Statistics for The 19th Century - Year by Year

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Year	Event	Answer	% Correct
1831	This English naturalist departs from Plymouth, England aboard HMS Beagle	Charles Darwin	100%
1809	This equitorial nation decalres independence from Spain	Ecuador	100%
1803	The United States purchases Louisiana from this European power	France	100%
1818	This political philosopher is born in Prussia	Karl Marx	100%
1812	Napoleon begins his retreat from this Russian city	Moscow	100%
1814	Adolphe Sax, inventor of this musical instrument, is born	Saxaphone	100%
1807	This practice is ended in the UK, almost 60 years before the institution falls in the United States	Slavery	100%
1816	Because of low temperatures across the Northern hemisphere this was known as the Year Without a ______	Summer	100%
1804	Aaron Burr shoots this former US Treasury Secretary in a duel, resulting in the latter's death the next day	Alexander Hamilton	75%
1833	The inventor of dynamite is born in Sweden	Alfred Nobel	75%
1834	This city becomes Greece's capital	Athens	75%
1836	This famous battle takes place in Texas, resulting in the death of, amongst others, the frontiersman Davy Crockett	Battle of the Alamo	75%
1899	This Carribean island gains its independence from Spain	Cuba	75%
1810	This British King is declared permanently insane	George III	75%
1811	Henri Christophe is proclaimed king of this Carribean nation	Haiti	75%
1806	Francis II abdicates, ending this empire which has stood for about 1000 years	Holy Roman Empire	75%
1817	This English novelist, known for Sense and Sesnibility dies this year aged 41	Jane Austen	75%
1808	This future President of the Confederate States of America is born in Fairview, Kentucky	Jefferson Davis	75%
1824	This British romantic poet dies in Greece	Lord Byron	75%
1813	After a ceremony in Caracas, Venezuela, the municipality gives the title of El Libertador to this revolutionary	Simón Bolívar	75%
1826	Two former US Presidents die on the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, name either	Thomas Jefferson \| John Adams	75%
1801	This country is created by the "Act of Union"	UK	75%
1837	This British monarch assumes the throne, where she will reign for the next 63 years	Victoria	75%
1802	This military academy is established in New York	West Point	75%
1843	This Charles Dicken's novella is published on December 19th, selling out by Christmas Eve	A Christmas Carol	50%
1867	This territory is purchased by the United States from Russia at about 2cents/acre	Alaska	50%
1868	This US President becomes the first to be impeached	Andrew Johnson	50%
1866	This authour, famous for Peter Rabbit, is born in London	Beatrix Potter	50%
1883	This facist dictator of Italy is born	Benito Mussolini	50%
1881	This famous outlaw is killed, aged 21, at Fort Sumner, New Mexico	Billy the Kid	50%
1846	The 49th parallel is established as the border between the United States and this country	Canada	50%
1829	This major religious group is granted significant freedoms in the UK and Ireland	Catholics	50%
1873	This brewing company starts producing beer in Golden, Colorado	Coors	50%
1854	The Battle of Balaclava takes place during this conflict	Crimean War	50%
1828	This major US political party is organised for the first time	Democratic Party	50%
1842	This word, meaning "terrible lizard" is coined for the first time	Dinosaur	50%
1823	British physician, inventor of the smallpox vaccine, dies this year	Edward Jenner	50%
1889	This monument in Paris becomes the lattest structure in the world	Eiffel Tower	50%
1815	Napoleon escapes from this Mediterranian island	Elba	50%
1892	This entry point to the United States begins accepting immigrants	Ellis Island	50%
1825	This canal is opened, linking Albany, New York to the Great Lakes	Erie Canal	50%
1864	The first shop, selling this British staple meal, opens in London	Fish and Chips	50%
1861	Confederate forces fire on this fort, beginning the American Civil War	Fort Sumter	50%
1820	1818's philospher's writing partner is born, also in Prussia	Friedrich Engels	50%
1863	The largest battle of the American Civil War takes place near this Pennsylvania town	Gettysburg	50%
1851	This precious metal is discovered in Australia, causing a rush	Gold	50%
1832	This European nation is established following The Treaty of London, breaking away from the Ottoman Empire	Greece	50%
1875	This Danish writer, famous for The Little Mermaid, dies	Hans Christian Andersen	50%
1852	The first boat race between these twoi America Universities is held	Harvard \| Yale	50%
1896	The Quadricycle, the first vehicle developed by this atuomotive pioneer, is completed in Detroit	Henry Ford	50%
1841	Britain occupies this Chinese island for the first time, which it will return to China in 1997	Hong Kong	50%
1876	Queen Victoria is conferred the title of Empress of _____	India	50%
1888	This serial killer is active in the East End of London	Jack the Ripper	50%
1882	This Irish author, famous for Ulysses, is born in Dublin	James Joyce	50%
1865	Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by this person at Ford's Theatre	John Wilkes Booth	50%
1878	This future Soviet dictator is born in Gori, Georgia	Joseph Stalin	50%
1849	The first member of this American political dynasty arrives in the United States from Ireland	Kennedy	50%
1900	This political party is established in London, with Ramsey MacDonald as its first leader	Labour Party	50%
1869	War and Peace, written by this author, is published	Leo Tolstoy	50%
1853	This company, famous for its denim products is founded in San Francisco, California	Levi Strauss & Co.	50%
1858	The Lutine bell is salvaged, and subsequently hung at the offices of thes famous insurer	Lloyd's	50%
1805	This composer's only opera "Fidelio" premiers in Vienna	Ludwig van Beethoven	50%
1835	The Great Fire takes place in this city, destroying some 530 buildings, including the stock exchange	New York City	50%
1895	This Irish-born writer is arrested in London for "gross indecency", after losing a criminal libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry	Oscar Wilde	50%
1860	This mail service starts between St Louis and Sacremento	Pony Express	50%
1845	This crop fails in Ireland, leading to famine and the deaths of over 1 million people over the next few years	Potato	50%
1871	The "Three Ring Circus" is opened by this entertainer in New York	P.T. Barnum	50%
1898	Marie and Pierre Curie announce the discovery of this element	Radium	50%
1850	The authour of Treasure Island is born this year	Robert Louis Stevenson	50%
1870	This city becomes the capital of a unified Italy	Rome	50%
1847	This city is founded by Mormons in Utah	Salt Lake City	50%
1891	This fictional detective appears in The Strand Magazine for the first time	Sherlock Holmes	50%
1856	This Austrian neurologist and founder of psychoanalysis is born this year	Sigmund Freud	50%
1884	The cornerstone for this statue is laid on Bedloe's Island, New York	Statue of Liberty	50%
1859	Ground is broken on this canal linking the Red Sea and Mediterranean	Suez Canal	50%
1855	Van Dieman's Land is officially renamed to this	Tasmania	50%
1848	This manifesto is published by [1818] and [1820]	The Communist Manifesto	50%
1839	The first photograph if this celestial body is taken by French photographer Louis Dagurre	The Moon	50%
1879	This inventor demonstrates his incandscent lightbulb at Menlo Park for the first time	Thomas Edison	50%
1893	The United States Supreme Court legally declares this fruit to be a vegetable	Tomato	50%
1838	The Cherokee Nation is forcibily relocated	Trail of Tears	50%
1822	Two future US Presidents (18th & 19th) are born this year, name either	Ulysses S. Grant \| Rutherford B. Hayes	50%
1890	This Dutch post-impressionist artist shoots himself, dying two days later	Vincent van-Gogh	50%
1877	The first tournament by the All England Club is held at this London venue	Wimbledon	50%
1874	This British WW2 leader is born in Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire	Winston Churchill	50%
1887	This Scottish soccer club, the first British team to win the European Cup is established in Glasgow	Celtic FC	25%
1894	This soft drink is sold in bottles for the first time	Coca-Cola	25%
1880	The cathedral in this German city is completed after 632 years of construction	Cologne	25%
1897	This British author, creator of te Famous Five and Noddy is born	Enid Blyton	25%
1821	Formerly the Prince Regent, this monarch is crowned King of the United Kingdom	George IV	25%
1872	This crewless ship is found afloat by the British Brig Dei Gratia in the Atlantic	Mary Celeste	25%
1885	LaMarcus Adna Thompson patents this popular fairground attraction	Roller Coaster	25%
1862	Global financial group UBS is founded in this European country	Switzerland	25%
1844	This youth organisation is established in London	YMCA	25%
1886	This city, which becomes the capital of the Ethiopian Emipre, is established	Addas Ababa	0%
1830	The independence of this European nation is recognised by the Great Powers	Belgium	0%
1827	This British Prime Minister, the shortest served of any in history, dies 119 days into office	George Canning	0%
1840	This Scottish inventor, creator of the pneumatic tyre is born	John Boyd Dunlop	0%
1819	English cavalry charges in to a crowd of protesters, killing 15, in Manchester	Peterloo Massacre	0%
1857	The World's fist association football team is founded in this city	Sheffield	0%