Dates (test 1)

Question 1

1568

Answer 1

Start of the Dutch revolt
(William of Orange invaded the Low Countries)

Question 2

1588

Answer 2

The northern provinces declare themselves the Dutch republic (Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)

Question 3

10 July 1584

Answer 3

Death of William of Orange

Question 4

1581

Answer 4

The Act of Abjuration (Union of Utrecht)

Question 5

1579

Answer 5

The northern provinces of the Low Countries signed the Union of Utrecht

Question 6

1573

Answer 6

The Spanish sieged Leiden

Question 7

1576

Answer 7

Spanish Fury

Question 8

1 April 1572

Answer 8

The Geuzen take over Den Briel

Question 9

July 1572

Answer 9

(Rich) cities in Zeeland pick William of Orange as the new stadtholder instead of Alva

Question 10

1567

Answer 10

Egmont and Horne (Williams friends) were brought before the Council of Troubles

Question 11

The seventeen provinces of the Low Countries were not unified

Answer 11

16th century

Question 12

1568

Answer 12

Egmont and Horne (Williams friends) were decapitated

Question 13

1566, summer

Answer 13

Iconoclastic Fury

Question 14

1566

Answer 14

The Compromise of Nobles was created and presented to Margaret of Parma (in the Netherlands). She sent it to King Philip (in Spain)

Question 15

1564

Answer 15

Philip II created new laws called Placards. These laws were so severe against Protestants, both Catholics and Protestants opposed them.

Question 16

1540s

Answer 16

Protestantism arrived in the Low Countries and turned out quite popular

Question 17

1555

Answer 17

Emperor Charles V stepped down leaving parts of Italy, the Low Countries, Spain and Spanish colonies to Philip II

Question 18

1386

Answer 18

The first meeting of the States General

Question 19

1948

Answer 19

The final version of the Index appeared

Question 20

1966

Answer 20

The final version of the Index was disbanded by Pope Paul VI

Question 21

1559

Answer 21

Pope Paul IV created Index Librorum Prohibitorum (the Index). This was a list of books banned by the C church

Question 22

1545

Answer 22

Catholic leaders met in Trent (Northern Italy) and started the Counter-Reformation (which would lead to the Inquisition)

Question 23

1415

Answer 23

professor Johannes Hus was condemned as a heretic by the church

Question 24

1598

Answer 24

Henry IV ended the French Wars of Religion (between the Huguenots and the Catholics) with the Edict of Nantes

Question 25

1562

Answer 25

There were more than 2 million French Protestants

Question 26

1530

Answer 26

The writings of Johan Calvin

Question 27

1555

Answer 27

The Treaty of Augsburg

Question 28

1521

Answer 28

Luther was ordered to the Diet of Worms

Question 29

1517

Answer 29

Martin Luther nailed The Ninety-five Theses to the door of the All Saints’ Church in Wittenberg

Question 30

1534

Answer 30

Henry VII made himself the leader of the church with the Act of Supremacy

Question 31

6th century BC

Answer 31

Thales of Miletus and Xenophanes of Clophon looked at the world with only human reasoning

Question 32

5th century BC

Answer 32

Protagoras said that “man is the measure of all things”

Question 33

16th century

Answer 33

Humanists translated biblical texts and early Christian texts

Question 34

1672

Answer 34

Disaster Year

Question 35

1574

Answer 35

The Geuzen were able to get food inside Leiden, during the siege of the Spanish

Question 36

1672

Answer 36

Disaster Year

Question 37

What happened after the Disaster Year?

Answer 37

The art market collapsed