cheat sheet

Question 1

When was the victory over France in the seven year war which gave Britain Canada?

Answer 1

1763

Question 2

When did the American independence war begin?

Answer 2

1775

Question 3

When was the slave trade abolished?

Answer 3

1807

Question 4

When were the corn laws passed?

Answer 4

1815

Question 5

When was Singapore founded?

Answer 5

1819

Question 6

When was the first opium war victory?

Answer 6

1842

Question 7

When were the navigation act abolished?

Answer 7

1849

Question 8

When were the Suez Canal shares bought?

Answer 8

1875

Question 9

When did Britain occupy Egypt?

Answer 9

1882

Question 10

When did Britain declare Zanzibar a protectorate?

Answer 10

1890

Question 11

When did Captain cook explore the South Pacific?

Answer 11

1768 - 71

Question 12

When did France, Spain and the Netherlands enter the war on America’s side?

Answer 12

1778 - 83

Question 13

When do Britain lose the colonies?

Answer 13

1781

Question 14

When are the wars with revolutionary France?

Answer 14

1793 - 1802

Question 15

When did Britain acquire; Ceylon, Cape Town and Malta?

Answer 15

1815

Question 16

When did Britain acquire the falklands?

Answer 16

1833

Question 17

When did Britain acquire Cyprus?

Answer 17

1878

Question 18

When was the naval defence act (two powers pact)

Answer 18

1889

Question 19

When was the Dreadnought built triggering the arms race

Answer 19

1906

Question 20

When did ww1 start?

Answer 20

1914

Question 21

When did Britain launch its first steam propelled frigate?

Answer 21

1843

Question 22

When was the first iron clad built for France and Britain ?

Answer 22

France - 1859

Britiain - 1861

Question 23

When was the attack on Algiers (pirate bay)

Answer 23

1816

Question 24

When did Britain acquire Gibraltar ?

Answer 24

1783

Question 25

When were the American Twonshed duties introduced?

Answer 25

1767

Question 26

When was the American Boston massacre?

Answer 26

1770

Question 27

When was the Boston Tea party

Answer 27

1773

Question 28

When was the continental congress (meeting of American state leaders) in response to the coercive act?

Answer 28

1774

Question 29

When was the American Bunker Hill battle?

Answer 29

1775

Question 30

When was the defeat at Yorktown?

Answer 30

1781

Question 31

When was the defeat at Saratoga ?

Answer 31

1777

Question 32

When did Cook claim new South Wales for the British?

Answer 32

1770

Question 33

When was the first fleet to Australia?

Answer 33

1788

Question 34

When was the rum rebellion removing Bligh from power?

Answer 34

1808

Question 35

When does Macquarie become governor of new South Wales?

Answer 35

1810

Question 36

When do the first British settlers arrive in western Australia?

Answer 36

1829

Question 37

When were Upper and lower Canada established?

Answer 37

1791

Question 38

When are pappineau’s 92 resolutions presented to the legislative assembly of lower Canada?

Answer 38

1834

Question 39

When were the two revolts in Canada?

Answer 39

1837

Question 40

When was the Durham, visit after the rebellions ?

Answer 40

1838

Question 41

When was the Durham report published?

Answer 41

1839

Question 42

When was the act of union in Canada?

Answer 42

1840

Question 43

When did the east India company beat the French and her allies?

Answer 43

1757

Question 44

When did the British parliament pass the east India company act?

Answer 44

1784

Question 45

When do the government limit the east India company, stopping their monopolies apart from trade with china?

Answer 45

1813

Question 46

When does the governor remove the practice of Sati ?

Answer 46

1829

Question 47

When does the government of India end the companies commercial actives completely?

Answer 47

1833

Question 48

When is awadh in India annexed under the doctorine of lapse?

Answer 48

1856

Question 49

When was the sepoy rebellion ?

Answer 49

1857

Question 50

When did company rule of India move to the crown after the rebellion

Answer 50

1858

Question 51

When is the Suez Canal opened?

Answer 51

1869

Question 52

When does Disraeli acquire 45% of the canal ?

Answer 52

1874

Question 53

When was dual control of the Suez Canal ?

Answer 53

1878

Question 54

When do the Islamic extremists drive out the Egyptian lords?

Answer 54

1881

Question 55

When do Britain bombard Alexandria after France refused?

Answer 55

1882

Question 56

When is Baring arrival as general consul?

Answer 56

1883

Question 57

When was Gordan besieged at Khartoum by the mahdis?

Answer 57

1885

Question 58

When does Salisbury (conservative come prime minister?

Answer 58

1886

Question 59

When is the Constantinople convention ?

Answer 59

1887

Question 60

When does Britain declare the whole of the Nile as theirs?

Answer 60

1890

Question 61

When does Kitchiner go on an expedition to pacify the mahdists?

Answer 61

1896

Question 62

When do the British and French forces meet in Fashoda?

Answer 62

1898

Question 63

Maquirie Australia?

Answer 63

.Disbanded New South Wales core, recentralised power
.Integrated emancipists improving economy
.Institution such as first bank improved economy

Question 64

Baring Egypt ?

Answer 64

.Payed of all the debts 1887 
.agricultural reforms 
.refused education / malaria 
.Tax inequality more on peasants
.didn't see the threat of the mahdi

Question 65

When did Baring achieve solvency in Egypt?

Answer 65

1887

Question 66

Durham Canada?

Answer 66

.Whig sent by PM / controversy at home so resigned

.Report; unification, self government

Question 67

Dalhousie ?

Answer 67

Infrastructure: railroads, telegraph lines
Put Indian leaders under British rule and used Annexation/
Led to ending company rule