europe join up, the more immigration we will see. We were bombed by the IRA for a bit, but finally sorted out a peace deal with Ireland. We've gone to fight in Iraq again (and Afganistan).

Answer 2

It would be very nearly impossible to chose the single most important event in the history of any nation, as how does one determine what is important? However, these are some of the events that I think have great significance in English History - note, however, that this is only my personal opinion, not ironclad fact. In chronological order:

• 43 A.D. - The Romans invade Britain and occupy part of it.
• Around 450 A.D. - Romans have left - occupation by Anglo, Saxon and Jute Tribes.
• 597 A.D. - Christianity arrives in Britain
• 1066 A.D. - Battle of Hastings - Norman Duke William replaces Anglo-Saxon King Alfred as ruler of England
• 1215 A.D. - Magna Carta signed by King John
• 1588 A.D. - Spanish Armada defeated in Queen Elizabeth I's reign - End of Spanish threat to England
• 1607 A.D. - Jamestown founded - First British settlement in America
• 1653 A.D. - Oliver Cromwell becomes Lord Protector of England
• 1689 A.D. - Bill of Rights passed
• 1707 A.D. - England and Scotland united
• 1780 A.D. - Beginning of the Industrial Revolution
• 1783 A.D. - American Independence announced
• 1805 A.D. - Battle of Trafalgar - Admiral Lord Nelson ends Napoleon's dream of invading England.
• 1928 A.D. - Universal Suffrage introduced
• 1939 - 1945 A.D. - World War II
• 1979 A.D. - Margaret Thatcher elected - first female Prime Minister of England

Again, as stated above, these are a few of what I consider some of the most important events in English history. I fully understand that there may be disagreement and conflict, but this is, after all, merely my opinion.

Answer 3

A Distant Mirror - The 14th Century

Europe in 1300 was well on the way to rapid expansion. It was rapidly increasing in intellectual and mathematical sophistication. Technically, thanks to water power and the mechanical discoveries that flowed from it, Europe was in the midst of what many historians call the Medieval Industrial Revolution. One reason there seems to be such a break between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance was that there was in fact a break. The 14th Century was a time of turmoil, diminished expectations, loss of confidence in institutions, and feelings of helplessness at forces beyond human control. Historian Barbara Tuchman entitled her book on this period A Distant Mirror because many of our modern problems had counterparts in the 14th Century. Even the extinction of the human race, something we ponder in discussing nuclear war, was faced by medieval Europeans, in fact, far more directly than we ever have.

Two Great Natural Disasters

The Little Ice Age

Two great natural disasters struck Europe in the 14th Century. One was climatic: the Little Ice Age. This term is used in wildly varied ways by different authors, and there actually seem to have been two cooling episodes: an earlier one from the late 1200's to 1600 or so, and a later one in the 1700's and 1800's. During the earlier one, the Baltic Sea froze over in 1303, 1306 and 1307, something never before recorded. Alpine glaciers advanced. The Norse settlements in Greenland were cut off and grain cultivation ceased in Iceland. The last ship sailed from Iceland to Greenland in the early 1400's (tantalizingly close to Columbus); when contact was resumed in the 1700's, the settlements were long abandoned. Starvation, disease, raids by English pirates and conflict with natives have all been suggested as causes, and all probably played a role in the demise of the colonies. In France, crops failed after heavy rains in 1315; there were widespread famine, reports of cannibalism, and epidemics.

The Black Death

If the Little Ice Age weakened Europe's agricultural productivity and made life uncomfortable, the Bubonic Plague brought life to a virtual standstill. Tuchman's prose describes the plague as powerfully as anyone.

In October 1347, two months after the fall of Calais, Genoese trading ships put into the harbor of Messina in Sicily with dead and dying men at the oars. The ships had come from the Black Sea port of Caffa (now Feodosiya) in the Crimea, where the Genoese maintained a trading post. The diseased sailors showed strange black swellings about the size of an egg or an apple in the armpits and groin. The swellings oozed blood and pus and were followed by spreading boils and black blotches on the skin from internal bleeding. The sick suffered severe pain and died quickly within five days of the first symptoms. As the disease spread, other symptoms of continuous fever and spitting of blood appeared instead of the swellings or buboes. These victims coughed and sweated heavily and died even more quickly, within three days or less, sometimes in 24 hours. In both types everything that issued from the body- breath, sweat, blood from the buboes and lungs, bloody urine, and blood-blackened excrement- smelled foul. Depression and despair accompanied the physical symptoms, and before the end "death is seen seated on the face."

The disease was bubonic plague, present in two forms: one that infected the bloodstream, causing the buboes and internal bleeding, and was spread by contact; and a second, more virulent pneumonic type that infected the lungs and was spread by respiratory infection. The presence of both at once caused the high mortality and speed of contagion. So lethal was the disease that cases were known of persons going to bed well and dying before they woke, of doctors catching the illness at a bedside and dying before the patient. So rapidly did it spread from one to another that to a French physician, Simon de Covino, it seemed as if one sick person "could infect the whole world." The malignity of the pestilence appeared more terrible because its victims knew no prevention and no remedy.

Answer 4

A major event is when they lost to America in the war they had. This happened July 4th. That is when the United States won the War. RED-WHITE-BLUE

Answer 5

when Queen Elizabeth ruled England

And Henry the eight

the black plague

invading Ireland

And of course the beatles

Answer 6

World War one, world war two, titanic sank