Dates in Modern

Question 1

when was the Booth Report?

Answer 1

1889

Question 2

when were X-rays discovered by Wilhelm Rontgen?

Answer 2

1895

Question 3

when was radiation discovered by Antoine Henri Becquerel, Marie and Pierre Curie?

Answer 3

1896-98

Question 4

when did the Second Boer War begin?

Answer 4

1899

Question 5

when was aspirin discovered?

Answer 5

1899

Question 6

when were blood groups discovered by Karl Landsteiner?

Answer 6

1900

Question 7

when was the Rowntree Report?

Answer 7

1901

Question 8

when was the first successful cornea transplant?

Answer 8

1905

Question 9

when were free school meals introduced?

Answer 9

1906

Question 10

when did local education authorities begin to provide free medical inspections for schoolchildren?

Answer 10

1907

Question 11

when was the Old Age Pensions Act?

Answer 11

1908

Question 12

when was the Labour Exchanges Act?

Answer 12

1909

Question 13

when was the National Insurance Act?

Answer 13

1911

Question 14

when was the the ‘Coolidge Tube’ invented by William Coolidge?

Answer 14

1913

Question 15

when were mobile x-ray units developed by Marie Curie?

Answer 15

1914

Question 16

when was sodium citrate discovered to stop blood clotting so it could be stored?

Answer 16

1914

Question 17

when was insulin discovered?

Answer 17

1921

Question 18

when did Fleming discover antiseptic lysozyme in tears?

Answer 18

1922

Question 19

when did Fleming find penicillium fungal spores?

Answer 19

1928

Question 20

when did Fleming publish his findings in articles?

Answer 20

1929

Question 21

when were sulphonamides discovered?

Answer 21

1932

Question 22

when did Gerhard Domagk discover Prontosil?

Answer 22

1935

Question 23

when did Florey and Chain purify penicillin?

Answer 23

1938

Question 24

when did the USA join the war? (by dec govt gave out grants to businesses which manufactured penicillin)

Answer 24

1941

Question 25

when was the Beveridge Report?

Answer 25

1942

Question 26

when did UK businesses start mass-producing penicillin?

Answer 26

1943

Question 27

when was mass production of penicillin sufficient for military medical needs?

Answer 27

1944

Question 28

when were Fleming, Florey, and Chain awarded the nobel prize?

Answer 28

1945

Question 29

when was the British National Blood Transfusion Service established?

Answer 29

1946

Question 30

when was the New Towns Act?

Answer 30

1946

Question 31

when did the NHS start treating patients?

Answer 31

1948

Question 32

between what dates did the number of NHS doctors double to keep up with demand?

Answer 32

1948-73

Question 33

when were prescription charges introduced in NHS?

Answer 33

1951

Question 34

when did Francis Crick and James Watson discover the double helix structure of DNA?

Answer 34

1953

Question 35

when was the Homes for Today and Tomorrow report?

Answer 35

1961

Question 36

when was the Committee on Safety of Drugs est.?

Answer 36

1963

Question 37

when did Christiaan Barnard complete the first successful heart transplant?

Answer 37

1967

Question 38

when was Louise Brown born?

Answer 38

1978

Question 39

when was the SARS outbreak?

Answer 39

2002

Question 40

when was a partial face transplant completed for the first time in France?

Answer 40

2005

Question 41

when was a first full face transplant carried out in Spain?

Answer 41

2010