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Lecture	Date	Historical period	Monarch	Events	Geography	Walkabout
1	1/21/25	Celtic Premordial ooze - 0		Ice age ends     Celtic Europe     Early Britons 55 BC  Julius Caesar invades Britain	Great Britain	Stonehenge Old Sarum
2	1/28/25	Roman occupation 0 - 400	(Boudica of Iceni)	44   Emperor Claudius orders invasion of Britain 60   Boudica burns London to the ground 306   Constantine declared emperor in York 410   Rome withdraws from Britain	England	Salisbury
3	2/4/25	Anglo-Saxon invasion 400 - 800	(Ethelbert of Kent)	430   St. Patrick in Ireland 449   Saxons invited into Britain 500   King Arthur leads Britons against Saxons 599   Pope Gregory sends Augustine to Canterbury 664   Synod of Whitby 793   Vikings ravage Lindisfarne	England	Salisbury Cathedral
4	2/11/25	House of Wessex 800-1000	Alfred the Great Edward the Elder Athelstan Edmund Eadred Eadwig Edgar the Peaceful Edward the Martyr Ethelred the Unready	878   Alfred defeats the Vikings 899   Alfred dies 927   Athelstan unites England 976   Ethelred the Unready crowned	England	Winchester
5	2/18/25	House of Denmark House of Normandy 1000s	Sweyn Forkbeard Edmund Ironside Canute the Great Harold Harefoot Harthacanute Edward the Confessor Harold Godwinson William I (the Conqueror) William II (Rufus)	1003  St Brice's Day massacre 1013  Sweyn Forkbeard becomes king 1065  Edward the Confessor builds Westminster Abbey 1066  Norman conquest	England	Wells Cathedral
6	2/25/25	House of Plantagenet 1100s	Henry I Stephen Henry II Richard I (the Lion-hearted)	1120  White ship sinks 1135  Henry I dies, beginning The Anarchy 1154  Anarchy ends with Henry Plantagenet becoming king 1170  Thomas a Becket murdered at Canterbury	London	Wells
7	3/4/25	1200s	John Henry III Edward I	1215  John signs Magna Carta at Runnymede 1215  John signs Magna Carta at Runnymede 1265  1st "commoner" parliament called by Simon de Monfort 1277  Edward I conquers Wales 1296  Edward I invades Scotland taking Stone of Scone	London	Glastonbury
8	3/11/25	1300s	Edward II Edward III Richard II	1314  Battle of Bannockburn 1346  Battle of Crecy 1348  St George's chapel built 1350  Black Death sweeps through England 1381  Peasant's revolt 1399  Usurpation of Henry Bolingbroke	London	Bath
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9	4/1/25	House of Lancaster/York 1400s	Henry IV (Bolingbroke) Henry V Henry VI Edward IV Edward V Richard III	1415  Battle of Agincourt 1455  War of the Roses begins 1485  Battle of Bosworth Field ends War of Roses 1497  John Cabot discovers Newfoundland	Westminster Abbey	Tinturn Abbey
10	4/8/25	House of Tudor 1500s	Henry VII Henry VIII Edward VI Mary I Elizabeth I	1531  Henry VIII declares himself head of the Church 1536  Dissolution of the monasteries begins 1533  Bloody Mary ascends the throne 1588  Spanish armada defeated	Westminster Abbey	Oxford
11	4/15/25	House of Stuart 1600s	James I Charles I Charles II James II William III and Mary II	1600  East India Company founded 1611  King James Bible 1642  English Civil War begins 1649  Charles I beheaded 1660  Charles II restored 1688  Glorious revolution	Westminster Abbey	Central London
12	4/22/25	House of Hanover 1700s	William III (of Orange) Anne George I George II George III	1707  Act of Union adds Scotland 1742  First performance of Handel's Messiah 1754  Seven Years' War 1765  James Watt builds a rotating shaft steam engine 1776  America declares independence	St George's Chapel	South Kensington
13	4/29/25	1800s	George IV William IV Victoria	1801  Act of Union adds Ireland 1832  Reform Act ends rotton boroughs 1851  Great Exhibition in South Kensington 1858  British gov't takes over rule of India 1863  London Underground opens	St George's Chapel	Leeds Castle Canterbury
14	5/6/25	House of Windsor 1900-2025	Edward VII George V Edward VIII George VI Elizabeth II Charles III	1914  Great War breaks out 1936  Abdication of Edward VIII 1940  Battle of Britain 1993  EU formed 2020  Brexit	St George's Chapel	Windsor