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KERALA PSC / WORLD HISTORY / ENGLAND / OBJECTIVE
QUESTIONS / STUDY MATERIALS / GENERAL KNOWLEDGE / KERALA PSC PRELIMINARY /
NOTES
·
United
Kingdom includes the Islands of England, Scotland and Ireland
·
The
inhabitance od England in the Neolithic Age were known as Iberians
·
Julius
Caesar captured England in BC 55 and the Romans ruled England for 367 years
·
After
the Romans England came in the hands of Anglo-Saxons
·
First
priest to rule England was Dunston
·
Christianity
reached England for the first time by the coming of Romans
·
Ceadmon
was the first English poet and Bede was the first English historian
·
The
Magna Carta was signed by King John of England in AD 1215 at Runnymede.
The Magnacarta is described as the ‘Bible of the English Constitution’. It
is also known as the ‘Bible of English Liberty.’
·
Innocent
III was the Pope when the Magna Carta was signed
·
The
Hundred years’ war (1338-1453) fought between England and France started during
the period of King Edward III
·
The
Peasants Revolt in England was in 1381
·
Battle
of Roses were the civil
wars in England
·
The
Great Plague in London broke out in 1665
·
The
system of Parliament originated in England during the period of Henry I
·
The
Stuart king of England believed in the ‘Divine Right Theory of Kingship’.
·
James
I, the Stuart king wrote a book, “The Law of Free Monarchies”
·
Stuart
king Charles I dissolved the Parliament in 1629 and did not summoned it till
1640. He resummoned the Parliament in 1640 and ended in 1660. It is known as Long
Parliament.
·
Civil
War in England started in 1642. Oliver Cromwell led England after the
Civil War. He ruled with the title ‘Lord Protector’
·
Charles
I was beheaded publically in 1649
·
The
Petition of Rights was accepted by the British Parliament in 1628
·
The
Bloodless revolution or Glorious Revolution occurred in England in 1688
·
Through
the Bloodless Revolution English King James II was dethroned and Mary, the
daughter of Charles I and her husband William of Orange came to power in
England.
·
‘Whigs’
and ‘Torys’ the
political parties of England originated during the period of Charles II
·
Habeas
Corpus Act was passed in
England in 1679 during the period of Charles II
·
The
Bill of Rights was accepted in England after the Glorious Revolution in 1689
·
In
1707 by the ‘Act of Union’ England and Scotland joined together and
became ‘Great Britain’
·
By
‘the Act of Union’ of 1801 Great Britain and Northern Ireland joined together
and it became United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
·
But
Ireland was delinked in 1921 and Northern Ireland became part of England
·
The
official name of England is “United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern
Ireland.”
·
‘Pound
Sterling’ is the Currency of
England
·
Robert
Walpole was the first Prime Minister of England and the first in the world to
hold the post of Prime Minister. He laid the foundation of Cabinet system. HE
became the Prime Minister in 1721
·
The
Industrial Revolution first
started in England in the second half of the 18th century with the
rapid growth of applied sciences, power driven machines replaced handwork.
·
The
Agrarian Revolution also took place in Britain
·
‘The
Commonwealth of Nations’ is an association of those free nations which were
previously the part of British Empire
·
The
delegates send early other by Common Wealth Countries are known as High
Commissioners and delegates send by Common Wealth nations to other countries
are known as Ambassadors
·
Stanley
is the capital of Falkland Island. Britain came out victorious in the battle.
It is a British colony even today.
·
10
Downing street is the
official residence of the British Prime Ministers
·
Princess
Diana died in a car
accident along with Dodi Al Fayed in Paris
·
Buckingham
Palace is the residence
of British Monarch
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