IMPORTANT PEOPLE

• Charles I


  king who started civil war, was executed
• Oliver Cromwell


  took over when charles was executed as lord protector, was a puritant
• Columbus


  Italian navigator who discovered the New World in the service of Spain
• Conquistadors


  Spanish conquerors
• Olaudah Equiano


  manages to buy freedom, wrote an autobiography
• Sam Sharpe


  -Led slave revolt in 1831

  -Precursor to abolition of slavery in 1834
• Mary Prince


  wrote an autobiography as the life of a slave
• Queen Nanny


  A Maroon leader in Jamaica who fought against British colonization.
• Granville Sharpe


  fought on behalf of slaves, involved in the ship case
• Thomas Clarkson


  took out research, collected evidence and presented to the public and government and drew slave ships

  
• William Wilberforce


  was an MP, made many speeches against slavery
• Sons of Africa


  writing petition, goes to parliament in person, got the slave trade act in 1807, held public meetings
• Louis Pasteur


  germ theory
• Edward Jenner


  vaccines
• James Simpson


  anaesthetic
• Joseph Lister

  anti-septic
• Florence Nightingale


  Founder of modern nursing
• Mary Seacole


  pioneering nurse
• Emmeline Pankhurst


  founded WSPU, travelled up and down the country + campaigned rallies, suffragette
• Millicent Fawcett


  became leader of NUWSS, preferred peaceful methods, suffragist
• Gertrude Bell


  British woman who studied History in Cambridge and helped establish and administer Iraq
• Elizabeth Garret Anderson


  Who made the first women's hospital in 1872
• Napoleon


  French general who became emperor of the French (1769-1821)
• Chartists


  Reformers who wanted changes like universal male suffrage; the secret ballot; and payment for members of Parliament, so that even workingmen could afford to enter politics. This group supported a document called the People's Charter.
• Robespierre


  Leader of the French Revolution
• Louis XVUI


  was executed for treason
• Marie Antoinette


  queen of France (as wife of Louis XVI) who was unpopular
• Edwin Chadwick

  Joseph Bazalgette

  sewers creators