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A Long and Illustrious History
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- How many years passed between the Norman Conquest of 1066 and Magna Carta in 1215?
- Which monarch ruled England from 1558 to 1603?
- Who built the locomotive 'Rocket' in 1829?
- In which year did the Duke of Wellington defeat Napoleon at Waterloo?
- Which Roman emperor ordered the building of a wall across northern England?
- Which king agreed to Magna Carta in 1215?
- Which agreement of 1998 helped bring peace to Northern Ireland?
- When did Margaret Thatcher become the UK's first female Prime Minister?
- What was the Danelaw?
- Which document, begun in 1086, recorded who owned land and property in England?
- Which came first: Trafalgar, the Slave Trade Act, Waterloo or the Great Exhibition?
- Which battle of 1916 caused huge British casualties on its first day?
- How many years passed between the Great Exhibition of 1851 and the Armistice of 1918?
- Which queen of the Iceni led a revolt against the Romans around AD 60?
- Which Scottish queen was executed on Elizabeth I's orders in 1587?
- Elizabeth I defeated the Spanish Armada in 1588. How many years later did her successor become king of England in 1603?
- Roughly when did Roman rule in Britain end?
- In which year did the UK join the European Economic Community?
- How many years passed between the Glorious Revolution of 1688 and the Act of Union of 1707?
- The treasure found at Sutton Hoo in Suffolk comes from which period?
- Which conflict was fought between Charles I and Parliament between 1642 and 1651?
- The UK joined the European Economic Community in 1973 and left the European Union in 2020. For how many years was it a member?
- How many years passed between the founding of the NHS in 1948 and Margaret Thatcher becoming Prime Minister in 1979?
- Which pair of events happened in the same century?
- Which two events devastated London in 1665 and 1666?
- Who became Prime Minister in 1940 and led Britain through most of the Second World War?
- How many years passed between Henry Tudor's victory at Bosworth in 1485 and the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588?
- In which year did England defeat the Spanish Armada?
- What happened to the monasteries in England under Henry VIII?
- Who wrote 'The Canterbury Tales' in the late 14th century?
- How many years passed between the first Roman invasion under Claudius in AD 43 and the building of Hadrian's Wall from about AD 122?
- Which Scottish king also became King of England in 1603?
- Who discovered penicillin in 1928?
- Who was on the throne when slavery was abolished across most of the British Empire in 1833?
- Which dynasty began with Henry VII in 1485?
- What were the Wars of the Roses?
- Which dynasty came to the throne in 1714 with George I?
- Which of these events happened last: the Restoration, the Great Fire, the Glorious Revolution or the execution of Charles I?
- Which American colonies' conflict with Britain lasted from 1775 to 1783?
- Who was the British monarch during the Great Exhibition of 1851?
- How many years were there between the start of the First World War in 1914 and the start of the Second World War in 1939?
- Who led Scottish forces at the Battle of Stirling Bridge in 1297?
- Where was the last battle on British soil, where Jacobite forces were defeated in 1746?
- Which invention is John Logie Baird credited with?
- Which king conquered Wales and built castles such as Caernarfon?
- Which Jacobite leader was known as Bonnie Prince Charlie?
- Which of these monarchs was NOT a Tudor?
- In which year was the Battle of Hastings?
- Which engineer built the Great Western Railway and the SS Great Britain?
- Which peoples settled in England after the Romans left?
- Which of these events took place between the Restoration (1660) and the Bill of Rights (1689)?
- In which year did the First World War begin?
- How many years passed between the Battle of Hastings in 1066 and the completion of the Domesday survey in 1086?
- Which of these medieval events happened first: Bannockburn, the Black Death, Agincourt or Bosworth?
- What effect did the Black Death have on labourers in England?
- In which year did the Second World War begin for Britain?
- At which battle in 1485 did Henry Tudor defeat Richard III?
- How many years passed between the Armada of 1588 and the Gunpowder Plot of 1605?
- In which year was Charles I executed?
- Which Act of 1534 made the king Supreme Head of the Church of England?
- On what date did the First World War end with the Armistice?
- Who is regarded as the first Prime Minister of Great Britain?
- Which archbishop was murdered in Canterbury Cathedral in 1170?
- In which year did the UK formally leave the European Union?
- How many years passed between the Armistice that ended the First World War in 1918 and D-Day in 1944?
- Which of these inventions or discoveries came before the Great Exhibition of 1851?
- Which nurse became famous for her work in the Crimean War of the 1850s?
- How many years passed between the Battle of Agincourt in 1415 and the Battle of Bosworth in 1485?
- Which Scottish king defeated the English at Bannockburn in 1314?
- In what year did the Romans, under Emperor Claudius, begin their successful conquest of Britain?
- What disease killed a large part of England's population in 1348-49?
- Which king of Wessex defeated the Danes and is known as 'the Great'?
- In which year was the Battle of Britain fought in the air?
- Which Labour leader became Prime Minister in 1945?
- In which year was slavery abolished throughout the British Empire?
- Which Roman general led expeditions to Britain in 55 and 54 BC but did not conquer it?
- Which year saw the restoration of the monarchy under Charles II?
- Which king quarrelled with Archbishop Thomas Becket?
- Which monk wrote the 'Ecclesiastical History of the English People' in the 8th century?
- Who was the Tudor monarch who tried to restore Catholicism and was known as 'Bloody Mary'?
- Which woman led the suffragette movement to win votes for women?
- In which year did Vikings raid the monastery of Lindisfarne, beginning a period of Viking attacks?
- The Great Exhibition took place 36 years after which battle?
- What was the date of the D-Day landings in Normandy?
- Who led the Parliamentary army and later ruled as Lord Protector?
- Which of these Prime Ministers served earliest?
- How many years passed between the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 and the Great Reform Act of 1832?
- What triggered the Peasants' Revolt of 1381?
- Which Scottish inventor improved the steam engine?
- Which MP led the campaign in Parliament to end the slave trade?
- Which event took place during the reign of Charles I?
- How many years passed between the Act of Union of 1707 and the Battle of Culloden in 1746?
- Which Act of 1536 joined England and Wales in one legal system?
- Who developed the first vaccine, against smallpox?
- How many years passed between the execution of Charles I in 1649 and the Restoration of Charles II in 1660?
- Which of these happened between the Act of Union with Scotland (1707) and the Act of Union with Ireland (1800)?
- Who called a parliament in 1265 that is considered an early model of Parliament?
- How many years separate Magna Carta (1215) from the Battle of Agincourt (1415)?
- Why did Henry VIII break from the Roman Catholic Church in the 1530s?
- How long was the English Civil War, if counted from 1642 to the end of the fighting in 1651?