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MEP - Key dates Flashcards

1
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What year did the Vikings first attack Lindesfarm?

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792

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What year did the Great Heathen army begin its conquest of England?

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865

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3
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What year did Alfred defeat the Vikings in the battle of Edington?

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878

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4
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From what years was England ruled as a single Country under Athelstan?

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924-939

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5
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What year did the Viking raids take place where Athelstan paid them Danegeld to leave?

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991

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6
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What year was the St Brice’s day massacre where Vikings were massacred by Aethelred?

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1002

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What year did Sven become king of England and Aethelred went into Exile?

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1013

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What year did the battle of Assundun take place and Cnut became King of England?

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1016

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9
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What year did Cnut become king of Denmark?

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1018

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10
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What year did Cnut become king of Norway?

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1028

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11
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What year did the Normans invade and take control of England?

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1066

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12
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From what years was the anarchy?

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1138-1153

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What year did Henry II become king of England and the Angevin Era begins?

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1154

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What year did the Treaty of Windsor give control of “the Pale” in Ireland to Henry II?

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1175

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15
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What year did England lose Normandy?

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1204

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16
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What year was the Magna Carta signed?

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1215

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17
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What year did Louis of France invade England and defeated by marshal in Lincoln?

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1216

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18
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What year did England lose Aquitaine and the hundred years war begin?

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1337

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19
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What year did England succeed over France in Crecy (Calais now in England’s possession)?

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1346

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20
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What year was the victory of Poltiers?

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1356

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21
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What year was the famous victory at Agincourt?

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1415

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22
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What year was England defeated by Joan of Arc at Orleans?

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1429

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23
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What year was Calais lost to the French?

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1558

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24
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What year did John Hawkins attack and steal a ship of 300 slaves?

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1562

25
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What year did drake circumnavigate the world?

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1577

26
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What year did Walter Raleigh find settlement on Roanoke island?

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1584

27
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What year did the English defeat the Spanish armada?`

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1588

28
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What year was the East India Company formed?

A

1600

29
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What year did James the 1st Unite The kingdoms of England and Scotland?

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1603

30
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What year did the plantations begin in ireland?

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1607

31
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When was Jamestown in Virginia founded?

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1607

32
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When did the Puritans (Pilgrim fathers) leave England and found New Plymouth?

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1620

33
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When was the Royal Africa Company given the Monopoly on Slave Trading?

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1672

34
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When was the Edict of Nantes signed and 50000 Huguenots moving to England?

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1685

35
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When was the Stamp Act passed?

A

1765

36
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When were 5 People killed in the Boston Massacre?

A

1770

37
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When was the Boston Tea Party?

A

1773

38
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When did the American war of independence begin?

A

1775

39
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When was Britain badly Defeated in the Battle of Yorktown?

A

1781

40
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When was the Treaty of Paris signed and America gained independence?

A

1783

41
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When was World War 1?

A

1914-1918

42
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When was Gandhi’s Salt march?

A

1930

43
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When was World War 2?

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1939-1945

44
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When was India given Independence and partitioned into 2 countries?

A

1947

45
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When was the nationalities act which gave people of the British Empire British passports?

A

1948

46
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The Empire Windrush brought 500 migrants from Jamaica to Britain?

A

1948

47
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When was the Suez Crisis and Egypt took back control of the Canal?

A

1956

48
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When was The Gold Coast given independence and became Ghana?

A

1957

49
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When were the Notting Hill Riots?

A

1958

50
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When did Britain Fail to gain Membership of the EEC (Later the EU)?

A

1960

51
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When was Uganda given independance?

A

1962

52
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When was the law passed which said that any Black or Asian person coming to Britain must have a skilled job lined up?

A

1962

53
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when was Kenya given independence?

A

1963

54
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when was The immigrant Act put in place that restricted anyone who did not have grandparents or parents born in the UK?

A

1971

55
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When did Idi Amin expel Asians from Uganda and 26,000 migrated to the UK?

A

1972

56
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When did Britain join the EEC?

A

1973

57
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When did the EEC become the EU?

A

1992

58
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When did Britain leave the EU?

A

2016

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