Name: Subject: Themes

Date: Sheet: Famous events

International Women's Day - Women in British History

Florence Nightingale Boudicca

Margaret Thatcher Queen Victoria

Jane Austen Diana, Princess of Wales

International Women's Day is celebrated every year on 8 March. It is a day for celebrating women's
accomplishments in a wide number of areas, all around the world.
Read the facts below and match each description to the woman that is being described.

1. She was queen of the British Iceni tribe. Her warriors successfully destroyed the capital of Roman
Britain. She was married to Prasutagus. A statue of her stands on the Victoria Embankment next to
Westminster Bridge.

2. She supported over 100 charities. She married the heir to the British throne, on July 29, 1981. She died
in a car accident in Paris on August 30, 1997. Her funeral was held at Westminster Abbey.

3. She was founder of modern nursing. She trained nurses in the Crimean War. Her nickname was 'The
Lady with the Lamp'. A statue of her stands in Waterloo Place, Westminster, London.

4. She was Britain’s first female Prime Minister (1979). She was nicknamed the 'Iron Lady'. In 1990, she was
forced to resign as party leader. As a child her hobbies included the piano, field hockey, swimming and
walking.

5. She was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June, 1837 until her death.
She became Queen at the age of 18. She married her first cousin, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and
Gotha, in 1840. As a child she had a gift for drawing and painting.

6. She was an English novelist. She began to write as a teenager. None of her books published in her
lifetime had her name on them. They were always described as being written 'By a Lady'. She loved
dancing and living in the countryside.