Britain Key Dates

Question 1

When did the French Revolution begin?

Answer 1

1789

Question 2

When did Tom Paine publish Rights of Man?

Answer 2

1791

Question 3

When was the London Corresponding Society formed?

Answer 3

1792

Question 4

When was the Treason Act passed?

Answer 4

1795

Question 5

When was the Seditious Meetings Act passed?

Answer 5

1795

Question 6

When did Cobbett start Political Register?

Answer 6

1802

Question 7

When was the First Hampden Club formed in London?

Answer 7

1812

Question 8

When were the Spa Fields Meetings held?

Answer 8

1816

Question 9

When was the Pentridge Rising?

Answer 9

1817

Question 10

When were the Gagging Acts?

Answer 10

1817

Question 11

When was Habeas Corpus suspended again?

Answer 11

1817

Question 12

When was the Peterloo Massacre?

Answer 12

1819

Question 13

When were the Six Acts passed?

Answer 13

1819

Question 14

When was the Roman Catholic Relief Act passed?

Answer 14

1829

Question 15

When was the Great Reform Act passed (RPA 1)?

Answer 15

1832

Question 16

When was the Chartist National Convention held?

Answer 16

1839

Question 17

When was the Newport Rising?

Answer 17

1839

Question 18

When was the First Chartist Petition presented?

Answer 18

1839

Question 19

When was the General Election won by Tories led by Peel?

Answer 19

1841

Question 20

When was the Second Chartist Petition submitted?

Answer 20

1842

Question 21

When were the Plug Plots?

Answer 21

1842

Question 22

When was the Repeal of the Corn Laws?

Answer 22

1846

Question 23

When was the Chartist Kennington Common rally held?

Answer 23

1848

Question 24

When was the Third Chartist Petition submitted?

Answer 24

1848

Question 25

When was the end of the property qualification for MPs?

Answer 25

1858

Question 26

When was the Liberal Party formed from Peelites, Radicals, and Whigs?

Answer 26

1859

Question 27

When was the committee established to look into the extent of venereal disease in the armed forces?

Answer 27

1862

Question 28

When was the Contagious Diseases Act passed?

Answer 28

1864

Question 29

When was the Second Reform Act passed?

Answer 29

1867

Question 30

When was the national campaign against the Contagious Diseases Act launched?

Answer 30

1869

Question 31

When was the Secret Ballot Act passed?

Answer 31

1872

Question 32

When was the Corrupt Practices Act passed?

Answer 32

1883

Question 33

When was the Arlington Street Compact agreed?

Answer 33

1884

Question 34

When was the Redistribution Act passed?

Answer 34

1885

Question 35

When did the Irish Home Rule split the Liberal Party?

Answer 35

1886

Question 36

When was the first Independent Labour MP elected?

Answer 36

1892

Question 37

When was the Independent Labour Party formed?

Answer 37

1893

Question 38

When was the Labour Representation Committee formed?

Answer 38

1900

Question 39

When was the WSPU formed?

Answer 39

1903

Question 40

When did the LRC and ILP join to form the Labour Party?

Answer 40

1906

Question 41

When did the Women's Suffrage Bill fail?

Answer 41

1909

Question 42

When were the Conciliation Committee and Bills introduced?

Answer 42

1910–11

Question 43

When was the Government Franchise Bill introduced?

Answer 43

1913

Question 44

When did the outbreak of the First World War occur?

Answer 44

1914

Question 45

When was the Glasgow rent strike?

Answer 45

1915

Question 46

When was the 4th Reform Act (RPA) passed?

Answer 46

1918

Question 47

When was the 40-hour strike?

Answer 47

1919

Question 48

When was Black Friday?

Answer 48

1921

Question 49

When was the General Strike?

Answer 49

1926

Question 50

When was the Trade Disputes Act passed?

Answer 50

1927

Question 51

When was the Last/5th Reform Act passed?

Answer 51

1928

Question 52

When was the suspension of Habeas Corpus (1st time)?

Answer 52

1794

Question 53

When was the trial of leaders of the LCS?

Answer 53

1794

Question 54

When was the end of the war with France/Napoleonic Wars? (which led to economic challenges)

Answer 54

1815

Question 55

When was Peel's Tamworth Manifesto?

Answer 55

1834

Question 56

When was the Lichfield House Compact?

Answer 56

1835

Question 57

When was the Third Reform Act?

Answer 57

1884

Question 58

When were the Contagious Diseases Acts Repealed?

Answer 58

1886

Question 59

When did the American War of Independence end?

Answer 59

1783

Question 60

When did George IV die?

Answer 60

1830

Question 61

When was the MPU formed?

Answer 61

1830

Question 62

When did PM Viscount Palmerston die?

Answer 62

1865

Question 63

When was the Reform Union Formed?

Answer 63

1864

Question 64

When was the Crimean War?

Answer 64

1854-56

Question 65

When was the Reform League formed?

Answer 65

1865

Question 66

When was the Yorkshire Association founded?

Answer 66

1780

Question 67

When did Queen Victoria come to the throne?

Answer 67

1837

Question 68

When was the Bedchamber Crisis?

Answer 68

1839

Question 69

When was Irish Home Rule passed?

Answer 69

1914

Question 70

When did Liberal defeat lead to a decade of Conservative rule?

Answer 70

1895

Question 71

When was the Budget which caused so much upset in the HoL?

Answer 71

1909

Question 72

When was the Parliament Act passed?

Answer 72

1911

Question 73

When was the Tory party soundly defeated?

Answer 73

1832

Question 74

When was there an Irish Famine?

Answer 74

1845

Question 75

When did Gladstone split the Liberals over Irish Home Rule?

Answer 75

1886

Question 76

When did Lloyd George's coalition collapse?

Answer 76

1922

Question 77

When was the Carlton Club formed?

Answer 77

1832

Question 78

When was the Primrose League formed in memory of Disraeli?

Answer 78

1884

Question 79

When did the first Labour Government get in?

Answer 79

1924

Question 80

When did the first female MP take her seat?

Answer 80

1919

Question 81

When was the trial of the leaders in the Spa Fields Affair?

Answer 81

1817

Question 82

When had Liverpool's government established the Committee of Secrecy to combat radical activity?

Answer 82

1817

Question 83

When did the Political Register cease publication after Cobbett fled to America?

Answer 83

1817

Question 84

When was the Corn Law?

Answer 84

1815

Question 85

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