Which Historical Event Happened First? - #2

D) Peter the Great begins his reign in Russia

C) Kamehameha the Great begins his reign in Hawaii

A) Catherine the Great begins her reign in Russia

B) Frederick the Great begins his reign in Prussia

B) The Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and the Seneca people form the Iroquois Confederacy (best estimate)

D) Pachacuti reorganizes the Kingdom of Cusco into the Incan Empire

C) Christopher Columbus makes contact with the Taíno people.

A) The Aztec Triple Alliance is formed between the cities of Tenochtitlan, Tetzcoco, and Tlacopan

A) The Euro is introduced as the official currency of the Eurozone

C) The first resident crew arrives at the ISS

B) The Concorde is retired after its final commercial flight

D) Vladimir Putin is first elected president of Russia

C) Napoleon's Grande Armée temporarily occupies Moscow

A) The Swedish Army under Charles XII are defeated by the Russians in Poltava, having never reached Moscow

B) The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth occupies Moscow

D) Forces of the German Wehrmacht reach the outskirts of Moscow, but are later repelled

A) Imperial Japanese forces take control of Singapore

C) Imperial Japanese forces take control of Manila

D) Imperial Japanese forces take control of Hong Kong

B) Imperial Japanese forces take control of Jakarta

B) The first Anatomically modern humans make it to Great Britain

A) Humans migrate to the Japanese archipelago

C) Humans cross into North America

D) Humans first arrive in Australia

C) Puyi, the last emperor of China, is forced to abdicate

D) The First Balkan War breaks out between the Balkan League and the Ottoman Empire

A) The RMS Titanic sinks in the North Atlantic on its maiden voyage

B) An assassination is attempted on former president Theodore Roosevelt

B) "Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus", written by Mary Shelley, is published

D) "Dracula", written by Bram Stoker, is published

C) "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde", written by Robert Louis Stevenson, is published

A) "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas", written by Jules Verne, is published

B) China successfully tests its first nuclear weapon

D) Tsar Bomba, the most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated, is tested

C) The Chernobyl disaster occurs

A) India successfully tests its first nuclear weapon

A) The Byzantine Empire reaches its territorial height under Justinian The Great

C) Construction begins on the Hagia Sophia

D) The first documented use of Greek Fire occurs

B) The famous Theodosian Walls are erected around Constantinople

C) The Mughal Empire reaches its territorial height after conquering much of modern day India

B) The Maurya Empire reaches its territorial height after conquering much of modern day India

A) The Delhi Sultanate reaches its territorial height after conquering much of modern day India

D) The Gupta Empire reaches its territorial height after conquering much of modern day India

A) The Duchy of Prussia is established upon the secularization of the Teutonic Knights

B) The crowns of Castile and Aragon are united through Isabella I and Ferdinand II, informally unifying Spain

C) James VI, then King of Scotland, ascends the throne of England

D) Ivan the Terrible proclaims the formation of the Tsardom of Russia

C) Battleford Industrial School, the first federally funded Canadian residential school, is opened.

A) American bison populations reach their lowest point after European settlers hunt them to near-extinction in order to deprive Indigenous people of the area of their primary food source

D) Approximately 15,000 people die during the Trail of Tears, a forced resettlement of First Nations people from the American Southeast

B) Approximately 250 Lakota people are killed by the U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment at The Wounded Knee Massacre

B) Jonas Salk develops a successful Polio vaccine

A) Albert Einstein publishes his general theory of relativity

D) Marie Curie passes away due to aplastic anemia, likely developed from exposure to radiation

C) Werner Heisenberg is awarded the Nobel prize in physics for the creation of quantum mechanics

B) The Mongols seize Baghdad, pillaging the Baghdad House of Wisdom in the process

C) Mongol invaders capture and burn the city of Kyiv

A) Mamluk forces route an attempted Mongol invasion of Egypt in the Battle of Ain Jalut

D) The Song Dynasty finally surrenders to the Mongol Empire, completing their conquest of China