Famous dates DP 5

Question 1

In what century did the Hanging Gardens of Babylon exist

Answer 1

6th century BCE

Question 2

In what year did Abraham Lincoln deliver the Gettysburg Address

Answer 2

1863

Question 3

In what year did Adolf Hitler become Chancellor of Germany

Answer 3

1933

Question 4

In what year did Amelia Earhart become the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean

Answer 4

1932 CE

Question 5

In what year did Charles Lindbergh make the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean

Answer 5

1927 CE

Question 6

In what year did Christopher Columbus sail to the Americas

Answer 6

1492 CE

Question 7

In what year did Ernest Shackleton lead his failed attempt to cross Antarctica

Answer 7

1914-1917 CE

Question 8

In what year did Ferdinand Magellan circumnavigate the globe

Answer 8

1519-1522 CE

Question 9

In what year did humans first reach the summit of Mount Everest

Answer 9

1953 CE (Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay)

Question 10

In what year did Martin Luther King Jr. deliver his “I Have a Dream” speech

Answer 10

1963

Question 11

In what year did Nelson Mandela become President of South Africa

Answer 11

1994

Question 12

In what year did Roald Amundsen reach the South Pole

Answer 12

1911 CE

Question 13

In what year did the AIDS epidemic begin

Answer 13

1981

Question 14

In what year did the American Civil War begin

Answer 14

1861

Question 15

In what year did the American Civil War end

Answer 15

1865 CE

Question 16

In what year did the American Revolutionary War begin

Answer 16

1775

Question 17

In what year did the Arab Spring begin

Answer 17

2010

Question 18

In what year did the Arab-Israeli War of 1948 occur

Answer 18

1948

Question 19

In what year did the assassination of President John F. Kennedy occur

Answer 19

1963

Question 20

In what year did the atomic bombs explode over Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Answer 20

1945

Question 21

In what year did the Battle of Waterloo occur

Answer 21

1815

Question 22

In what year did the Berlin Wall fall

Answer 22

1989

Question 23

In what year did the Black Death occur

Answer 23

1347-1351

Question 24

In what year did the Bosnian War begin

Answer 24

1992

Question 25

In what year did the Boston Tea Party take place

Answer 25

1773

Question 26

In what year did the California Gold Rush begin

Answer 26

1848

Question 27

In what year did the Chernobyl disaster occur

Answer 27

1986

Question 28

In what year did the Cold War begin

Answer 28

1947

Question 29

In what year did the COVID-19 pandemic begin

Answer 29

2019

Question 30

In what year did the Crimean War begin

Answer 30

1853

Question 31

In what year did the Cuban Missile Crisis occur

Answer 31

1962

Question 32

In what year did the first American astronaut orbit the Earth

Answer 32

1962 CE (John Glenn)

Question 33

In what year did the first FIFA World Cup take place

Answer 33

1930 CE

Question 34

In what year did the first human land on the moon

Answer 34

1969

Question 35

In what year did the first human reach the deepest point in the ocean (Challenger Deep)

Answer 35

1960 CE (Jacques Piccard and Don Walsh)

Question 36

In what year did the first human reach the summit of Mount Everest

Answer 36

1953 CE (Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay)

Question 37

In what year did the first human travel to space

Answer 37

1961 CE (Yuri Gagarin)

Question 38

In what year did the first manned mission to the moon occur

Answer 38

1969 CE (Apollo 11)

Question 39

In what year did the first manned spaceflight occur

Answer 39

1961 CE

Question 40

In what year did the first Olympic Games of the modern era take place

Answer 40

1896 CE

Question 41

In what year did the first person walk on the moon

Answer 41

1969 CE

Question 42

In what year did the first successful human-to-human organ transplant occur

Answer 42

1954 CE (Kidney)

Question 43

In what year did the first Summer Olympic Games take place in the United States

Answer 43

1904 CE

Question 44

In what year did the first Winter Olympic Games take place

Answer 44

1924 CE

Question 45

In what year did the first woman travel to space

Answer 45

1963 CE

Question 46

In what year did the first woman travel to space

Answer 46

1963 CE (Valentina Tereshkova)

Question 47

In what year did the French and Indian War begin

Answer 47

1754

Question 48

In what year did the French Revolution begin

Answer 48

1789

Question 49

In what year did the Great Plague of London occur

Answer 49

1665-1666

Question 50

In what year did the Gulf War occur

Answer 50

1990-1991

Question 51

In what year did the Hundred Years’ War begin

Answer 51

1337

Question 52

In what year did the Industrial Revolution begin

Answer 52

1760-1840

Question 53

In what year did the Iranian Revolution occur

Answer 53

1979

Question 54

In what year did the Iraq War begin

Answer 54

2003

Question 55

In what year did the Korean War begin

Answer 55

1950

Question 56

In what year did the Kosovo War occur

Answer 56

1998-1999

Question 57

In what year did the Mexican-American War begin

Answer 57

1846

Question 58

In what year did the Napoleonic Wars begin

Answer 58

1799

Question 59

In what year did the Peloponnesian War begin

Answer 59

431 BCE

Question 60

In what year did the Protestant Reformation begin

Answer 60

1517 CE

Question 61

In what year did the Punic Wars begin

Answer 61

264 BCE

Question 62

In what year did the Renaissance occur

Answer 62

14th-17th centuries

Question 63

In what year did the Roman-Persian Wars begin

Answer 63

226 CE

Question 64

In what year did the Russian Revolution begin

Answer 64

1917

Question 65

In what year did the Rwandan Genocide occur

Answer 65

1994

Question 66

In what year did the Salem Witch Trials take place

Answer 66

1692-1693

Question 67

In what year did the September 11th attacks occur

Answer 67

2001

Question 68

In what year did the Seven Years’ War begin

Answer 68

1756

Question 69

In what year did the Six-Day War occur

Answer 69

1967

Question 70

In what year did the Soviet Union collapse

Answer 70

1991

Question 71

In what year did the Soviet-Afghan War begin

Answer 71

1979

Question 72

In what year did the Space Race occur

Answer 72

1957-1975

Question 73

In what year did the Spanish Flu pandemic occur

Answer 73

1918-1920

Question 74

In what year did the Spanish Inquisition begin

Answer 74

1478 CE

Question 75

In what year did the Spanish-American War occur

Answer 75

1898

Question 76

In what year did the stock market crash occur, marking the beginning of the Great Depression

Answer 76

1929

Question 77

In what year did the Suez Crisis occur

Answer 77

1956

Question 78

In what year did the Syrian Civil War begin

Answer 78

2011

Question 79

In what year did the Thirty Years’ War begin

Answer 79

1618

Question 80

In what year did the Tiananmen Square protests and massacre occur

Answer 80

1989

Question 81

In what year did the Titanic sink

Answer 81

1912

Question 82

In what year did the Vietnam War begin

Answer 82

1955-1975

Question 83

In what year did the Wright brothers make the first successful powered flight

Answer 83

1903

Question 84

In what year did the Yom Kippur War occur

Answer 84

1973

Question 85

In what year did Vasco da Gama reach India by sea

Answer 85

1498 CE

Question 86

In what year did women gain the right to vote in the United States

Answer 86

1920

Question 87

In what year did World War I begin

Answer 87

1914

Question 88

In what year did World War I occur

Answer 88

1914-1918 CE

Question 89

In what year did World War II begin

Answer 89

1939

Question 90

In what year was gunpowder invented

Answer 90

9th century CE

Question 91

In what year was the abolition of slavery in the United States

Answer 91

1865

Question 92

In what year was the airplane invented

Answer 92

1903 CE

Question 93

In what year was the American Civil War fought

Answer 93

1861-1865

Question 94

In what year was the American Revolution fought

Answer 94

1775-1783 CE

Question 95

In what year was the automobile invented

Answer 95

1885 CE

Question 96

In what year was the Battle of Gettysburg fought

Answer 96

1863

Question 97

In what year was the Berlin Wall built

Answer 97

1961 CE

Question 98

In what year was the Berlin Wall demolished

Answer 98

1989 CE

Question 99

In what year was the Bill of Rights ratified

Answer 99

1791 CE

Question 100

In what year was the compass invented

Answer 100

11th century CE

Question 101

In what year was the computer invented

Answer 101

1940s CE

Question 102

In what year was the Declaration of Independence signed

Answer 102

1776

Question 103

In what year was the English Bill of Rights enacted

Answer 103

1689

Question 104

In what year was the European Union founded

Answer 104

1993

Question 105

In what year was the first 3D-printed object created

Answer 105

1986 CE

Question 106

In what year was the first antibiotic discovered

Answer 106

1928 CE (Penicillin by Alexander Fleming)

Question 107

In what year was the first artificial heart implanted in a human

Answer 107

1982 CE

Question 108

In what year was the first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, launched into space

Answer 108

1957 CE

Question 109

In what year was the first artificial sweetener discovered

Answer 109

1879 CE (Saccharin)

Question 110

In what year was the first atomic bomb detonated

Answer 110

1945 CE

Question 111

In what year was the first book printed using movable type

Answer 111

Around 1455 CE

Question 112

In what year was the first car with airbags introduced

Answer 112

1968 CE

Question 113

In what year was the first cell phone call made

Answer 113

1973 CE

Question 114

In what year was the first commercial passenger jet aircraft introduced

Answer 114

1958 CE (Boeing 707)

Question 115

In what year was the first CT scan performed

Answer 115

1972 CE

Question 116

In what year was the first DNA molecule structure discovered

Answer 116

1953 CE

Question 117

In what year was the first electric car commercially available

Answer 117

1996 CE (General Motors EV1)

Question 118

In what year was the first electric light bulb invented

Answer 118

1879 CE

Question 119

In what year was the first email sent

Answer 119

1971 CE

Question 120

In what year was the first fluorescent light bulb invented

Answer 120

1857 CE

Question 121

In what year was the first GPS satellite launched

Answer 121

1978 CE

Question 122

In what year was the first heart transplant performed

Answer 122

1967 CE

Question 123

In what year was the first human genome sequenced

Answer 123

2003 CE

Question 124

In what year was the first human heart transplant performed

Answer 124

1967 CE

Question 125

In what year was the first human to land on the moon

Answer 125

1969 CE

Question 126

In what year was the first incandescent light bulb invented

Answer 126

1879 CE

Question 127

In what year was the first integrated circuit invented

Answer 127

1958 CE

Question 128

In what year was the first internet browser released

Answer 128

1990 CE (WorldWideWeb)

Question 129

In what year was the first iPad released

Answer 129

2010 CE

Question 130

In what year was the first iPhone released

Answer 130

2007 CE

Question 131

In what year was the first laser invented

Answer 131

1960 CE

Question 132

In what year was the first microprocessor invented

Answer 132

1971 CE

Question 133

In what year was the first motion picture shown to the public

Answer 133

1895 CE (by the Lumière brothers)

Question 134

In what year was the first MRI scan performed

Answer 134

1977 CE

Question 135

In what year was the first newspaper published

Answer 135

1605 CE

Question 136

In what year was the first online auction site launched

Answer 136

1995 CE (eBay)

Question 137

In what year was the first online streaming service launched

Answer 137

1997 CE (Netflix)

Question 138

In what year was the first personal computer released

Answer 138

1975 CE (Altair 8800)

Question 139

In what year was the first photograph taken

Answer 139

1826 CE (by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce)

Question 140

In what year was the first plastic invented

Answer 140

1862 CE (Parkesine)

Question 141

In what year was the first polio vaccine developed

Answer 141

1952 CE

Question 142

In what year was the first practical steam engine invented

Answer 142

1712 CE (by Thomas Newcomen)

Question 143

In what year was the first radio broadcast made

Answer 143

1895 CE

Question 144

In what year was the first satellite launched into space

Answer 144

1957 CE

Question 145

In what year was the first search engine created

Answer 145

1990 CE (Archie)

Question 146

In what year was the first self-driving car invented

Answer 146

1987 CE

Question 147

In what year was the first smartphone released

Answer 147

1992 CE (IBM Simon)

Question 148

In what year was the first social media platform launched

Answer 148

1997 CE (SixDegrees.com)

Question 149

In what year was the first successful blood transfusion performed

Answer 149

1818 CE

Question 150

In what year was the first successful hot air balloon flight made

Answer 150

1783 CE

Question 151

In what year was the first successful human-to-human organ transplant occur

Answer 151

1954 CE (Kidney)

Question 152

In what year was the first successful in vitro fertilization (IVF) procedure performed

Answer 152

1978 CE

Question 153

In what year was the first successful kidney transplant performed

Answer 153

1954 CE

Question 154

In what year was the first supersonic passenger jet introduced

Answer 154

1969 CE (Concorde)

Question 155

In what year was the first tablet computer released

Answer 155

2001 CE (Apple Newton)

Question 156

In what year was the first television broadcast made

Answer 156

1928 CE

Question 157

In what year was the first text message sent

Answer 157

1992 CE

Question 158

In what year was the first TikTok video uploaded

Answer 158

2016 CE

Question 159

In what year was the first transistor invented

Answer 159

1947 CE

Question 160

In what year was the first vaccine developed

Answer 160

1796 CE (Smallpox vaccine by Edward Jenner)

Question 161

In what year was the first video game console released

Answer 161

1972 CE (Magnavox Odyssey)

Question 162

In what year was the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen adopted

Answer 162

1789 CE

Question 163

In what year was the French Revolution

Answer 163

1789-1799

Question 164

In what year was the Gutenberg Bible printed

Answer 164

Around 1455 CE

Question 165

In what year was the Hubble Space Telescope launched into orbit

Answer 165

1990 CE

Question 166

In what year was the Hubble Space Telescope launched into orbit

Answer 166

1990 CE

Question 167

In what year was the internet created

Answer 167

1960s CE

Question 168

In what year was the internet invented

Answer 168

1960s CE

Question 169

In what year was the light bulb invented

Answer 169

1879 CE

Question 170

In what year was the Magna Carta signed

Answer 170

1215

Question 171

In what year was the Mexican-American War fought

Answer 171

1846-1848

Question 172

In what year was the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) founded

Answer 172

1949

Question 173

In what year was the printing press invented

Answer 173

Around 1440 CE

Question 174

In what year was the steam engine invented

Answer 174

1712 CE

Question 175

In what year was the telephone invented

Answer 175

1876 CE

Question 176

In what year was the television invented

Answer 176

1927 CE

Question 177

In what year was the Transcontinental Railroad completed in the United States

Answer 177

1869

Question 178

In what year was the United Nations founded

Answer 178

1945

Question 179

In what year was the United States Constitution ratified

Answer 179

1788

Question 180

In what year was the Warsaw Pact signed

Answer 180

1955

Question 181

In what year was the World Wide Web invented

Answer 181

1989 CE

Question 182

What year did the Carthaginian civilization flourish

Answer 182

9th century BCE to 146 BCE

Question 183

What year did the Chavin civilization flourish

Answer 183

900 BCE to 200 BCE

Question 184

What year did the Classical period in Greece occur

Answer 184

500 BCE to 323 BCE

Question 185

What year was the Battle of Thermopylae fought

Answer 185

480 BCE

Question 186

What year was the Colosseum in Rome completed

Answer 186

80 CE

Question 187

What year was the Great Pyramid of Giza constructed

Answer 187

c. 2560 BCE

Question 188

What year was the Parthenon in Athens completed

Answer 188

432 BCE

Question 189

When did the AIDS epidemic begin

Answer 189

1981 CE to present

Question 190

When did the American Civil War occur

Answer 190

1861 CE to 1865 CE

Question 191

When did the American Revolution occur

Answer 191

1775 CE to 1783 CE

Question 192

When did the Arab Spring begin

Answer 192

2010 CE to present

Question 193

When did the Archaic period in Greece occur

Answer 193

800 BCE to 500 BCE

Question 194

When did the Aztec Empire reach its peak

Answer 194

15th century CE

Question 195

When did the Black Death occur

Answer 195

1347 CE to 1351 CE

Question 196

When did the Byzantine Empire exist

Answer 196

330 CE to 1453 CE

Question 197

When did the Carolingian Empire exist

Answer 197

751 CE to 843 CE

Question 198

When did the Carthaginian civilization flourish

Answer 198

9th century BCE to 146 BCE

Question 199

When did the Chavin civilization flourish

Answer 199

900 BCE to 200 BCE

Question 200

When did the Classical period in Greece occur

Answer 200

500 BCE to 323 BCE

Question 201

When did the COVID-19 pandemic begin

Answer 201

2019 CE to present

Question 202

When did the Cuban Missile Crisis occur

Answer 202

1962 CE

Question 203

When did the Delhi Sultanate exist

Answer 203

1206 CE to 1526 CE

Question 204

When did the Egyptian civilization flourish

Answer 204

3100 BCE to 30 BCE

Question 205

When did the French Revolution occur

Answer 205

1789 CE to 1799 CE

Question 206

When did the Greek Dark Ages occur

Answer 206

1100 BCE to 800 BCE

Question 207

When did the Gupta Empire in India reach its peak

Answer 207

4th century CE

Question 208

When did the Hellenistic period in Greece occur

Answer 208

323 BCE to 31 BCE

Question 209

When did the Holy Roman Empire exist

Answer 209

962 CE to 1806 CE

Question 210

When did the Inca Empire reach its peak

Answer 210

15th century CE

Question 211

When did the Indus Valley Civilization flourish

Answer 211

2600 BCE to 1900 BCE

Question 212

When did the Industrial Revolution occur

Answer 212

1760 CE to 1840 CE

Question 213

When did the Iraq War occur

Answer 213

2003 CE to 2011 CE

Question 214

When did the Kaaba exist

Answer 214

6th century BCE

Question 215

When did the Khmer Empire exist

Answer 215

802 CE to 1431 CE

Question 216

When did the Korean War occur

Answer 216

1950 CE to 1953 CE

Question 217

When did the Mayan civilization flourish

Answer 217

250 CE to 900 CE

Question 218

When did the Mesopotamian civilization flourish

Answer 218

3300 BCE to 750 BCE

Question 219

When did the Minoan civilization flourish

Answer 219

2700 BCE to 1450 BCE

Question 220

When did the Mongol Empire exist

Answer 220

1206 CE to 1368 CE

Question 221

When did the Mughal Empire exist

Answer 221

1526 CE to 1857 CE

Question 222

When did the Mycenaean civilization flourish

Answer 222

1600 BCE to 1100 BCE

Question 223

When did the Nok civilization flourish

Answer 223

1500 BCE to 200 CE

Question 224

When did the Olmec civilization flourish

Answer 224

1200 BCE to 400 BCE

Question 225

When did the Ottoman Empire exist

Answer 225

1299 CE to 1922 CE

Question 226

When did the Persian Empire reach its peak

Answer 226

550 BCE to 330 BCE

Question 227

When did the Phoenician civilization flourish

Answer 227

1500 BCE to 300 BCE

Question 228

When did the Roman Republic exist

Answer 228

509 BCE to 27 BCE

Question 229

When did the Rwandan Genocide occur

Answer 229

1994 CE

Question 230

When did the Safavid Empire exist

Answer 230

1501 CE to 1722 CE

Question 231

When did the September 11th attacks occur

Answer 231

2001 CE

Question 232

When did the Silk Road begin to flourish

Answer 232

2nd century BCE

Question 233

When did the Soviet Union collapse

Answer 233

1991 CE

Question 234

When did the Space Race occur

Answer 234

1957 CE to 1975 CE

Question 235

When did the Spanish Flu pandemic occur

Answer 235

1918 CE to 1920 CE

Question 236

When did the Syrian Civil War begin

Answer 236

2011 CE to present

Question 237

When did the Tiananmen Square protests and massacre occur

Answer 237

1989 CE

Question 238

When did the Vietnam War occur

Answer 238

1955 CE to 1975 CE

Question 239

When did the Vijayanagara Empire exist

Answer 239

1336 CE to 1646 CE

Question 240

When did World War I occur

Answer 240

1914 CE to 1918 CE

Question 241

When did World War II occur

Answer 241

1939 CE to 1945 CE

Question 242

When was Big Ben built

Answer 242

1859 CE

Question 243

When was the Angkor Wat temple complex built

Answer 243

1113 CE to 1150 CE

Question 244

When was the Borobudur temple complex built

Answer 244

8th century CE

Question 245

When was the Colosseum built

Answer 245

80 CE

Question 246

When was the Dome of the Rock built

Answer 246

691 CE

Question 247

When was the Eiffel Tower built

Answer 247

1889 CE

Question 248

When was the Empire State Building built

Answer 248

1931 CE

Question 249

When was the Forbidden City built

Answer 249

1420 CE

Question 250

When was the Golden Gate Bridge built

Answer 250

1937 CE

Question 251

When was the Great Mosque of Damascus built

Answer 251

705 CE

Question 252

When was the Hagia Sophia built

Answer 252

537 CE

Question 253

When was the Notre Dame Cathedral built

Answer 253

1163 CE

Question 254

When was the Panama Canal built

Answer 254

1914 CE

Question 255

When was the Pantheon built

Answer 255

126 CE

Question 256

When was the Parthenon built

Answer 256

432 BCE

Question 257

When was the St. Basil’s Cathedral built

Answer 257

1555 CE

Question 258

When was the Statue of Liberty erected

Answer 258

1886 CE

Question 259

When was the Suez Canal built

Answer 259

1869 CE

Question 260

When was the Taj Mahal built

Answer 260

1632 CE

Question 261

When was the Terracotta Army created

Answer 261

3rd century BCE

Question 262

When was the Transcontinental Railroad completed

Answer 262

1869 CE