Chapter 3 Test 9

‘A rose by any other name’ is a line from William Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet.

Scientific discoveries, such as James Watt’s work on steam power, helped the progress of the Industrial Revolution.

In 1932 Scotsman John Logie Baird made the first television broadcast between London and Glasgow.

Emmeline Pankhurst was born in Manchester in 1858.

The Harrier jump jet, an aircraft capable of taking off vertically, is a British invention of the 20th century.

Winston Churchill died in 1965.

During the 17th century there were two main groups in Parliament, known as the Whigs and the Tories.

The first farmers arrived in Britain 6,000 years ago.

In 1284 King Edward I of England introduced the Statute of Rhuddlan, which annexed Wales to the Crown of England.

Henry VIII was king of England from 21 April 1509 until his death on 28 January 1547.

In May 2010, and for the first time in the UK since February 1974, no political party won an overall majority in the General Election. The Conservative and Liberal Democrat parties formed a coalition and the leader of the Conservative Party, David Cameron, became Prime Minister.

A very impressive hill fort from the Iron Age can still be seen today at Maiden Castle, in the English county of Dorset.

Before the 18th century, agriculture was the biggest source of employment in Britain.

The Habeas Corpus Act became law in 1679. This was a very important piece of legislation which remains relevant today. The Act guaranteed that no one could be held prisoner unlawfully. Every prisoner has a right to a court hearing.

The first man to be called this was Sir Robert Walpole, who was Prime Minister from 1721 to 1742.

The Battle of Hastings is commemorated in a great piece of embroidery, known as the Bayeux tapestry, which can still be seen in France today.

West Germany, France, Belgium, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands formed the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1957. At first the UK did not wish to join the EEC but it eventually did so in 1973.

In 1921 a peace treaty was signed and in 1922 Ireland became two countries.

The period after the Norman Conquest up until about 1485 is called the Middle Ages (or the medieval period).