Emperor Claudius made the final and successful effort to invade Britain.
Julius Ceaser makes his second and final attempt to invade Britain. This failed.
Julius Ceaser made the first attempt to invade Britain.
The Anglo Saxons were in Britain from around 410AD to 1066AD until the Norman conquest.
The building of Rome begins. Legend has it that two brothers, Romulus and Remus, got into an argument about where to build the city. Romulus killed Remus and the city of Rome was built and named after Romulus.
The Normans reigned from October 1066 to late 1154.
The Normans defeated the English and William the Conqueror later became King of England.
The bubonic plague was a painful disease, with black buboes, or swellings, in the groin and armpits, which lasted up to a week. There was some chance of surviving if the buboes burst. The amount of the population who died, often referred to as the 'mortality rate', was 50%.
The House of Tudor reigned from 1485, When Henry Tudor defeated Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth to 1603 when Queen Elizabeth I died.
Giuseppe Arcinboldo died.
This is when the famous musician was born and died. We have been looking at music attributed to him. The piece Duet for Two Cats.
We have been listening to the 1812 Overture by Tchaikovsky in assembly. This was written to celebrate Russia defeating Napolean's army in1812.
Differences in foreign policies were to blame for the start of WWI, although the immediate cause was the assassination of Austria’s Archduke Ferdinand. The two main sides were the Allies, which included France, Great Britain and Russia; and Germany and Austria-Hungary. In total, 30 countries were involved in the conflict. Italy, once part of the Triple Alliance with Germany and Austria-Hungary, fought on the side of the Allies.
The tomb of Egypt's boy-king Tutankhamun was discovered on November 4, 1922 by English archaeologist Howard Carter.
Jill Murphy was born in 5th July 1949. She wrote the story peace at last but also the worst witch series.
School marked the occasion by laying poppy wreaths around the school's flag pole during a two minute silence.
Ronald Dahl day
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On National Poetry day we celebrated by participating in a poetry picnic. We shared poems and short rhyming stories with our partner classes.
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