Important Dates in World History - Statistics

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Jesus Christ is crucified	33	68%
Julius Caeser is assassinated	44	59%
The Second World War begins	1939	55%
The Second World War ends	1945	55%
The First World War engulfs Europe	1914	53%
Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Regime sieze power in Germany	1933	51%
The world went under lockdown due to COVID pandemic	2020	48%
The Stock market crashes in New York, beginning the Depression	1929	47%
D-Day commences on Normandy, turning the tide of the war	1944	45%
The Berlin Wall falls down, dismantling the Iron Curtain	1989	45%
The Soviet Union falls	1991	45%
The Bolshevik Revolution overthrows the Russian government	1917	44%
Terrorists attack American soil on 9/11	2001	44%
The Titanic sinks in the mid-Atlantic	1912	42%
Russian troops move into Ukraine	2022	42%
The Moors are expelled from Spain	1492	41%
The New World is discovered	1492	41%
The League of Nations is founded	1920	40%
Man makes his first steps on the moon	1969	40%
Chernoybl disaster in Ukraine	1986	37%
The first iphone is released	2007	36%
The American colonies win their independence and establish a democracy	1776	34%
Napoleon is defeated at Trafalgar	1815	34%
Congress of Vienna restructures European powers	1815	34%
William the Conqueror invades England	1066	30%
India and Pakistan gain independence from Britain through non-violence	1947	30%
Korean war divides North and South Korea	1950	30%
Nelson Mandela is elected, Apartheid is over	1994	30%
Mt. Vesuvius erupts and destroys Pompeii	79	30%
Constantinople falls to the Ottoman Turks	1453	29%
Stalin dies, and Khrushchev begins de-Stalinization	1953	29%
Saigon falls; the Vietnam War ends	1975	29%
The TCP/IP allows computers to communicate with eachother; the Internet is launched	1983	29%
Augustus begins his reign and the Pax Romana begins	27	29%
The storming of the Bastille	1789	27%
Louisiana Purchase doubles the size of the US	1803	27%
USSR launches Sputnik	1957	27%
The Tet Offensive intensifies the Vietnam War	1968	27%
Charlemagne is crowned on Christmas Day	800	27%
The Qing Dynasty is overthrown to the Republic of China	1911	26%
Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation	1863	25%
Einstein publishes his 'Theory of Relativity'	1905	25%
The Conservative Islamic Revolution overthrows the Shah of Iran	1979	25%
Brown v. Board of Education makes segregation unconsitutional	1954	23%
The Eiffel Tower is completed in Paris	1889	22%
Mao Zedong launches his devestating Great Leap Forward	1958	22%
Henry Ford releases the Model T	1908	21%
Eight foreign nations besiege the Forbidden City during the Boxer Rebellion	1900	19%
Statue of Liberty is completed, dedicated to the American dream	1886	18%
Pope Urban calls the First Crusade	1095	16%
the 'Communist Manifesto' is published by Marx and Engels	1848	16%
The Seneca Falls convention of women's rights	1848	16%
The Berlin Conference divides Africa among European powers	1884	16%
The Great Schism officially divides the Church	1054	15%
Slaves revolt in Haiti	1791	15%
Seopys mutiny in India	1857	14%
Italy and Germany are unified by political nationalism	1871	14%
Gutenberg prints the Bible with his new Printing Press	1455	12%
The Wars of the Roses begins	1455	12%
Martin Luther publishes his 'Ninety-Five Theses' beginning the Protestant Reformation	1517	12%
The Peace of Westphalia ends the Thirty Years War	1648	12%
Simon Bolivar liberates Colombia (establish date of Gran Colombia)	1819	11%
Mexico declares independence from Spain	1821	11%
Visigoths sack Rome	410	11%
The Suez Canal is completed	1869	10%
First Council of Nicaea is convened	325	10%
Constantine converts to the Christian faith	312	8%
Muhammad receives the revelation	610	8%
Battle of Tours halts muslim advance into France	732	8%
The Mongols put Baghdad under siege	1258	7%
The Hundred Year's War begins	1337	7%
The Black Death spreads into Europe	1347	7%
Hernan Cortes conquers the Aztecs	1521	7%
The English settle Jamestown	1607	7%
The Pilgrims settle Plymouth	1620	7%
The First Opium War breaks out	1839	7%
Claude Monet launches the Impressionist movement (painting Sunrise)	1872	7%
Otto I establishes the Holy Roman Empire	962	7%
Genghis Khan becomes appointed ruler of the Mongols	1206	5%
The Salem Witch Trials	1692	5%
Arabs conquer Iberia, establishing Al-Andalus	711	5%
Saladin recaptures Jerusalem	1187	4%
Tenochtitlan is founded by the Mexica	1325	4%
The English Bill of Rights establishes a constitutional monarchy	1689	4%
The Seven Year's War begins	1756	4%
Captain Cook sights land and explores Australia	1770	4%
Marco Polo leaves Venice to travel Asia	1271	3%
The Ming Dynasty is founded	1368	3%
Peasant's Revolt in England	1381	3%
Louis XIV ascends the throne of France	1643	3%
Newton outlines fundamental physics in his Principia	1687	3%
Thomas Newcomen invents the Steam Engine	1712	3%
First public railway opens between Stockton and Darlington	1825	3%
Diocletian splits the Roman Empire (Tetrarchy)	286	1%
Baghdad is founded and becomes the 'center of learning'	762	1%
Zheng He embarks on his first voyage, confirming Chinese supremacy	1405	0%
Babur establishes the Mughal Empire	1526	0%

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