History Dates

Front 1

Edward Jenner discovers the small pox vaccine

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1796-98

Front 2

Royal Jennerian society established

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1803

Front 3

John Snow discovers the significance of the broad Street pump in causing chlorea

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1854

Front 4

Franklin, Watson and crick discover the structure of DNA

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1953

Front 5

Clean air act passed

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1956

Front 6

Publication of Versalius' 'The Fabric of the Human Body'

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1543

Front 7

Florence Nightingale publishes 'Notes on Hospitals'

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1859

Front 8

Second Public Health Act

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1875

Front 9

Pastuer begins his work creating vaccinations

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1878

Front 10

1st gas attacks

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1915

Front 11

National immunisation campaign against diphtheria launched

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1942

Front 12

William Harvey publishes his book on the circulation of the blood

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1628

Front 13

The Great Plague arrives in Britain

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1665

Front 14

Robert Koch publishes his 4 hypothesis and discovers the bacteria causing tuberculosis

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1882

Front 15

Albert Hustin discovers that sodium citrate stops blood from clotting

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1914

Front 16

Karl Landstuner discovers blood groups

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1901

Front 17

Louis Pasteur discovers Germ Theory

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1861

Front 18

Joseph Lister uses carbolic acid in surgeries for the first time

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1865

Front 19

Thomas Sydenham publishes 'Observations Medicae'

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1676

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Florence Nightingale treats wounded soldiers in Crimean War

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1854

Front 21

Black Death arrives in Britain

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1348

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Fleming discovers penicillin

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1928

Front 23

Florey and Chain develop penicillin into a usable treatment

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1941

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NHS is launched

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1948

Front 25

Printing press invented

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c1440

Front 26

Dissolution of the monasteries in England

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1536

Front 27

Human Genome project began

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1990

Front 28

Royal Society meet in London for the first time

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1660

Front 29

William E. Clarke successfully uses ether to anaesthetise a patient

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1842

Front 30

Discovery of the second magic bullet, Prontosil

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1932

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William Roentgen discovers x-rays

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1895

Front 32

Royal Army Medical Corps founded

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1898

Front 33

First Aid Nursing Yeomanry founded

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1907

Front 34

First blood depot is used, at the Battle of Cambrai

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1917

Front 35

Paul Ehrlich discovers the first magic bullet, Salvarsan 606

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1909-10

Front 36

First World War

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1914-18

Front 37

James Simpson discovers effects of chloroform

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1847