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'The conclusion of the epic series. Anna Massey considers Britain's history, from the Romans to the first Prime Minister.'

55BC - Roman invasion of Britain?

410 AD - Romans leave Britain?

Henry II - 1st of the Plantagenet Kings

1215 - Magna Carta

Act of Settlement - throne of England to go to the Elector of Hanover.

George I - spoke no English

George IV - 'gluttonous rake'

Queen Anne - 1708 - last time a monarch vetoed legislation

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How Britain Bought the Suez Canal

Kaiser Wilhem II - Victoria's grandson

Jan 1874 - Gladstone calls an election

1875 - Disraeli buys a controlling share in the Suez canal for Britain?

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'Gladstone's 'six brilliant years' bring about many changes, but the Queen is under threat from other quarters.'

1868 - Gladstone PM for first time, John Bright goes to the Board of Trade

1868 - 1874 -  Gladstone is PM

1869 - Disestablishment of the Protestant Church in Ireland?

1871 - Officers could no longer buy commissions?

1861 - Prince Albert dies

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1869 - Cutty Sark launched?

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Disraeli

Feb 1868 - Disraeli becomes PM,

1918 - Women over 30 allowed to vote

Dec 1868 - Conseratives are out of office

1881 - Disraeli dies

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1867 - Disraeli and Electoral Reform

Oct 1865 - Palmerstone dies

'Stephenson's rocket'

1846 - Russell was PM
Russell served four monarchs

1865 - Russell was once more PM

http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw05513/John-Russell-1st-Earl-Russell?LinkID=mp03900&role=sit&rNo=7 - John Russell, 1st Earl Russell - GF Watts

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 The Rise of Bismarck and the Death of Palmerstone

'The young Queen Victoria had Palmerstone sacked.'

Congress of Vienna - 1815 - Held after Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo.

1865 - Palmerstone dies  "aka Pilgerstein"

1806 - Palmerstone enters Commons as a Tory

'Palmerstone was not a party man. He was simply Palmerstone and when he was gone so too was a remarkable age of English politicians.'  - Anna Massey

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After Albert

Dec 1861 - Albert dies (aged 42)

Osborne House, Isle of Wight

Victoria lost her father aged 8 months?

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The Death of Prince Albert

1861 - US Civil War begins

1861 - Victor Emanuel II - first king of a United Italy

1861 - Italy is united

1861 - roughly 4 million African Americans in the US?

March 4 1861 - Lincoln sworn in as President

'The Trent Affair'  aka 'Mason and Slidell Affair'

'General Grant beat Lee at Gettysburg in 1863'

Duchess of Kent - Victoria's mother

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1832 (Whigs) , 1867 (Conservatives) , 1884 (Liberals) - Year of major Reform Acts

Disraeli - 'born Jewish but converted to Christianity'

Disraeli - 'consummate oppourtunist'

John Bright - Liberal MP

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1856 - The second Opium War  - The Arrow War

China v Britain and France

French missionary killed in China.

Chinese officials board the British ship 'The Arrow'.

Conflict lasts four years.

1839 - 1842 - The first Opium War, Hong Kong ceded to Britain

October 1856 - The Chinese board 'The Arrow'

French and British join forces to defeat the Chinese.

Victor Emanuel II - King of Piedmont

Garibaldi and his 'red shirts'

Palmerstone's Foreign Secretary - Lord John Russell

1860 - Garibaldi leads the 'red shirts'

Russell compares Garibaldi to King William III.

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Gladstone's ambitions as Chancellor are thwarted by the onset of the Crimean War.

http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw02535/William-Ewart-Gladstone?LinkID=mp01789&role=sit&rNo=1 - William Ewart Gladstone - Heinrich Müller

http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw02536/William-Ewart-Gladstone?LinkID=mp01789&role=sit&rNo=5   - William Ewart Gladstone -  George Frederic Watts

http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw02538/William-Ewart-Gladstone?LinkID=mp01789&role=sit&rNo=14 - Gladstone - Sir John Everett Millais

http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw02541/William-Ewart-Gladstone?LinkID=mp01789&wPage=1&role=sit&rNo=39 - Alfred Edward Emslie

1854 - Crimean War

1833 - Slavery abolished throughout the Empire

1852 - Gladstone is Chancellor

Disraeli lived at No 11 Downing Street.

Disraeli doesn't give Gladstone the Chancellor's robe.

1809 -  Gladstone was born

1852 - Gladstone destroys the budget speech of Disraeli.

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A period of bloody fighting marks the founding of the Imperial Raj in India.

1857 - Indian Mutiny

1600 - East India Company founded by Royal Charter

'Dutch East Indies in Suuth East Asia'

1663 - East India Company retreats to Bengal

'Clive of India' - wins Batlle of Plassey

1756 - 1763 - Seven Years War

James Ramsay - Governor General of India

'Lucknow'

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Palmerston

The controversial politician becomes Prime Minister at the age of 71.

1855 - Earl of Aberdeen's coalition falls. Palmerstone was Home Secretary.

Palmerstone was Lord Grey and then Melbourne's Foreign Secretary.

Palmerstone was Lord John Rusell's Foreign Secretary.

Victoria called Palmerstone  'Pilgerstein'.

Victoria ends up liking Palmerstone.

Victoria loved Melbourne.

'Sidney Herbert' - http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait.php?search=ap&npgno=1639&eDate=&lDate=

Palmerstone establised an inquiry into the Crimean War (?).

1858 - Palmerstone wins the election.

 http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw04848/Henry-John-Temple-3rd-Viscount-Palmerston?LinkID=mp03436&search=sas&sText=henry+temple&role=sit&rNo=8 - Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

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69. How A King Of Scots Became King
March 24th, 1603 - Elizabeth I dies

James I - son of Darnley (second husband) and Queen of Scots

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47. Edward III and the Start of The 100 Years War

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Anna Massey narrates

 

35. Bad King John and the Loss of Normandy

Aged 42, Richard the lionheart dies, 1199

rejoined

'Arthur of Brittany'


34. Third Crusade and Death of the Lionheart

'Hubert Walter' - Archbishop of Cantebury