Weekly History Quiz No.262

Fought near Inverness in the Scottish Highlands in April 1746, a Jacobite army under Charles Edward Stuart was decisively defeated by a British government force commanded by the Duke of Cumberland, ending the Jacobite rising.

In 1898 Curie and her husband Pierre discovered two new radioactive elements. Radium is named after the Latin for ray. Polonium is named after her homeland of Poland.

Beckett was murdered by followers of King Henry II in 1170.

A personal account of his experiences and observations fighting in the Spanish Civil War. Orwell joined the POUM, a Trotskyist militia that was part of the Republican army.

This was a period of transition in the Aegean Region, Eastern Mediterranean, and Southwestern Asia. It saw the shift from the Late Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age and was violent, sudden, and culturally disruptive. Many historians attribute the fall of the Mycenaeans, and overall Bronze Age collapse, to climatic or environmental catastrophe combined with an invasion by the Dorians (or Sea Peoples).

The 1948–1960 Malayan Emergency, was a predominantly guerrilla war fought in Malaya between communist pro-independence fighters of the Malayan National Liberation Army (MNLA) and the military forces of the Federation of Malaya and Commonwealth. At its peak over 40,000 military personnel from Australia, Britain, New Zealand and the rest of the Commonwealth were fighting, alongside hundreds of thousands of Malayan troops. They were successful, with the communist campaign being effectively suppressed.

Frenchman Jean Pierre François Blanchard and American John Jeffries completed a crossing from Dover to Calais by Gas Balloon in 1785. The flight took 2.5 hours.

At the end of the Napoleonic Wars, the European powers came together at the Congress of Vienna in 1815 to reorganize the political map of Europe and develop a system of conflict resolution aiming at preserving peace and balance of power, termed the Concert of Europe.

At this date the city walls enclosed an area of around 440 hectares, with a population of around 350,000.

The battle was the most significant action of the Great Sioux War of 1876 and was an overwhelming victory for the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho.