1. History And Places Of Interest
The United Kingdom
History And Places Of Interest
Zuzana Krušinová, XB

2. History

3. Inhabitation in Stone Age The Celts came in 800 BC
area of today‘s London

4. Roman invasion Norman invasion from 1st to 9th century
stopped by King Alfred the Great
Norman invasion
from 1066
William the Conqueror

5. Wars of Roses – 15th century
Magna Carta
issued in 1215
limits the power of rulers
introduces the idea of lawful 
process and a jury
Wars of Roses – 15th century
House of York x House of Lancaster

6. The Church of England Queen Elizabeth I established during the reign
of Henry VIII
16th century
Queen Elizabeth I
Henry‘s daughter
England – a Europian power

7. Civil war Napoleonic Wars 1649 the first execution of a king Charles I
reign of Oliver Cromwell
Napoleonic Wars
finished in 1815 at the Battle of Waterloo

8. 19th century 20th century growth of the British Empire
the end of the Industrial Revolution
20th century
UK forced to leave some colonies (India, Pakistan etc.)
WW I, II

9. Places Of Interest

10. London Tower of London Kew Gardens Buckingham Palace the London Eye
Piccadilly Circus
St Paul's Cathedral
Tower Bridge
Trafalgar Square

11. Canterbury Stonehenge
cathedral with the grave of the archbishop Thomas Beckett
Stonehenge
a prehistoric monument
a ring of standing stones

12. Stratford-upon-Avon Oxford and Cambridge
the birthplace of William Shakespeare
Oxford and Cambridge
university towns

13. Lake District Loch Ness a national park Lake Windermere
the Highland region in Scotland
the Loch Ness monster

14. Ben Nevis the highest mountain of the UK (1344 m)
Grampian mountains in Scotland