Statistics for 16th Century Events

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Year	Event	Answer	% Correct
1501	Michelangelo begins work on this statue	David	96%
1506	Leonardo da Vinci completes this painting, his masterpiece	Mona Lisa	88%
1507	The first recorded epidemic of this disease in the New World	Smallpox	84%
1508	This artist begins painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel	Michelangelo	80%
1517	This German professor nails his Ninety-Five Theses to a church door	Martin Luther	76%
1536	This wife of Henry VIII is executed for alleged adultery	Anne Boleyn	72%
1512	Florence returns to the rule of this family	Medici	68%
1563	A quarter of London's population perishes in an outbreak of this medieval disease	Bubonic plague	64%
1582	The Catholic Church issues this new form of calendar	Gregorian	64%
1568	This deposed queen flees Scotland for England	Mary	64%
1544	The first written record of this New World fruit in Europe	Tomato	64%
1505	Juan de Bermudez discovers this uninhabited island	Bermuda	60%
1558	This female monarch ascends to the throne aged just 25	Elizabeth I	60%
1533	The Pope excommunicates this monarch	Henry VIII	60%
1519	This Spanish conquistador marches into the Aztec capital, Tenochtitlan	Hernan Cortes	60%
1577	This explorer departs England on a circumnavigation of the globe	Sir Francis Drake	60%
1537	This Florentine ruler is assassinated	Alessandro de' Medici	56%
1521	This Portuguese explorer is killed in the Philippines	Ferdinand Magellan	56%
1555	This French astrologer publishes a book of predictions about the future	Nostradamus	56%
1527	The Sack of _____	Rome	56%
1543	This astronomer publishes his theory that the earth revolves around the sun	Copernicus	52%
1523	Sweden establishes its full independence from this kingdom	Denmark	52%
1504	Christopher Columbus awes the natives of Jamaica by predicting this phenomenon	Eclipse	52%
1550	Pope Julius III permits the expansion of this evangelical order	Jesuits	52%
1553	This woman rules as Queen of England for just nine days	Lady Jane Grey	52%
1588	The _______ _______ is defeated in the English Channel	Spanish Armada	52%
1561	The completion of this Moscow landmark	St Basil's Cathedral	52%
1557	The Chinese government leases this peninsula to Portugal	Macau	48%
1532	The posthumous publication of The Prince by this Italian diplomat	Niccolo Machiavelli	48%
1556	The deadliest earthquake in recorded history occurs in this country	China	44%
1541	This conquistadore is assassinated in his palace in Lima	Francisco Pizarro	44%
1502	The first transatlantic African slaves are brought to this island in the Americas	Hispaniola	44%
1542	Blown off course by a storm, a Portuguese ship makes the first European contact with this Asian country	Japan	44%
1538	Expelled from Geneva, this French Protestant Reformer travels to Strasbourg	John Calvin	44%
1526	The First Battle of Panipat marks the rise of the ________ Empire in India	Mughal	44%
1520	This Italian artist dies aged 37, supposedly from sexually-induced exhaustion	Raphael	44%
1562	Huguenots are massacred in France, sparking the First War of ________	Religion	44%
1534	This Catholic adviser to Henry VIII is imprisoned in the Tower of London	Sir Thomas More	44%
1599	This theatre is opened on the south bank of the Thames	Globe Theatre	40%
1510	The first established global pandemic of this disease	Influenza	40%
1545	An attempted French invasion of this English island is repulsed	Isle of Wight	40%
1594	The architect Domenico Fontana uncovers the ruins of this lost Roman city	Pompeii	40%
1573	The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth grants its citizens freedom of ________	Religion	40%
1585	This besieged Flemish city falls to Spanish forces	Antwerp	36%
1516	The death of this enigmatic Dutch artist, painter of The Garden of Earthly Delights	Hieronymus Bosch	36%
1574	The first public garden in Europe, La Alameda, opens in this city	Seville	36%
1509	Mathematician Luca Pacioli publishes his treatise on the ______ Ratio	Golden	32%
1580	Portugal and Spain enter a dynastic union under this monarch	Philip	32%
1525	Laypeople baptise each other in Zurich, marking the beginning of this Christian sect	Anabaptism	28%
1547	This nine-year-old ascends to the English throne after the death of Henry VIII	Edward IV	28%
1595	Sir Walter Raleigh sails up the Orinoco in search of this fabled city of gold	El Dorado	28%
1581	In a fit of rage, this monarch kills his own son and heir	Ivan IV	28%
1559	This theologian returns from exile to begin the Protestant Reformation in Scotland	John Knox	28%
1513	This explorer leads the first European expedition to Florida	Juan Ponce de Leon	28%
1569	The first publication of this style of world map	Mercator projection	28%
1539	An expedition by Hernando de Soto to Florida introduces this animal to North America	Pig	28%
1522	Ottoman forces expel the Knights Hospitallers from this island	Rhodes	28%
1587	A colony is established on this American island, but will soon mysteriously vanish	Roanoke	28%
1514	This adviser to Henry VIII is appointed Archbishop of York	Thomas Wolsey	28%
1592	The foundation of this college in Ireland	Trinity College	28%
1597	Twenty-six Japanese Catholics are executed in Nagasaki by this method	Crucifixion	24%
1518	Strasbourg sees an outbreak of _______ mania	Dancing	24%
1511	The first publication of In Praise of Folly by this Dutch scholar	Erasmus	24%
1548	The foundation of this city in the Andes	La Paz	24%
1571	The Ottoman fleet is defeated by a Christian coalition in the Battle of _______	Lepanto	24%
1565	This artist completes the painting The Hunters in the Snow	Bruegel the Elder	20%
1600	This company receives a royal charter from Elizabeth I	East India Company	20%
1564	First record of this phenomenon in which rats are gathered together by their tails	Rat king	20%
1598	A succession crisis sparks the 'Time of Troubles' in this country	Russia	20%
1546	This influential astronomer is born to Danish nobility	Tycho Brahe	20%
1586	Execution of conspirators in the ________ Plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth	Babington	16%
1530	This founder of the Mughal Empire dies in Agra	Babur	16%
1524	This Italian explorer becomes the first European to sight Manhattan	Giovanni da Verrazzano	16%
1535	This Breton captain becomes the first European to sail up the St Lawrence River	Jacques Cartier	16%
1503	Margaret Tudor is wed to this king	James IV	16%
1572	This new object appears in the sky	Supernova	16%
1596	Sir John Harington installs in his manor a forerunner to this modern household device	Flush toilet	12%
1549	This Catholic missionary arrives in Japan	Francis Xavier	12%
1528	The coronation of this king, the 'Father of Sweden'	Gustav I	12%
1583	Sir Humphrey Gilbert claims this island, already privately colonised, for England	Newfoundland	12%
1531	Construction begins on this Tudor palace in Surrey	Nonsuch Palace	12%
1515	This pioneering German physician graduates from the University of Ferrara	Paracelsus	12%
1566	Violent Calvinist protests in the Low Countries lead to the _______ _____ War	Eighty Years'	8%
1584	This weak-willed monarch ascends to the Russian throne	Feodor I	8%
1560	This 16-year-old monarch dies of an infection after less than two years on the throne	Francis II	8%
1593	The death of this Italian painter, known for his compositions of fruits and other objects to resemble human portraits	Giuseppe Arcimboldo	8%
1589	The death of Henry III draws the War of Three ______ to a conclusion in France	Henrys	8%
1591	This bridge is completed across the Grand Canal in Venice	Rialto	8%
1554	This English landowner launches a rebellion against Queen Mary	Sir Thomas Wyatt	8%
1552	The Siege of _____ by Ottoman troops in Hungary	Eger	4%
1570	This Scottish regent becomes the first person to be assassinated with a firearm	James Stewart	4%
1578	This explorer returns from Arctic Canada with a cargo of fool's gold	Martin Frobisher	4%
1575	Seven of the Twenty-Four Generals of Takeda Shingen die in this battle	Nagashino	4%
1551	The final outbreak of this now-vanished disease in England	Sweating sickness	4%
1590	This pope dies of malaria after just 12 days, the shortest papacy in history	Urban VII	4%
1579	The Treaty of _______ marks the foundation of the Dutch Republic	Utrecht	4%
1529	The Treaty of __________ divides the world into Spanish and Portuguese spheres	Zaragoza	4%
1576	This epidemic causes millions of deaths in New Spain	Cocoliztli	0%
1567	His insanity worsening, King Eric XIV personally murders members of this family	Sture	0%
1540	This church is the last to be closed under Henry VIII's Dissolution of the Monasteries	Waltham Abbey	0%