History 1 Flashcards
Since when did England had been without a king
30 Jan 1649
When did Oliver Cromwell die
1658
When did Charles 2 become King
1660
When did the Bubonic Plague hit London?
1665
When to When did Samuel Pepys wrote his diary
1660-1669
When did the Great Plague decided to die down?
December 1665
When did the great fire of London Start?
2 September 1666
When was a new city taking shape in London
1676
When did the “Fire Office” company insurance came up
1680
When was the plot to get rid of King James 2
Summer of 1688
When did King Charles 2 died
1685
When did William and Mary became joint rulers
1689
When did James 2 fled to france
1688
When did the Battle of Boyne occur
1690
When did Queen Mary die of Smallpox
1694
When wass the Act of Union passed
1707
When did King William asked all clans to swear an oath of loyalty to him
1692
When did King William die
1702
When did Queen Anne die
1714
When did James Francis landed in Peterhead , Scotland and gathered an army
1715
When did King George I became King of Great Britain
1 August 1714
When was the Act of Settlement
1701
When was the battle of Culloden
April 1746
French army surgeon Ambroise Pare used bandages and soothing ointments to treat wounds and prevent infection
1536
Flushing toilet invented by Sir John Harington
1596
An Intalian,Galileo Galilei made the first practical telescope and saw [planets such as Mars for the first time
1609
English doctor William Harvey proved that the heart is a pump and circulates blood around the body
1628
British politician and scientist Francis Bacon developed a new way of carrying out sceintific experiments
1620
First tea, imported from China was sold in Britain
1657
Christopher Wren was appointed Professor of Astronomy at Gresham College,London.Invented an instrutment that wrote in the dark, a weather clock and a new language for the death.
1657
Isaac Newton discovered a force of gravity that pulls an object towards the ground
1686
Irish-born Robert Boyle proved that air is essential for both breathing and burning
1661
The Royal Society was formed,backed by King Charles II.This group of scientists met regulary to discuss their ideas and experiments.Involved Robert Boyle,Samuel Pepys,Isaac Newton and Christopher Wren
1662
Philosopher John Locke wrote many books and essays about the human mind
1690
World’s first daily newspaper
1702
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu experimented with smallpox inoculations.
1717
George I,Spoke no Enlglish and left Parliament alone to rule the country
1714-1727
George II
1727-1760
George III, Suffed from periods of mental illness
1760-1820
George IV
1820-1830
The Flying Shuttle
1733
The Spinning Jenny
1764
When did Richard Arkwright invented a machine called the ‘Spinning Frame’
1769
When was Richard Arkwright’s frst factory opened at cromford in Derbyshire
1771
When did James Watt and Matthew Boulton developed a new kind of steam engine
1768
When was Sadler’s Report published
1833
First Turnpike Trust to be set up
1706
1000 turnpike trusts improving over 32000km of roads
1830
The first canal which was 11km long was completed in?
1761
The first Canal which was built by the Duke of Bridgewater in when?
1759
James Watt information
Born in Greenock,Scotland, in 1736
in 1764,Watt repaired an old steam aengine
in 1781,Watt designed a new steam engine that could turn a wheel
By 1800, Watt and his business partner Matthew Boulton factory in Birmingham was producing some of the world’s finest engines.
George Stephenson information
Born in Wylam,Northumberland in 1781
In 1814,he designed his first steam locomotive,The Blucher
in 1815 he produced a safety lamp for miners which could be used safely in area s where methane gas had collected
in 1821, he was given the job of designing the Stockton and Darlington Railway. It opened in 1825 using his locomotives
Micheal Faraday information
Born in Newington in 1791
in 1831, He discovered how to generate electricity
His generator worked on the same basic principle that electric power stations work on today
Ada Lovelace information
Born in 1815
Worked on how the machien could be programmed witha code to calculate numbers
Isambard Kingdom Brunelin information
Born in Portsmouth in 1806
In 1829, he designed the Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol
In 1833, He designed the Great Western Railway
Henry Bessemer information
Born near Hitchin,Hertfordshire in 1813
designed a machine for putting perforations on postage stamps and a new method of producing glass
Invented a converter a machine for turning iron into steel.
Alexander Graham Bell information
Born in Edinburgh,Scotland in 1847
worked all his lofe on making eletrical hearing aids for deaf people, his wife was deaf
the idea for a telephone a machine that converts speech into an electrical signal that travels down a wire then turned back into sound, came to him while working on designs to help deaf people
He invented the telephone in 1876
When was Chadwick’s report published
1842
When was The Public Health Act passed
1848
When was Chadwick’s Report published
1842
When did The British first got involved in slave trade
1562
