Various Dates Flashcards
Marie Curie died
1934, aged 77
French Revolution
1789-1799
World War II
1939-1945
Cuban Revolution
1953-1959
Wars of the Roses
1455-1485
English Civil War
1642-1651
Hundred Years’ War
1337-1453
Wordswith dies
1850 (aged 80)
James Cook voyage to Australia
1766
George V reign
1910-1936
Acts of Union
1706, 1707
Irish War of Independence
1919-1921
Charles II reign
1660-1685 (24 years)
Graham Bell’s telephone
1876
Korean War
1950-1953
Queen Elizabeth II reign
1952-
First Russian Revoluion
1905
American Civil War
1861-1865
Second Russian Revolution
1917
Edisons light bulb
1897
Second Boer War
1899-1902
Columbus voyage
1492
Tennyson dies
1892 (aged 83)
Shakespeare died
1616, aged 62
Anglo-Spanish War
1585-1604
Transistor invented
1947
Battle of Waterloo
1815
Succession right of Elizabeth II
Daughter of George VI
Spanish American Wars of Independence
1808-1833
Henry VII reign
1485-1509 (23 years)
Henry VIII reign
1509-1547 (37 years)
Vietnam War
1955-1975
Byron dies
1924 (aged 46)
Russian Civil War
1917-1923
Guttenberg’s printing press
1440
Succession right of George VI
Son of George V
Spanish Civil War
1936-1939
Queen Elizabeth I reign
1558-1603 (44 years)
Battle of Trafalgar
1805
Succession right of George V
Son of Edward VII
Succession right of Edward VIII
Son of George V
Inigo Jones dies
1652 (aged 79)
Jane Austen dies
1817, aged 42
Edward VIII reign
1936
Soviet War in Afghanistan
1979-1989
Napoleonic Wars
1803-1815
World War II
1914-1918
George VI reign
1936-1952
Drake’s Circumnavigation
1577-1580
Jane Austen dies
1817 (aged 42)
Alexande Fleming discovers penecilin
1928
King George III reign
1760-1820 (59 years)
Spanish Conquest of Aztec Empire
1519-1521
Victoria reign
1837-1901 (63 years)
Edward VIII abdication
1936
Goethe dies
1832 (aged 83)
Henry VI reign
1422-1461; deposed; 1470-1471 (39 years)
Falklands War
1982
Christopher Wren dies
1723 (aged 89)
Crimean War
1853-1856
Stephenson’s rocket
1829
Edward VII reign
1901-1910
Drake Battle with Spanish Armada
1588
Succession right of Edward VII
Son of Victoria
Charles I reign
1625-1649 (23 years)
American Revolutionary War
1775-1783