Landmark Years

Question 1

146 BCE

Answer 1

Rome became sole superpower

Question 2

313 CE

Answer 2

Constantine accepts Christianity

Question 3

330

Answer 3

Constantine changed the capital of Rome to Constantinople in the east

Question 4

380

Answer 4

Christianity is made the official religion of Rome

Question 5

476

Answer 5

Fall of Roman empire in the West

Question 6

800

Answer 6

Charlemagne creates an empire

Question 7

962

Answer 7

Otto I (Otto the Great) crowned king of Holy Roman Empire

Question 8

987

Answer 8

Hugh Capet crowned king of France

Question 9

1054

Answer 9

The Great Schism - Orthodox and Christianity separated

Question 10

1066

Answer 10

William the Conqueror starts what will become England

Question 11

1215

Answer 11

King John (of England) accepts the Magna Carta which limits his power a tiny bit.

Question 12

1347

Answer 12

Bubonic Plague

Question 13

1492

Answer 13

Colombus discovers the new world

Question 14

1517

Answer 14

Martin Luther posts his complaints about the Catholic church which begins the reformation.

Question 15

1588

Answer 15

Admiral Drake defeats the Spanish Armada

Other countries now begin to colonize new world

Question 16

1607

Answer 16

Jamestown, VA

First English settlement in North America

Question 17

1648

Answer 17

End of 30 years war (last religious war)

Question 18

1649

Answer 18

Execution of Charles I (Parliament wont the civil war)

Question 19

1660

Answer 19

Restoration of the monarchy 
Charles II (son of Charles I) is made king

Question 20

1688

Answer 20

Glorious (Bloodless) Revolution - overthrows king without execution
(replaced with joint monarchs) (England)

Question 21

1776

Answer 21

American Revolution (Americans declare independence)

Question 22

1789

Answer 22

French revolution begins

Question 23

1799

Answer 23

Napoleon takes over France (end of revolution)

Question 24

1815

Answer 24

Napoleon exiled to St. Helena

Battle of Waterloo

Question 25

1848

Answer 25

Year of revolutions

Communist Manifesto published

Question 26

1871

Answer 26

Unified Germany (second Reich)

Question 27

1914

Answer 27

Beginning of WWI

Question 28

1917

Answer 28

Communist revolution in Russia

Question 29

1933

Answer 29

Hitler becomes chancellor in Germany (Third Reich)

Question 30

1939

Answer 30

WWII begins in Europe (German invasion of Poland)

Question 31

1945

Answer 31

Atomic bombs are dropped

WWII Ends

Question 32

1961

Answer 32

Berlin Wall built

Question 33

1962

Answer 33

Cuban missile crisis

Question 34

1989

Answer 34

Fall of Berlin wall

Question 35

1991

Answer 35

End of Cold war (Soviet Union disbands)

Question 36

2001

Answer 36

Sept. 11