Key historical dates

Question 1

When was ancient Egypt unified into a single kingdom?

Answer 1

3200 BC

Question 2

When did Alexander the Great conquer Egypt?

Answer 2

332 BC

Question 3

When was the Bronze Age Collapse in the Middle East?

Answer 3

Around 1200 BC

Question 4

When did the Indus civilisation emerge in India?

Answer 4

Around 2500 BC

Question 5

When did the Greeks defeat the Persians at the Battle of Marathon?

Answer 5

490 BC

Question 6

When did Alexander the Great defeat the Persian Empire?

Answer 6

330 BC

Question 7

When did the Roman Emperor Constantine convert to Christianity?

Answer 7

313 AD

Question 8

When did Hannibal defeat the Romans at the Battle of Cannae?

Answer 8

216 BC

Question 9

When did the Romans destroy Carthage at the end of the Third Punic War?

Answer 9

146 BC

Question 10

What is the traditional date for the founding of Rome?

Answer 10

753 BC

Question 11

In what year was Julius Caesar assassinated?

Answer 11

44 BC

Question 12

When did Augustus become the first Roman emperor?

Answer 12

27 BC

Question 13

When did the Visigoths sack Rome?

Answer 13

410 AD

Question 14

In what year did the founder of Islam, Muhammed, die?

Answer 14

632 AD

Question 15

When did the Ottoman Turks capture Constantinople (Istanbul)?

Answer 15

1453 AD

Question 16

In what year did the Frankish King Charles Martel defeat an Islamic army at the Battle of Poitiers?

Answer 16

732 AD

Question 17

When was the first major Viking raid (on the island monastery of Lindisfarne in north-east England)?

Answer 17

793 AD

Question 18

When was the First Crusade?

Answer 18

1097-1099

Question 19

When did Genghis Khan capture Zhongdu (now Beijing)?

Answer 19

1215

Question 20

When did the Black Death hit Europe?

Answer 20

1347

Question 21

When did the Normans conquer England?

Answer 21

1066

Question 22

When was Domesday Book completed?

Answer 22

1086

Question 23

When was the Hundred Years War?

Answer 23

1337-1453

Question 24

When did King Henry V of England defeat the French at Agincourt?

Answer 24

1415

Question 25

When was the mechanical printing press invented by Gutenberg?

Answer 25

1450

Question 26

When did Martin Luther begin his protest against the Catholic Church that sparked the Reformation?

Answer 26

1517

Question 27

When did Henry VIII of England break away from the Roman Catholic Church?

Answer 27

1534

Question 28

When was the Thirty Years War?

Answer 28

1618-48

Question 29

When did Christopher Columbus discover America?

Answer 29

1492

Question 30

When was the Spanish Armada defeated?

Answer 30

1588

Question 31

When was the First English Civil War?

Answer 31

1642-46

Question 32

When was King Charles I executed?

Answer 32

1649

Question 33

When did the European powers divide up Africa at the Berlin Conference?

Answer 33

1884

Question 34

When was the Boer War?

Answer 34

1899-1902

Question 35

When was the Taiping Rebellion in China?

Answer 35

1850-64

Question 36

When was the Seven Years War?

Answer 36

1756-63

Question 37

When was the French Revolution?

Answer 37

1789-1799

Question 38

When did Napoleon seize power in France?

Answer 38

1799

Question 39

When was the Battle of Waterloo?

Answer 39

1815

Question 40

When did the Industrial Revolution begin?

Answer 40

Late 18th century

Question 41

When did George Stephenson build The Rocket, the world’s first passenger steam train?

Answer 41

1825

Question 42

When did Marx and Engels publish The Communist Manifesto?

Answer 42

1848

Question 43

When was the Franco-Prussian War?

Answer 43

1870-71

Question 44

When was the American War of Independence?

Answer 44

1775-83

Question 45

When was the American Civil War?

Answer 45

1861-65

Question 46

When was the First World War?

Answer 46

1914-18

Question 47

When did Mao lead the Long March?

Answer 47

1934

Question 48

When was the People’s Democratic Republic of China created?

Answer 48

1949

Question 49

When was the Russian Revolution?

Answer 49

1917

Question 50

When did women achieve the vote in the UK?

Answer 50

1918

Question 51

When did Hitler come to power as Chancellor of Germany?

Answer 51

1934

Question 52

When was the Second World War?

Answer 52

1939-45

Question 53

When was the Wall Street Crash, signalling the start of the Great Depression?

Answer 53

1929

Question 54

When was the Cuban Missile Crisis?

Answer 54

1962

Question 55

When did the USSR launch Sputnik, the first satellite, into orbit?

Answer 55

1957

Question 56

When did Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin become the first people to walk on the Moon?

Answer 56

1969

Question 57

When did Martin Luther King give his ‘I have a dream’ speech in Washington, D.C.?

Answer 57

1963

Question 58

When did the USA fight the Vietnam War?

Answer 58

1964-73

Question 59

When was the Cultural Revolution in China?

Answer 59

1966

Question 60

When was Britain humiliated in the Suez Crisis?

Answer 60

1956

Question 61

When was the fall of the Berlin Wall?

Answer 61

1989

Question 62

When did the break-up of the USSR signal the end of the Cold War?

Answer 62

1991

Question 63

When were the 9/11 attacks against the USA?

Answer 63

2001

Question 64

When was the World Wide Web invented?

Answer 64

1991