Years Flashcards
When did King Edward I of England introduced the Statute of Rhuddlan by which Wales annexed to the Crown of England?
In 1284
When did the Black Death come to England?
In 1348
When did the English become the preferred language of the royal court and Parliament?
In 1400
When was the Battle of Agincourt fought?
1415
When did the Wars of the Roses start?
1455
When did the Wars of the Roses end?
1485
The Middle Ages or medieval times relate to the time that goes from the period after the Norman Conquest until the year
1485
When did Henry VIII start reining?
In April 1509
When did Henry VIII die?
In January 1547
When was the first Union flag created?
1606
When did the English civil war start?
1642
When did the ‘Habeas Corpus Act’ become law?
In 1679
When did William of Orange invade England to proclaim himself king?
1688
When did the development of a free press take place?
1695
When did Ireland become unified with England, Wales and Scotland?
In 1801
Which Act abolished the old pocket and rotten boroughs and allowed more parliamentary seats to the towns and cities?
The Reform Act of 1832
When wasslavery abolished throughout the British Empire?
1833
Queen Victoria became queen in
1837
When was the first tennis club founded in the UK?
1872
When did Emmeline Pankhurst set up the women’s Franchise League, which fought to get the vote in local elections for married women?
1889
When was the National Trust founded?
1895
When were films first shown publicly in the UK?
In 1896
When did motor-car racing start in the UK?
In 1902
When was the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) established?
1903
When did the First World War start?
1914
When did the First World War end?
11th of November 1918
When did the First World War finish?
At 11 am on 11th November 1918
When was the Northern Ireland Parliament established for the first time?
In 1922
When was the Northern Ireland Parliament established for the first time?
In 1922
When was Ireland divided into two countries?
In 1922
When did Emmeline Pankhurst die?
1928
In which period did British Film studios flourish?
1930s
When was the Turing machine discovered?
In the 1930s
When was the first television broadcast made?
In 1932
When did Adolf Hitler come to power in Germany?
In 1933
When did the BBC start the world’s first regular television service?
1936
When did Alexander Fleming win the Nobel Prize in medicine for the discovery of the penicillin?
In 1945
When did the Allies defeat Germany marking the end of the Second World War?
In May 1945
When was the National Health System (NHS) established?
1948
When was the hovercraft invented?
In the 1950s
When did the UK sign the European Convention of Human Rights?
1950
When did the Queen start reining?
In 1952
When was the Treaty of Rome signed?
25th March 1957
When did Britain and France develop the world’s only supersonic commercial airliner known as ‘The Concorde’?
1960s
In which of the following years did England win the World Cup?
1966
When did ‘the Concorde’ aircraft fly for the first time?
In 1969
When was the voting age reduced to 18 for men and women?
1969
When did the post-war economic boom come to an end?
In the late 1970s
When did the UK join the European Economic Community (EEC)?
In 1973
When did the ‘Concorde’ aircraft carry passengers for the first time?
In 1976
When did Argentina invade the Falklands Islands?
In 1982
Which Act incorporated the European Convention of Human Rights into UK law?
The Human Rights Act 1998
When didhereditary peers lose the automatic right to attend the House of Lords?
1999
When was the Scottish Parliament formed?
In 1999
When did hereditary peers lose the automatic right to attend the House of Lords?
1999
When did the ‘Concorde’ aircraft retired from service?
In 2003
Which act introduced the Forced Marriage Protection Orders for England, Wales and Northern Ireland in 2008?
The Forced Marriage (Civil Protection) Act 2007
When did Gordon Brown take over as Prime Minister from his predecessor Tony Blair?
In 2007
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?
2008
When did British combat troops leave Iraq?
In 2009
When were Protection Orders to protect a person from being forced into a marriage introduced in Scotland?
2011
When was the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrated?
2012
