Dates - Civilisation Britannique

Question 1

What happened around the year 1170?

Answer 1

Foundation of Oxford University

Question 2

What happened in 1167?

Answer 2

Henry II banned English students from attending Paris University

Question 3

What happened in 1210?

Answer 3

Foundation of Cambridge University

Question 4

What happened in 1534?

Answer 4

Act of Supremacy -> Henry VIII becomes Head of the Church

Question 5

What happened in 1536?

Answer 5

Act extinguishing the Authority of the Pope

Question 6

What happened between 1536 and 1539?

Answer 6

Acts for the Dissolution of Lesser and Larger Monasteries

Question 7

What happened between 1553 and 1558?

Answer 7

Reign of ‘Bloody’ Mary Tudor

Question 8

What happened between 1558 and 1603?

Answer 8

Reign of Elizabeth I (ends with her death)

Question 9

What happened in 1563?

Answer 9

The Thirty-Nine Articles

Question 10

In which decade happened the Puritan revolution?

Answer 10

1640’s

Question 11

In which decade are the Jews reinvited to England? By whom?

Answer 11

1640’s - Oliver Cromwell

Question 12

What happened in 1688?

Answer 12

Toleration Act -> Freedom of worship

Question 13

In which decade are the Test and Corporation Acts abolished?

Answer 13

1830’s

Question 14

What happened from 1625 to 1649?

Answer 14

Reign of Charles I (ends with his beheading/death)

Question 15

What happened in 1642?

Answer 15

Climax of the war between Cavaliers and Roundheads

Question 16

What happened from 1649 to 1660?

Answer 16

The Commonwealth (Republic)

Question 17

When did Oliver Cromwell die?

Answer 17

in 1658

Question 18

What happened after 1660?

Answer 18

Charles II is made king after he had been exiled during the Commonwealth’s time

Question 19

What happened in 1660?

Answer 19

Act of Indemnity and Oblivion which pardons the republicans but those didn’t save the criticizers from getting arrested

Question 20

What happened in 1679?

Answer 20

Habeus Corpus Act (banning arbitrary arrest)

Question 21

What happened in 1688?

Answer 21

William of Orange and his wife Mary are made king and queen

Question 22

What happened from 1685 to 1688?

Answer 22

Reign of James I

Question 23

What happened in 1689?

Answer 23

Bill of Rights -> liberties of subjects that the monarch can’t get involved with

Question 24

What happened in 1707?

Answer 24

Act of Union between Scotland and England

Question 25

What happened in 1283?

Answer 25

Annexation of Wales by Edward I (aka "the Hammer of the Scots")

Question 26

What happened in 1314?

Answer 26

Defeat of Bannockburn (England lost and stops attacking Scotland, Scotland remains independent)

Question 27

What happened in 1603?

Answer 27

James VI of Scotland becomes king after Elizabeth I's death

Question 28

What happened from 1715 to 1745?

Answer 28

Major rebellions against England arose in the Highlands

Question 29

What happened in 1745?

Answer 29

The Battle of Culloden, Scotland (poorly armed and prepared) lost against the 'red coats' of England despite having French backing

Question 30

What happened in 1793?

Answer 30

UK membership of the EEC (European Economic Community)

Question 31

What happened in 1997?

Answer 31

Referendum on Devolution in Scotland: 'yes' majority

Question 32

What happened in 1995?

Answer 32

Referendum for Scottish Independence, defeated by a narrow majority

Question 33

What happened in 2015?

Answer 33

Scottish National Party has a majority of seats in the Scottish Parliament

Question 34

What happened in 2016?

Answer 34

Scotland massively votes for 'Remain' in the Brexit Referendum

Question 35

What happened in 1776?

Answer 35

Defense of manhood suffrage in the US revolution by Major Cartwright "Take your Choice"

Question 36

What happened in 1791?

Answer 36

Defense of manhood suffrage in the French revolution by Tom Paine "Right of Man"

Question 37

In which decade has the movement for Parliamentary Reform revived?

Answer 37

1810's

Question 38

What happened in 1815?

Answer 38

End of Napoleonic Wars

Question 39

In which decade do the Luddite (machine-breaking) riots happen?

Answer 39

1810's

Question 40

What happened in 1832?

Answer 40

The Great Reform Act

Question 41

What happened in 1828?

Answer 41

Non-anglicans are granted full civic rights

Question 42

What movement happened from 1838 to 48?

Answer 42

The Chartist Movement (workers protesting to get new rights)

Question 43

What happened in 1867?

Answer 43

Tory Bill extended the franchise to (male) urban skilled workers

Question 44

What happened in 1884?

Answer 44

Liberal Bill extended the franchise to rural workers.

Question 45

What happened in 1918?

Answer 45

Manhood suffrage granted (for 21 y.o men)

Question 46

What happened in 1969?

Answer 46

Voting age changed from 21 to 18 y.o

Question 47

What happened in 1898?

Answer 47

Creation of the NUWSS (National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies)

Question 48

What happened in 1903?

Answer 48

Suffragettes created the WSPU which defended 'deeds, not words'

Question 49

What happened in 1918?

Answer 49

Right to vote granted to women over 30

Question 50

What happened in 1928?

Answer 50

Right to vote granted to women over 21

Question 51

In which decade happened the development of the stream press and thus allows newspapers to be massproduced?

Answer 51

1830's

Question 52

In which decade has the Manchester Guardian changed to the Guardian and moved to London? (as a prominent national daily)

Answer 52

1860's

Question 53

What happened from 1857 to 1858?

Answer 53

The Sepoy Mutiny

Question 54

What happened in 1857?

Answer 54

Annexation of the Oudh by the Sepoy

Question 55

What happened in March 1857?

Answer 55

Beginning of the Sepoy Mutiny by a Sepoy that attacked his officers

Question 56

What happened in 1858?

Answer 56

Sepoy Rebellion crushed by British regular troops

Question 57

What happened in 1876?

Answer 57

Queen Victoria gains the title of Empress of India

Question 58

What happened in 1869?

Answer 58

Control of Suez Canal

Question 59

Which wars happened in the years 1880-1881 and 1899-1902?

Answer 59

The Boer Wars, in South Africa

Question 60

What happened from 1873 to 1895?

Answer 60

Long Depression in Britain

Question 61

When was Britain the largest colonial empire on Earth, having control of 1/4 of the world's lands?

Answer 61

in 1914

Question 62

What happened in 1947?

Answer 62

Indian Independence