Quizzes

Test your history knowledge with our engaging quizzes on a range of historical topics. Discover how much you know about the past and learn new facts!

The war fought between July 28, 1914, and November 11, 1918, was known at the time as the Great War and cost the lives of millions.

Can you name the Shakespeare play based on the quote? .

Can you name the monarch that featured in these famous films? Test your movie and history knowledge now! .

Can you match the quotation with the person in our fun and easy historical quotations quiz?

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193 - Roman emperor Pertinax was stabbed to death by his Praetorian Guard.

845 - Vikings sacked Paris, possibly led by Ragnar Lothbrok. They left after being paid 7000 livres of gold and silver.

1917 - Women were recruited for service with the British army in a non-nursing capacity for the first time.

1941 - Writer Virginia Woolf filled her pockets with stones and drowned herself in the River Ouse in Sussex.

1987 - Maria von Trapp, who provided the inspiration for The Sound of Music, died of heart failure, aged 82.

1991 - A jury returned a verdict of 'accidental death' at the inquest into the 1989 Hillsborough disaster.