Important Dates

Question 1

Black Death

Answer 1

1348-1351

Question 2

Council of Constance burns Hus and ends Great Schism

Answer 2

1415-17

Question 3

Fall of Constantinople; end of Hundred Years’ War

Answer 3

1453

Question 4

Invention of printing press

Answer 4

1455

Question 5

Columbus encounters America; completion of reconquista in Spain

Answer 5

1492

Question 6

Luther posts 95 Theses

Answer 6

1517

Question 7

Cortez conquers Aztecs

Answer 7

1519

Question 8

Act of Supremacy in England creates Anglican Church

Answer 8

1534

Question 9

Calvin establishes reformed faith in Geneva

Answer 9

1536

Question 10

Copernicus publishes heliocentric theory

Answer 10

1543

Question 11

Council of Trent opens

Answer 11

1543

Question 12

Peace of Augsburg ends religious war in Germany; Charles V abdicates

Answer 12

1555

Question 13

Defeat of Spanish Armada

Answer 13

1588

Question 14

Edict of Nantes ends French religious wars

Answer 14

1598

Question 15

Dutch East India Company founded

Answer 15

1600

Question 16

Stuart monarchy begins in England

Answer 16

1603

Question 17

Peace of Westphalia ends Thirty Years’ War

Answer 17

1648

Question 18

Charles I executed in England

Answer 18

1649

Question 19

Newton publishes Principia Mathematica

Answer 19

1687

Question 20

Glorious Revolution; Peter the Great’s reign begins in Russia

Answer 20

1688-1689

Question 21

Bank of England founded

Answer 21

1694

Question 22

Peace of Utrecht; Death of Louis XIV

Answer 22

1713-1715

Question 23

War of Austrian Succession begins

Answer 23

1740

Question 24

Treaty of Paris ends Seven Years’ War

Answer 24

1763

Question 25

American Revolution; Smith publishes Wealth of NAtions

Answer 25

1776

Question 26

French Revolution begins

Answer 26

1789

Question 27

Wollstonecraft begins feminist movement with Vindication of Rights of Women

Answer 27

1792

Question 28

Napoleon comes to power in France

Answer 28

1799

Question 29

Abdication of Napoleon; Congress of Vienna

Answer 29

1815

Question 30

Revolution in France; Belgian and Greek independence

Answer 30

1830-1831

Question 31

Revolutions of 1848; Marx and Engels publish Communist Manifesto

Answer 31

1848

Question 32

Crystal Palace Exhibition in Britain

Answer 32

1851

Question 33

Britain establishes direct rule of India

Answer 33

1857

Question 34

Darwin publishes Origin of the Species

Answer 34

1859

Question 35

Italy unified; Russian serfs emancipated

Answer 35

1861

Question 36

Unification of Germany; Paris Commune and Third Republic in France

Answer 36

1871

Question 37

Berlin Conference over imperialism in Africa

Answer 37

1884-1885

Question 38

Freud publishes Interpretation of Dreams

Answer 38

1900

Question 39

Einstein publishes relativity theory; Revolution of 1905 in Russia

Answer 39

1905

Question 40

World War I begins

Answer 40

1914

Question 41

Bolshevik Revolution in Russia

Answer 41

1917

Question 42

Treaty of Versailles ends World War I

Answer 42

1919

Question 43

Fascists and Mussolini come to power in Italy

Answer 43

1922

Question 44

Great Depression begins

Answer 44

1929

Question 45

Hitler comes to power in Germany

Answer 45

1933

Question 46

Munich Conference - height of appeasement

Answer 46

1938

Question 47

World War II begins

Answer 47

1939

Question 48

World War II ends; United Nations founded

Answer 48

1945

Question 49

NATO founded

Answer 49

1949

Question 50

European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) formed

Answer 50

1951

Question 51

Stalin dies

Answer 51

1953

Question 52

Khrushchev's de-Stalinization speech; Hungary revolt

Answer 52

1956

Question 53

Treat of Rome creates European Economic Community (EEC); Sputnik launched

Answer 53

1957

Question 54

Fifth Republic in France under DeGaulle

Answer 54

1958

Question 55

Berlin Wall erected

Answer 55

1961

Question 56

Cuban Missile Crisis

Answer 56

1962

Question 57

Second Vatican Council begins

Answer 57

1962

Question 58

Student revolts; Czech "Prague Spring" revolt

Answer 58

1968

Question 59

Helsinki Accords - height of detente

Answer 59

1975

Question 60

John Paul II elected pope

Answer 60

1978

Question 61

Soviet Union invades Afghanistan; Thatcher elected prime minister in Britain

Answer 61

1979

Question 62

Solidarity founded in Poland

Answer 62

1980

Question 63

Gorbachev comes to power in Soviet Union

Answer 63

1985

Question 64

Berlin Wall falls and collapse of communism

Answer 64

1989

Question 65

Break up of Soviet Union; Balkan conflicts begin in former Yugoslavia

Answer 65

1991

Question 66

Maastricht Treaty creates European Union (EU_

Answer 66

1992

Question 67

Euro currency introduced

Answer 67

1999

Question 68

Terrorist attacks on United States

Answer 68

2001