On This Day (March 29th) Multiple Choice

1. 845 – Paris is sacked by raiders who collect a huge ransom in exchange for leaving. Who were the raiders ?

2. 1549 – The city of Salvador da Bahia, is founded. It is the first capital of which country ?

3. 1632 – Treaty of Saint-Germain is signed returning Quebec to French control after the English had seized it in what year ?

4. 1792 – King Gustav III of Sweden dies after being shot in the back at what type of event at Stockholm's Royal Opera 13 days earlier ?

5. 1806 – Construction is authorized of the Great National Pike, or Cumberland Road, becoming the first United States federal highway. It is built between which two rivers ?

6. 1831 – Great Bosnian uprising: Bosniaks rebel against which nation ?.

7. 1849 – The United Kingdom annexes which area of Asia ?

8. 1886 – John Pemberton brews the first batch of what in a backyard in Atlanta ?

9. 1942 – The Bombing of which city is the first major success for the RAF Bomber Command against Germany and a German city ?

10. 1947 – Malagasy Uprising against French colonial rule in which country ?

11. 1974 – NASA's Mariner 10 becomes the first space probe to fly by which planet ?

12. 1974 – What was discovered in Shaanxi province, China ?

13. 1984 – The Baltimore Colts load its possessions onto fifteen Mayflower moving trucks in the early morning hours and transfer its operations to which city ?

14. 1993 – Catherine Callbeck becomes the first woman to be elected in a general election as premier of a Canadian province. Which province ?

15. 2014 – What is performed in England and Wales for the first time ?

16. 2017 - Which English Prime Minister formally begins the process of "Brexit", the UK leaving the EU?