Stats: 19th Century Historical Quiz

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This quiz has been taken 49 times
The average score is 40 of 100

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Year	Hint	Answer	% Correct
1801	The ____ is formed with the union of Great Britain and Ireland	United Kingdom	98%
1803	The ____ Purchase, The United States buys a huge piece of land from France	Louisiana	91%
1815	Napoleon is defeated at the Battle of ____	Waterloo	84%
1804	____ gains independence from France, in the first successful slave revolt	Haiti	81%
1846	The United States declares war on ____	Mexico	79%
1859	'On the Origin of Species' is published by ____	Charles Darwin	74%
1867	The United States purchases ____ for $7,200,000	Alaska	72%
1872	The Third Carlist War begins in northern ____	Spain	70%
1836	The Republic of ____ declares independence from Mexico	Texas	67%
1810	_____ gains independence from Spain, being the first in Latin America to do so	Argentina	65%
1850	____ is admitted as the 31st US state	California	65%
1842	China cedes ____ to Britain in the Treaty of Nanking	Hong Kong	65%
1845	A potato famine primarily in ____ begins, eventually killing over 1 million people	Ireland	65%
1853	The ____ Empire declares war on Russia, starting the Crimean War	Ottoman	65%
1848	A wave of revolutions across Europe occur following the publication of 'The ____ Manifesto'	Communist	63%
1870	____ declares war on Prussia following the unification of Germany	France	63%
1830	'The Book of ____' is published, beginning The Latter Day Saint Movement	Mormon	60%
1839	Britain declares war on China beginning the ____ Wars	Opium	60%
1814	Napoleon is exiled to the island of ____ but returns to France the following year	Elba	58%
1833	The ____ Abolition Act in the British Empire is approved	Slavery	58%
1879	____ declares war on Peru and Bolivia	Chile	56%
1819	Spain sells ____ to the United States for $5,000,000	Florida	56%
1847	____ in Africa is founded by freed slaves from the United States	Liberia	56%
1863	The Battle of ____ is fought, a turning point in the American Civil War	Gettysburg	53%
1869	The ____ opens in Egypt after 10 years of construction	Suez Canal	53%
1825	____ declares independence from Brazil	Uruguay	53%
1800	Napoleon and his army cross the ____	Alps	51%
1881	Russian Tsar Alexander II and US President James Garfield are ____	Assassinated	51%
1871	The ____ Empire is proclaimed	German	51%
1894	____ becomes the last Tsar of Russia	Nicholas II	51%
1806	The Holy Roman Empire collapses with the establishement of the Confederation of the ____	Rhine	51%
1828	Vientiane is annexed by the Kingdom of ____ (now Thailand)	Siam	51%
1873	Franz Josef Land is discovered in the ____ Ocean	Arctic	49%
1805	Napoleon defeats the Austrians and Russians at the Battle of ____ near Vienna	Austerlitz	49%
1889	The ____ Tower is officially opened to the public	Eiffel	49%
1885	The Congo Free State is established as a possession of King ____ of Belgium	Leopold II	49%
1875	The signing of the Metre Convention establishes the ____ system across the world	Metric	49%
1816	'The Year without a ____' (Due to the eruption of Mt Tambora, the previous year)	Summer	49%
1838	The Cherokee are forcibly relocated as part of an event known as 'The Trail of ____'	Tears	49%
1852	'Uncle Tom's ____ is published by Harriet Beecher Stowe	Cabin	47%
1896	Italy is defeated by ____ after a failed attempt to colonise it	Ethiopia	47%
1829	____ receives autonomy after 8 years of fighting for independence	Greece	47%
1865	US President Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by ____	John Wilkes Booth	47%
1883	____ erupts in Indonesia, killing over 36,000 people	Krakatoa	47%
1893	____ becomes the first country to give women the right to vote	New Zealand	47%
1877	____ is proclaimed Empress of India	Queen Victoria	47%
1860	____ becomes the first state to secede from the Union	South Carolina	47%
1891	Construction begins on the Trans-____ Railway	Siberian	44%
1834	The Liberal wars in ____ end	Portugal	42%
1824	Peru wins independence from Spain with ____ as its dictator	Simon Bolivar	40%
1899	The Boer War breaks out between Britain and the ____ Free State	Orange	37%
1864	War breaks out in South America between ____ and the Triple Alliance	Paraguay	37%
1822	____ is crowned as the first emperor of Brazil with its independence from Portugal	Pedro I	37%
1880	The Second Anglo-____ War breaks out after tensions between Russia and Britain	Afghan	35%
1876	US forces are defeated by a combined tribal force at The Battle of Little ____	Bighorn	35%
1855	____ in Crimea falls to British and French troops	Sevastopol	35%
1884	The ____ Conference begins, regulating European colonisation in Africa	Berlin	33%
1878	____ gains independence from the Ottoman Empire	Bulgaria	33%
1857	The ____ Empire collapses with the capture of Delhi	Mughal	33%
1866	The Transatlantic ____ Cable is laid between Ireland and Newfoundland	Telegraph	33%
1837	Queen Victoria ascends to the British throne after the death of ____	William IV	33%
1820	____ is discovered by an Imperial Russian Navy Expedition	Antarctica	30%
1892	The first game of ____ is played in public, score: 5-1	Basketball	30%
1874	The city of ____ is ravaged by a fire destroying 812 buildings and killing 20 people	Chicago	30%
1882	____ opens the first electrical power plant lighting up part of Lower Manhattan	Thomas Edison	30%
1841	____ declares independence, ending the Federal Republic of Central America	El Salvador	28%
1868	The ____ Restoration is declared in Japan	Meiji	28%
1890	The city of ____ (now Harare) is founded in Rhodesia	Salisbury	28%
1898	The USS ____ explodes in Havana, beginning the Spanish-American War	Maine	26%
1895	The island of Formosa declares independence from the ____ Dynasty	Qing	26%
1807	Napoleon defeats Prussia, allies with Russia, and creates the Duchy of ____	Warsaw	26%
1827	Russia captures ____ from Persia, ending a millennium of Islamic domination there	Armenia	23%
1817	The first of many ____ pandemics break out in Bengal	Cholera	23%
1809	Austria invades Bavaria beginning The War of the ____ Coalition	Fifth	23%
1823	Gold is first discovered in ____	Australia	21%
1812	Napoleon captures Moscow after defeating the Russians at the Battle of ____	Borodino	21%
1832	The Ottoman capital, Constantinople, almost falls to forces from ____	Egypt	21%
1831	Venezuela and Ecuador gain independence from ____	Gran Colombia	21%
1886	The American-Indian Wars come to an end with the surrender of the ____ tribe	Apache	19%
1856	Britain declares war on the Qajar dynasty of ____	Persia	19%
1821	The ____ Republic declares independence from Spain	Dominican	16%
1813	The Battle of ____ is fought, the bloodiest battle in Europe prior to World War I	Leipzig	16%
1835	____ is founded by settlers on the Yarra River	Melbourne	16%
1808	Napoleon invades Spain beginning The ____ War	Peninsular	16%
1897	The first ____ congress convenes in Switzerland by Theodor Herzl	Zionist	16%
1862	The bloodiest day in American history occurs at the Battle of ____	Antietam	14%
1826	Britain defeats ____ in northeastern India in the first of three wars	Burma	14%
1811	The last ____ leaders who ruled Egypt for centuries are killed	Mamluk	14%
1861	The Kingdom of Italy is proclaimed after the conquest of The Two Sicilies by ____	Sardinia	14%
1849	The ____ Empire in northern India is annexed by Britain	Sikh	14%
1851	The ____ Rebellion breaks out across China, killing over 30 million people	Taiping	14%
1844	The ____ religion is established in the Middle East	Baha'i	12%
1887	____, an area of southern Pakistan is captured by the British Empire	Balochistan	9%
1858	The ____ loses its possessions to Britain following rebellions across India	East India Company	9%
1854	Japan opens its ports to American trade after a US fleet arrived in ____ Bay	Edo	7%
1818	The ____ Confederacy in India falls to Britain	Maratha	7%
1840	The Treaty of ____ establishes New Zealand as a British colony	Waitangi	7%
1802	The Treaty of ____ with Britain ends the French Revolutionary Wars	Amiens	5%
1843	____ in South Africa becomes a British colony	Natal	5%
1888	____ 1888 is the longest date in Roman Numerals	August 28	2%

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