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1.Which happened first?
Peter the Great begins his reign in Russia
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Frederick the Great begins his reign in Prussia
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Kamehameha the Great begins his reign in Hawaii
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Catherine the Great begins her reign in Russia
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Peter the Great begins his reign in Russia - 1682
2.Which happened first?
Pachacuti reorganizes the Kingdom of Cusco into the Incan Empire
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Christopher Columbus makes contact with the Taíno people.
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The Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and the Seneca people form the Iroquois Confederacy (best estimate)
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The Aztec Triple Alliance is formed between the cities of Tenochtitlan, Tetzcoco, and Tlacopan
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The Aztec Triple Alliance is formed between the cities of Tenochtitlan, Tetzcoco, and Tlacopan - 1427
3.Which happened first?
The first resident crew arrives at the ISS
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Vladimir Putin becomes acting president of Russia after the resignation of Boris Yeltsin
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The Euro is introduced as the official currency of the Eurozone
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The Concorde is retired after its final commercial flight
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The Euro is introduced as the official currency of the Eurozone - January 1, 1999
4.Which happened first?
The Swedish Army under Charles XII are defeated by the Russians in Poltava, having never reached Moscow
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Napoleon's Grande Armée temporarily occupies Moscow
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The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth occupies Moscow
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Forces of the German Wehrmacht reach the outskirts of Moscow, but are repelled
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The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth occupies Moscow - from 1610 to 1612
5.Which happened first?
Imperial Japanese forces take control of Jakarta
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Imperial Japanese forces take control of Manila
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Imperial Japanese forces take control of Singapore
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Imperial Japanese forces take control of Hong Kong
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Imperial Japanese forces take control of Hong Kong - December 25, 1941
6.Which happened first?
The first Anatomically modern humans make it to Great Britain
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Humans first arrive in Australia
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Humans cross into North America
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Humans migrate to the Japanese archipelago
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Humans first arrive in Australia - 48,000-50,000 years ago
7.Which happened first?
Puyi, the last emperor of China, is forced to abdicate
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The RMS Titanic sinks in the North Atlantic on its maiden voyage
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The First Balkan War breaks out between the Balkan League and the Ottoman Empire
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An assassination is attempted on former president Theodore Roosevelt
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Puyi, the last emperor of China, is forced to abdicate - February 12, 1912
8.Which happened first?
"Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde", written by Robert Louis Stevenson, is published
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"Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus", written by Mary Shelley, is published
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"Dracula", written by Bram Stoker, is published
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"Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas", written by Jules Verne, is published
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"Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus", written by Mary Shelley, is published - January 1, 1818
9.Which happened first?
Tsar Bomba, the most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated, is tested
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China successfully tests its first nuclear weapon
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India successfully tests its first nuclear weapon
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The Chernobyl disaster occurs
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Tsar Bomba, the most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated, is tested - October 30, 1961
10.Which happened first?
The Byzantine Empire reaches its territorial height under Justinian The Great
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The famous Theodosian Walls are erected around Constantinople
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The first documented use of Greek Fire occurs
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Construction begins on the Hagia Sophia
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Construction begins on the Hagia Sophia - 346
11.Which happened first?
The Delhi Sultanate reaches its territorial height after conquering much of modern day India
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The Maurya Empire reaches its territorial height after conquering much of modern day India
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The Mughal Empire reaches its territorial height after conquering much of modern day India
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The Gupta Empire reaches its territorial height after conquering much of modern day India
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The Maurya Empire reaches its territorial height after conquering much of modern day India - Approximately 250 BC
12.Which happened first?
The Duchy of Prussia is established upon the secularization of the Teutonic Knights
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The crowns of Castile and Aragon are united through Isabella I and Ferdinand II, informally unifying Spain
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James VI, then King of Scotland, ascends the throne of England
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Ivan the Terrible proclaims the formation of the Tsardom of Russia
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The crowns of Castile and Aragon are united through Isabella I and Ferdinand II, informally unifying Spain - 1479
13.Which happened first?
American bison populations reach their lowest point after European settlers hunt them to near-extinction in order to deprive Indigenous people of the area of their primary food source
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Approximately 250 Lakota people are killed by the U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment at The Wounded Knee Massacre
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Approximately 15,000 people die during the Trail of Tears, a forced resettlement of First Nations people from the American Southeast
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Battleford Industrial School, the first federally funded Canadian residential school, is opened.
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Approximately 15,000 people die during the Trail of Tears, a forced resettlement of First Nations people from the American Southeast - between 1830 and 1850
14.Which happened first?
Albert Einstein publishes his general theory of relativity
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Marie Curie passes away due to aplastic anemia, likely developed from exposure to radiation
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Jonas Salk develops a successful Polio vaccine
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Werner Heisenberg is awarded the Nobel prize in physics for the creation of quantum mechanics
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Albert Einstein publishes his general theory of relativity - 1915
15.Which happened first?
The Song Dynasty finally surrenders to the Mongol Empire, completing their conquest of China
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Mongol invaders capture and burn the city of Kyiv
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The Mongols seize Baghdad, pillaging the Baghdad House of Wisdom in the process
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Mamluk forces route an attempted Mongol invasion of Egypt in the Battle of Ain Jalut
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Mongol invaders capture and burn the city of Kyiv - 1240