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Timeline of the 16th Century

How well do you remember historical events from 1501 until 1600?
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1. Which Portuguese navigator claimed Brazil for Portugal?
Pedro Álvares Cabral ✓
Bartolomeu Dias ✓
Diogo Cão ✓
Vasco da Gama ✓
2. Astrologer, physician and reputed seer Nostradamus was born in 1503. Where was he from?
France ✓
Greece ✓
Italy ✓
Spain ✓
3. Who painted "La Gioconda?"
Raphael ✓
Michelangelo ✓
Leonardo da Vinci ✓
Sandro Botticelli ✓
4. Who proclaimed the Sun the center of the Solar system in 1512?
Johannes Kepler ✓
Galileo Galilei ✓
Tycho Brahe ✓
Nicolaus Copernicus ✓
5. Who wrote "Utopia" and published it in 1516?
Martin Luther ✓
Thomas More ✓
Thomas Becket ✓
Francis Bacon ✓
6. Capital of which empire was Tenochtitlan before was conquered by Spain?
Maya ✓
Aztec ✓
Navajo ✓
Inca ✓
7. Under which Ottoman ruler did the Empire reached its peak?
Selim I the Strong ✓
Mustafa I the Mad ✓
Bayezid II the Saint ✓
Suleiman I the Magnificent ✓
8. Who painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling?
Donatello ✓
Giotto ✓
Michelangelo ✓
Leonardo da Vinci ✓
9. Which explorer is known for defeating the Aztec Empire and taking Mexico in the name of Spain in 1521?
Francisco Pizarro ✓
John Cabot ✓
Amerigo Vespucci ✓
Hernan Cortes ✓
10. Who completed the first circumnavigation of the globe in a single expedition after its captain, Ferdinand Magellan, was killed?
Juan Ponce de León ✓
Juan Sebastián Elcano ✓
Francisco Vázquez de Coronado ✓
Hernando de Soto ✓
11. Where was Ferdinand Magellan killed in a battle in 1521?
Brazil ✓
New Zealand ✓
Argentina ✓
Philippines ✓
12. Who won the Battle of Mohács in 1526?
Ottoman Empire ✓
Kingdom of Hungary ✓
Kingdom of Poland ✓
Holy Roman Empire ✓
13. Who conquered the Inca Empire in 1532?
Amerigo Vespucci ✓
Christopher Columbus ✓
Hernan Cortes ✓
Francisco Pizarro ✓
14. What was the capital of Inca Empire?
Macchu Picchu ✓
Guadalajara ✓
Cusco ✓
Tulum ✓
15. How long Queen Elizabeth I held the English throne?
33 years ✓
44 years ✓
11 years ✓
22 years ✓
16. What was it that Queen Elizabeth I said she was married to?
France ✓
Parliament ✓
Her country ✓
Church ✓
17. What form of fine art is the Elizabethan Era most famous for?
Theatre ✓
Literature ✓
Ballet ✓
Painting ✓
18. Who was the first Queen of England to be executed in 1536?
Lady Jane Grey ✓
Anne Boleyn ✓
Catherine of Aragon ✓
Catherine Howard ✓
19. Which French explorer claimed Canada for France in 1536?
Jacques Cartier ✓
Jacques Cousteau ✓
Jacques Marquette ✓
Samuel de Champlain ✓
20. What was Martin Luther famous for?
Painting ✓
Astronomy ✓
Reformation ✓
Medicine ✓
21. Who was the first Tsar of Russia?
Ivan the Terrible ✓
Nicholas II ✓
Peter the Great ✓
Feodor I ✓
22. What was Gerardus Mercator famous for?
Writing ✓
Music ✓
Philosophy ✓
Carthography ✓
23. Which pope introduced his calendar in 1582 that is being used to present day?
Sixtus V ✓
Pius IV ✓
Gregory XIII ✓
Julius III ✓
24. What colony was the first attempt by the English to establish a colony in the Americas in 1585?
Jamestown ✓
Roanoke ✓
New Netherland ✓
Plymouth ✓
25. Williams Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" was published in 1597. How that tragedy ends?
They both die ✓
Juliet dies, Romeo stays alive ✓
They lived happily ever after ✓
Romeo dies, Juliet stays alive ✓
26. Who was burned at the stake for heresy in Rome for believing that the universe is infinite and that other solar systems exist?
Giordano Bruno ✓
Michel de Montaigne ✓
Antoine Lavoisier ✓
Jean Bodin ✓
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