big dates

Question 1

1348

Answer 1

Black Plague hits Europe, drives up the price of laborers, big disruption to social/political/economic activity

Question 2

1453

Answer 2

Turks take Constantinople, end of 100 Years War

Question 3

1455

Answer 3

Gutenburg Bible printed

Question 4

1469

Answer 4

Ferdinand and Isabella begin Spain unification

Question 5

1485

Answer 5

War of the Roses ends, Henry Tudor becomes Henry VII

Question 6

1492

Answer 6

Columbus goes to the Americas looking for a shortcut to India (Ottomans control land trade w/ Istanbul

Question 7

1517

Answer 7

Martin Luther - 95 Theses

Question 8

1519

Answer 8

Charles V becomes HRE, Euro scared of Hapsburg hegemony, Hapsburg supremacy 1519-1656

Question 9

1521

Answer 9

Diet of Worms

Question 10

1545

Answer 10

Turks siege Vienna (close call for Christian Europe)

Question 11

1555

Answer 11

Peace of Augsburg

Question 12

1588

Answer 12

Elizabeth I defeats Spanish Armada

Question 13

1589

Answer 13

Henry IV becomes first Bourbon king of France

Question 14

1598

Answer 14

Edict of Nantes

Question 15

1618-1648

Answer 15

30 Years War, last of religious wars, leaves Germany in shambles, France is strongest nation, Richelieu (works for Louis XIII) shows workings of power balance

Question 16

1648

Answer 16

Peace of Westphalia

Question 17

1642-1648

Answer 17

English Civil War, Oliver Cromwell takes over

Question 18

1643-1715

Answer 18

Louis XIV (Sun King) rules with the help of Mazarin

Question 19

1660

Answer 19

Restoration of the Stuarts in England

Question 20

1688

Answer 20

Glorious Revolution

Question 21

1701-1714

Answer 21

War of Spanish Succession, ends in Peace of Utrecht which creates the Kingdom of Prussia, France severely weakened, England now strongest country

Question 22

1720

Answer 22

“bubbles” burst in England and France

Question 23

1740

Answer 23

Frederick II (The Great) begins reign in Prussia

Question 24

1740-1748

Answer 24

War of Austrian Succession, Fred seizes Silesia but Maria Theresa of Austria keeps her throne

Question 25

1756-1763

Answer 25

Seven Years War, ends in Peace of Paris

Question 26

1772

Answer 26

First Partition of Poland ("Poor Poland")

Question 27

1776

Answer 27

American Revolution begins and Adam Smith writes Wealth of Nations

Question 28

1789

Answer 28

French Revolution begins

Question 29

1793

Answer 29

Second Partition of Poland

Question 30

1795

Answer 30

Third Partition of Poland

Question 31

1804

Answer 31

Napoleon proclaims himself Emperor

Question 32

1806

Answer 32

HRE finally ends, German Confederation

Question 33

1815

Answer 33

Congress of Vienna restructures Europe after Napoleonic Wars

Question 34

1830

Answer 34

July Revolution removes Bourbons from France and replaces them with Louis Philippe

Question 35

1832

Answer 35

first English Reform Bill

Question 36

1846

Answer 36

Corn Laws repealed in England

Question 37

1848

Answer 37

Karl Marx writes the Communist Manifesto

Question 38

1852-1870

Answer 38

lot of Euro revolutions, Metternich flees to England, Louis Philippe ousted and replaced by Louis Napoleon Bonaparte (beginning of Second Republic)

Question 39

1853-1856

Answer 39

Crimean War

Question 40

1859

Answer 40

Darwin's Origin of Species is published

Question 41

1861

Answer 41

Alexander II frees the serfs in Russia, Italian unification (excluding papal states)

Question 42

1867

Answer 42

formation of the Dual Monarchy (A-H), Seven Weeks War

Question 43

1870

Answer 43

Franco-Prussian War, German unification, French Third Republic

Question 44

1878

Answer 44

Berlin Congress settles problems between Russia and Ottoman Empire

Question 45

1885

Answer 45

Berlin Conference, Euro powers carve up Africa

Question 46

1890

Answer 46

Bismarck is fired by Kaiser William II

Question 47

1894

Answer 47

Dreyfus Case in France

Question 48

1899-1902

Answer 48

Boer War

Question 49

1904-1905

Answer 49

Russo-Japanese War

Question 50

1905

Answer 50

Bloody Sunday

Question 51

1912-1913

Answer 51

Balkan Wars (two)

Question 52

1914-1918

Answer 52

WWI, ended by Treaty of Versailles

Question 53

1917

Answer 53

Russian Revolution, civil war continues until 1920, Balfour Decision

Question 54

1922

Answer 54

Mussolini takes over Italy

Question 55

1929

Answer 55

Great Depression begins

Question 56

1933

Answer 56

Hitler comes to power

Question 57

1935

Answer 57

Nuremberg Laws passed

Question 58

1936

Answer 58

Spanish Civil War

Question 59

1939

Answer 59

WWII begins

Question 60

1941

Answer 60

7th December - Japan bombs Pearl Harbour

Question 61

1944

Answer 61

6th June - D-Day

Question 62

1945

Answer 62

FDR dies, WWII ends, atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Question 63

1947

Answer 63

Marshall Plan, India and Pakistan gain independence

Question 64

1948

Answer 64

Israel created, Apartheid instituted in South Africa

Question 65

1949

Answer 65

Communist Chinese win civil war, NATO organised

Question 66

1950-1953

Answer 66

Korean War

Question 67

1950-1954

Answer 67

defeat at Dien Bien Phu leads to French departure from Vietnam, enter USA

Question 68

1961

Answer 68

Berlin Wall constructed

Question 69

1989

Answer 69

end of communist regimes in Eastern Euro

Question 70

1991

Answer 70

dissolution of the Soviet Union