Years of Significant Events

Question 1

The unification of China under Emperor Qin Shi Huang, and the start of the construction of the Great Wall (century)

Answer 1

3rd century BC

Question 2

Paul’s First Letter to the Thessalonians becomes the earliest known Christian text

Answer 2

50 CE

Question 3

Birth of Muhammad

Answer 3

570

Question 4

Charlemagne, Carolingian King of the Franks and the Lombards, crowned by Pope Leo III as First Holy Roman Emperor

Answer 4

800

Question 5

Norman Conquest of England

Answer 5

1066

Question 6

The First Crusade (decade)

Answer 6

1095-1099

Question 7

King Suryavarman II of the Khmer Empire has Angkor Wat built (century)

Answer 7

1150 (12th century)

Question 8

The signing of the Magna Carta

Answer 8

1215

Question 9

Death of Genghis Khan

Answer 9

1227

Question 10

The Ottoman Turks invade Constantinopele, defeating the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) empire

Answer 10

1453

Question 11

The Printing of the Gutenberg Bible, the first mass-produced book

Answer 11

1455

Question 12

First Journey of Christopher Columbus to America

Answer 12

1492

Question 13

Leonard da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa (correct decade)

Answer 13

1504

Question 14

Conquistador Hernan Cortes starts conquest of the Aztec Empire

Answer 14

1519

Question 15

Ferdinand Magellan’s expedition circumnavigates the globe

Answer 15

1522

Question 16

Nicolaus Copernicus’s On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres reintroduces the heliocentric model of the universe

Answer 16

1543

Question 17

English colonists establish the first permanent Western settlement in America at Jamestown

Answer 17

1619

Question 18

Start of the English Civil War

Answer 18

1642

Question 19

Publication of Isaac Newton’s Principia Mathematica

Answer 19

1687

Question 20

The Boston Tea Party

Answer 20

1773

Question 21

The American Declaration of Independence

Answer 21

1776

Question 22

The United Kingdom abolishes the slave trade

Answer 22

1807

Question 23

Napoleon invades Moscow, but is forced to retreat after huge losses

Answer 23

1812

Question 24

Publication of the Communist Manifesto

Answer 24

1848

Question 25

Publication of Darwin's On the Origin of the Species

Answer 25

1859

Question 26

Start of the American Civil War

Answer 26

1860

Question 27

The End of Shogun rule in Japan

Answer 27

1867

Question 28

Opening of the Suez Canal

Answer 28

1869

Question 29

Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone

Answer 29

1876

Question 30

First flight in an aircraft heavier than air, by Orville & Wilbur Wright

Answer 30

1903

Question 31

Einstein publishes the special Theory of Relativity

Answer 31

1905

Question 32

The Grand Duchy of FInland is the first country to grant women the right to vote and stand for political office

Answer 32

1906

Question 33

The Treaty of Versailles is signed

Answer 33

1919

Question 34

End of the Russian Revolution and creation of the Union of Soviet Specialist Republics

Answer 34

1922

Question 35

Wall Street Crash

Answer 35

1929

Question 36

Election of Adolf Hitler as Chancellor of Germany

Answer 36

1933

Question 37

D-Day marks the turning point of World War Two

Answer 37

1944

Question 38

India's independence from the UK

Answer 38

1947

Question 39

Creation of the People's Republic of China under Mao Tse-Tung

Answer 39

1949

Question 40

Martin Luther King delivers his 'I Have a Dream' speech

Answer 40

1963

Question 41

US President John F Kennedy is assassinated

Answer 41

1963

Question 42

First message sent on the Internet (then known as the ARPANET)

Answer 42

1969

Question 43

Demolition of the Berlin Wall

Answer 43

1989

Question 44

Nelson Mandela elected President of South Africa

Answer 44

1994

Question 45

Al-Qaeda's terrorist attack on the World Trade Centre

Answer 45

2001