Key Dates

Question 1

1348

Answer 1

Black Death

Question 2

1440

Answer 2

Printing Press invented

Question 3

1536

Answer 3

Dissolution of the monasteries

Question 4

1543

Answer 4

Versalius ‘Fabric of the human body published’

Question 5

1628

Answer 5

William Harvey discovers circulation of blood

Question 6

1660

Answer 6

Royal Society founded

Question 7

1665

Answer 7

Great Plague

Question 8

1666

Answer 8

The great fire of London

Question 9

1676

Answer 9

Thomas Sydenham publishes his book ‘observationes medicae’

Question 10

1796

Answer 10

Edward Jenner develops first vaccination

Question 11

1842

Answer 11

Edwin Chadwick publishes a report about the poor health of the working class

Question 12

1847

Answer 12

James simpson discovers chloroform anaesthetic

Question 13

1848

Answer 13

First public health act

Question 14

1852

Answer 14

Government make vaccination compulsory

Question 15

1853

Answer 15

Queen Victoria uses chloroform during childbirth

Question 16

1854

Answer 16

cholera epidemic in London, John snow proves that is spread by dirty water

Question 17

1854 (crimean war)

Answer 17

Florence nightingale worked as a nurse

Question 18

1858

Answer 18

The great stink in London

Question 19

1859

Answer 19

Florence nightingale’s book published ‘Notes on nursing’

Question 20

1860

Answer 20

Nightingales school of nursing founded

Question 21

1861

Answer 21

Louis Pasteurs publishes germ theory

Question 22

1865

Answer 22

Joseph Lister first uses carbolic acid

Question 23

1875

Answer 23

Second public health act

Question 24

1876

Answer 24

Robert Koch identifies the first disease causing germs (anthrax)

Question 25

1878

Answer 25

Pasteur’s germ theory of infection published

Question 26

1901

Answer 26

Karl Landsteiner discovers first 3 blood groups

Question 27

1909

Answer 27

Paul Ehrlich develops first magic bullet, Salvarsan 606

Question 28

1928

Answer 28

Flemming discovers penicillin

Question 29

1932

Answer 29

second magic bullet is developed, Prontosil

Question 30

1941

Answer 30

Florey and Chain carry out first human trials of penicillin

Question 31

1942

Answer 31

US beings to mass produce penicillin

Question 32

1942

Answer 32

First government vaccination campaign

Question 33

1948

Answer 33

NHS introduced

Question 34

1953

Answer 34

Watson and Crick discover DNA

Question 35

1990

Answer 35

Human genome project begins