Timeline

Question 1

Athelstan captures York

Answer 1

927

Question 2

Cnut becomes king

Answer 2

1016

Question 3

The domesday book

Answer 3

1086

Question 4

Stephen becomes king - Anarchy and Civil War with Matilda

Answer 4

1135

Question 5

Battle of Lincoln

Answer 5

1141

Question 6

John becomes king and tries to continue wars but loses.

Answer 6

1199

Question 7

Magna Carta signed

Answer 7

1215

Question 8

Edward I becomes king

Answer 8

1272

Question 9

Invasion of Scotland

Answer 9

1290

Question 10

Hundred years war

Answer 10

1337-1453

Question 11

Wars of the Roses

Answer 11

1455-1485

Question 12

Battle of Flooded field

Answer 12

1513

Question 13

James V of Scotland allies with France and attacks England

Answer 13

1542

Question 14

Elizabeth I becomes Queen

Answer 14

1558

Question 15

Privateers attack Spanish ships

Answer 15

1560s

Question 16

Spanish Armada

Answer 16

1580

Question 17

War with Ireland

Answer 17

1594

Question 18

James I becomes king and unites England and Scotland - ends border tensions

Answer 18

1603

Question 19

Charles I becomes king

Answer 19

1625

Question 20

Scots rebel against Charles I

Answer 20

1639

Question 21

English Civil wars begin

Answer 21

1642

Question 22

1st siege of Basing house

Answer 22

1643

Question 23

2nd civil war

Answer 23

1648

Question 24

Charles I executed

Answer 24

1649

Question 25

Cromwell uses the new army to crush Ireland and Scotland

Answer 25

1649-51

Question 26

Charles II becomes king

Answer 26

1660

Question 27

James II is overthrown and replaced with his daughter and her husband

Answer 27

1688

Question 28

1st JB rebellion - James II tries to take power

Answer 28

1715

Question 29

2nd JB rebellion - Charles Stuart tries to take power

Answer 29

1745

Question 30

Battle of Culloden

Answer 30

1745

Question 31

7 years war

Answer 31

1756

Question 32

French Revolution begins

Answer 32

1789

Question 33

1st Revolutionary war

Answer 33

1792

Question 34

2nd Revolutionary war

Answer 34

1798

Question 35

Napoleonic wars

Answer 35

1803

Question 36

Crimean war

Answer 36

1854-56

Question 37

Charge of the light brigade

Answer 37

1854

Question 38

Boer war phase 1

Answer 38

1880-81

Question 39

Boer war phase 2

Answer 39

1899-1902

Question 40

WW1

Answer 40

1914

Question 41

Dora introduced

Answer 41

1914

Question 42

Air raids

Answer 42

1915

Question 43

Battle of the Somme

Answer 43

1916

Question 44

Conscription introduced in WW1

Answer 44

1916

Question 45

Rationing introduced WW1

Answer 45

1918

Question 46

End of WW1

Answer 46

1918

Question 47

Women over 30 given the vote

Answer 47

1918

Question 48

General strike

Answer 48

1926

Question 49

Conscription introduced for WW1

Answer 49

1938

Question 50

WW2 starts

Answer 50

1939

Question 51

Women conscripted in WW2

Answer 51

1941

Question 52

Beveridge report starts

Answer 52

1942

Question 53

end of ww2

Answer 53

1945

Question 54

Britain no longer a great world power

Answer 54

1945

Question 55

korean war

Answer 55

1950s

Question 56

Berlin Wall

Answer 56

1961

Question 57

Vietnam war

Answer 57

1968

Question 58

'The Troubles' in Northern Ireland and the IRA

Answer 58

1969

Question 59

Gulf War

Answer 59

1991

Question 60

UN resolution

Answer 60

2002

Question 61

British troops leave Iraq

Answer 61

2011