History Flashcards April 2015

Question 1

Dante finishes the Commedia

Answer 1

1321

Question 2

Great Hunger

Answer 2

1315

Question 3

Hundred Years War

Answer 3

1337 - 1453

Question 4

Black Death

Answer 4

1347 - 1351

Question 5

Medici Family Takes Control of Florence

Answer 5

1434

Question 6

Gutenberg invents the printing press

Answer 6

1450

Question 7

Ottoman Turks Capture Constantinople

Answer 7

1453

Question 8

End of Reconquista in Spain

Answer 8

1492

Question 9

Columbus Discovers America

Answer 9

1492

Question 10

Italian Wars begin

Answer 10

1494

Question 11

Luther posts his 95 Theses

Answer 11

1517

Question 12

Charles V becomes Holy Roman Emporer

Answer 12

1519

Question 13

Luther condemned by Council of Worms

Answer 13

1521

Question 14

English Act of Supremacy

Answer 14

1534

Question 15

Loyalty found the Jesuits

Answer 15

1540

Question 16

Copernicus writes on The Revolutions of the Heavens

Answer 16

1543

Question 17

Council of Trent meets

Answer 17

1543-1563

Question 18

Reign of Mary Tudor in England

Answer 18

1553-1558

Question 19

Peace of Augsburg

Answer 19

1555

Question 20

Reign of Philip II of Spain

Answer 20

1556-1598

Question 21

Calvin’s Final Version of the Institutes

Answer 21

1559

Question 22

Wars of Religion in France

Answer 22

1562-1598

Question 23

Spanish Armada defeated

Answer 23

1588

Question 24

Dutch East India Company founded

Answer 24

1602

Question 25

Jamestown Founded

Answer 25

1607

Question 26

Quebec founded

Answer 26

1608

Question 27

Thirty Years War

Answer 27

1618 - 1648

Question 28

Dutch founded New Neatherland

Answer 28

1621

Question 29

Galileo writes Dialogue on the Two World Systems

Answer 29

1632

Question 30

English Civil Wars

Answer 30

1642 - 1649

Question 31

Hobbes writes Leviathan

Answer 31

1651

Question 32

Reign of Louis XIV in France

Answer 32

1643 - 1715

Question 33

England takes over Jamaica

Answer 33

1655

Question 34

French take over Haiti

Answer 34

1664

Question 35

Versailles palace completed

Answer 35

1682

Question 36

Newton writes Principia Mathematica

Answer 36

1687

Question 37

"Glorious Revolution" in England

Answer 37

1688

Question 38

War of the League of Augsburg

Answer 38

1688 - 1697

Question 39

Locke publishes Two Treaties of Government

Answer 39

1690

Question 40

War of the Spanish Succession

Answer 40

1701 - 1714

Question 41

Tsar Peter the Great begins building St. Petersburg

Answer 41

1703

Question 42

Voltaire leaves France

Answer 42

1734

Question 43

Maria Theresa inherits the Austrian throne

Answer 43

1740

Question 44

Seven Years War

Answer 44

1756 - 1763

Question 45

Catherine "the great" rules Russia

Answer 45

1762 - 1796

Question 46

Stamp Act taxes England's American Colonists

Answer 46

1765

Question 47

Richard Arkwright invents the water frame

Answer 47

1769

Question 48

American War of Independence

Answer 48

1775 - 1783

Question 49

13 colonies declare independence from England

Answer 49

1776

Question 50

France allies with US in War of Indpendence

Answer 50

1778

Question 51

James Watt invents continuous rotary steam engine

Answer 51

1781

Question 52

13 states unite under Articles of Confederation

Answer 52

1781 - 1788

Question 53

Washington resigns his military commission

Answer 53

1783

Question 54

US constitutional convention meets in Philadelphia

Answer 54

1787

Question 55

George Washington is President of US

Answer 55

1789 - 1797

Question 56

Louis XVI calls the Estates-General in France

Answer 56

1789

Question 57

Storming of the Bastilles in France

Answer 57

1789

Question 58

Great Fear and abolition of feudal priviledge in France

Answer 58

1789

Question 59

Wars of the French Revolution

Answer 59

1792 - 1815

Question 60

Monarchy Abolished in France, Yr 1 of the Republic

Answer 60

1792

Question 61

Louis XVI executed

Answer 61

1793

Question 62

Reign of Terror in France

Answer 62

1793 - 1794

Question 63

Napoleon's Italian Campaign

Answer 63

1796-1797

Question 64

Napoleon becomes First Consul of French Republic

Answer 64

1799

Question 65

President Jefferson buys Louisiana Territory from France

Answer 65

1803

Question 66

Napoleon becomes Emporer of the French People

Answer 66

1804

Question 67

Battle of Trafalgar

Answer 67

1805

Question 68

The Peninsular War

Answer 68

1808-1814

Question 69

Simon Bolivar's independence movement begins in Venezuela

Answer 69

1811

Question 70

Napoleon's invasion of Russia

Answer 70

1812

Question 71

British Parliament authorizes the Gas Light & Coke Company in London

Answer 71

1812

Question 72

War of 1812

Answer 72

1812 - 1815

Question 73

Napoleon's First Defeat

Answer 73

1813 - 1814

Question 74

Congress of Vienna

Answer 74

1814 - 1815

Question 75

Napoleon's final defeat at Waterloo

Answer 75

1815

Question 76

The congress of Vienna gives the Rhineland to Prussia

Answer 76

1815

Question 77

Stephenson's Rocket in Britain

Answer 77

1829

Question 78

Andrew Jackson president of US

Answer 78

1829 - 1837

Question 79

Liverpool-Manchester Railway opens

Answer 79

1830

Question 80

Greek Independence

Answer 80

1830

Question 81

Indian Removal in US

Answer 81

1831 - 1837

Question 82

SS Great Western launched, first regular transAtlantic steamship

Answer 82

1838

Question 83

Year of Revolution across Europe

Answer 83

1848

Question 84

The Risorgimento unifies Italy

Answer 84

1860-1861

Question 85

Seven Weeks War

Answer 85

1866

Question 86

Franco Prussian War

Answer 86

1870-1871

Question 87

German Unification, King of Prussia becomes Kaiser

Answer 87

1871