Summer semester
Facts, terms and concepts (definitions)
1. Battle of Crecy/or Poitiers
2. The New Model Army
3. Battle of Agincourt.
4. Bare-bones Parliament
5. Treaty of Troyes
6. mercantilism
7. Lollardy/Lollards
8. Navigation Acts
9. Battle of Bosworth
10. The East India Company
11. Chamber Books
12. The Great Plague 1665
13. Court of Star Chamber
14. The Great Fire of London
15. The Beefeaters
16. The Popish Plot of 1678
17. "Field of the Cloth of Gold"
18. Glorious Revolution
19. First Succession Act, 1534
20. Bill of Rights (1689)
21. Act of Supremacy, 1534.
22. Act of Settlement of 1701
23. The Dissolution of the Monasteries
24. The War of the Grand Alliance
25. Pilgrimage of Grace
26. The Battle of the Boyne
27. The Spanish Armada
28. Whigs/Tories
29. 'The Rough Wooing'
30. Peace of Utrecht
31. Protestant Revolution in Scotland
32. Treaty of Paris
33. Babington Plot
34. The Battle of Culloden
35. The Divine Right of Kings
36. Highland Clearances
37. Hampton Court Conference
38. The Battle of the Nile
39. The Bishops' Wars
40. The Battle of Trafalgar
41. Roundheads/Cavaliers
42. The Great Exhibition of 1851
Names (who the people were and what they achieved, or why they are important to remember)
1. Edward, the Black Prince
2. James I
3. Richard II
4. Oliver Cromwell
5. John of Gaunt
6. Sir Christopher Wren
7. Lancastrians (Henry IV, V, VI)
8. William III of Orange
9. Owen Glendower
10. John Churchill, the Duke of
Marlborough
11. St.Joan of Arc
12. Sir Robert Walpole
13. John Wyclif
14. Bonnie Prince Charlie
15. Richard, 3rd duke of York
16. ‘Butcher Cumberland’
17. Richard III
18. Edmund Burke
19. Warwick ‘The Kingmaker’
20. Thomas Paine
21. John Cabot
22. Horatio Nelson
23. Thomas Wolsey
24. Arthur Wellesley, 1st duke of
Wellington
25. St.Thomas More
26. Benjamin Disraeli
27. Mary I Stuart
28. William Ewart Gladstone
29. John Knox
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(their approximate dating, origins, general course and consequences) 1. The origins of English parliament
2. The causes of the Hundred Years’ War
3. Black Death (origins, symptoms, consequences on English economy) 4. Peasants’ Revolt (causes, chief leaders, course and termination) 5. Doctrines of Wycliffe (at least 4 points)
6. The Wars of the Roses (causes, names of 2 important battles, major dynastic changes) 7. Henry VII (his claims to the throne, reforms and management of England) 8. Mary I Tudor and restoration of Catholicism
9. Elisabeth I (her patronage of arts, policies, persecution of Catholics and the problem of succession)
10. The Great Civil War (causes, sides involved, 2 major battles, consequences) 11. Policies of James II
12. War of the Spanish Succession ( causes, British involvement, 2 major battles, consequences) 13. Seven Years War (causes, division of power, British involvement) 14. Jacobite Risings (causes, dates, 2 major battles, Highland warfare, the outcome of the ‘Fourty Five’ rebellion)
15. 3 selected important figures of the Industrial Revolution, their inventions and innovations(Abraham Darby I, Henry Cort, Thomas Savery, James Watt, John Kay, James Hargreaves, Richard Arkwright, Samuel Crompton )
16. British colonial gains in the Napoleonic Wars 17. Queen Victoria (foreign policy, colonial wars and reforms at home) 2