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Cards (88)

  • women 21 + get the vote

    1928
  • 1918
    WW1 end, all mem 18+ and women 30+ get the vote.
  • WW1 start
    1914
  • 1903
    WSPU formed
  • Australi becomes a dominion
    1901
  • 1897
    NUWSS formed
  • secret ballot act
    1872
  • 1860s
    Pasteur and germ theory
  • beginning of sewers in Britain
    1858
  • 1857
    Indian Mutiny
  • Crimean war
    1854
  • 1833
    The abolition of skavery in the British Empire
  • Great Reform Act
    1832
  • 1815
    Napoleon defeated
  • The abolition of the Trans atlantic slave trade

    1807
  • 1804
    Napoleon becomes emperor
  • Ireland becomes part of UK
    1801
  • 1796
    Edward Jenner developed a smallpox vaccine
  • The french revolution
    1789
  • 1770
    Captain Cook reached Australia
  • The industrial revolution

    c1750-1900
  • c1700
    The Enlightenment
  • Interregnum, led by Oliver Cromwell and Radical ideas arrived

    1649-1660
  • 1649
    Charles I is executed
  • trans atlantic slave trade peak
    1700-1800
  • c1600-1800
    The trans atlantic slave trade
  • increase in superstition and witchcraft accusations

    c1500-1700
  • 1520
    Aztecs meet conquistadors
  • The British empire

    c1500-2000
  • what happened in 1492
    colombus reached the americas
  • Joseph Bazalgette+ Edwin Chadwick
    Built sewers, improved sanitary levels.
  • Marie antoinette
    Queen of france. Louis XVI's wife. Spent lavishly and Austrian. Later executed
  • Louis XVI
    King of france, disliked for being an absolute monarch and marrying Marie Antoinette. Later executed
  • Robespierre
    Took charge of French revolution once Louis XVI was executed
  • Chartists
    campaigning for (mainly working class) men to get the vote. They achieved nothing.
  • Napoleon
    Emperor of the French after the revolution. Introduced ideas such as baguette and driving on the right.
  • Elizabeth garret anderson
    Britain's first female doctor.
  • Gertrude bell

    Explored middle east, writer, explorer, archaeologists ,attended university
  • Millicent Fawcett
    Suffragist leader. Speaker/writer. Campaigned for legal jobs for women
  • Emmeline pankhurst
    suffragette leader. Founded WSPU. Advocated for women to take part in war work