Summary: book "Britain for Learners of English", James O'Driscoll
Important dates in the sixteenth century
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| Important dates in the sixteenth century - 1536; the administration of government and law in Wales is reformed so that it is exactly the same as it is in England. - 1538; an English language version of the Bible replaces Latin bibles in every church in the land. - 1560; the Scottish parliament abolishes the authority of the Pope and forbids the Latin mass. - 1580; Sir Francis Drake completes the first voyage round the world by an Englishman. - 1588; the Spanish Armada. A fleet of ships sent by the Catholic King Philip of Spain to help invade England, is defeated by the English navy (with a lot of help of a violent storm) - 1603; after the virgin queen’s death, James VI of Scotland became James I of England as well. - 1605; the Gunpowder Plot. A group of Catholics fail in their attempt to blowup the king in Parliament. The seventeenth century By the time the virgin queen (Elizabeth the I) died, James VI of Scotland, the first of the Stuart dynasty, became James I of England as well so that the crowns of these two countries were united. Although their government continued to be separate. In the seventeenth century, the link between religion and politics became intense. At the start of the century some people tried to kill the king because he wasn’t Catholic enough. This was in 1605, a Distributing prohibited | Downloaded by Ngan Tien (nganctddongnai@yahoo.com.vn) lOMoARcPSD|2347954 group known as the Gunpowder Plot, a group of Catholics, failed in the attempt to blowup the king in Parliament. By the end of the century, another king had been killed partly because he seemed too catholic (King Charles I, James I’s son) and yet another had been forced into exile for the same reason King Charles II, Charles I’s son. (Guy Fawkes led the Gunpowder Plot, think about Remember, remember the fifth of November) After the execution of King Charles I (he was convicted after a formal trial for crimes against his people) and during the exile of his son Charles II (who later became King) Britain became a republic fora while and was called The Commonwealth. The leader of the parliamentary army, Oliver Cromwell, became Lord Protector of this republic with a military government which, after he had brutally crushed resistance in Ireland, effectively encompassed all of Britain and Ireland. By the time Cromwell died, he, his system of government, and the puritan ethics that went with it (theatres and other forms of amusement had been banned) had become so unpopular that the executed king’s son, Charles II, was asked to comeback and become King. Download 0.78 Mb. Share with your friends:
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