Monarchs and Important Events in History

Can you name the English or British monarch that was on the throne when the following events in history happened?

15 Questions

1. The Spanish Armada
2. Battle of Culloden
3. The First World War
4. The Gunpowder Plot
5. Peasants' Revolt








6. Signing of the Magna Carta
7. The Great Fire of London
8. The Battle of Agincourt
9. Sir Robert Walpole became Britain’s first Prime Minister
10. William Caxton established the first printing press in England
11. William Shakespeare is born
12. The Battle of Waterloo
13. The United Kingdom of Great Britain was created by the Union of England and Scotland
14. The Conservative Party is founded
15. The last public execution is carried out

Answers

1. Elizabeth I (1588)
2. George II (1746)
3. George V (1914-18)
4. James I (1605)
5. Richard II (1381)
6. John (1215)
7. Charles II (1666)
8. Henry V (1415)
9. George I (1721)
10. Edward IV (1476)
11. Elizabeth I (1564)
12. George III (1815)
13. Queen Anne (1707)
14. William IV (1834)
15. Queen Victoria (1868)