Victorian

Question 1

What happened in 1761?

Answer 1

The Bridgewater Canal opened

Question 2

When did James Watt invent the first efficient steam engine?

Answer 2

1775

Question 3

When was Victoria born?

Answer 3

1819

Question 4

When was the Peterloo massacre and define massacre.

Answer 4

1819

A Massacre is when two or more people are slaughtered.

Question 5

When did the Stockton to Darlington railway open?

Answer 5

1825

Question 6

When was the great reform act and what was it?

Answer 6

1832

It was an big change to the electoral system in England and Wales made by Parliament

Question 7

When was Victoria made queen?

Answer 7

1837

Question 8

When did Victoria marry her husband and what was his name?

Answer 8

1840

Prince Albert Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

Question 9

What else happened in 1840?

Answer 9

Parliament set up a commission to investigate children’s conditions in the mines

Question 10

When did the potato famine begin?

Answer 10

1845

Question 11

When was the Great Exhibition?

Answer 11

1851

Question 12

When did Darwin publish the Origin of species?

Answer 12

1859

Question 13

When did Prince Albert die?

Answer 13

1861

Question 14

When was Victoria made Empress of India?

Answer 14

1876

Question 15

When was the telephone invented and by who?

Answer 15

1876

Alexander Graham Bell

Question 16

When did Queen Victoria die?

Answer 16

1901

Question 17

Who was subsequently made King in 1901 after the death of queen Victoria?

Answer 17

Edward VII became King