Years

Question 1

When did King Edward I of England introduced the Statute of Rhuddlan by which Wales annexed to the Crown of England?

Answer 1

In 1284

Question 2

When did the Black Death come to England?

Answer 2

In 1348

Question 3

When did the English become the preferred language of the royal court and Parliament?

Answer 3

In 1400

Question 4

When was the Battle of Agincourt fought?

Answer 4

1415

Question 5

When did the Wars of the Roses start?

Answer 5

1455

Question 6

When did the Wars of the Roses end?

Answer 6

1485

Question 7

The Middle Ages or medieval times relate to the time that goes from the period after the Norman Conquest until the year

Answer 7

1485

Question 8

When did Henry VIII start reining?

Answer 8

In April 1509

Question 9

When did Henry VIII die?

Answer 9

In January 1547

Question 10

When was the first Union flag created?

Answer 10

1606

Question 11

When did the English civil war start?

Answer 11

1642

Question 12

When did the ‘Habeas Corpus Act’ become law?

Answer 12

In 1679

Question 13

When did William of Orange invade England to proclaim himself king?

Answer 13

1688

Question 14

When did the development of a free press take place?

Answer 14

1695

Question 15

When did Ireland become unified with England, Wales and Scotland?

Answer 15

In 1801

Question 16

Which Act abolished the old pocket and rotten boroughs and allowed more parliamentary seats to the towns and cities?

Answer 16

The Reform Act of 1832

Question 17

When wasslavery abolished throughout the British Empire?

Answer 17

1833

Question 18

Queen Victoria became queen in

Answer 18

1837

Question 19

When was the first tennis club founded in the UK?

Answer 19

1872

Question 20

When did Emmeline Pankhurst set up the women’s Franchise League, which fought to get the vote in local elections for married women?

Answer 20

1889

Question 21

When was the National Trust founded?

Answer 21

1895

Question 22

When were films first shown publicly in the UK?

Answer 22

In 1896

Question 23

When did motor-car racing start in the UK?

Answer 23

In 1902

Question 24

When was the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) established?

Answer 24

1903

Question 25

When did the First World War start?

Answer 25

1914

Question 26

When did the First World War end?

Answer 26

11th of November 1918

Question 27

When did the First World War finish?

Answer 27

At 11 am on 11th November 1918

Question 28

When was the Northern Ireland Parliament established for the first time?

Answer 28

In 1922

Question 29

When was the Northern Ireland Parliament established for the first time?

Answer 29

In 1922

Question 30

When was Ireland divided into two countries?

Answer 30

In 1922

Question 31

When did Emmeline Pankhurst die?

Answer 31

1928

Question 32

In which period did British Film studios flourish?

Answer 32

1930s

Question 33

When was the Turing machine discovered?

Answer 33

In the 1930s

Question 34

When was the first television broadcast made?

Answer 34

In 1932

Question 35

When did Adolf Hitler come to power in Germany?

Answer 35

In 1933

Question 36

When did the BBC start the world’s first regular television service?

Answer 36

1936

Question 37

When did Alexander Fleming win the Nobel Prize in medicine for the discovery of the penicillin?

Answer 37

In 1945

Question 38

When did the Allies defeat Germany marking the end of the Second World War?

Answer 38

In May 1945

Question 39

When was the National Health System (NHS) established?

Answer 39

1948

Question 40

When was the hovercraft invented?

Answer 40

In the 1950s

Question 41

When did the UK sign the European Convention of Human Rights?

Answer 41

1950

Question 42

When did the Queen start reining?

Answer 42

In 1952

Question 43

When was the Treaty of Rome signed?

Answer 43

25th March 1957

Question 44

When did Britain and France develop the world’s only supersonic commercial airliner known as ‘The Concorde’?

Answer 44

1960s

Question 45

In which of the following years did England win the World Cup?

Answer 45

1966

Question 46

When did ‘the Concorde’ aircraft fly for the first time?

Answer 46

In 1969

Question 47

When was the voting age reduced to 18 for men and women?

Answer 47

1969

Question 48

When did the post-war economic boom come to an end?

Answer 48

In the late 1970s

Question 49

When did the UK join the European Economic Community (EEC)?

Answer 49

In 1973

Question 50

When did the ‘Concorde’ aircraft carry passengers for the first time?

Answer 50

In 1976

Question 51

When did Argentina invade the Falklands Islands?

Answer 51

In 1982

Question 52

Which Act incorporated the European Convention of Human Rights into UK law?

Answer 52

The Human Rights Act 1998

Question 53

When didhereditary peers lose the automatic right to attend the House of Lords?

Answer 53

1999

Question 54

When was the Scottish Parliament formed?

Answer 54

In 1999

Question 55

When did hereditary peers lose the automatic right to attend the House of Lords?

Answer 55

1999

Question 56

When did the ‘Concorde’ aircraft retired from service?

Answer 56

In 2003

Question 57

Which act introduced the Forced Marriage Protection Orders for England, Wales and Northern Ireland in 2008?

Answer 57

The Forced Marriage (Civil Protection) Act 2007

Question 58

When did Gordon Brown take over as Prime Minister from his predecessor Tony Blair?

Answer 58

In 2007

Question 59

When were the Forced Marriage Protection Orders introduced for England, Wales and Northern Ireland, which aimed at protecting a person from being forced into a marriage, or to protect a person in a forced marriage?

Answer 59

2008

Question 60

When did British combat troops leave Iraq?

Answer 60

In 2009

Question 61

When were Protection Orders to protect a person from being forced into a marriage introduced in Scotland?

Answer 61

2011

Question 62

When was the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrated?

Answer 62

2012