101 Dates in History by Salmonboy - Statistics

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Hint Answer % Correct
Terrorist Attacks known as "9/11" 2001 AD
89%
Attack of Pearl Harbor 1941 AD
88%
First moon landing 1969 AD
88%
Gavrilo Princip assassinates Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria in Sarajevo, triggering the start of World War I 1914 AD
86%
Nazi invasion of Poland triggers the begining of World War 2 1939 AD
86%
Treaty of Versailles signed 1919 AD
81%
Assasination of Martin Luther King Jr 1968 AD
81%
German unconditional surrender to Allied forces 1945 AD
80%
Battle of Hastings 1066 AD
77%
Christopher Columbus reaches the New World 1492 AD
77%
Battle of Waterloo 1815 AD
75%
End of American Civil War 1865 AD
75%
Yuri Gagarin becomes first man in space 1961 AD
75%
Jesus is born 0AD
73%
Start of American civil War 1861 AD
73%
Communist North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces captured the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon 1975 AD
73%
The Wright Brothers perform the first heavier-than-air powered flight 1903 AD
72%
Storming of the Bastille 1789 AD
70%
Launch of Sputnik 1 1957 AD
70%
American colonies declare independance 1776 AD
69%
The Great Fire of London 1666 AD
67%
Former King Louis XVI of France and his wife Marie Antoinette are guillotined 1793 AD
66%
Albert Einstein publishes his General Theory of Relativity 1916 AD
64%
Thomas Jefferson elected President of the United States 1801 AD
63%
Picasso paints Guernica 1937 AD
63%
End of the Mesoamerican (Mayan) Long Count calendar 2012 AD
63%
The Magna Carta is sealed by John of England 1215 AD
61%
Amundsen reaches the South pole 1911 AD
59%
Napoleon abdicates and is exiled to Elba 1814 AD
58%
The Battle of Montenotte, Napoleon Bonaparte's first victory as an Army commander 1796 AD
52%
World population reaches 1 billion 1804 AD
52%
Karl Benz sells the first commercial automobile 1886 AD
52%
Ludwig van Beethoven performs his Moonlight Sonata for the first time 1802 AD
50%
Charlegmagne becomes first Holy Roman Emperor 800AD
50%
The hundred years war ends 1453 AD
47%
Battle of Agincourt 1415 AD
41%
James the 1st of Scotland becomes James the 6th of England 1603 AD
41%
Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species 1859 AD
41%
Alfred Nobel invents dynamite 1867 AD
41%
Dmitri Mendeleev creates the periodic table 1869 AD
41%
The Spanish Armada leave A Coruña 1588 AD
39%
Battle of Balaclava 1854 AD
39%
The Church of England breaks away from the Roman Catholic Church and recognizes King Henry VIII as the head of the Church 1531 AD
34%
The United Kingdom is formed 1707 AD
34%
Discovery of Antarctica 1820 AD
34%
The Hundred year war begins 1337 AD
33%
James Cook explores and maps New Zealand and Australia 1769 AD
33%
Leonardo da Vinci begins painting the Mona Lisa and completes it three years later 1503 AD
31%
Genghis Khan becomes sole ruler of Mongolia 1206 AD
30%
Galileo Galilei is born 1564 AD
30%
First Crusade 1096 AD
28%
The Black Death ravages Europe for the first of many times 1347 AD
28%
Michelangelo returns to his native Florence to begin work on the statue David 1501 AD
28%
King Mursilis of the Hittites sacks Babylon. Begin of Babylonian "dark ages." 1595 BC
27%
Augustus Becomes Emperor of Rome 27 BC
27%
Richard I ascends the throne of England 1189 AD
25%
The Battle of Crecy- The English use of the longbow leads to a decisive victory 1346 AD
23%
Battle of Bosworth Field 1485 AD
23%
Shakespeare publishes Romeo and Julliet 1597 AD
23%
The first publication of the King James Bible 1611 AD
23%
Vesuvius erupts, destroying Pompeii 79 BC
23%
Suleiman the magnificent dies 1566 AD
22%
First Javanese War of Succession 1704 AD
22%
Frederick the Great comes to power in Prussia 1740 AD
19%
Battle of Marathon 490 BC
19%
René Descartes publishes Meditationes de prima philosophia Meditations on First Philosophy. 1641 AD
17%
Battle of Bannock burn 1314 AD
16%
Visigoths sack Rome for the first time since 390 BC 410 AD
16%
Death of Tutankhamun 1341 BC
14%
The Battle of Stirling Bridge 1297 AD
13%
Rome becomes a Republic 509 BC
13%
Muhammed is born 570 AD
13%
The Aztecs found their capital city of Tenochtitlan 1325 AD
11%
Leif Eriksson lands in the Americas 1001 AD
9%
The Knights Templar are founded 1118 AD
9%
The Bible is translated into English by John Wycliffe. 1381 AD
9%
Hannibal crosses the Alps 218 BC
9%
The mammoth goes extinct 2500 BC
9%
Canute the Great becomes King of England 1016 AD
8%
Indian campaign of Alexander the Great 326BC
8%
Alfred the Great becomes King of a united England 871 AD
8%
The Viking Rollo and his tribe settle in Normandy 911 AD
8%
Kenneth McAlpin becomes king of the Picts and Scots 843 AD
6%
Homer writes The Iliad and The Odyssey 890 BC
6%
The Byzantines under Basil II conquer Bulgaria 1018 AD
5%
Birth of Siddhartha Gautama 563 BC
5%
Battle of Heavenfield 633AD
5%
Carthage founded 813 BC
5%
Eric the Red, exiled from Iceland, begins Scandinavian colonization of Greenland 985 AD
5%
Battle of Kadesh 1274 BC
3%
Execution of Joan of Arc 1431 AD
3%
The Roman Empire splits into East and West 284 AD
3%
Romulus Augustus forced to abdicate by Odoacer 476 AD
3%
Gregory the Great becomes Pope 590AD
3%
Sack of Constantinople during the Fourth Crusade 1204 AD
2%
Mary, Queen of Scots, is imprisoned by Elizabeth I. 1567 AD
2%
Begining of the Old Kingdom in Egypt 2700 BC
2%
Tiglath-Pileser III becomes the king of Assyria 745 BC
2%
Battle of Lechfeld. Otto the Great, son of Henry the Fowler, defeats the Magyars 955 AD
2%
Start of the Trojan War 1260 BC
0%
First Arab siege of Constantinople 674AD
0%
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