英语国家概况课件修订版 Chapter演示文稿.ppt

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 50 Things You Need to Know About British History 50 Things You Need to Know About British History In date order： Stonehenge 3100 BC Roman Invasion and Civilisation 43 AD St Augustine and Christianity 3th King Alfred the Great and the Doom Book 878 Battle of Hastings and Norman Conquest 1066 Magna Carta and trial by jury 1215 Declaration of Arbroath 1314 Canterbury Tales 1387-1400 Peasants’ Revolt 1381 The longbows at Agincourt 1415 Religious Settlement 1559 Sir Francis Drake and the defeat of the Spanish Amrada 1588 Shakespeare 1564 Gunpowder Plot 1605 Plantation of Ulster 1611 Execution of Charles I 1649 Glorious Revolution and Bill of Rights 1688 The Bank of England 1694 Act of Union 1707 Britain’s first Prime Minister Robert Walpole 1721 50 Things You Need to Know About British History Gin craze and British drink culture 1729 The East India Company and the Battle of Plassey 1757 Longitude 1759 Watt’s Steam Engine 1765 Arkwright’s Spinning Frame 1769 Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations 1776 The Siege of Yorktown and the loss of America 1781 Nelson’s death and the Battle of Trafalgar 1805 William Wilberforce and the abolition of the slave trade  1807 Battle of Waterloo and national identity 1815 50 Things You Need to Know About British History 31. Sir Robert Peel and the British Bobby 1829 Factory Acts and the British weekend 1833 Dr Livingstone and Africa 1856 Charles Darwin and evolution 1859 The Red House and “my home is my castle” 1859 The laws of association football 1863 Suffragettes 1913 The Battle of the Somme 1916 The BBC 1927 Gandhi and Indian Independence 1931 50 Things You Need to Know About British History The Blitz 1940 Frank Whittle and the jet engine 1941 The NHS and Welfare State 1948 SS Windrush and Multiculturalism 1948 The Beatles 1960 Monty Python and British humour 1969 Britain joins Europe 1973 Miners’ strike and Mrs Thatc