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Important dates Flashcards

1
Q

Spanish Armada

A

1588

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2
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Emancipation Act

A

1833

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3
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Battle of Bannockburn

A

1314

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4
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Battle of Agincourt (Hundred Years War)

A

1415

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5
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Norman conquest

A

1066

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6
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Battle of Boyne (Jacobites with James II vs William of Orange)

A

1690

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7
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Queen Victoria’s reign

A

1837-1901

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8
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Battle of Bosworth (War of Roses)

A

1485

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9
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start of the War of Roses

A

1455

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10
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Glorious Revolution (William III)

A

1688

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11
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Bill of Rights

A

1689

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12
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Habeas Corpus Act

A

1679

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13
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Magna Carta

A

1215 - King John

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14
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Restoration with Charles II

A

1660

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15
Q

English Republic (Oliver Cromwell)

A

1649-1660

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16
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Statute of Rhodlan

A

1284

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17
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Act or Treaty of the Union (Scotland)

A

1707

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18
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Act of the Union

A

1800

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19
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Battle of Culloden (Bonnie Prince Charles and Scotts vs George II)

A

1746

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20
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13 American colonies declared their independence

A

1776

21
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Battle of Trafalgar (Nelson)

A

1805

22
Q

Battle of Waterloo
(Duke of Wellington)

A

1815

23
Q

End of Corn Laws

A

1846

24
Q

Crimean War

A

1853-56

25
Q

Boer War (South Africa)

A

1899-1902

26
Q

Women over 30 can vote

Women and men over 21 can vote

Voting age goes down to 18

A

1918

1928

1969

27
Q

BBC radio

A

1922

28
Q

BBC TV

A

1936

29
Q

Great Depression

A

1929

30
Q

D-Day

A

1944

31
Q

Dunkirk

A

1940

32
Q

Independence was granted to India, Cylon and Pakistan

A

1947

33
Q

Establishment of the NHS

A

1948

34
Q

UK joined the EU

A

1973-2020

35
Q

EU referendum

A

2016

36
Q

Queen Elizabeth’s reign

A

1952-2022

37
Q

Ireland was divided in two

A

1922

38
Q

Republic of Ireland

A

1949

39
Q

Good Friday Agreement

A

1998

40
Q

Northern Ireland’s Parliament was suspended (the Troubles)

A

1972

41
Q

Falkland Invasion

A

1982

42
Q

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

A

1999

43
Q

British troops left Iraq

A

2009

44
Q

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

A

1642

45
Q

Battles of Marston Moor and Naseby

A

1644-45

46
Q

1st Reform Act

A

1832

47
Q

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

A

1867

48
Q

1st PM - Sir Robert Walpole

To help George I who did not speak English

A

1721-1742

49
Q

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

A

1940-45
1945-51
1951-55

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