Volume 3: Early Modern Times a

Question 1

The first Ming dynasty emperor rules in China

Answer 1

1368

Question 2

John Cabot disappears in the northern Atlantic

Answer 2

1498

Question 3

Giovanni da Verrazano first sails across the Atlantic for France

Answer 3

1524

Question 4

Jacques Cartier’s first arrival in Canada

Answer 4

1534

Question 5

Sebastian Cabot’s expedition sets off on the northeast route

Answer 5

1553

Question 6

The Peace of Augsburg allows each German state to follow its own religion

Answer 6

1555

Question 7

Charles V relinquishes the title Holy Roman Empire

Answer 7

1555

Question 8

Philip II inherits the throne of Spain from his father, Charles V

Answer 8

1555

Question 9

Ferdinand I, Charles’s brother, niherits Charles’s lands and title

Answer 9

1556

Question 10

Mary, Queen of Scots, is imprisoned in England

Answer 10

1567

Question 11

Englishman Martin Frobisher sails into Frobisher’s Strait

Answer 11

1576

Question 12

Nzinga of Angola born

Answer 12

1583

Question 13

John Davis leads an expedition to find teh Northwest Passage

Answer 13

1587

Question 14

Mary, Queen of Scots, is beheaded

Answer 14

1587

Question 15

Abbas I becomes shah of Persia

Answer 15

1588

Question 16

Hideyoshi directs Japan’s first invasion of Korea

Answer 16

1592

Question 17

Philip II of Spain dies

Answer 17

1598

Question 18

Samuel Champlain’s first arrival in Canada

Answer 18

1603

Question 19

Elizabeth I dies and James I (James VI of Scotland) comes to the throne

Answer 19

1603

Question 20

Ieyasu becomes shogun of Japan

Answer 20

1603

Question 21

Jahangir (World Seizer) becomes emperor of India

Answer 21

1605

Question 22

Ieyasu appoints his son Hidetada as shogun

Answer 22

1605

Question 23

Jamestown colony founded in Virginia

Answer 23

1607

Question 24

Henry Hudson makes his first voyage to the northwest

Answer 24

1607

Question 25

Quebec colony founded in Canada

Answer 25

1608

Question 26

Henry Hudson is set adrift in Hudson Bay

Answer 26

1611

Question 27

Pocahontas marries john Rolfe

Answer 27

1614

Question 28

Ieyasu Tokugawa dies

Answer 28

1616

Question 29

The Thirty Years War begins with the Bohemian revolt

Answer 29

1618

Question 30

The Mayflower sets sail for the New World

Answer 30

1620

Question 31

Sultan Murad IV comes to the throne of the Ottoman Empire

Answer 31

1623

Question 32

Iemitsu becomes the third Tokugawa shogun

Answer 32

1623

Question 33

Charles I becomes king of England

Answer 33

1625

Question 34

Jahangir of India dies

Answer 34

1627

Question 35

Shah Jahan (King of the World) becomes emperor of India

Answer 35

1628

Question 36

Shah Abbas I of Persia dies

Answer 36

1629

Question 37

Iemitsu closes the ports of Japan

Answer 37

1633

Question 38

The Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II dies

Answer 38

1637

Question 39

Samuel Champlain dies

Answer 39

1638

Question 40

European traders are forbidden to enter Japan

Answer 40

1641

Question 41

Cardinal Richelieu dies

Answer 41

1638

Question 42

Li Tzu-ch'eng enters Peking with his army

Answer 42

1644

Question 43

The Treaty of Westphalia ends the Thirty Years War

Answer 43

1648

Question 44

Charles II of England is executed

Answer 44

1649

Question 45

Oliver Cromwell becomes Lord Protector of England

Answer 45

1653

Question 46

Aurangzeb (Conqueror of the World) becomes emperor of India

Answer 46

1658

Question 47

Oliver Cromwell dies

Answer 47

1658

Question 48

Charles II is invited to return to England from exile in France

Answer 48

1660

Question 49

K'ang-hsi takes the throne of Manchu China

Answer 49

1661

Question 50

Queen Nzinga of Angola dies

Answer 50

1663

Question 51

The Plague decimates London

Answer 51

1665

Question 52

Shah Jahan of India dies

Answer 52

1666

Question 53

The Great Fire of London

Answer 53

1666

Question 54

Peter the Great is born

Answer 54

1672

Question 55

King Philip's War begins on June 20

Answer 55

1675

Question 56

The fighting ends in King Philip's War

Answer 56

1678

Question 57

The city of Philadelphia is founded in the colony of Pennsylvania

Answer 57

1681