Historical Dates Flashcards
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1939
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Start of WWII
1
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1066
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Battle of Hastings-Norman Conquest
2
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1945
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End of WWII
3
Q
1914-1918
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WWI
4
Q
1918
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End of WWI
5
Q
1215
A
Magna Carta
6
Q
1381
A
Peasants Revolt
7
Q
1415
A
Battle of Agincourt
8
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1535
A
Execution of Thomas More
9
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1517
A
Martin Luther nails up 95 theses to Church door. Start of the Reformation.
10
Q
1588
A
Defeat of the Spanish Armada
11
Q
1815
A
Battle of Waterloo
12
Q
1618-1648
A
30 years war
13
Q
500 A.D
A
Anglo-Saxon conquest
14
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900 A.D
A
The Danelaw
15
Q
1170
A
Murder of Thomas á Becket
16
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1314
A
Scottish and Welsh wars. Bannockburn
17
Q
1485
A
Defeat of Yorkists. Battle of Bosworth
18
Q
1553
A
Catholic Restoration
19
Q
1611
A
King James Bible
20
Q
1649
A
Execution of Charles I and Cromwellian conquest of Ireland
21
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1689
A
Glorious Revolution and Battle of the Boyne (1690)
22
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1707
A
Union of England and Scotland
23
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1721
A
Robert Walpole, first prime minister
24
1763
Treaty of Paris, securing Canada etc. for Crown
25
1769
Introduction of spinning mule: key moment in Industrial Revolution
26
1776
Loss of American colonies (Declaration of Independance)
27
1805
Battle of Trafalgar
28
1825
Opening of first railway
29
1832
Great Reform Bill
30
1833
Abolition of Slavery
31
1838
Chartism
32
1846
Repeal of Corn Laws
33
1886
Irish Home Rule Bill
34
1904
Entente Cordiale
35
1919
Treaty of Versaille
36
1931
Statute of Westminster
37
1940
Winston Churchill as Prime Minister
38
476 AD
Last Roman Emperor, Romulus Augustulus, taken prisoner at Ravenna by German King Odovacar
39
800
Charlemagne unified most of Europe
40
1455
War of the Roses begun
41
1642-1648
English Civil War
42
1739
War of Jenkins Ear
43
1789
French Revolution
44
2200 BC
Stonehenge
45
43 AD
Roman Invasion of Britain
46
597
St. Augustine
47
871
Alfred the Great
48
1320
Declaration of Arbroath
49
1370
Canterbury Tales-Chaucer
50
1605
Gunpowder Plot
51
1564-1616
Shakespeare
52
1649
Execution of Charles I
53
1694
Bank of England
