History Key Dates Yr10 EOY

MTT

The Black Death hits Britain

1348-49

First British Printing Press

1470’s

Vesalius’ ‘the Fabric of the Human Body’

1543

Harvey’s ‘On motions of the Heart and Blood’

1628

Royal Society founded

1660

The Great Plague hits London

1665

Sydenham’s ‘Medical Observations’

1676

Ehrlich and Hata discover the first Magic Bullet, Salvarsan 606

1909

Alexander Flemming discovers penicillin

1928

Domagk discovers second Magic Bullet, Prontosil

1932

Florey and Chain purify penicillin

1938-40

Government launches diphtheria vaccination campaign

1940

NHS was founded

1948

Watson + Crick discover the structure of DNA

1953

Rosalind Franklin discovers DNA

1953

Gov’s first polio vaccination campaign

1956

Cigarette adds banned from television

1965

Christian Barnard completes first heart transplant

1967

Human Genome Project completed

2003

Smoking banned in public places

2006-7

The Middle Ages/Medieval Period

1250-1500

Britain’s first hospital, St Bartholomew’s was opened

1123

Average life expectancy was 35

1350

The law to keep streets and rivers clean was introduced

1388

The Renaissance Period

1500-1700

The first dissection

1565

Modern Britain

1900+

Life expectancy below 50

1900

National Insurance bill gave help to people who were sick or unemployed

1911

WW1 leads to developments in surgery + treatment

1914-18

Invention of the Electron Microscope

1931