Dates 1453-1859

Question 1

1455

Answer 1

Gutenberg’s Printing Press

Question 2

1492

Answer 2

Spanish Reconquista, Colubus, expulsion of Sephardic Jews

Question 3

1513

Answer 3

Machiavelli’s The Prince

Question 4

1517

Answer 4

Luther’s “95 Theses”

Question 5

1534

Answer 5

Henry VIII passes Act of Supremacy

Question 6

1543

Answer 6

Copernicus’ On the Revolutions of Heavenly Bodies

Question 7

1545

Answer 7

Council of Trent begins

Question 8

1555

Answer 8

Peace of Ausberg

Question 9

1588

Answer 9

Defeat of Spanish Armada

Question 10

1598

Answer 10

Edict of Nantes passed by Henry IV

Question 11

1603

Answer 11

Queen Elizabeth I dies

Question 12

1648

Answer 12

Peace of Westphalia ends 30 Years War

Question 13

1453

Answer 13

Fall of Constantinople

Question 14

1649

Answer 14

King Charles I executed, Cromwell rises to power

Question 15

1651

Answer 15

English Navigation Acts

Question 16

1687

Answer 16

Newton publishes “Principia”

Question 17

1689

Answer 17

English Bill of Rights, John Locke’s “Second Treatise on Civil Government”

Question 18

1713

Answer 18

Treaty of Utrecht ends War for Spanish Succession

Question 19

1715

Answer 19

King Louis XIV of France dies

Question 20

1763

Answer 20

Treaty of Paris (end of 7 Years’ War)

Question 21

1772

Answer 21

Diderot’s “Encyclopedia”

Question 22

1789

Answer 22

French Revolution begins

Question 23

1795

Answer 23

Final partition of Poland

Question 24

1804

Answer 24

Napoleon becomes emperor of France

Question 25

1815

Answer 25

Congress of Vienna

Question 26

1830

Answer 26

Greek Independence, French Revolution of 1830

Question 27

1832

Answer 27

First Great Reform Bill of England

Question 28

1848

Answer 28

Revolutions of 1848, Marx and Engles write "The Communist Manifesto"

Question 29

1859

Answer 29

Darwin's "Origin of the Species"

Question 30

1685

Answer 30

Louis XIV revokes Edict of Nantes