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What country is connected to the eastern border of Spain
Portugal
The Sun King
Louis XIV
How Queen Elizabeth the 1st died
She was beheaded
He made the laws of planetary motion
Johannes Kepler
Magna Carta YEAR?
1215
first to posit the heliocentric model (sun at the center) of the Solar System – did so in 1543’s On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres.
Nicolaus Copernicus
Who was the self proclaimed czar of Russia, which means Caesar
Peter the great
fleet sent by King of Spain Philip II (Catholic) to attack England (Protestant). Philip had previously been married to English Queen Mary I (“Bloody Mary”). Fleet fails due to weather and geography
Spanish Armada
Copernicus -> Brahe -> Kepler -> Galileo
History of Astronomy:
1689
English Bill of Rights
What three countries make up the UK
Scotland, Great Britain, and Whales
Frederick the Great – Prussia
Catherine the Great – Russia
observed the planets and stars over decades, wrote down detailed notes
Tycho Brahe
dissolved Parliament in 1681
Charles II
event when William & Mary took power; Protestants overthrew James II; William and Mary signed English Bill of Rights, making England a limited constitutional monarchy.
Glorious Revolution
When was charles the 1st beheaded
1649
She ruled from 1762-1796
Catherine the Great
basic ideas of modern physics and math; invented calculus; three laws of motion
Sir Isaac Newton
1586 plot to assassinate Elizabeth I (Protestant) and replace her with her Catholic cousin Mary, Queen of Scots (failed)
Babington Plot
Order of English Monarchs:
Elizabeth I
James I
Charles I (beheaded 1649)
[Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector]
Charles II (dissolved Parliament in 1681)
James II
William III & Mary II
James the first
The first stuart king of England
What Queen executed the Christians
Bloody Mary
first to posit the heliocentric model (sun at the center) of the Solar System – did so in 1543’s On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres.
Nicolaus Copernicus
1605 plot to blow up Parliament, kill James I, and install a Catholic monarch
Gunpowder Plot