Important dates

Question 1

Spanish Armada

Answer 1

1588

Question 2

Emancipation Act

Answer 2

1833

Question 3

Battle of Bannockburn

Answer 3

1314

Question 4

Battle of Agincourt (Hundred Years War)

Answer 4

1415

Question 5

Norman conquest

Answer 5

1066

Question 6

Battle of Boyne (Jacobites with James II vs William of Orange)

Answer 6

1690

Question 7

Queen Victoria’s reign

Answer 7

1837-1901

Question 8

Battle of Bosworth (War of Roses)

Answer 8

1485

Question 9

start of the War of Roses

Answer 9

1455

Question 10

Glorious Revolution (William III)

Answer 10

1688

Question 11

Bill of Rights

Answer 11

1689

Question 12

Habeas Corpus Act

Answer 12

1679

Question 13

Magna Carta

Answer 13

1215 - King John

Question 14

Restoration with Charles II

Answer 14

1660

Question 15

English Republic (Oliver Cromwell)

Answer 15

1649-1660

Question 16

Statute of Rhodlan

Answer 16

1284

Question 17

Act or Treaty of the Union (Scotland)

Answer 17

1707

Question 18

Act of the Union

Answer 18

1800

Question 19

Battle of Culloden (Bonnie Prince Charles and Scotts vs George II)

Answer 19

1746

Question 20

13 American colonies declared their independence

Answer 20

1776

Question 21

Battle of Trafalgar (Nelson)

Answer 21

1805

Question 22

Battle of Waterloo
(Duke of Wellington)

Answer 22

1815

Question 23

End of Corn Laws

Answer 23

1846

Question 24

Crimean War

Answer 24

1853-56

Question 25

Boer War (South Africa)

Answer 25

1899-1902

Question 26

Women over 30 can vote Women and men over 21 can vote Voting age goes down to 18

Answer 26

1918 1928 1969

Question 27

BBC radio

Answer 27

1922

Question 28

BBC TV

Answer 28

1936

Question 29

Great Depression

Answer 29

1929

Question 30

D-Day

Answer 30

1944

Question 31

Dunkirk

Answer 31

1940

Question 32

Independence was granted to India, Cylon and Pakistan

Answer 32

1947

Question 33

Establishment of the NHS

Answer 33

1948

Question 34

UK joined the EU

Answer 34

1973-2020

Question 35

EU referendum

Answer 35

2016

Question 36

Queen Elizabeth's reign

Answer 36

1952-2022

Question 37

Ireland was divided in two

Answer 37

1922

Question 38

Republic of Ireland

Answer 38

1949

Question 39

Good Friday Agreement

Answer 39

1998

Question 40

Northern Ireland's Parliament was suspended (the Troubles)

Answer 40

1972

Question 41

Falkland Invasion

Answer 41

1982

Question 42

Hereditary peers loose their automatic right to access the House of Lords

Answer 42

1999

Question 43

British troops left Iraq

Answer 43

2009

Question 44

Civil war between Charles I (Cavaliers) and Parliament (Roundheads)

Answer 44

1642

Question 45

Battles of Marston Moor and Naseby

Answer 45

1644-45

Question 46

1st Reform Act

Answer 46

1832

Question 47

2nd Reform Act (an attempt of the Chartists to give the right to vote to the working class)

Answer 47

1867

Question 48

1st PM - Sir Robert Walpole To help George I who did not speak English

Answer 48

1721-1742

Question 49

Winston Churchill Clement Attlee Winston Churchill Margaret Thatcher John Major Tony Blair Gordon Brown David Cameron (coalition) Theresa May Boris Johnson Liz Truss Rishi Sunak

Answer 49

1940-45 1945-51 1951-55