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England Travel is no doubt a golden opportunity to have an insight of the fascinating history of England. Known as the largest and the most populous of the countries constituting the United Kingdom, England has always been the hub of major activities of the world. Homeland of many kings and queens, England has a lot to boast in terms of its history.
England was ruled by the Anglo-Saxon kings from the 600's AD until the Norman Conquest in 1066. It was in the 10th century when the territory of England was politically united. It was under Queen Elizabeth I's reign that the history of England gained much hype. |
Queen Elizabeth I, also known as the Virgin Queen because she never married was the fifth and the final monarch of the Tudor dynasty. One cannot deny the fact that it was under her rule that England flourished most and it was rightly said that the 'Golden Age of Elizabeth'.
The Peasant's Revolt or the Great Rising of 1381 was one of the major revolts that took place in England. Precipitated by attempts to enforce the third poll tax, the Peasant's Revolt was headed by leaders like John Ball, Jack Straw and Wat Tyler and perhaps this is the reason that the revolt is also known as Tyler's Rebellion. The Wars of the Roses lasting from 1455 to 1485 was another great historical event that needs to be mentioned in the history of England. This famous civil war was fought by the landed aristocracy and armies of feudal retainers over the throne of England. Killing around one-third of England's population, The Black Death, an epidemic of bubonic plague arrived in England in 1349.
Geoffrey Chaucer, the English poet, Timur, Central Asian warlord, Don Juan Manuel, Spanish author, Giovanni Boccaccio, Italian author, Dante Alighieri, Italian poet and writer, William Shakespeare, English playwright and Hafez, Persian poet are some of the significant people that deserve to be mentioned while discussing the history of England. One should also know that many places in England were named on famous Briton's names, places like London, York, Dover, Colchester and Dorchester are to name a few.
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