History of UK
History of UK
History of UK
Elizabeth II
410 - The Roman leave
1949 - Ireland becomes
Britain
a republic
1973 - Britain joins the European
Economic Commnunity
1939 - Britain declares
war on Germany (WWII)
1997 - Britain handed Hong 61 - Queen Roudicca (or Boadicea) of the Iceni tribe leads a
Kong back to China bloody revolt against the Roman occupation. It is suppressed
History of UK
(410-1066) between King Alfred's Saxons and the Danes
1707 - The Act of Union
is passed
973 - Edgar, a grandson of Alfred becomes king of nearly all of
present-day England and for the first time the name 'England' is used
1782 - James Watt invents the first
stream engine