1. For what event in history is baker Thomas Farynor known?
2. What nationality was Christopher Columbus?
3. When women first got the vote in Britain in 1918, how old did they have to be?
4. Who in 1961 made the first space flight?
5. Who was the American President when the Berlin Wall was constructed?
6. What was the Roman name for Scotland?
7. What was the first country to issue postage stamps?
8. What famous building did John Nash rebuild in 1825?
9. Who was the first American President to resign from office?
10. Who was the mother of Elizabeth I?
2. What nationality was Christopher Columbus? He Genoese as Italy not united in those days
3. When women first got the vote in Britain in 1918, how old did they have to be? 31
4. Who in 1961 made the first space flight? Yuri Gagarin
6. What was the Roman name for Scotland? Caledonia
7. What was the first country to issue postage stamps? Great Britain if you does mean the adhesive sort, in 1840
10. Who was the mother of Elizabeth I? Anne of the Six Fingers Boleyn
5. Who was the American President when the Berlin Wall was constructed?
John F. Kennedy (Ich bin ein Berliner)
How could we forget the doughnut man! 
well done all 
My little answers here say that women had to be 30 to get the vote rather than 31. I may look it up in a bit, after I carry 13 boxes bags and cases up the stairs! 
1. For what event in history is baker Thomas Farynor known?
he was a baker. It was not a Good Thing.
8. What famous building did John Nash rebuild in 1825?
My mumsy went there on a day trip once; I have never been. That is no help is it? 
It is difficult to clue as it is so very famous, the first part of the first word sounds like something a horse might do.
9. Who was the first American President to resign from office?
He probably left through the side-gate.
1. For what event in history is baker Thomas Farynor known?
he was a baker. It was not a Good Thing.
didn't start the Great Fire of London, did he?
30 right for the women's vote, I got that WRONG.
The Fire started in a bakers shop, so it must have been him.
Tricky Dicky Nixon resigned over Watergate.
The building.........where they change the Guard? Buck House?
Yes!!! well done Helio and Midge and merry's clueing 