History Quiz: Dates

Shah Jahan died on 22nd January 1666, and Carlo de' Medici died on 17th June. René Descartes died on 11th February 1650.

It was one of the bloodiest battles in human history.

Some versions of what happened afterwards state that he was to be killed on a pyre. He begged the gods to spare his life when the pyre was lit, and it began to rain. So impressed was Cyrus that he made him his advisor.

It was founded by the Romans, as Londinium.

It is still not known what happened there.

It is the geometric theory of gravitation, meaning it provides a unified description of gravity as a geometric property of spacetime.

It was built for the pharaoh Djoser by his vizier Imhotep. It was based on the mastaba, which served as tombs for Egyptian rulers beforehand, though instead of one it was designed as several, one on top of the other (giving the pyramid its step appearance).

The original mosque, build in either the 13th or 14th century, fell into disrepair after the Fulani leader Seku Amadu conquered Djenné in 1818 and built a new mosque nearby. In 1906, the French administration in the town arranged for the original mosque to be rebuilt and for a school to be built on the site of Seku Amadu's mosque.

It was built under the Khmer King Suryavarman II. It was initially a Hindu temple dedicated to Vishnu, but it was gradually transformed into a Buddhist temple towards the end of the same century.

According to sagas written three centuries after his lifetime, which means the dates may not be accurate. They remain, however, the only account of his reign.

He became the country's first chancellor after masterminding the unification of Germany on 18th January 1871.

This was after Qin Shi Huang, of the state of Qin, had conquered the lands of the Zhou dynasty and the other six of the Seven Warring States.

The statue is quite large, at 5.17 metres tall.

The Commodore of the United States Navy Matthew Perry forced Japan to open up to American trade during this year, through a series of treaties.

This was a part of the Classic Maya collapse, which saw the decline of the Classic Maya civilisation and the abandonment of cities in the southern Maya lowlands.