HISTORY OF THE WORLD

1. Senior English HISTORY OF THE WORLD

2. Important dates to know: • In order to understand the written word, one needs to know what was going on in the world at the time the writing took place. • This slide show will help you understand important time periods and people throughout history, thus increasing your ability to understand literary allusions.

3. 3000 BCE: The Egyptians

4. 2000 BCE: The Romans

5. Latin and Greek people to know: Homer: Wrote The Iliad and The Odyssey Sappho Cicero

6. Virgil—wrote The Aeneid • Ovid—wrote The Metamorphoses • Socrates-Plato-Aristotle

7. 450 AD: Angles & Saxons invade Britain

8. 891: The Anglo Saxon Chronicles were written

9. 1066: The Battle of Hastings • William The Conqueror (King William I of England • The Norman conquest was a pivotal event in English history. It largely removed the native ruling class, replacing it with a foreign, French-speakingmonarchy, aristocracy, and clerical hierarchy. This, in turn, brought about a transformation of the English language and the culture of England in a new era often referred to as Norman England.

10. The Royal Lineage… • William I • William II (killed by an arrow while hunting) • Henry I (married Edith of Scotland, uniting the British Isles) • Maude • Stephen • Henry II (son of Maude and Geoffrey, the Count of Anjou)

11. Royal Lineage, continued… • Henry II—married to Eleanor of Aquitaine • Four sons: • Henry (died young) • Richard • Geoffrey • John Richard became Richard the Lionhearted John signed the Magna Carta in 1215

12. 1260’s: Dante’s Divine Comedy

13. 1342: Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales

14. 1347: The Black Death

15. 1455: Guttenberg’s Press

16. 1479: Ferdinand & Isabella 1480: Spanish Inquisition

17. 1485: Henry VIII • Catherine of Aragon Mary • Anne Boleyn Elizabeth • Jane Seymour  Edward VI * • Anne of Cleeves • Catherine Howard • Catherine Parr • *** Lady Jane Grey • Div, beh, died, div, beh, survived

18. 1492: Columbus sails the ocean blue • 1558-1603: Queen Elizabeth I

19. 1564-1616 William Shakespeare 1610: The King James Bible (see Psalms 46)

20. 1682-1725Peter the Great of Russia

21. 1700’s The Age of Enlightenment Science Music Art Literature Global expansion Inventions

22. 1804: Napoleon • 1807: England abolishes slavery • 1837-1901 Queen Victoria • The Victorian Age At 63 years and 7 months, her reign as the Queen lasted longer than that of any other British monarch, and is the longest of any female monarch in history. Her reign is known as the Victorian era, and was a period of industrial, cultural, political, scientific, and military progress within the United Kingdom. The sun never sets on the British Empire.

23. 1900’s: Industrial Revolution • 1914-1918: World War I • 1917: Russian Revolution • (end of the czars—Nicholas was the last) • October 1929: Stock Market crash led to the Great Depression throughout the 1930’s

24. 1939: Hitler’s rise to power and the beginning of World War II • December 7, 1941: “A date which will live in infamy”—Pearl Harbor attacked by the Japanese—U.S. joins the war. • 1945: World War II ends • 1953: DNA discovered • 1961: Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human in space

25. 1967: Neil Armstrong becomes the first American to walk on the surface of the moon • 1961-1970: Vietnam War

26. 1969: Woodstock

27. 1972: Richard Nixon resigns as President of the United States • 1979: Iranian hostage situation

28. 1960: John Fitzgerald Kennedy • 1963: Lyndon Baynes Johnson • 1968: Richard Millhouse Nixon • 1973: Gerald R. Ford • 1976: James Earl (Jimmy) Carter • 1980: Ronald Reagan • 1988: George Herbert Walker Bush • 1992: William Jefferson (Bill) Clinton • 2000: George Walker Bush • 2008: Barack Hussein Obama

29. Lots more… • Of course, this is just a brief synopsis of major events and people. You’ll learn a lot more as we work our way through all the literature, drama, and poetry of these years…