ANSWERS

1. 1291, the year of the Federal Charter (the alliance between Uri, Schwyz and Unterwalden)

2. Joseph Priestley isolated oxygen.

3. The Slavery Abolition Act

4. The Warsaw Uprising

5. MTV. The first video was "Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles.

6. Horatio Nelson. The poem is "Casabianca" (by Felicia Hemans).

7. Yorkshire (Yorkshire Day)

8. Herman Melville, "Moby-Dick"

9. Claudius. Lugdunum is now Lyon.

10. Lammas (Lammas Day)