| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| St Brice’s Day Massacre | 1002 | 100%
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| Battle of Hastings | 1066 | 100%
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| King John loses the Angevin Empire | 1216 | 100%
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| Battle of Agincourt | 1415 | 100%
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| East India Company established | 1600 | 100%
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| Eastern European migration to Britain | 2004 | 100%
|
| Brexit | 2016 | 100%
|
| Vikings attack Lindisfarne | 793 | 100%
|
| Alfred the Great becomes King of the English | 871 | 100%
|
| Cnut’s North Sea Empire | 1016-1035 | 0%
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| Henry II and the Angevin Empire | 1154-1181 | 0%
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| The Hundred Years War | 1337-1453 | 0%
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| Henry V declared King of France (and then dies) | 1420 | 0%
|
| John Cabot discovers Newfoundland | 1497 | 0%
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| John Hawkins becomes the first British person to sell enslaved Africans | 1562 | 0%
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| St Bartholomew’s Day Massacre | 1572 | 0%
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| Roanoke Colony established (then deserted) | 1583 | 0%
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| Edict of Nantes passed (being a Protestant in France was now legal) | 1598 | 0%
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| Ulster Plantations established | 1606 | 0%
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| Colony of Jamestown established | 1607 | 0%
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| John Smith ‘saved’ by Pocahontas | 1619 | 0%
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| The first enslaved people arrive on British plantations in the West Indies | 1619 | 0%
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| Pilgrims arrive on the Mayflower | 1620 | 0%
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| Edict of Fontainebleau passed (Protestantism now illegal in France) – 200,000 Huguenots flee to Britain | 1685 | 0%
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| Highland Clearances | 1746 | 0%
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| Robert Clive becomes Governor of the EIC | 1763 | 0%
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| Warren Hastings becomes Governor of India | 1773 | 0%
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| Boston Tea Party | 1773 | 0%
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| American War of Independence | 1775-1783 | 0%
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| Irish Potato Famine | 1846 | 0%
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| Sepoy Rebellion | 1857 | 0%
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| First Boer War | 1880-1881 | 0%
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| Cecil Rhodes becomes PM of Cape Colony | 1881 | 0%
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| Jewish refugees flee to Britain from Russian pogroms | 1882 | 0%
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| Britain buys the controlling share of the Suez Canal | 1882 | 0%
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| Berlin Conference – the Scramble for Africa begins | 1884 | 0%
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| Britain now owns 32% of Africa | 1900 | 0%
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| First World War | 1914-1918 | 0%
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| British Empire reaches its largest point | 1922 | 0%
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| Second World War | 1939-1945 | 0%
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| Indian Independence | 1947 | 0%
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| British Nationality Act | 1948 | 0%
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| Empire Windrush arrives in London | 1948 | 0%
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| Independence of Ghana | 1957 | 0%
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| Notting Hill Riots | 1958 | 0%
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| Kenyan Independence | 1963 | 0%
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| Britain joins the EEC (EU) | 1975 | 0%
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| Falklands War | 1982 | 0%
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