STORY OF UNITED KINGD

700BC

HISTORYTIMELI
NE

CELTICPEOPLE ARRIVED FROM

CONTINENTAL EUROPE

43AD-410

THE ROMANS CONQUERED MOST OF

ENGLAND AND WALES

410-1066

ANGLO-SAXON TRIBES INVADED

AND SETTLED IN ENGLAND
ANSSCOTLAND

1066-1485

THE NORMANS INVADED BRITIAN

AND WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR
BECAME KINGWILLIAM I OF
ENGLAND

THE INDUSTRIAL
REVOLUTION
Industrialisation took place
earlier and more rapidly in
Britain than anywhere else
in the world. This was
partly because of the
existing conditions in
England. Coaldifields and
forest,located close to
large deposits of metal
ores ,provided fuel to
power the factories that
produced iron ore and
successful commercial
banks provided financing
for investments in

THE VICTORIAN AGE

Queen
Victoria
reigned
for 64

THE BRITISH
EMPIRE

During the 16 th
century Elizabeth I
THE DECLINE AND THE
THE
encouraged British
BRITISH
DEVELOPEMENT
sailors to explore
InCOMMONWEALTH
the mid 20 th century , the
trading routes with the Age of the Empire gradually
came to an end , after the World
Americans and the
War II public opinion was
Carribbean. At the
changing and so ti was no longer
beginning of the 17 th
acceptable for one country to
century the first British rule another . In 1947 India
gained independence , followed
colonies were created
by all African counties , exept
in North America. The
Rhodesia. Britain now holds only
loss of American
a few small territories like
colonies which
Gibraltar and the Falkland Islands
declared their
. The Empire evolved into a more
independence in 1766 informal ,voluntary confederation
of independent states , called
. At the same time
theCommenwealth ,is formed by
Captain Cook explored
53 countries including the UK and
Australia and New
the British Monarch is the Head
Zeland wich also
of Commonwealth.

nsand
animplodingeconomy.AftertheAr
ab-Israelwar in 1973
,oilpricesrosesharplyandBritishin
dustrieswereforcedto use
morecoal.Atthe
timeminersweredissatisfiedbeca
useof thegovermentspolicilyof
wagecontrolsand
theclosureofmanyunprofitiblemi
nes.
Inresponseemergencylegislation
thatlimitedtheworkingweek
tothreedayswasintroduced.
Thelabourpartywonthe 1974
generalelectionafterpromisingno
ttointerferewith
theunions.Workersnowhadmore
moneytospend,whiletheamount
ofavailablegoodson the
marketremainedthesame.Asares
ult,pricesforproductsbegamto

BRITAIN IN
EUROPE

THE 1980S
:THATCHERISM

In 1979,
theconservativescapitalisedon the
situation towintheelction. The
IronLady Margaret
ThatcherbecameBritainsfirstfemaleP
rimeMinister. TheGovermentbegama
policy
ofprivatisation,closingunprofitableind
ustriesandreducingtheamountofgove
rmentspending.Butdespitepressure
andcriticism,
Thatcherrefusedtoabandonherpolicie
s.Withthe Falkland War in Britain
theConservativeswereelectedfor
asecondtermin 1983.

NORTHEN IRELAND A
a
TROUBLED PAS

e 1960s and continued unitil the late 1990s.Northen ireland was created in 1920 by the gove