English history

Henry VII’s reign

1485-1509

Henry VIII’s reign

1509-1547

Edward VI’s reign

1547-1553

Mary I’s reign

1553-1558

Elizabeth I’s reign

1558-1603

James I’s reign

1603-1625

Charles I’s reign

1625-1649[executed]

Henry VIII’s wives

Catherine of Aragon

William the Conqueror

The Norman who defeated the English in the Battle of Hastings and was crowned king on Christmas in 1066 at Westminster Abbey.

Shakespeare’s birthplace

Stratford-upon-Avon

Shakespeare’s wife

Anne Hathaway

The place Shakespeare moved to around 1590 to become a playwright and actor and where he performed at the Globe.

London

Alfred the Great

The English king who signed the Treaty of Wedmore in 878 AD creating Danelaw, a line separating land for the English and Danes.

Harold Godwinson

The King of Wessex who fought in the Battle of Hastings and died (according to legend) by getting shot in the eye with an arrow.

St.Augustine

converted the Anglo-Saxon King AEthelbert to Christianity in 597 AD.

Edward the Confessor?

The weak king of England who died without an heir, causing three other kings to fight for the crown of England in 1066.

The Angles

One of the Germanic tribes that came to the Isles in 449 AD, from whom England gets its name.

The Saxtons

One of the Germanic tribes that invaded the Isles in 449 AD, where the regions of Wessex, Essex, and Sussex get their names.

the four main grammatical changes that occurred in the language when going from Old English to Middle English.

loose word order to more strict word order, loss of grammatical gender, loss of consonant clusters, and loss of inflection and declension

The original religion of Henry VIII and his daughter Mary.

Catholicism

the four humors

blood (sanguine), phlegm, (phlegmatic), yellow bile (choleric), and black bile (melancholic)

The prestige language in England after the invasion of 1066.

Norman French