MEP - Key dates Flashcards
What year did the Vikings first attack Lindesfarm?
792
What year did the Great Heathen army begin its conquest of England?
865
What year did Alfred defeat the Vikings in the battle of Edington?
878
From what years was England ruled as a single Country under Athelstan?
924-939
What year did the Viking raids take place where Athelstan paid them Danegeld to leave?
991
What year was the St Brice’s day massacre where Vikings were massacred by Aethelred?
1002
What year did Sven become king of England and Aethelred went into Exile?
1013
What year did the battle of Assundun take place and Cnut became King of England?
1016
What year did Cnut become king of Denmark?
1018
What year did Cnut become king of Norway?
1028
What year did the Normans invade and take control of England?
1066
From what years was the anarchy?
1138-1153
What year did Henry II become king of England and the Angevin Era begins?
1154
What year did the Treaty of Windsor give control of “the Pale” in Ireland to Henry II?
1175
What year did England lose Normandy?
1204
What year was the Magna Carta signed?
1215
What year did Louis of France invade England and defeated by marshal in Lincoln?
1216
What year did England lose Aquitaine and the hundred years war begin?
1337
What year did England succeed over France in Crecy (Calais now in England’s possession)?
1346
What year was the victory of Poltiers?
1356
What year was the famous victory at Agincourt?
1415
What year was England defeated by Joan of Arc at Orleans?
1429
What year was Calais lost to the French?
1558
What year did John Hawkins attack and steal a ship of 300 slaves?
1562
What year did drake circumnavigate the world?
1577
What year did Walter Raleigh find settlement on Roanoke island?
1584
What year did the English defeat the Spanish armada?`
1588
What year was the East India Company formed?
1600
What year did James the 1st Unite The kingdoms of England and Scotland?
1603
What year did the plantations begin in ireland?
1607
When was Jamestown in Virginia founded?
1607
When did the Puritans (Pilgrim fathers) leave England and found New Plymouth?
1620
When was the Royal Africa Company given the Monopoly on Slave Trading?
1672
When was the Edict of Nantes signed and 50000 Huguenots moving to England?
1685
When was the Stamp Act passed?
1765
When were 5 People killed in the Boston Massacre?
1770
When was the Boston Tea Party?
1773
When did the American war of independence begin?
1775
When was Britain badly Defeated in the Battle of Yorktown?
1781
When was the Treaty of Paris signed and America gained independence?
1783
When was World War 1?
1914-1918
When was Gandhi’s Salt march?
1930
When was World War 2?
1939-1945
When was India given Independence and partitioned into 2 countries?
1947
When was the nationalities act which gave people of the British Empire British passports?
1948
The Empire Windrush brought 500 migrants from Jamaica to Britain?
1948
When was the Suez Crisis and Egypt took back control of the Canal?
1956
When was The Gold Coast given independence and became Ghana?
1957
When were the Notting Hill Riots?
1958
When did Britain Fail to gain Membership of the EEC (Later the EU)?
1960
When was Uganda given independance?
1962
When was the law passed which said that any Black or Asian person coming to Britain must have a skilled job lined up?
1962
when was Kenya given independence?
1963
when was The immigrant Act put in place that restricted anyone who did not have grandparents or parents born in the UK?
1971
When did Idi Amin expel Asians from Uganda and 26,000 migrated to the UK?
1972
When did Britain join the EEC?
1973
When did the EEC become the EU?
1992
When did Britain leave the EU?
2016
