Tutankhamun

Tutankhamun became Pharaoh of Egypt soon after his father died in 1337 BC.  Tutankamun was only nine years old when he became Pharaoh.

Soon after he became pharaoh, he married his teenage sister. This was an Egyptian custom. 

Tutankhamun was about  18 when he died..

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The Magna Carta

The Magna Carta was signed in June 1215. The barons of Medieval England and King John signed the Magna Carta at Runneymede near Windsor Castle.

Magna Carts was written because of disagreements between King John and the English barons. Magna Carta required the king to give up certain rights and to respect the law.

The Magna Carta was the first document forced on an English King by his people

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Pre-history

 Dinosaursl ived in a different era to prehistoric man.

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 Prehistoric man was not on the earth at the same time as dinosaurs. They lived in different eras! Thay had to hunt for their food.

Henry the VIII

Born: 28 June 1491
Greenwich Palace

 Died: 28 January 1547
Whitehall Palace

Buried: 16 February 1547
St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle

Henry VIII became king of England when he was seventeen. Henry was very fond of hunting, gambling and dancing and only spent about an hour a day on government business. He relied heavily on his Lord Chancellor and other government ministers to run the country.
It was very important to Henry that his wife, Katherine of Aragon, should give birth to a male child. Without a son to take over from him when he died, Henry feared that the Tudor family would lose control of England. Catherine gave birth to six children but five died within a few weeks of being born. Only one child, Mary, survived into adulthood.
In 1526 Henry got to know Anne Boleyn, Katherine's maid of honour. She was a good musician and a talented singer. She was also extremely intelligent and her time in the French court provided her with a great deal of interesting conversation. Henry had been planning to divorce Katherine. Now he knew who he wanted to replace her with.
In January 1533 Henry discovered that Anne Boleyn was pregnant. As it was important that the child should not be classed as illegitimate, arrangements were made for Henry and Anne to get married. Thomas More, Henry's Lord Chancellor, was opposed to the king's plans to divorce Katherine and resigned from office.
Henry hoped that Anne would provide him with a son. He was therefore disappointed when, in September 1533, Anne gave birth to a daughter called Elizabeth. Henry was furious about having another daughter.
In January 1536, Anne had a son but unfortunately he was born dead. Also, the baby was badly deformed. This was a serious matter because in Tudor times Christians believed that a deformed child was God's way of punishing parents for committing serious sins.
Henry approached Thomas Cromwell about how he could get out of his marriage with Anne. He suggested that one solution to this problem was to claim that he was not the father of this deformed child. On the king's instruction Cromwell was ordered to find out the name of the man who was the true father of the dead child. Anne was charged with having relationships with many men. Anne was beheaded.
Ten days after Anne was beheaded, Henry married Jane Seymour the next year, Jane died giving birth to Edward. Henry now at last had a male heir.
Henry other wives were Ann of Cleaves (marriage annulled) Katherine Howard (executed on grounds of adultery in 1542) and Catherine Parr (who survived Henry to die in 1548).
None produced any children.

 
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Great Fire of London 1666

The Stuarts - Great Fire of London 1666

Sunday 2nd September 1666 – Wednesday 5^th Sept 1666

London was a busy city in 1666. It was very crowded. The streets were narrow and dusty. The houses were made of wood and very close together. Inside their homes, people used candles for light and cooked on open fires. A fire could easily get out of control. In those days there were no fire engines or firemen to stop a fire from spreading.

Sunday 2^nd September 1666

The fire began in the Pudding Lane house of baker Thomas Farriner. The weather was dry and windy and this helped to spread the fire.  The fire was so strong that it could be seen from a quarter of a mile away.

 Early morning
The Lord Mayor was advised to order the demolition of four houses to stop the fire spreading. He decided not to issue the order because the city would then be responsible for re-building those houses. The fire continued to spread destroying houses west of Pudding Lane. The City's water engine was also destroyed, soon more than 300 houses had been destroyed

Monday 3rd September 1666

 Early morning
 The fire continued to spread . The Thames was full of boats filled  with property rescued from houses that had burnt down.

 Late Morning
 To reduce the numbers of people in the area of the fire, an order was given that carts being used to salvage property from the burnt down homes could not be brought near to the fire.

 Charles II attempted to bring some order to the City by establishing eight fire posts around the fire with thirty foot soldiers assigned to each. The king’s brother, the Duke of York was put in charge.

Because the wind was blowing from the East the fire had spread eastwards more slowly. Fire-fighters managed to prevent Westminster School from being destroyed although it was badly damaged.

 The fire was now 300 yards from the Tower of London and orders were given for extra fire engines to be sent to prevent its destruction. Many of London's wealthiest citizens had taken their money and valuables to the Tower of London for safekeeping.

Tuesday 4th September 1666

 Early morning
 The fire showed no sign of stopping. All attempts to check its spread had failed and the fire-fighters were getting very tired.

 8 p.m.
The roof of St Paul's cathedral caught fire.  

 End of the Day
This had proved to be the most destructive day of the fire. St Paul's cathedral was among the many buildings destroyed on this day.  

Wednesday 5th September

 Early Morning
 The fire continued to burn but, due to the fact that the wind had dropped, it was not spreading so quickly.

 Mid day
The destruction of a number of houses in Cripplegate had stopped the spread of the fire and had allowed fire-fighters to put it out.  

 Evening
The fire was under control. 100,000 people were homeless.

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