How britain got its name?
It was Caesar who named britain its name. It means coloured folks. During his war to invade britain. He noticed the people had colour painted on their bodies to ward of invaders.

66 monarchs has ruled england over a period of 1500 years. Various people had been kings. Mostly hereditary.
1. Celts
2. Romans
3. Anglo-Saxon
4. Vikings
5. Normans
6. Tudor
7. Victorian

Anglo-Saxon kings. Includes
1.Egbert
2 Aethelwulf
3. Aethelbald
4. Aethelbert
5. Aethelred
6. Alfred the great
7. Edward the elder
8. Althelstan
9. Edmund
10. Eadred
11. Eadwig
12. Eadgar
13. Edward the martyr
14. Aethelred the unready
15. Edmund the ironside
16. Canute the great
17. Harold 1st
18. Harthacanute
19. Edward the confessor
20. Harold 2nd

King Egbert: His father was the king of Kent. When his father died, his cousin was given the throne. Egbert objected his brothers coronation, saying he should be king instead. His cousin was infuriated by this stupid remark, he wanted Egbert dead. Egbert learnt of the plot and Fled to mercia.
His cousin tracked him down to mercia and made the king of mercia an offer to repatriate Egbert in exchange he would marry the kings daughter. Guess what? The offa of mercia accepted the marriage proposal but did not give him Egbert.
Once again Egbert was exiled to the court of Charlemagne. He could only return to england after his cousin's death to reclaim the throne.

AETHELWULF 839-856 King of Wessex, son of Egbert and father of Alfred the Great. In 851 Aethelwulf defeated a Danish army at the battle of Oakley while his eldest son Althelstan fought and beat the Danes at sea off the coast of Kent, in what is believed to be the first naval battle. A highly religious man, Athelwulf travelled to Rome with his son Alfred to see the Pope in 855.

AETHELBALD 856 – 860 The eldest son of Aethelwulf, Æthelbald was born around 834. He was crowned at Kingston-upon- Thames in southwest London, after forcing his father to abdicate upon his return from pilgrimage to Rome. Following his father’s death in 858, he married his widowed stepmother Judith, but under pressure from the church the marriage was annulled after only a year. He is buried at Sherbourne Abbey in Dorset.

AETHELBERT 860 – 866 Became king following the death of his brother Æthelbald. Like his brother and his father, Aethelbert (pictured to the right) was crowned at Kingston-upon-Thames. Shortly after his succession a Danish army landed and sacked Winchester before being defeated by the Saxons. In 865 the Viking Great Heathen Army landed in East Anglia and swept across England. He is buried at Sherborne Abbey.

AETHELRED I 866 – 871 Aethelred succeeded his brother Aethelbert. His reign was one long struggle with the Danes who had occupied York in 866, establishing the Viking kingdom of Yorvik. When the Danish Army moved south Wessex itself was threatened, and so together with his brother Alfred, they fought several battles with the Vikings at Reading, Ashdown and Basing. Aethelred suffered serious injuries during the next major battle at Meretun in Hampshire; he died of his wounds shortly after at Witchampton in Dorset, where he was buried.

Alfred the great: He is one of my Favourite. He is a wise ruler and a strong one at that. I wish I could even get half of his foresight. He started the Anglo-Saxon chronicle to record english history. Under him england underwent some remarkable change. He fought hard against the danish invaders. He sealed a peace treaty by allocating them a small piece of land within england called dane land. He visited rome twice in his life