0. Key dates

Question 1

Stonehenge completed

Answer 1

3100 BC to 1600 BC

Question 2

Julius Caesar’s raids on Britain

Answer 2

55 BC, 54 BC

Question 3

Claudius conquest of Britain

Answer 3

43 AD

Question 4

Boudicca’s revolt

Answer 4

60-61 AD

Question 5

Hadrian Wall completed

Answer 5

122 AD

Question 6

Roman rule ends in Britain:

Answer 6

383 AD

Question 7

Beginning of Anglo-Saxon invasions of Britain:

Answer 7

449/410 AD

Question 8

St. Patrick;s journey to christianise Ireland

Answer 8

433 AD

Question 9

When did St. Augustine found a monastery at Canterbury?

Answer 9

598 AD

Question 10

Explain the synod of Whitby (664 AD)

Answer 10

Ujednolicenie zwyczajów kościelnych w królestwie, zwłaszcza wyliczania daty, Wielkanocy itd

Question 11

When did Venerable Bede write the History of the English Church and people?

Answer 11

731 AD

Question 12

Reign of Alfred the Great

Answer 12

871-899

Question 13

Explain the Treaty of Wedmore (878)

Answer 13

Agreement between Alfred the Great and the Vikings, the Viking leader got baptised

Question 14

Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, year:

Answer 14

~~890

Question 15

Battle of Brunanburh (937) -explain

Answer 15

Concerned Celtic king, who decided to marry a Viking leader’s daughter, newly formed Celtic/Norse army. English king Aethlestan united Wessex & Mercia

Question 16

Battle of Stamford Bridge

Answer 16

1066

Question 17

Battle of Hastings

Answer 17

1066

Question 18

Domesday Book

Answer 18

1086, writings of property

Question 19

Magna Carta

Answer 19

1215

Question 20

Simon de Montford’s parliament

Answer 20

1265S

Question 21

Statute od Rhuddlan

Answer 21

1284

Question 22

Model Parliament

Answer 22

1295

Question 23

Battle of Bannockburn

Answer 23

1314

Question 24

Hundred Years’ War

Answer 24

1337-1453

Question 25

Battle of Crecy

Answer 25

1346

Question 26

Black Death

Answer 26

1348

Question 27

Great Revolt of the Peasants

Answer 27

1381

Question 28

Revolt of Owain Glyndwr

Answer 28

1400-1415

Question 29

Battle of Agincourt

Answer 29

1415

Question 30

War of Roses

Answer 30

1455-1485

Question 31

Battle of Bosworth

Answer 31

1485

Question 32

Act of Supremacy

Answer 32

1534

Question 33

Wales legally nicorporated by England

Answer 33

1536, 1542

Question 34

Reign of Elizabeth I

Answer 34

1558-1603

Question 35

Francis Drake circumnavigates the world

Answer 35

1577-1580

Question 36

Defeat of the Spanish Armada

Answer 36

1588

Question 37

Personal Union England & Scotland

Answer 37

1603

Question 38

The Gunpowder Plot

Answer 38

1605

Question 39

The Authorised version of the Bible

Answer 39

1611

Question 40

1st English Civil War

Answer 40

1642-1646

Question 41

2nd English Civil War

Answer 41

1648

Question 42

3rd English Civil War

Answer 42

1650-1651

Question 43

The Commonwealth

Answer 43

1649-1653

Question 44

The Protectorate, Oliver Cromwell

Answer 44

1653-1660

Question 45

Great Fyre of London

Answer 45

1666

Question 46

Habeas Corpus Act

Answer 46

1679

Question 47

Glorious Revolution, William Oranger

Answer 47

1688-1689

Question 48

English Bill of Rights

Answer 48

1689

Question 49

Battle of Boyne

Answer 49

1690

Question 50

Foundation of The Bank of England

Answer 50

1694

Question 51

Act of Settlement ensured the protestant succession

Answer 51

1701

Question 52

Battle of Blenheim

Answer 52

1704

Question 53

Act of Union with Scotland (GREAT BRITAIN)

Answer 53

1707

Question 54

Jacobite Revolution of fifteen

Answer 54

1715

Question 55

Robert Walpole -prrime minister

Answer 55

1721

Question 56

Battle of Culloden

Answer 56

1745

Question 57

Battle of Plassey

Answer 57

1757

Question 58

Captain Cook's voyages

Answer 58

1768-1779

Question 59

French Revolutionary War

Answer 59

1793-1802

Question 60

Battle of Nile

Answer 60

1798

Question 61

Union GB &Ireland

Answer 61

1801

Question 62

Battle of Trafalgat

Answer 62

1805

Question 63

Battle of Waterloo

Answer 63

1815

Question 64

Cathilic Emancipation Act

Answer 64

1829

Question 65

Great Reform Bill (First Reform Act)

Answer 65

1832

Question 66

Abolition of slavery

Answer 66

1833

Question 67

Reign of Queen Victoria

Answer 67

1837-1902

Question 68

Chartist Movement

Answer 68

1838-1848

Question 69

Crimean War

Answer 69

1854-1856

Question 70

Indian Mutiny

Answer 70

1857-1858

Question 71

British North America Act

Answer 71

1867The

Question 72

The Boer War

Answer 72

1899-1902