This is the guide you had in the wiki…
History of london.
- legend 1000 BC Giants- Brutus de Troyan
- 43 AD- Romans. Londinium- picts and scots- wall of london- trading center: Thames
- 9th c- Vikings
- 100 years of attacks: anglo-saxons/ normans/ vikings: destroy records.
- 1066: William the conqueror: 1st king of England. Medieval times- Black death
- 16th c. Henry VIII. protestantism- private enterprises ( streets) - Globe theatre. 200,000 people
- 17th c. Two disasters: the fatal plague: 100, 000 people died/ rats- great fire 8 people died / 4/5 city was destroyed.
- 18th c: Population grew to 6,000,000 in 100 years/ centre of trade: powerful.
- 19th c. the golden age of steam /victorian London. 1st underground railway. Houses of Parliament / Westminster Palace ( Big Ben)
- 20th c. hotels/ department stores. - Global crisis- bombing ( 2nd world war) immigration.
- 21st c. London. Leader in trade/ fashion/ art/ music. 12 million tourists/ year Cultural, historical, entertaining nightlife.
- legend 1000 BC Giants- Brutus de Troyan
- 43 AD- Romans. Londinium- picts and scots- wall of london- trading center: Thames
- 9th c- Vikings
- 100 years of attacks: anglo-saxons/ normans/ vikings: destroy records.
- 1066: William the conqueror: 1st king of England. Medieval times- Black death
- 16th c. Henry VIII. protestantism- private enterprises ( streets) - Globe theatre. 200,000 people
- 17th c. Two disasters: the fatal plague: 100, 000 people died/ rats- great fire 8 people died / 4/5 city was destroyed.
- 18th c: Population grew to 6,000,000 in 100 years/ centre of trade: powerful.
- 19th c. the golden age of steam /victorian London. 1st underground railway. Houses of Parliament / Westminster Palace ( Big Ben)
- 20th c. hotels/ department stores. - Global crisis- bombing ( 2nd world war) immigration.
- 21st c. London. Leader in trade/ fashion/ art/ music. 12 million tourists/ year Cultural, historical, entertaining nightlife.
Now let’s see the summary…
History of
London.
In the past, London was an area of forests
and marshes.
1. legend 1000 BC Giants- Brutus de Trojan
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The
legend doesn’t appear in the book, but
it was very popular among the British and tells about the foundation of London
by Brutus de Trojan, 1000 years before the Romans came to the British Isles. (
British áils)
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It’s about the war of Troy, between the Trojans and the Greeks. Following the destruction of the city of Troy, the inhabitants set off
to find new lands. According to a 12th-century monk named Geoffrey of Monmouth,
when Brutus lands in Britian it's inhabited by a race of giants led by Gog and Magog. After defeating them, Brutus chains them to the doors of his palace, he builds on the site
where the Guildhall *is today.
*Guildhall is a very important
and impressive palace in the city of London, which has been used for centuries
as a Town Hall for important occasions.
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2. 43 AD- Romans. Londinium-
picts and scots- wall of london- trading center: Thames
At first (43 AD) London was called
Londinium (name put by romans) and it had a river (Thames) which they used to
trade, that river was connected with a lot of special points. The first invasion
was by the original tribes, called Picts and Scots ( Boudica was their leader),
they destroyed London.
During
the 2nd century Londinium was at its height and replaced Colchester as the
capital of Roman Britain. Its population was around 60,000 inhabitants.
** The Romans eventually
regained control and rebuilt London, this time adding a Forum (market) and
Basilica (a business centre), and slowly building a wall ( the London wall. which you can still see in
some parts of the city) around the city to protect it from further invasion.
The area inside the defensive wall is now known as “The Square Mile”, or
“The City”. The square mile had gates to go out and into the area, that’s why
some streets aren’t called streets , but gates. They are where these big doors used to be
in the past.
The Roman empire declined in 5th c.
3. 9th c-
Vikings
Damish Vikings attacked
the city and burnt it again.
"London Bridge is falling down,
Falling down, falling down,
London Bridge is falling down,
My fair lady."
Falling down, falling down,
London Bridge is falling down,
My fair lady."
It is thought that this
nursery rhyme probably records an attack against London by the Viking, Olaf, at
the beginning of the 11th Century. London bridge was built in 55AD next to londinium.
It was a stone bridge.
- 100 years of attacks: anglo-saxons/ normans/ vikings: destroy records.
4. 1066:
William the conqueror: 1st king of England. Medieval times- Black death
William the conqueror was the first king of
England
In
the medieval age the BLACK DEATH took place, it was a plague. People threw the
litter to the streets and there was a really poor hygiene. It killed ½ of the
inhabitants of London.
5.
- 16th c. Henry VIII. protestantism-
private enterprises ( streets) - Globe theatre. 200,000 people
In the 16th century, Henry VIII, who was
the king of London, wanted a son. He and Catherine, his first wife, only got
daughters, but because of the religion of that century, he could't have more
wives .Therefore he created protestantism, a new religion. He was the maximum
authority instead of the Pope.
Henry took all the land that belonged to
the church and gave it to people for private enterprise( commerce)
London has many streets and squares like: pudding lane,
bread street, milk street, thread needle street, ropemaker square, silk street
and poultry street, London inhabitants called them like that because of the work that
people used to do there.
6- - 17th c. Two disasters: the fatal plague: 100,
000 people died/ rats- great fire 8 people died / 4/5 city was destroyed.
a variety fatal of
diseases brought over by rats caused panic. all household pets were killed and
around of 100,000 people died in this disaster. The plague was followed by the
great fire, which finished with the plague, killed only 8 people, but 4/5 of
the city was destroyed.
Once more London was rebuilt.
- 18th c: Population grew to 6,000,000 in 100
years/ centre of trade: powerful.
The industrial Revolution took place and the city grew a lot.
The industrial Revolution took place and the city grew a lot.
- 19th c. the golden age of steam /victorian
London. 1st underground railway in the world was built.. Houses of Parliament / Westminster
Palace ( Big Ben)
*Again
misfortunes:
The poor lived in dreadful
conditions. The cholera and the dumping of waste in the Thames brought THE
GREAT STINK ( the smell in the city was horrible) which finished with a new
sewage system built. ( which you can see even today)
- 20th c. hotels/ department stores. The Ritz and Harrods - Global crisis- bombing
( 2nd world war) immigration.
*A bomb attack on the city ( by the germans during the second world war): destroyed much of London but it was rebuilt again.
*A bomb attack on the city ( by the germans during the second world war): destroyed much of London but it was rebuilt again.
*
After the war there was a heavy immigration from countries of the old British
Empire( Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa) and this changed the
character of the city.
- 21st c. London. Leader
in trade/ fashion/ art/ music. 12 million tourists/ year Cultural, historical,
entertaining nightlife.
12 million of tourist every year in London.
Nowadays, London is one of the leaders in
trade, fashion, art and music. 12 million people go to London as tourists
because it is cultural, historical and it has a entertaining nightlife too.
