Statistics for 101 Dates in History by Salmonboy

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Gavrilo Princip assassinates Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria in Sarajevo, triggering the start of World War I	1914 AD	84%
First moon landing	1969 AD	84%
Terrorist Attacks known as "9/11"	2001 AD	84%
Attack of Pearl Harbor	1941 AD	81%
Treaty of Versailles signed	1919 AD	79%
Nazi invasion of Poland triggers the begining of World War 2	1939 AD	79%
Assasination of Martin Luther King Jr	1968 AD	79%
German unconditional surrender to Allied forces	1945 AD	77%
Battle of Hastings	1066 AD	74%
Start of American civil War	1861 AD	74%
End of American Civil War	1865 AD	74%
Jesus is born	0AD	72%
Battle of Waterloo	1815 AD	72%
Communist North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces captured the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon	1975 AD	72%
Christopher Columbus reaches the New World	1492 AD	67%
The Great Fire of London	1666 AD	67%
The Wright Brothers perform the first heavier-than-air powered flight	1903 AD	67%
Yuri Gagarin becomes first man in space	1961 AD	67%
Amundsen reaches the South pole	1911 AD	65%
American colonies declare independance	1776 AD	63%
Storming of the Bastille	1789 AD	63%
Albert Einstein publishes his General Theory of Relativity	1916 AD	63%
Launch of Sputnik 1	1957 AD	63%
Picasso paints Guernica	1937 AD	60%
Thomas Jefferson elected President of the United States	1801 AD	58%
Former King Louis XVI of France and his wife Marie Antoinette are guillotined	1793 AD	56%
Napoleon abdicates and is exiled to Elba	1814 AD	56%
End of the Mesoamerican (Mayan) Long Count calendar	2012 AD	56%
The Magna Carta is sealed by John of England	1215 AD	53%
World population reaches 1 billion	1804 AD	53%
Ludwig van Beethoven performs his Moonlight Sonata for the first time	1802 AD	51%
Karl Benz sells the first commercial automobile	1886 AD	51%
The Battle of Montenotte, Napoleon Bonaparte's first victory as an Army commander	1796 AD	49%
Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species	1859 AD	44%
Alfred Nobel invents dynamite	1867 AD	44%
James the 1st of Scotland becomes James the 6th of England	1603 AD	42%
Battle of Balaclava	1854 AD	42%
Dmitri Mendeleev creates the periodic table	1869 AD	42%
Charlegmagne becomes first Holy Roman Emperor	800AD	42%
Battle of Agincourt	1415 AD	40%
The hundred years war ends	1453 AD	40%
Discovery of Antarctica	1820 AD	40%
The United Kingdom is formed	1707 AD	35%
The Spanish Armada leave A Coruña	1588 AD	33%
Richard I ascends the throne of England	1189 AD	30%
Michelangelo returns to his native Florence to begin work on the statue David	1501 AD	30%
Leonardo da Vinci begins painting the Mona Lisa and completes it three years later	1503 AD	30%
The Church of England breaks away from the Roman Catholic Church and recognizes King Henry VIII as the head of the Church	1531 AD	30%
James Cook explores and maps New Zealand and Australia	1769 AD	30%
Genghis Khan becomes sole ruler of Mongolia	1206 AD	28%
Battle of Bosworth Field	1485 AD	28%
Galileo Galilei is born	1564 AD	28%
Augustus Becomes Emperor of Rome	27 BC	28%
The Hundred year war begins	1337 AD	26%
The Black Death ravages Europe for the first of many times	1347 AD	26%
King Mursilis of the Hittites sacks Babylon. Begin of Babylonian "dark ages."	1595 BC	26%
Shakespeare publishes Romeo and Julliet	1597 AD	26%
The first publication of the King James Bible	1611 AD	26%
First Javanese War of Succession	1704 AD	26%
Frederick the Great comes to power in Prussia	1740 AD	26%
First Crusade	1096 AD	23%
The Battle of Crecy- The English use of the longbow leads to a decisive victory	1346 AD	23%
Vesuvius erupts, destroying Pompeii	79 BC	21%
Suleiman the magnificent dies	1566 AD	19%
Battle of Bannock burn	1314 AD	16%
Death of Tutankhamun	1341 BC	16%
René Descartes publishes Meditationes de prima philosophia Meditations on First Philosophy.	1641 AD	16%
The Battle of Stirling Bridge	1297 AD	14%
The Aztecs found their capital city of Tenochtitlan	1325 AD	12%
The Bible is translated into English by John Wycliffe.	1381 AD	12%
Battle of Marathon	490 BC	12%
The Knights Templar are founded	1118 AD	9%
Hannibal crosses the Alps	218 BC	9%
The mammoth goes extinct	2500 BC	9%
Rome becomes a Republic	509 BC	9%
Muhammed is born	570 AD	9%
Leif Eriksson lands in the Americas	1001 AD	7%
Canute the Great becomes King of England	1016 AD	7%
Indian campaign of Alexander the Great	326BC	7%
Visigoths sack Rome for the first time since 390 BC	410 AD	7%
Birth of Siddhartha Gautama	563 BC	7%
Kenneth McAlpin becomes king of the Picts and Scots	843 AD	7%
Alfred the Great becomes King of a united England	871 AD	7%
Homer writes The Iliad and The Odyssey	890 BC	7%
Battle of Kadesh	1274 BC	5%
Execution of Joan of Arc	1431 AD	5%
Gregory the Great becomes Pope	590AD	5%
Battle of Heavenfield	633AD	5%
Carthage founded	813 BC	5%
The Viking Rollo and his tribe settle in Normandy	911 AD	5%
Eric the Red, exiled from Iceland, begins Scandinavian colonization of Greenland	985 AD	5%
The Byzantines under Basil II conquer Bulgaria	1018 AD	2%
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%
The Roman Empire splits into East and West	284 AD	2%
Romulus Augustus forced to abdicate by Odoacer	476 AD	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%