On This Day (March 4th) Multiple Choice

1. 1675 – John Flamsteed is appointed the first what of England ?

2. 1681 – Charles II grants a land charter to William Penn for the area that will later become what ?

3. 1776 – American Revolutionary War: The Continental Army fortifies Dorchester Heights with cannon, leading the British troops to abandon the Siege of which city ?

4. 1790 – France is divided into how many départements?

5. 1791 – The Constitutional Act of 1791 is introduced by the British House of Commons which envisages the separation of which country into Upper and Lower regions ?

6. 1804 – Castle Hill Rebellion: Irish convicts rebel against British colonial authority in which colony ?

7. 1882 – Britain's first electric trams run in the east of which city ?

8. 1899 – Cyclone Mahina sweeps in north of Cooktown, Queensland, killing around 300 people with a 12 metres (39 ft) wave that reaches up to how far inland ?

9. 1958 – Patricia Heaton, American comedy actress, known for "Everybody Loves Raymond" and "The Middle" is born in Bay Village on the shores of which lake ?

10. 1960 – The French freighter "La Coubre" explodes in which city, killing 100 ?

11. 1966 – In an interview in the London Evening Standard, The Beatles' John Lennon declares that the band is more popular than who ?

12. 1977 – The 1977 Vrancea earthquake in eastern and southern Europe kills more than 1,500 people, mostly in which city ?

13. 1986 – The Soviet Vega 1 begins returning images of which heavenly body ?

14. 2012 – A series of explosions is reported at a munitions dump, killing at least 250 people in which African city ?

15. 2018 – Former MI6 spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter are poisoned with a Novichok nerve agent in which English city ?

16. 2020 - Nik Wallenda becomes the first person to tightrope walk over the Masaya Volcano in which country?