Timeline

Question 1

When was Richard’s reign?

Answer 1

1189-99

Question 2

When did Richard set off on the Crusade?

Answer 2

1190.

Question 3

When did Richard leave the Holy Land?

Answer 3

October 1192.

Question 4

When was Richard released by the Duke of Austria, after a huge ransom was paid?

Answer 4

Feb 1194.

Question 5

When did Richard defeat Philip’s army? By when did he have control of almost all of the Vexin?

Answer 5

1198, 1199.

Question 6

How and when did Richard die (and John become King)?

Answer 6

He died, in 1199, of an infected arrow wound obtained while fighting in France.

Question 7

When did John imprison Prince Arthur?

Answer 7

1202

Question 8

When did John lose Normandy?

Answer 8

1204

Question 9

When did John quarrel with the Pope?

Answer 9

1205-13

Question 10

When did John argue with the Pope about who should have been given the role of the Archbishop of Canterbury?

Answer 10

1205

Question 11

When did the Pope place the Interdict on England?

Answer 11

1208

Question 12

When did the Pope excommunicate John?

Answer 12

1209

Question 13

When did John resolve his quarrel with the Pope?

Answer 13

1213

Question 14

When did Phillip II threaten to invade England, causing John to make up with the Pope?

Answer 14

1213

Question 15

When did John impose his tax on moveable incomes?

Answer 15

1207

Question 16

When did John support a case that a party - who offered him three horses in payment - wanted to come to court?

Answer 16

1207

Question 17

When did the Barons first plot against John in frustration with him?

Answer 17

1212

Question 18

When was the failed Battle of Bouvines?

Answer 18

1214

Question 19

When had Henry I issued the Coronation Charter?

Answer 19

1100

Question 20

When was the Magna Carta signed?

Answer 20

1215

Question 21

When was the Barons’ war against John?

Answer 21

1215-17

Question 22

When did John die of dysentery?

Answer 22

Oct 1216