Important Dates

Question 1

Ponce de León landed on the Florida peninsula

Answer 1

1513

Question 2

Martin Luther’s 95 Theses*

Answer 2

1517

Question 3

Papal bull Sublimis Deus (Pope Paul III)

Answer 3

1537

Question 4

St. Augustine founded*

Answer 4

1565

Question 5

Defeat of the Spanish Armada

Answer 5

1588

Question 6

Jamestown established*

Answer 6

1607

Question 7

Santa Fe established

Answer 7

1610

Question 8

Church of England established in Virginia

Answer 8

1619

Question 9

Mayflower lands at Plymouth Rock*

Answer 9

1620

Question 10

Massachusetts Bay Colony established*

Answer 10

1630

Question 11

Harvard established

Answer 11

1636

Question 12

Roger Williams founded Providence, Rhode Island

Answer 12

1636

Question 13

Toleration Act (in Maryland)

Answer 13

1649

Question 14

Popés revolt

Answer 14

1680

Question 15

England’s “Glorious Revolution” - William and Mary (Protestants) assume the throne

Answer 15

1688

Question 16

England’s Declaration of Religious Toleration (excluding Catholics)

Answer 16

1689

Question 17

College of William and Mary established

Answer 17

1693

Question 18

Mobile established

Answer 18

1702

Question 19

Great Awakening*

Answer 19

1740s

Question 20

Suppression of the Jesuits begins in France

Answer 20

1763

Question 21

Treaty of Paris

Answer 21

1783

Question 22

American Methodist’s break with the Church of England

Answer 22

1784

Question 23

Virginia’s Statute of Religious Freedom

Answer 23

1786

Question 24

Bill of Rights added to the U.S Constitution

Answer 24

1791

Question 25

Rosetta Stone discovered in Egypt

Answer 25

1799

Question 26

Cane Ridge revival*

Answer 26

1801

Question 27

Plan of Union: Congregationalists and Presbyterians

Answer 27

1801

Question 28

Louisiana Purchase

Answer 28

1803

Question 29

Lewis and Clark expedition

Answer 29

1804-1806

Question 30

Joseph Smith is born in Sharon, Virginia*

Answer 30

1805

Question 31

Act to abolish slave trade in the British empire

Answer 31

1807

Question 32

Act to end the slave trade in the US*

Answer 32

1808

Question 33

Formation of the AME church

Answer 33

1816

Question 34

Formation of the AMEZ church

Answer 34

1821

Question 35

Eerie Canal opens

Answer 35

1825

Question 36

Nat Turner’s slave rebellion

Answer 36

1831

Question 37

Ireland’s Great Famine

Answer 37

1840s

Question 38

William Miller’s predicted dates of the second coming

Answer 38

1843-1844

Question 39

Joseph and Hyrum Smith are killed*

Answer 39

1844

Question 40

Creation of the Southern Baptist Convention*

Answer 40

1845

Question 41

Oregon Treaty

Answer 41

1846

Question 42

Mexican-American war

Answer 42

1846-1847

Question 43

Latter-day Saints settle in the Great Basin*

Answer 43

1847

Question 44

Formation of the Republican Party

Answer 44

1856

Question 45

Civil War*

Answer 45

1861-1865

Question 46

Emancipation Proclamation

Answer 46

1863

Question 47

George Reynolds Supreme Court Case

Answer 47

1878

Question 48

Wilford Woodruff issues the Manifesto

Answer 48

1890

Question 49

Utah becomes a state

Answer 49

1896

Question 50

Joseph F. Smith issues the Second Manifesto

Answer 50

1904

Question 51

Reed Smoot Senate hearings end

Answer 51

1907