Daily Practice · GCSE History
January 2026 - GCSE History 5-a-day
Every GCSE History sheet published in January 2026, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.
Every sheet in January 2026
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 2026Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
- 2nd January 2026Was the Public Health Act of 1848 compulsory or permissive?
- 3rd January 2026Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
- 4th January 2026Why were workers at a nearby brewery largely unaffected by the 1854 outbreak?
- 5th January 2026What is Passchendaele also known as?
- 6th January 2026In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
- 7th January 2026What was a Gauleiter?
- 8th January 2026What award did the Nazis give to mothers of large families?
- 9th January 2026Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
- 10th January 2026What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
- 11th January 2026Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
- 12th January 2026On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
- 13th January 2026What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
- 14th January 2026Who were Elizabeth's parents?
- 15th January 2026What was the Privy Council?
- 16th January 2026What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?
- 17th January 2026What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
- 18th January 2026Who accidentally discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect, and in what year?
- 19th January 2026What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
- 20th January 2026What is significant about the first day of the Battle of the Somme in terms of British casualties?
- 21st January 2026In what way did mustard gas, introduced in 1917, work differently from chlorine and phosgene?
- 22nd January 2026In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
- 23rd January 2026By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
- 24th January 2026What is the difference between a Plains Indian tribe and a band?
- 25th January 2026What did the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 attempt to set out for different Plains Indian nations?
- 26th January 2026What kind of linking language should a strong narrative account use?
- 27th January 2026Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
- 28th January 2026What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
- 29th January 2026Why did some Catholics regard Elizabeth as illegitimate?
- 30th January 2026Which French territory did England lose shortly before Elizabeth became queen?
- 31st January 2026What happened to the group of settlers sent to Roanoke in 1587?