William the Conqueror wanted to know exactly what he had in England. He spent people all around the country, asking many questions, and they made a big book called the Domesday Book. The book showed how much farming land there was in England and how many animals. We know a lot about life in Norman England because of the Domesday Book.
In 1348, a terrible illness called The Black Death came to England. Only about four million people lived in England at that time, but in two years, nearly one-and-a-half million of them died.
Six years after Henry the Eighth died, his oldest daughter Mary – the daughter he had with his first wife, Catholic of Araga – became Queen Mary the First of England. She was Catholic and wanted England to be a Catholic country again, but many people had left the Catholic Church and had become Protestants. Mary executed hundreds of Protestants who refused to became Catholic again.