Dates

Question 1

What happened 10,000 years ago?

Answer 1

Britain became permanently separated from the continent by the Channel

Question 2

What happened 6,000 years ago?

Answer 2

The first farmers arrived in Britain

Question 3

What happened in 55BC?

Answer 3

Julius Caesar led a Roman invasion of Britain, but he was not successful

Question 4

How long did the Romans stay in Britain?

Answer 4

400 years

Question 5

What happened in AD600?

Answer 5

Anglo-Saxons Kingdoms were established in Britain

Question 6

What happened in AD789?

Answer 6

The Vikings first visited Britain

Question 7

What happened in 1066?

Answer 7

William the Conqueror defeated Harold at the Battle of Hastings

Question 8

What happened in 1284?

Answer 8

King Edward I introduced the Statute of Rhuddlan, which annexed Wales to the Crown of England

Question 9

What happened in 1314?

Answer 9

The Scotts led by Robert the Bruce defeated the English at the Battle of Bannockburn

Question 10

What happened in 1415?

Answer 10

Battle of Agincourt (Hundred Years War) where King Henry’s vastly outnumbered English army defeated the French

Question 11

What happened in 1348?

Answer 11

Black Death, where a third of the population died

Question 12

What happened in 1215?

Answer 12

Magna Carta (Great Charter)

Question 13

What happened in 1455?

Answer 13

The war of the roses, civil war between House of Lancaster and House of York

Question 14

What happened in 1588?

Answer 14

The English defeated the Spanish Armada, a large fleet of ships which had been sent by Spain to conquer England and restore Catholicism

Question 15

What happened in 1642?

Answer 15

The civil war between the Kind and the Parliament started

Question 16

What happened in 1649?

Answer 16

King Charles I was executed

Question 17

What happened in 1665?

Answer 17

There was a major outbreak of plague in London, it was under Charles II’s reign

Question 18

What happened in 1689?

Answer 18

Bill of Rights, which confirmed the rights of Parliament and the limits of the king’s power.

Question 19

What happened in 1707?

Answer 19

Act of Union, known as the Treaty of Union in Scotland, created the Kingdom of Great Britain

Question 20

What happened in 1833?

Answer 20

Emancipation Act, which abolished slavery throughout the British empire

Question 21

What happened in 1776?

Answer 21

13 American colonies declared their independence

Question 22

What happened in 1800?

Answer 22

Act of Union which created the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

Question 23

When was the first Union flag created?

Answer 23

1606

Question 24

When did Queen Victoria become queen?

Answer 24

1837, when she was 18

Question 25

What happened in 1846?

Answer 25

The repealing of the Corn Laws

Question 26

What happened in 1832?

Answer 26

Reform Act increased the number of people with the right to vote, abolishing the old pocket and rotten boroughs

Question 27

What did the Acts of Parliament in 1870 and in 1882?

Answer 27

They gave wives the right to keep their own earnings and property

Question 28

When did the WWI end?

Answer 28

WWI ended at 11am on the 11th November 1918

Question 29

When was the treaty between Ireland and the British army end?

Answer 29

In 1921 a peace treaty was signed and Ireland became two countries in 1922

Question 30

When did Ireland become a republic?

Answer 30

1949

Question 31

When did the UK formally leave the European Union?

Answer 31

31st January 2020

Question 32

When did the Good Friday agreement happen?

Answer 32

It was signed in 1998

Question 33

When did the UK host the Olympic Games?

Answer 33

1908, 1948, 2012

Question 34

What happened in 1958 for the peers?

Answer 34

The PM has had the power to nominate peers just for their own lifetime since 1958

Question 35

What happened since 1999 to hereditary peers?

Answer 35

Hereditary peers have lost the automatic right to attend the House of Lords

Question 36

What did the Human Rights Act 1998 ?

Answer 36

It incorporated the European Convention on Human Rights into UK law

Question 37

When did the Emancipation Act happen?

Answer 37

In 1833

Question 38

When did the Habeas Corpus Act happen?

Answer 38

In 1679