Dates

Question 1

1385-1535

Answer 1

Italian Renaissance

Question 2

1453

Answer 2

Gutenberg invents printing press

Question 3

1492

Answer 3

Columbus discovers America

Question 4

1517

Answer 4

Martin Luther 95 Theses

Question 5

1517-1648

Answer 5

Age of Religious Wars

Question 6

1519-1555

Answer 6

Age of Charles V

Question 7

1543-1687

Answer 7

Scientific Revolution

Question 8

1543

Answer 8

Copernicus publishes de Revolutionibus - Sun is the center of the solar system

Question 9

1588

Answer 9

Spanish Armada defeated - Rise of England, fall of Spain

Question 10

1598

Answer 10

Edict of Nantes - freedom of worship for Huguenots of France

Question 11

1642-1660

Answer 11

English Civil War and Puritan Republic

Question 12

1643-1715

Answer 12

Age of Louis XIV - the sun king of France

Question 13

1648

Answer 13

Treaty of Westphalia - end of religious wars

Question 14

1687

Answer 14

Newton publishes Principia Mathematica: theory of gravity, laws of motion

Question 15

1688

Answer 15

Glorious Revolution in GB - constitutional monarchy in GB

Question 16

1688-1789

Answer 16

Age of Enlightenment

Question 17

1690

Answer 17

John Locke publishes Second Treatise on Government

Question 18

1712-1830

Answer 18

First Industrial Revolution

Question 19

1740-1748

Answer 19

War of Austrian Succesion

Question 20

1756-1763

Answer 20

The Seven Years War

Question 21

1776

Answer 21

The Declaration of Independence

Question 22

1776(2)

Answer 22

Adam Smith publishes Wealth of Nations

Question 23

1789

Answer 23

French Revolution begins

Question 24

1795-1815

Answer 24

Age of Napoleon

Question 25

1815

Answer 25

Congress of Vienna - attempts to restore old Regime after fall of Napoleon

Question 26

1815-1848

Answer 26

Revolutions of Liberal Nations

Question 27

1848

Answer 27

Year of Failed Liberal Revolutions

Question 28

1848(2)

Answer 28

Communist Manifesto published by Marx and Engels

Question 29

1848-1871

Answer 29

Consolidation of Nation-States

Question 30

1871

Answer 30

German Unification

Question 31

1875-1905

Answer 31

Second Industrial Revolution

Question 32

1880-1914

Answer 32

New Imperialism (Africa/Asia)

Question 33

1914-1918

Answer 33

World War I

Question 34

1917

Answer 34

Russian Revolution, beginning of USSR

Question 35

1929

Answer 35

Great Depression begins

Question 36

1939-1945

Answer 36

World War II

Question 37

1945-1989

Answer 37

The Cold War

Question 38

1989

Answer 38

Berlin Wall falls - ending communist rule

Question 39

1992

Answer 39

Maastricht Treaty creates European Union (EU)