British history quiz

[wellinghall]

What happened in ...

1. 55 BC
2. 54 BC
3. 43 AD
4. 410
5. 449
6. 597
7. 991
8. 1066 (September)
9. 1066 (October)
10. 1346
11. 1348
12. 1356
13. 1415
14. 1485
15. 1497

Chocolate for the winner (across Facebook and LiveJournal together) (but no googling!)

Comments

[inamac.livejournal.com]

1. Caesar invades and calls the Britons `Weeny, Weedy, and Weaky'
9. The Norman Conquest (a Good Thing).

(These are only dates on your list that are Memorable - though I could make a case for 123 AD (construction of the Chelmsford Pass By).

And thank you for setting me off to find an e-version of Sellar and Yeatman.

[sally_maria]

*waves* to fellow 1066 and All That fan. I found an online version here.

[inamac.livejournal.com]

It's not the same without the illustrations.

I have been irrevocably corrupted - I was watching the BBC4 programme on Matilda (or Maud) and kept wondering why no-one mentioned the nightgowns.

[sally_maria]

I'm very much the same, large swathes of English history come with their own built-in comic (and often very clever and appropriate) commentary. I suppose there are worse corruptions. ;-)

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

MastermindChampion has been doing this over on Facebook, as well.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Hee hee :-)

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Answers here: http://wellinghall.livejournal.com/963801.html

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

2 + 2 = 4 points, plus a bonus or two makes six, I think.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

MastermindChampion has been doing this over on Facebook, as well.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Answers here: http://wellinghall.livejournal.com/963801.html