Statistics for The 16th Century

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Year	Description	Answer	% Correct
1588	This country launches a doomed armada against England	Spain	96%
1558	This "Virgin Queen" is crowned in England	Elizabeth I	95%
1547	This "terrible" leader becomes Tsar of all the Russias	Ivan the Terrible	94%
1564	This dramatist is born in Stratford-upon-Avon	William Shakespeare	94%
1508–1512	This artist paints the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel	Michelangelo	92%
1520	Hernán Cortés conquers this Native American empire	Aztec Empire	88%
1517	This monk nails "Ninety-Five Theses" to a church door in Wittenberg, Germany	Martin Luther	88%
1562–98	Catholics and Huguenots fight several religious wars in this country	France	87%
1500	Pedro Álvares Cabral claims this country for Portugal	Brazil	83%
1582	This modern calendar replaces the Julian calendar	Gregorian Calendar	82%
1501–	Ismail I reunites this country and makes Shia the official state religion	Iran	80%
late 1500s	Sir Walter Raleigh popularizes this New World product	Tobacco	75%
1557	Portugal establishes this trading colony in China	Macau	73%
1506	Construction begins on this massive Roman basilica	St. Peter's	71%
1543	This scientist publishes his theory that the Earth revolves around the sun	Nicolaus Copernicus	70%
1519	This explorer launches the first expedition to circumnavigate the globe (although he would die on the way)	Ferdinand Magellan	68%
1519	Charles V becomes leader of this Germanic empire	Holy Roman Empire	67%
1580	This English sea captain circumnavigates the globe	Francis Drake	65%
1513	This Florentine diplomat writes his political treatise, "The Prince"	Niccolò Machiavelli	63%
1517	Ottoman sultan Selim I claims this title, asserting leadership over the entirety of the Muslim world	Caliph	43%