Dates

Question 1

1492

Answer 1

Columbus first voyage to America

Question 2

1517

Answer 2

Martin Luther criticizes church practices

Reformation begins

Question 3

1618

Answer 3

Thirty years war begins

Question 4

1648

Answer 4

Peace of Westphalia ends thirty year war

Question 5

1688

Answer 5

English parliament offers crown to William and Mary

Initiating glorious revolution

Question 6

1776

Answer 6

American Declaration of Independence from Great Britain

Question 7

1789

Answer 7

French Revolution begins

Question 8

1815

Answer 8

Napleon defeated at Waterloo and exiled to island of st. Helena
Congress of Vienna

Question 9

1848

Answer 9

Revolutions through Europe

Marx and Engels write the communist manifesto

Question 10

1871

Answer 10

Franco-Prussian war ends

German empire proclaimed

Question 11

1914

Answer 11

Assassination of Austrian archduke Francis Ferdinand precipitates WW1

Question 12

1971

Answer 12

Russian revolutions

Question 13

1918

Answer 13

Armistice ends fighting of WW1

Question 14

1939

Answer 14

Germany invasion of Poland precipitates WW2

Question 15

1945

Answer 15

Germany surrenders,
Us drops bond on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
WW2 ends

Question 16

1989

Answer 16

Fall of Berlin Wall