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

[lareinenoire.livejournal.com]

1. Caesar conquered Gaul?
5. Withdrawal of Roman forces from Britain?
8. Norman invasion
9. Battle of Hastings
10. Start of the Hundred Years War
11. Black Death
12. Battle of Crécy?
13. Agincourt
14. Bosworth Field
15. Stoke Field

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

8 yes, 11 yes, 13 yes, 14 yes, 8 points

[lareinenoire.livejournal.com]

Yep, figured out immediately after that I'd mixed up Crécy and Poitiers.

And I just remembered that Stoke Field was 1487 not 1497. So I guess 1497 would be the death of Perkin Warbeck?

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Nope, two years out

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

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