关于英美历史的英语作文

关于英美历史的英语作文
In 829, King Egbert of Wessex unified England. It was attacked by the Danes at the end of the 8th century and was part of the Danish pirate empire from 1016 to 1042. Later, under the short-term rule of the British king, the Duke of Normandy crossed the sea to conquer England in 1066. In 1215, King John was forced to sign the Magna Carta, and the kingship was suppressed. From 1338 to 1453, Britain and France fought the "hundred year war", and Britain won first and then lost. Wales merged with England in 1536. In 1588, he defeated the Spanish "invincible fleet" and established maritime hegemony. In 1640, Britain was the first to break out the bourgeois revolution in the world and became the pioneer of the bourgeois revolution. The founding of the Republic was announced on May 19, 1649. The restoration of the dynasty in 1660 and the "Glorious Revolution" in 1688 established the constitutional monarchy. England merged with Scotland in 1707 and with Ireland in 1801. From the second half of the 18th century to the first half of the 19th century, it became the first country in the world to complete the
industrial revolution. The 19th century was the heyday of the British Empire. The colony occupied in 1914 was 111 times larger than the mainland. It was the first colonial power and called itself "the Empire of the sun". It began to decline after the first World War. Britain established Northern Ireland in 1920 and allowed Southern Ireland to break away from its rule and establish an independent state from 1921 to 1922. In 1931, the Westminster act was promulgated, and its dominions were forced to recognize their independence in internal affairs and diplomacy, which shook the colonial system of the British Empire.
In the Second World War, Britain's economic strength was greatly weakened and its political status declined. With the successive independence of India and Pakistan in 1947, the colonial system of the British Empire collapsed in the 1960s. In January 1973, Britain joined the European community. Historically, England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland are four countries. Later, England and Wales were merged by marriage. Later, Elisabeth I, the last king of the Tudor Dynasty, passed the throne to her nephew, King James of Scotland, so Scotland and England merged.
Charles, the son of James, was overthrown by Cromwell's revolutionary army, and Ireland was conquered by force during Cromwell's rule. In 1923, the British Parliament decided to divide Ireland into two parts. 23 counties in the South were independent as the Republic of Ireland, and 4 counties in the North remained in Britain as Northern Ireland. Great Britain is an island, which is composed of England, Scotland and Wales. The so-called UK is the abbreviation of United Kingdom, which means the United Kingdom.。