Name the historical character from their on screen depiction

Quiz

Name the historical character from their on screen depiction

Can you match the following film and TV characters to the real historical character? See if you can get over 70%!

by GHAdmin
Sat, 20 Oct 2018

GHAdmin

Writer at GetHistory

Toby's experience comes from website design as well as experience running large forums and communities. After he married Debbie he developed a keen interest in history and found himself discussing history quite a lot!

On this day in history

497 BCE - Io Saturnalia! The annual Roman festival Saturnalia commenced, marking the dedication of the temple to Saturn in the Roman Forum.

546 - After a siege lasting almost a year, Rome fell to the Ostrogoths under Totila.

1903 - The Wright brothers made the first sustained, controlled, powered, heavier-than-air manned flight in North Carolina.

1917 - Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, the first woman to qualify in Britain as a physician and surgeon, the first dean of a British medical school, the first woman in Britain to be elected to a school board and the first female mayor and magistrate in Britain, died, aged eighty-one.

1983 - An IRA car bomb exploded outside Harrods department store on the last weekend before Christmas, killing six and injuring seventy-five.