MEP - Key dates

Question 1

What year did the Vikings first attack Lindesfarm?

Answer 1

792

Question 2

What year did the Great Heathen army begin its conquest of England?

Answer 2

865

Question 3

What year did Alfred defeat the Vikings in the battle of Edington?

Answer 3

878

Question 4

From what years was England ruled as a single Country under Athelstan?

Answer 4

924-939

Question 5

What year did the Viking raids take place where Athelstan paid them Danegeld to leave?

Answer 5

991

Question 6

What year was the St Brice’s day massacre where Vikings were massacred by Aethelred?

Answer 6

1002

Question 7

What year did Sven become king of England and Aethelred went into Exile?

Answer 7

1013

Question 8

What year did the battle of Assundun take place and Cnut became King of England?

Answer 8

1016

Question 9

What year did Cnut become king of Denmark?

Answer 9

1018

Question 10

What year did Cnut become king of Norway?

Answer 10

1028

Question 11

What year did the Normans invade and take control of England?

Answer 11

1066

Question 12

From what years was the anarchy?

Answer 12

1138-1153

Question 13

What year did Henry II become king of England and the Angevin Era begins?

Answer 13

1154

Question 14

What year did the Treaty of Windsor give control of “the Pale” in Ireland to Henry II?

Answer 14

1175

Question 15

What year did England lose Normandy?

Answer 15

1204

Question 16

What year was the Magna Carta signed?

Answer 16

1215

Question 17

What year did Louis of France invade England and defeated by marshal in Lincoln?

Answer 17

1216

Question 18

What year did England lose Aquitaine and the hundred years war begin?

Answer 18

1337

Question 19

What year did England succeed over France in Crecy (Calais now in England’s possession)?

Answer 19

1346

Question 20

What year was the victory of Poltiers?

Answer 20

1356

Question 21

What year was the famous victory at Agincourt?

Answer 21

1415

Question 22

What year was England defeated by Joan of Arc at Orleans?

Answer 22

1429

Question 23

What year was Calais lost to the French?

Answer 23

1558

Question 24

What year did John Hawkins attack and steal a ship of 300 slaves?

Answer 24

1562

Question 25

What year did drake circumnavigate the world?

Answer 25

1577

Question 26

What year did Walter Raleigh find settlement on Roanoke island?

Answer 26

1584

Question 27

What year did the English defeat the Spanish armada?`

Answer 27

1588

Question 28

What year was the East India Company formed?

Answer 28

1600

Question 29

What year did James the 1st Unite The kingdoms of England and Scotland?

Answer 29

1603

Question 30

What year did the plantations begin in ireland?

Answer 30

1607

Question 31

When was Jamestown in Virginia founded?

Answer 31

1607

Question 32

When did the Puritans (Pilgrim fathers) leave England and found New Plymouth?

Answer 32

1620

Question 33

When was the Royal Africa Company given the Monopoly on Slave Trading?

Answer 33

1672

Question 34

When was the Edict of Nantes signed and 50000 Huguenots moving to England?

Answer 34

1685

Question 35

When was the Stamp Act passed?

Answer 35

1765

Question 36

When were 5 People killed in the Boston Massacre?

Answer 36

1770

Question 37

When was the Boston Tea Party?

Answer 37

1773

Question 38

When did the American war of independence begin?

Answer 38

1775

Question 39

When was Britain badly Defeated in the Battle of Yorktown?

Answer 39

1781

Question 40

When was the Treaty of Paris signed and America gained independence?

Answer 40

1783

Question 41

When was World War 1?

Answer 41

1914-1918

Question 42

When was Gandhi's Salt march?

Answer 42

1930

Question 43

When was World War 2?

Answer 43

1939-1945

Question 44

When was India given Independence and partitioned into 2 countries?

Answer 44

1947

Question 45

When was the nationalities act which gave people of the British Empire British passports?

Answer 45

1948

Question 46

The Empire Windrush brought 500 migrants from Jamaica to Britain?

Answer 46

1948

Question 47

When was the Suez Crisis and Egypt took back control of the Canal?

Answer 47

1956

Question 48

When was The Gold Coast given independence and became Ghana?

Answer 48

1957

Question 49

When were the Notting Hill Riots?

Answer 49

1958

Question 50

When did Britain Fail to gain Membership of the EEC (Later the EU)?

Answer 50

1960

Question 51

When was Uganda given independance?

Answer 51

1962

Question 52

When was the law passed which said that any Black or Asian person coming to Britain must have a skilled job lined up?

Answer 52

1962

Question 53

when was Kenya given independence?

Answer 53

1963

Question 54

when was The immigrant Act put in place that restricted anyone who did not have grandparents or parents born in the UK?

Answer 54

1971

Question 55

When did Idi Amin expel Asians from Uganda and 26,000 migrated to the UK?

Answer 55

1972

Question 56

When did Britain join the EEC?

Answer 56

1973

Question 57

When did the EEC become the EU?

Answer 57

1992

Question 58

When did Britain leave the EU?

Answer 58

2016