Historical Sequence – Fun, Food and Freedom

#1. Which of these events from cultural history was the earliest?

The commune and people of Florence decided to build Palazzo Vecchio.

The Salisbury Cathedral clock, a large iron-framed tower clock without a dial, was installed.

The Crusader Bible, one of the most celebrated manuscripts of the Middle Ages, was created in Paris for Louis IX of France.

1240s

#2. Which of these events from the history of art was the latest?

Giuseppe Arcimboldo painted his first known portrait composed of fruit and vegetables.

St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican City was completed and consecrated.

Italian painter Fra Angelico died.

18 November 1626

#3. Which one of these events from the history of the written word happened in the 12th century?

Roger Bacon wrote the Summa Grammatica, one of the earlier works on Latin grammar and Aristotelian logic.

Otto I Bishop of Freising wrote his Chronicle or history of the two cities, contrasting the heavenly and the earthly kingdoms.

Marco Polo dictated memoirs about his travels to Rustichello da Pisa while in prison in Genoa.

1143-1146

#4. Which of these tragic events was the most recent?

The Great Plague of London killed an estimated 100,000 people—almost a quarter of London's population—in 18 months

A large pandemic spread from the Greater Antilles into Central America, and perhaps as far as Peru in South America (the first widely documented epidemic in the New World).

A plague pandemic began its spread near the Black Sea, then spread throughout Russia, the Caucasus, and the Genovese provinces finally reaching the rest of Europe where it became known as the Black Death.

1665-1666

#5. Which of these events to do with astronomy was the most recent?

French astronomer Charles Messier discovered the Whirlpool Galaxy, a spiral galaxy located at a distance of appr. 23 million light-years from Earth.

Tycho Brahe published his model of the Universe known as the Tychonian system.

Chester Moore Hall invented an achromatic lens, designed to limit the effects of chromatic and spherical aberration, to build the first achromatic telescope.

October 13, 1773

#6. Which of these events from the history of culture happened in 1815?

Ludwig van Beethoven's 9th Symphony premiered in Vienna.

John Murray, a London publisher, published Jane Austen’s Emma.

Members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood had their first exhibitions at the Royal Academy.

#7. Which of these events made newspaper headlines in the 19th century?

Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen became the first man to set foot on the South Pole.

Italian museum worker Vincenzo Perugia stole Mona Lisa from the Louvre.

In Britain, social reformer Octavia Hill, solicitor Sir Robert Hunter and clergyman Hardwicke Rawnsley founded the National Trust.

1895

#8. Which of these events to do with nuclear weapons development happened first?

The United Kingdom conducted their first major nuclear weapons test in Australia (Monte Bello Islands).

Nuclear weapon tests were conducted by the United States at Bikini Atoll.

US President Harry Truman announced American development of the hydrogen bomb.

1946

#9. Which one of these events from the history of radiation science was the earliest (but only just)?

Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range known as X-rays.

French scientist Henri Becquerel, while working with phosphorescent materials, discovered spontaneous radioactivity.

Marie Skłodowska -Curie and her husband announced the existence of an element they named "polonium".

1895

#10. Which of these events from the history of non-fiction was the latest?

John Ogilby published the Britannia atlas, which set the standard for future road maps.

English administrator and MP Roger Taverner wrote his unprinted, but influential, Arte of surveyinge.

William Buchan published his famous work Domestic Medicine, which provided laypeople with detailed descriptions of the causes and prevention of diseases.

1769. Roads? quite clearly, were more important than health.

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