Statistics for 17th Century Events

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  • This quiz has been taken 28 times
  • The average score is 39 of 100

Answer Stats

YearHintAnswer% Correct
1603This female monarch dies, having reigned since 1558Elizabeth I
92%
1614Practice of this religion is banned in JapanChristianity
83%
1605First publication of this foundational Spanish novelDon Quixote
83%
1606This member of the Gunpowder Plot falls to his death from the scaffold before his executionGuy Fawkes
83%
1620This ship of Puritan colonists arrives in MassachusettsMayflower
83%
1636The foundation of this university, today one of the world's most prestigiousHarvard
79%
1621A feast at Plymouth marks the first occasion of this North American holidayThanksgiving
79%
1613This London theatre is destroyed by fireGlobe
75%
1612The astronomer Galileo discovers this planet but mistakenly classes it as a starNeptune
75%
1664This new name is given by the English to the captured city of New AmsterdamNew York
75%
1684This future Russian empress is born into a peasant familyCatherine I
71%
1647Celebration of this religious festival is banned in EnglandChristmas
71%
1687This English physicist publishes his three laws of motionIsaac Newton
71%
1617The first use of one-way streets is documented in this cityLondon
71%
1618This English adventurer is beheaded at the Palace of WestminsterSir Walter Raleigh
71%
1665An outbreak of this medieval disease in London kills tens of thousandsBubonic plague
67%
1662Final sighting of this now-extinct flightless birdDodo
67%
1607This town is established, the first permanent English settlement in the AmericasJamestown
67%
1666This European city is razed by fireLondon
67%
1616This Native American woman is taken to London and becomes a celebrityPocahontas
67%
1653This dictator assumes control of the British IslesOliver Cromwell
63%
1626The newly-crowned Charles I dissolves this institutionParliament
63%
1632Construction begins on this Asian monumentTaj Mahal
63%
1663John Eliot publishes a translation of this book in the Massachusett languageBible
58%
1649This English king is beheaded in WhitehallCharles I
58%
1630This major American city is foundedBoston
54%
1615The writings of this scientist are submitted to the Roman Inquisition for heresyGalileo Galilei
54%
1622Portuguese forces repel a Dutch invasion of this Asian cityMacau
54%
1677Missionary Louis Hennepin becomes the first European to see this waterfallNiagara Falls
54%
1682The foundation of this city of brotherly lovePhiladelphia
54%
1661The Treaty of Cardis ends hostilities between Sweden and this countryRussia
54%
1693This European island is devastated by an earthquakeSicily
54%
1700Most of Protestant Western Europe, barring Britain, begins using this calendarGregorian
50%
1644This dynasty rises to power in China, and will rule until 1912Qing dynasty
50%
1650This French philosopher dies in StockholmRene Descartes
50%
1675Construction begins on this London observatoryRoyal Greenwich
50%
1648The Peace of Westphalia brings an end to this warThirty Years' War
50%
1637This speculative economic bubble collapses in the NetherlandsTulip mania
50%
1640A revolt breaks out in this Spanish regionCatalonia
46%
1689The English Bill of Rights bars adherents of this religion from the throneCatholicism
46%
1669The final formal meeting of this once-powerful league of Baltic merchantsHanseatic League
46%
1670This company is granted a royal charter to operate the fur trade in North AmericaHudson's Bay Company
46%
1667This English poet publishes his masterpiece, Paradise LostJohn Milton
46%
1686Russia signs a peace treaty with this neighbouring countryPolish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
46%
1608Foundation of this city on the Saint Lawrence RiverQuebec City
46%
1673This English architect is knightedSir Christopher Wren
46%
1658This country's army marches across the frozen sea to attack its neighbourSweden
46%
1694The foundation of this national bankBank of England
42%
1643Evangelista Torricelli invents this device for measuring air pressureBarometer
42%
1602Foundation of this Dutch mega-corporationDutch East India Company
42%
1688William III seizes the English throne in the ________ RevolutionGlorious Revolution
42%
1690The first paper money in North America is issued in this colonyMassachusetts
42%
1641A Dutch trading post is established in this Japanese cityNagasaki
42%
1683Defeat for the Ottoman Empire at this battle turns the tide of the Great Turkish WarBattle of Vienna
38%
1652The Dutch East India Company establishes this colony in AfricaCape Colony
38%
1633Jesuit missionaries are expelled from this African empireEthiopia
38%
1609This English mariner explores what will become New York StateHenry Hudson
38%
1660This English parliamentarian begins keeping his famous diarySamuel Pepys
38%
1638This European nation establishes a colony on the Delaware RiverSweden
38%
1655Astronomer Christiaan Huygens discovers this moon of SaturnTitan
38%
1645The ___ _____ Army is established by the Parliamentarians in the English Civil WarNew Model Army
33%
1642Rembrandt completes this painting, generally considered his masterpieceThe Night Watch
33%
1678Paul Bunyan publishes the first part of this Christian allegoryThe Pilgrim's Progress
33%
1627This European species of wild cattle goes extinctAuroch
29%
1623First publication of this collection of Shakespeare's playsFirst Folio
29%
1625A Dutch trading post is established on this islandManhattan
29%
1611This play, Shakespeare's last solo production, is performed for the first timeThe Tempest
29%
1651Thomas Hobbes publishes this treatise on society and governmentLeviathan
25%
1668England and the Netherlands enter a short-lived alliance with this third countrySweden
25%
1695This unpopular tax is introduced in EnglandWindow tax
25%
1692An infamous massacre occurs in this Scottish glenGlen Coe
21%
1601This Nordic astronomer dies under mysterious circumstances in PragueTycho Brahe
21%
1654This French philosopher experiences a religious vision which marks him for lifeBlaise Pascal
17%
1697Thomas Aikenhead becomes the last person in Great Britain executed for this crimeBlasphemy
17%
1659The first settlers arrive on this isolated Atlantic islandSt Helena
17%
1696The death at age 27 of this mentally and physically disabled Russian TsarIvan V
13%
1674The skeletal remains of these princes are discovered at the Tower of LondonPrinces in the Tower
13%
1610This Baroque painter dies in TuscanyCaravaggio
8%
1631This explorer of Virginia dies in LondonJohn Smith
8%
1676This Virginia landholder instigates an uprising against the colonial governmentNathaniel Bacon
8%
1657The Spanish treasure fleet is sunk by English ships in a raid on this islandTenerife
8%
1681This English priest is arrested for fabricating the Popish PlotTitus Oates
8%
1628This vessel sinks in Stockholm Harbour on her maiden voyageVasa
8%
1699This pirate is arrested in BostonWilliam Kidd
8%
1634This Bohemian military leader is assassinated by soldiers in his own forcesAlbrecht von Wallenstein
4%
1629This Dutch ship is wrecked off Western Australia, leading to mutiny and massacreBatavia
4%
1639Beginning of the _______ Wars between Scottish Royalists and CovenantersBishops'
4%
1656Birth of this English astronomer and mathematicianEdmond Halley
4%
1619This Holy Roman Emperor dies without leaving an heirMatthias
4%
1671This drunken Irishman unsuccessfully attempts to steal the Crown Jewels in LondonThomas Blood
4%
1624This Thomas Middleton play is banned for its allusions to the Spanish MatchA Game at Chess
0%
1685This battle is the last major engagement to be fought on English soilBattle of Sedgemoor
0%
1698The establishment of this short-lived Scottish colony in Central AmericaDarien scheme
0%
1672The __ ____ brothers are slaughtered by a mob in The Haguede Witt
0%
1679The brigantine Le _______ is towed up the Niagara River to become the first ship to sail the Great LakesGriffon
0%
1604This supernova appears, named for the German astronomer who described itKepler's Supernova
0%
1635This Englishman dies at the alleged age of 152Old Tom Parr
0%
1680This Marathi warrior-king dies of dysenteryShivaji
0%
1646Defeat for the Royalists at the Battle of __________ in DevonTorrington
0%
1691A Jacobite army departs Ireland, the Flight of the ____ _____Wild Geese
0%

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