Timeline

Question 1

What year did the Black Death hit Britain?

Answer 1

1348

Question 2

When was the first British printing press created?

Answer 2

1470s

Question 3

What year did Vesalius’ publish ‘The Fabric of the Human Body’?

Answer 3

1543

Question 4

What year did Harvey publish ‘On the Motions of the Heart and Blood’?

Answer 4

1628

Question 5

In what year was the Royal Society founded?

Answer 5

1660

Question 6

What year did the Great Plague hit London?

Answer 6

1665

Question 7

What year did Sydenham publish ‘Medical Observations’?

Answer 7

1676

Question 8

What year did Jenner publish his vaccination findings?

Answer 8

1798

Question 9

What year did James Simpson discover chloroform?

Answer 9

1847

Question 10

When was the smallpox vaccination made compulsory?

Answer 10

1853

Question 11

When did John Snow publish ‘On the Mode of Communication of Cholera’?

Answer 11

1855

Question 12

When did Florence Nightingale publish ‘Notes on Nursing’?

Answer 12

1859

Question 13

When did Pasteur publish the Germ Theory?

Answer 13

1861

Question 14

When was the first Public Health Act?

Answer 14

1848

Question 15

When did Robert Koch identify anthrax spores?

Answer 15

1876

Question 16

When did Wilhelm Rontgen discover X-rays?

Answer 16

1895

Question 17

When did Ehrlich and Hata discover the first magic bullet, Salvarsan 606?

Answer 17

1909

Question 18

When did Alexander Fleming discover penicillin?

Answer 18

1928

Question 19

When did Domagk discover the second magic bullet, Prontosil?

Answer 19

1932

Question 20

When did Florey and Chain purify penicillin?

Answer 20

1938-40

Question 21

When did the government launch the diphtheria vaccination campaign?

Answer 21

1940

Question 22

When was the NHS founded?

Answer 22

1948

Question 23

When did Watson and Crick discover the structure of DNA?

Answer 23

1953

Question 24

When was the governments first polio vaccination campaign?

Answer 24

1956

Question 25

When where cigarette adverts banned from television?

Answer 25

1965

Question 26

When did Christiaan Barnard complete the first heart transplant?

Answer 26

1967

Question 27

When was the Human Genome Project completed?

Answer 27

2003

Question 28

When was smoking banned in public places?

Answer 28

2006-7

Question 29

When was the second Public Health Act?

Answer 29

1875