Date
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Hint
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Answer
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1250
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What Pope refuses to let the Jews of Cordova to build a synagogue
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Pope Innocent IV
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1450
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What battle occurs
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Battle of Formigny
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1493
|
In Barcelona, who does Columbus meet
|
Isabella I and Ferdinand II in Barcelona
|
1528
|
Who arrives in Florida
|
Panfilo the Narvaez
|
1534
|
What happens to Thomas Cromwell
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He is appointed Chief Secretary to King Henry VIII
|
1581
|
Who does Philip II become
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King of Portugal
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1654
|
What 2 countries sign a peace treaty
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England and The Netherlands
|
1689
|
Louis XIV does what
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Declares war on Spain
|
1697
|
Who becomes King of Sweden
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Charles XII
|
1729
|
What piece of Music premieres
|
St Matthew Passion
|
1755
|
Samuel does what
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Publish A Dictionary of the English Language
|
1793
|
Bank of England issues what note
|
5 pound note
|
1817
|
The 1st American what opens
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School for the Deaf
|
1850
|
What city is incorporated
|
San Francisco
|
1865
|
What happens to Otto von Bismarck
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He is elevated to rank of Count of Bismarck-Schonhausen
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1865
|
Who dies
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Abraham Lincoln
|
1874
|
What law does the NY legislature pass
|
Compulsory education law
|
1892
|
What company is formed
|
General Electric Company
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1901
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1st British what occurs
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Motorized Burial
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1906
|
What Armenian organization forms (acronym)
|
AGBU
|
1912
|
What ships sinks
|
RMS Titanic
|
1918
|
Georges Clemenceau does what
|
He publishes secret French/Austrian documents
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1923
|
What medicine is generally available
|
Insulin
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1927
|
What 2 countries agree on diplomatic relations
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Switzerland and USSR
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1939
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Who becomes the president of France
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Albert Lebrun
|
1942
|
King George VI awards what to Malta
|
George Cross
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1943
|
Metropolitan Life Insurances does what
|
Issues a $225 million check to Chase
|
1947
|
Jackie Robinson becomes 1st African-American to do what
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Play in US major league baseball
|
1952
|
Franklin National Bank issues 1st what
|
Bank credit card
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1955
|
Ray Kroc does what
|
Open the first McDonalds
|
1962
|
US national debt gets to what number
|
300,000,000,000
|
1970
|
What does Libyan leader Gadaffi launch
|
Green Revolution
|
1975
|
1st appearance of what occurs
|
San Diego Chicken
|
1978
|
What country completes a nuclear test
|
UK
|
1984
|
What country completes a nuclear test
|
USSR
|
1988
|
A Meteorite explodes over what country
|
Indonesia
|
1991
|
What bank forms in London
|
East-Europe Bank
|
2010
|
Volcanic ash from the eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland leads to what
|
Airspace closure
|
2013
|
Who becomes president of Venezuela
|
Nicolas Maduro
|
2019
|
What building catches fire
|
Cathedral of Notre Dame
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