Historical Dates Flashcards

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1939

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Start of WWII

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1066

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Battle of Hastings-Norman Conquest

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1945

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End of WWII

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1914-1918

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WWI

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1918

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End of WWI

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1215

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Magna Carta

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1381

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Peasants Revolt

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1415

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Battle of Agincourt

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1535

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Execution of Thomas More

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1517

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Martin Luther nails up 95 theses to Church door. Start of the Reformation.

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1588

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Defeat of the Spanish Armada

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1815

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Battle of Waterloo

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1618-1648

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30 years war

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500 A.D

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Anglo-Saxon conquest

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900 A.D

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The Danelaw

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15
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1170

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Murder of Thomas á Becket

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1314

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Scottish and Welsh wars. Bannockburn

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1485

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Defeat of Yorkists. Battle of Bosworth

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1553

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Catholic Restoration

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19
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1611

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King James Bible

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1649

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Execution of Charles I and Cromwellian conquest of Ireland

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1689

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Glorious Revolution and Battle of the Boyne (1690)

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1707

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Union of England and Scotland

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1721

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Robert Walpole, first prime minister

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1763

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Treaty of Paris, securing Canada etc. for Crown

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1769

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Introduction of spinning mule: key moment in Industrial Revolution

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1776

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Loss of American colonies (Declaration of Independance)

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1805

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Battle of Trafalgar

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1825

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Opening of first railway

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1832

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Great Reform Bill

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1833

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Abolition of Slavery

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1838

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Chartism

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1846

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Repeal of Corn Laws

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1886

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Irish Home Rule Bill

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1904

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Entente Cordiale

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1919

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Treaty of Versaille

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1931

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Statute of Westminster

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1940

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Winston Churchill as Prime Minister

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476 AD

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Last Roman Emperor, Romulus Augustulus, taken prisoner at Ravenna by German King Odovacar

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800

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Charlemagne unified most of Europe

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1455

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War of the Roses begun

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1642-1648

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English Civil War

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1739

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War of Jenkins Ear

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1789

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French Revolution

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2200 BC

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Stonehenge

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43 AD

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Roman Invasion of Britain

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597

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St. Augustine

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871

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Alfred the Great

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1320

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Declaration of Arbroath

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1370

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Canterbury Tales-Chaucer

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1605

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Gunpowder Plot

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1564-1616

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Shakespeare

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1649

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Execution of Charles I

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1694

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Bank of England