History Test 2 Flashcards
Chadwick report
1842
Deadly Cholera outbreak that killed 60,000 people -> 1848 Public Health act
1848
Number of people killed in 1848 Cholera outbreak -> 1848 Public Health act
60,000
Public Health Act
1848
Sir William Beveridge’s report
1942
5 evils
Ignorance, Squalor, Want, Idleness, Disease
NHS formed by Aneurin Bevan
1948
Number of copies of Chadwick Report sold
20,000
Number of copies of Beveridge Report sold
100,000
Number of copies of Chadwick Report sold and number of copies of Beveridge Report sold
20,000 and 100,000
£ given to Jenner for vaccination research
£10,000
£10,000 given to Edward Jenner for vaccination research
1802
Worldwide eradication of smallpox
1980
Free Schools Meals
1906
Old age pension
1908
National Insurance Act (unemployment benefit and sick pay)
1911
Number of hospitals built in England and Wales between 1000 and 1500
700
Edinburgh Hospital gains a pharmacy to give medicines to the poor
1776
Guy’s Hospital in London is built
1724
Years which Drake circumnavigated the globe on the Golden Hind
1577 - 1580
John Hawkins’ (Drake’s cousin) expedition is attacked by Spanish
1568
Amount Drake stole from Spanish (+in today’s money)
£400,000 (£200 million)
Amount Drake made himself from his expedition
£10,000
Fraction of share of treasure that Queen got from Drake’s circumnavigation
1/2
Drake lands in North America (New World) and claims it for Elizabeth
June 1579
Throckmorton Plot
1583
Bond of Association
1584
Mendoza (Spanish ambassador) expelled from England
1584
Treason Act
1571
Papal Bull
February 1570
Number of Spanish soldiers meant to attack in Ridolfi Plot
6,000
Northern Rebellion
1569
