History Key Dates Yr10 EOY

The Black Death hits Britain

First British Printing Press

Vesalius’ ‘the Fabric of the Human Body’

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

Royal Society founded

The Great Plague hits London

Sydenham’s ‘Medical Observations’

Ehrlich and Hata discover the first Magic Bullet, Salvarsan 606

Alexander Flemming discovers penicillin

Domagk discovers second Magic Bullet, Prontosil

Florey and Chain purify penicillin

Government launches diphtheria vaccination campaign

NHS was founded

Watson + Crick discover the structure of DNA

Rosalind Franklin discovers DNA

Gov’s first polio vaccination campaign

Cigarette adds banned from television

Christian Barnard completes first heart transplant

Human Genome Project completed

Smoking banned in public places

The Middle Ages/Medieval Period

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

Average life expectancy was 35

The law to keep streets and rivers clean was introduced

The Renaissance Period

The first dissection

Modern Britain

Life expectancy below 50

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

WW1 leads to developments in surgery + treatment

Invention of the Electron Microscope