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- What killed roughly 400,000 Europeans each year during the 18th century before Edward Jenner administered the first vaccine in 1796?
- Which great European conflict was fought between 1701 and 1714?
- Why did Britain lose 11 days?
- Who was born Princess Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst on 2 May 1729 in modern-day Poland?
- Which song was was set to a traditional tune in 1799, with the text written by Robert Burns in 1788?
- Who invented the mercury-in-glass thermometer in Amsterdam in 1714?
- What was first published in Edinburgh, as three volumes between 1768 and 1771?
- What name was given to the period of the French Revolution involving numerous massacres and public executions?
- What did William Herschel discover from the back garden of his house in New King Street, Bath in 1781?
- In which European city did a massive earthquake kill up to 100,000 people in 1755?
- What name is given to the world's first financial crash of 1720, which ruined thousands of investors?
- 'Zadok the Priest' was composed by Handel in 1727 for the coronation of which British king?
- Which general established British rule in Bengal with victory at the Battle of Plassey in 1757?
- Which Scottish economist published the The Wealth of the Nations in 1776?
- Which North American city was founded in 1718 by the French?
- What invention by James Hargreaves in 1764 brought on the Industrial Revolution?
- Captain James Cook was killed in 14 February 1779 in which present day island?
- What ususual name was given to the 1739 war in the Caribbean between Great Britain and Spain?
- Which British Royal Navy officer is best known for his 1791–1795 expedition to explore North America's northwestern Pacific Coast regions?
- What was discovered by Napoleon's troops in 1799 during the invasion of Egypt?
- In 1761, the problem of longitude was resolved by which clockmaker's chronometer?
- Joseph Priestley discovered "dephlogisticated air" in 1774, which later became known as what?
- Who composed The London symphonies between 1791 and 1795?
- Which famous row of 30 terraced houses was designed by John Wood and built in the city of Bath between 1767 and 1774?
- Which English astronomer became the second Astronomer Royal in Britain, succeeding John Flamsteed in 1720?
- Which Italian painter moved to London in 1747, staying there for nine years?
- The Duke of Cumberland became known by what nicknmame for his brutality in putting down the Jacobite Rising at the Battle of Culloden?
- Who invented bifocals in 1784 and the lightning rod in 1752?
- Ranked as one of the greatest single achievements of scholarship, who compiled A Dictionary of the English Language?
- Originally referred to as "A Sweepstake of 25 Guineas", the title was changed to what at a dinner party held in 1778 at the Red Lion Inn in Doncaster?
- Which American patriot is best remembered for his midnight horseride in April 1775 to warn of approaching British forces?
- Which German philosopher wrote the Critique of Pure Reason in the 1780s?
Answers
- Smallpox
- The War of the Spanish Succession
- The British Empire adopted the Gregorian Calendar (from 3 September to 13 September were dates lost in 1752)
- Catherine the Great (or Catherine II)
- Auld Lang Syne
- Fahrenheit (Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit)
- Encyclopaedia Britannica
- The Reign of Terror
- The planet Uranus
- Lisbon
- The South Sea Bubble
- George II
- Robert Clive, Clive of India
- Adam Smith
- New Orleans
- Spinning jenny
- Hawaii
- War of Jenkins' Ear
- Captain George Vancouver
- Rosetta Stone
- John Harrison
- Oxygen
- Joseph Haydn
- The Royal Crescent
- Edmond Halley
- Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal)
- Butcher Cumberland
- Benjamin Franklin
- Samuel Johnson
- St Leger
- Paul Revere
- Immanuel Kant