History- All Dates

Question 1

The black death arrives in europe

Answer 1

1347

Question 2

Black death arrives in Britain

Answer 2

1348

Question 3

Printing press invented

Answer 3

1440

Question 4

Dissolution of the Monasteries in England

Answer 4

1536

Question 5

Publication of Vesalius’ ‘The Fabric of the Human Body.’

Answer 5

1543

Question 6

William Harvey publishes book on the circulation of the blood

Answer 6

1628

Question 7

Royal Society meet in London for the first time

Answer 7

1660

Question 8

Great plague arrives in Britain

Answer 8

1665

Question 9

Thomas Sydenham publishes Observationes Medicae

Answer 9

1676

Question 10

Edward Jenner discovers the smallpox vaccination

Answer 10

1796-98

Question 11

Royal Jennerian society established

Answer 11

1803

Question 12

William E Clarke successfully uses ether to anaesthetise a patient

Answer 12

1842

Question 13

James Simpson discovers the effects of chloroform

Answer 13

1847

Question 14

First public health act

Answer 14

1848

Question 15

Florence Nightingale treats wounded soldiers in Crimean war, John Snow discovers the significance of the Broad Street pump causing Cholera

Answer 15

1854

Question 16

Nightingale publishes ‘Notes on Hospitals’

Answer 16

1859

Question 17

Louis Pasteur discovers Germ Theory

Answer 17

1861

Question 18

Joseph Lister uses carbolic acid in surgeries for first time

Answer 18

1865

Question 19

Second public health act

Answer 19

1875

Question 20

Pasteur begins work creating vaccinations

Answer 20

1878

Question 21

Koch publishes his four hypotheses, and discovers the bacteria causing tuberculosis

Answer 21

1882

Question 22

William Roentgen discovers x-rays

Answer 22

1895

Question 23

Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) founded

Answer 23

1898

Question 24

Karl Landsteiner discovers blood groups

Answer 24

1901

Question 25

First aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY) founded

Answer 25

1907

Question 26

Paul Erich discovers the first magic bullet, Salvarsan 606

Answer 26

1909

Question 27

First World War

Answer 27

1914-18

Question 28

Albert Hustin discovers that sodium citrate stops blood clotting

Answer 28

1914

Question 29

First Gas attacks, prompts issuing of gas masks

Answer 29

1915

Question 30

First blood depot is used, at Battle of Cambrai

Answer 30

1917

Question 31

Fleming discovers penicillin

Answer 31

1928

Question 32

Discovery of the second magic bullet, Prontosil, by Domagk.

Answer 32

1932

Question 33

Florey and Chain develop penicillin into a useable treatment

Answer 33

1941

Question 34

National immunisation campaign against diphtheria launched

Answer 34

1942

Question 35

National health service (NHS) launched

Answer 35

1948

Question 36

Franklin, Watson and Crick discover the structure of DNA

Answer 36

1953

Question 37

Clean Air Act passed

Answer 37

1956

Question 38

Human Genome project began

Answer 38

1990