Dates

Question 1

Gutenberg invents printing press

Answer 1

1450s

Question 2

Colombia sails, Jews expelled from Spain and moorish stronghold in Granada falls

Answer 2

1492

Question 3

Martín Luther nails 95 theses to the church door at Wittenberg

Answer 3

1517

Question 4

Charles V elected holy roman emperor

Answer 4

1519

Question 5

German Peasants War/revolt

Answer 5

1525

Question 6

Henry VIII breaks with roman church

Answer 6

1533

Question 7

Council of Trent

Answer 7

1545-1563

Question 8

Peace of Augsburg

Answer 8

1555

Question 9

French religious wars

Answer 9

1562-1598

Question 10

Battle of lepanto

Answer 10

1571

Question 11

St. Bartholomew’s day massacre

Answer 11

1572

Question 12

Henry IV of France issues Edict of Nantes

Answer 12

1598

Question 13

Founding of English East India Company

Answer 13

1600

Question 14

Thirty year’ war ending with peace of Westphalia

Answer 14

1618-1648

Question 15

English Civil War

Answer 15

1642-1649

Question 16

Restoration of Charles II of England

Answer 16

1660

Question 17

Louis XIV revokes Edict of Nantes

Answer 17

1685

Question 18

Newton publishes the Principia

Answer 18

1687

Question 19

The glorious revolution

Answer 19

1688

Question 20

Peter the Great establishes the table of ranks

Answer 20

1722

Question 21

The Lisbon earthquake

Answer 21

1755

Question 22

The seven years War

Answer 22

1756 1763

Question 23

French Revolution

Answer 23

1789

Question 24

Napoleon invades Russia

Answer 24

1812