NEW TIMES OF THE UNITED KINGDOM (Part III)
In 1649, the New Model Army defeated the King’s army and ended the war. His supporters put Charles I on trial and beheaded him. He finally did away with parliament and governed as a military dictator for the Puritan minority.
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The first political parties in Britain appeared in Charles II’s reign.
One of these parties was a group of MPs who became known as Whigs. The other party, which opposed the Whigs, was nicknamed ...........
In 1793 Napoleon’s army invaded Belgium and Holland, Britain went to war.
The commander of the British fleet won brilliant victories over the French navy, near the coast of Egypt, at Copenhagen, and finally near Spain, at Trafalgar in 1805, where he destroyed the French-Spanish fleet.
What monument commemorates this commander?
The period of her rule signified the height of the British Industrial Revolution and the apex of the British Empire. Her long reign saw Britain reach the zenith of its economic and political power, with the introduction of steam ships, railroads, photography, and the telegraph.
It is a voluntary association of 56 sovereign states. Most of them were British colonies or dependencies of those colonies.
It was a dark time for England, a time of anarchy, when the kings and nobles were busy fighting and murdering each other and had no time to take care of the common people, who suffered greatly.
Arrange historical monuments by the time of their creation: from the oldest to the most modern
An English humanist and statesman, chancellor of England (1529–32), who was beheaded for refusing to accept King Henry VIII as head of the Church of England, recognized as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church. He is an author of a book whose name comes from a Greek word ou-topos (“no place”).
He was the first king to start a tradition of attending the annual football Cup Final match at Wembley Stadium. Since time of his reign the Christmas speech of the monarch has become a tradition. During the Second World War he and his wife won great admiration of the British people for refusing to leave Buckingham Palace even after it had been bombed.
The independence movement in colonies started
It was an American political protest that occurred on December 16, 1773, at Griffin’s Wharf. American colonists, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Company into the harbor.
The Great Famine, also known as the Great Hunger and the Irish ........... Famine, was a period of mass starvation and disease in Ireland lasting from 1845 to 1852 that constituted a historical social crisis and subsequently had a major impact on Irish society and history as a whole
It forced the largest migration in human history and completely changed the life on three continents.
Pero's Bridge is a pedestrian footbridge that spans Bristol's floating harbour, and was named in honour of Pero Jones,
One of the reason for Britain’s decline in the 20th century was .............. .
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