UK History and Politics

Uk History And Politics

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  1. Complete the sentence about History of the United Kingdom with the correct year: The history of the United Kingdom begins in ______ with the Treaty of Union and Acts of Union.
  2. Complete the sentence about History of the United Kingdom with the correct year: The first decades were marked by Jacobite risings which ended with defeat for the Stuart cause at the Battle of Cullode…
  3. Complete the sentence about History of the United Kingdom with the correct year: In ______, victory in the Seven Years' War led to the growth of the First British Empire.
  4. Complete the sentence about History of the United Kingdom with the correct year: The Acts of Union ______ added the Kingdom of Ireland to create the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
  5. Complete the sentence about Anglo-Saxons with the correct year: The Anglo-Saxon period in Britain is considered to have started by about 450 and ended in ______, with the Norman Conquest.
  6. Complete the sentence about Anglo-Saxons with the correct year: By ______, most of the people of what is now England spoke Old English, and were considered English.
  7. Complete the sentence about Norman Conquest with the correct year: Edward died in January ______ and was succeeded by his brother-in-law Harold Godwinson.
  8. Complete the sentence about Norman Conquest with the correct year: Although William's main rivals were gone, he still faced rebellions over the following years and was not secure on the English throne…
  9. Complete the sentence about Norman Conquest with the correct year: Under his authority, the Domesday Book, a manuscript record of the "Great Survey" of much of England and parts of Wales, was complete…
  10. Complete the sentence about Battle of Hastings with the correct year: Hardrada and Tostig defeated a hastily gathered army of Englishmen at the Battle of Fulford on 20 September ______.
  11. Complete the sentence about Battle of Hastings with the correct year: After further marching and some skirmishing, William was crowned as king on Christmas Day ______.
  12. Complete the sentence with the correct year: By ______, following a long struggle, his hold on Normandy was secure.
  13. Complete the sentence about Domesday Book with the correct year: The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle states that in ______ the king sent his agents to survey every shire in England, to list his holdings and due…
  14. Complete the sentence about Domesday Book with the correct year: The name "Domesday" was subsequently adopted by the book's custodians, being first found in an official document in ______.
  15. Complete the sentence about Magna Carta with the correct year: Short of funds, Henry reissued the charter again in ______ in exchange for a grant of new taxes.
  16. Complete the sentence about Magna Carta with the correct year: The political myth of Magna Carta as a medieval revival of ancient personal liberties persisted after the Glorious Revolution of ______ u…
  17. Complete the sentence about Edward I of England with the correct year: In ______, he briefly sided with a baronial reform movement, supporting the Provisions of Oxford.
  18. Complete the sentence about Edward I of England with the correct year: Within two years, the rebellion was extinguished and, with England pacified, Edward left to join the Ninth Crusade to the Holy La…
  19. Complete the sentence about Edward I of England with the correct year: Making a slow return, he reached England in ______ and was crowned at Westminster Abbey.
  20. Complete the sentence about William Wallace with the correct year: Along with Andrew Moray, Wallace defeated an English army at the Battle of Stirling Bridge in September ______.
  21. Complete the sentence about William Wallace with the correct year: William's own seal, found on a letter sent to the Hanse city of Lübeck in ______, gives his father's name as Alan Wallace.
  22. Complete the sentence about Robert the Bruce with the correct year: After submitting to Edward I in ______ and returning to "the king's peace", Robert inherited his family's claim to the Scottish thro…
  23. Complete the sentence about Robert the Bruce with the correct year: Bruce moved quickly to seize the throne and was crowned king of Scots on 25 March ______.
  24. Complete the sentence about Robert the Bruce with the correct year: Despite Bannockburn and the capture of the final English stronghold at Berwick in ______, Edward II refused to renounce his claim to…
  25. Complete the sentence about Battle of Bannockburn with the correct year: The Wars of Scottish Independence between England and Scotland began in ______.
  26. Complete the sentence about Hundred Years' War with the correct year: The French and English monarchies thereafter remained separate, despite the monarchs of England and Great Britain styling themselv…
  27. Complete the sentence about Hundred Years' War with the correct year: In ______, Charles IV of France died without any sons or brothers, initiating a succession crisis.
  28. Complete the sentence about Battle of Agincourt with the correct year: After several decades of relative peace, the English had resumed the war in ______ amid the failure of negotiations with the Fren…
  29. Complete the sentence about Battle of Agincourt with the correct year: The battle serves as the backdrop for notable works such as William Shakespeare's play Henry V, written in ______.
  30. Complete the sentence about Battle of Agincourt with the correct year: In December ______, the English parliament was persuaded to grant Henry a "double subsidy", a tax at twice the traditional rate…
  31. Complete the sentence about Wars of the Roses with the correct year: The conflict resulted in the end of Lancaster's male line in ______, leaving the Tudor family to inherit, through the female line…
  32. Complete the sentence about Wars of the Roses with the correct year: Warfare began in ______ with York's capture of Henry at the First Battle of St Albans, upon which York was appointed Lord Protector…
  33. Complete the sentence about Wars of the Roses with the correct year: The Yorkists lost custody of Henry in ______ after the Second Battle of St Albans, but defeated the Lancastrians at the Battle of T…
  34. Complete the sentence about Wars of the Roses with the correct year: In ______, Edward married Elizabeth Woodville against Warwick's advice, and reversed Warwick's policy of seeking closer ties with F…
  35. Complete the sentence about Wars of the Roses with the correct year: Warwick rebelled against Edward in ______, leading to Edward's imprisonment after Warwick's supporters defeated a Yorkist army at t…
  36. Complete the sentence about Wars of the Roses with the correct year: Edward fled to Flanders, and Henry VI was restored as king in ______.
  37. Complete the sentence about Wars of the Roses with the correct year: Upon his death in ______, he was succeeded by his twelve-year-old son, Edward V, who reigned for 78 days, before being deposed by h…
  38. Complete the sentence about Battle of Bosworth Field with the correct year: Fought on 22 August ______, the battle was won by an alliance of Lancastrians and disaffected Yorkists.
  39. Complete the sentence about Battle of Bosworth Field with the correct year: Richard's reign began in ______ when he ascended the throne after his twelve-year-old nephew, Edward V, was declared illegit…
  40. Complete the sentence about Battle of Bosworth Field with the correct year: The Bosworth Battlefield Heritage Centre was built in ______, on a site that has since been challenged by several scholars a…
  41. Complete the sentence about Battle of Bosworth Field with the correct year: In ______ the Yorkists defeated their rivals in the battles of Barnet and Tewkesbury.
  42. Complete the sentence about Henry VIII with the correct year: Clement refused, and Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer declared the marriage void in the eyes of the Church of England in ______.
  43. Complete the sentence about Henry VIII with the correct year: In his later years, Henry was morbidly obese and immobile, with a gangrenous leg wound contracted from a jousting accident in ______.
  44. Complete the sentence about Henry VIII with the correct year: Henry was born on 28 June ______ at the Palace of Placentia in Greenwich, Kent, the third child and second son of King Henry VII and Eliza…
  45. Complete the sentence about Henry VIII with the correct year: In ______, at the age of two, Henry was appointed Constable of Dover Castle and Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports.
  46. Complete the sentence about Tudor period with the correct year: The interpretation by Geoffrey Elton in ______ is representative of the orthodox interpretation.
  47. Complete the sentence about Tudor period with the correct year: Social historians after ______ investigated English religion at the local level, and discovered the dissatisfaction had not been so wide…
  48. Complete the sentence about Tudor period with the correct year: More important, the Catholic Church was in a strong condition in ______.
  49. Complete the sentence about Elizabeth I with the correct year: Upon Mary's death in ______, Elizabeth succeeded to the throne and set out to rule by good counsel.
  50. Complete the sentence about Mary, Queen of Scots with the correct year: In ______, Mary married her half-cousin Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley; they had a son, James.
  51. Complete the sentence about Mary, Queen of Scots with the correct year: In February ______, Darnley's residence was destroyed by an explosion, and he was found murdered in the nearby garden.
  52. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In July ______, she was forced to abdicate in favour of her one-year-old son James VI.
  53. Complete the sentence about Union of the Crowns with the correct year: In March ______, with the queen clearly dying, Cecil sent James a draft proclamation of his accession to the English throne.
  54. Complete the sentence about English Civil War with the correct year: In ______, Charles II was crowned King of Scotland, in return for agreeing to create a Presbyterian church in both England and Scot…
  55. Complete the sentence about English Civil War with the correct year: The subsequent Anglo-Scottish war ended with Parliamentarian victory at Worcester on 3 September ______.
  56. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In ______, he served as MP for Cambridge in the Short and Long Parliaments.
  57. Complete the sentence about Oliver Cromwell with the correct year: In ______, he was appointed commander of the New Model Army cavalry under Thomas Fairfax, and he played a key role in winning the Eng…
  58. Complete the sentence about Oliver Cromwell with the correct year: In December ______, he was named Lord Protector, a position he retained for the remaining five years of his life.
  59. Complete the sentence about Oliver Cromwell with the correct year: After his death in ______, he was succeeded by his son Richard, whose weakness led to a power vacuum.
  60. Complete the sentence about Restoration with the correct year: Charles landed at Dover on 25 May ______ and entered London on 29 May, his thirtieth birthday.
  61. Complete the sentence about Restoration with the correct year: Ten of these regicides were executed in October ______ at sites including Charing Cross and Tyburn.
  62. Complete the sentence about Restoration with the correct year: The exhumed bodies of Oliver Cromwell, Henry Ireton, and John Bradshaw were subjected to posthumous execution in January ______.
  63. Complete the sentence about Restoration with the correct year: The Restoration period is commonly considered to have ended with the Glorious Revolution of ______.
  64. Complete the sentence about Restoration with the correct year: The subsequent Bill of Rights ______ established limits on royal authority and barred Roman Catholics from the English throne.
  65. Complete the sentence about Restoration with the correct year: On 20 October ______, George Monck, the governor of Scotland under the Cromwells, marched south with his army from Scotland to oppose Fle…
  66. Complete the sentence about Great Fire of London with the correct year: John Evelyn, contrasting London to the Baroque magnificence of Paris in ______, called it a "wooden, northern, and inartificial…
  67. Complete the sentence about Great Fire of London with the correct year: The City was traffic-clogged, polluted, and unhealthy, especially after it was hit by a devastating outbreak of bubonic plague i…
  68. Complete the sentence about Glorious Revolution with the correct year: The Glorious Revolution was the deposition of King James II of England in November ______.
  69. Complete the sentence about Glorious Revolution with the correct year: The two ruled as joint monarchs of England, Scotland, and Ireland until Mary's death in ______, when William became ruler in his…
  70. Complete the sentence about Glorious Revolution with the correct year: Exploiting unrest in England and claiming to be responding to the invitation, William landed with an army in Devon on 5 November…
  71. Complete the sentence about Glorious Revolution with the correct year: In April ______, a Convention made William and Mary joint monarchs of England and Ireland.
  72. Complete the sentence with the correct year: A separate but similar Scottish settlement was made in June ______.
  73. Complete the sentence about Bill of Rights 1689 with the correct year: The Bill of Rights received royal assent on 16 December ______.
  74. Complete the sentence about Bill of Rights 1689 with the correct year: A separate but similar document, the Claim of Right Act ______, applies in Scotland.
  75. Complete the sentence about Bill of Rights 1689 with the correct year: Along with the Act of Settlement ______, it remains in effect within all Commonwealth realms, as amended by the Perth Agreement.
  76. Complete the sentence about Bill of Rights 1689 with the correct year: The Parliament of England passed the Petition of Right in ______ which established certain liberties for subjects.
  77. Complete the sentence about Bill of Rights 1689 with the correct year: In December ______, peers of the realm appointed William as provisional governor.
  78. Complete the sentence about Acts of Union 1707 with the correct year: The English and Scottish acts of ratification took effect on 1 May ______, creating the new kingdom, with its parliament based in…
  79. Complete the sentence about Acts of Union 1707 with the correct year: The Scots remained neutral when the First English Civil War began in ______, before becoming concerned at the impact on Scotland o…
  80. Complete the sentence about Jacobite rising of 1745 with the correct year: The Jacobite rising of ______ was an attempt to regain the British throne for the exiled House of Stuart.
  81. Complete the sentence about Jacobite rising of 1745 with the correct year: The last in a series of Jacobite risings that began in March ______, it proved to be the end of Jacobitism as a major factor…
  82. Complete the sentence about Jacobite rising of 1745 with the correct year: Despite winning a narrow victory at Falkirk Muir in January ______, defeat at Culloden in April ended the rebellion.
  83. Complete the sentence about Jacobite rising of 1745 with the correct year: Charles escaped to France, but was unable to win support for another attempt, and died in Rome in ______.
  84. Complete the sentence about Jacobite rising of 1745 with the correct year: Neither Mary, who died in ______, nor her sister Anne, had surviving children, leaving their Catholic half-brother James Fran…
  85. Complete the sentence about Battle of Culloden with the correct year: The Battle of Culloden took place on 16 April ______, near Inverness, in the Scottish Highlands.
  86. Complete the sentence about Battle of Culloden with the correct year: Charles landed in Scotland in July ______, seeking to restore his father James Francis Edward Stuart to the British throne.
  87. Complete the sentence about Industrial Revolution with the correct year: Rapid adoption of mechanized textiles spinning occurred in Britain in the 1780s, and high rates of growth in steam power and ir…
  88. Complete the sentence about Industrial Revolution with the correct year: Rapid growth reoccurred after ______, springing from new innovations in the Second Industrial Revolution.
  89. Complete the sentence about Industrial Revolution with the correct year: The earliest recorded use of "Industrial Revolution" was in ______ by French envoy Louis-Guillaume Otto, announcing that France…
  90. Complete the sentence about Battle of Trafalgar with the correct year: The allied fleet, under the command of French Vice-admiral Pierre-Charles Villeneuve, sailed from the port of Cádiz in southern S…
  91. Complete the sentence about Battle of Trafalgar with the correct year: Villeneuve had shown a distinct reluctance for facing the Royal Navy after the French defeat at the Battle of the Nile in ______.
  92. Complete the sentence about Horatio Nelson with the correct year: Rising rapidly through the ranks, in ______ Nelson distinguished himself at the Battle of Cape St.
  93. Complete the sentence about Horatio Nelson with the correct year: In ______ Nelson was sent to the Baltic Sea and helped to break up the Second League of Armed Neutrality by defeating a Danish fleet a…
  94. Complete the sentence about Horatio Nelson with the correct year: After a brief return to England, UK, Nelson took over the British fleet blockading Cádiz in ______.
  95. Complete the sentence about Horatio Nelson with the correct year: In ______, Nelson was among those mentioned out of the 100 Greatest Britons of all time.
  96. Complete the sentence about Battle of Waterloo with the correct year: On 13 March ______, six days before Napoleon I reached Paris, the powers at the Congress of Vienna declared him an outlaw.
  97. Complete the sentence about Duke of Wellington with the correct year: Following Napoleon's first exile in ______, Wellesley served as the British ambassador to France and was made Duke of Wellington.
  98. Complete the sentence about Victorian era with the correct year: The Reform Act, which made various changes to the electoral system, including expanding the franchise, was passed in ______.
  99. Complete the sentence about Queen Victoria with the correct year: In ______, the British parliament voted to grant her the additional title of Empress of India.
  100. Complete the sentence about Queen Victoria with the correct year: Victoria married her maternal first cousin, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, in ______.

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