Statistics for Revolutions, Riots, Revolts 1765-1923

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Year	Hint	Country	% Correct
1765-1789	Climax: Declaration of Independence 1776	United States	98%
1789-1799	Storm of the Bastille	France	97%
c. 1808-1833	A series of independence wars against the colonial power of Spain. Name one newly independent country.	Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela	92%
1791-1804	Ended slavery in this (former) French colony	Haiti	91%
1851-1864	Taiping Rebellion	China	89%
1917-1923	Communist Revolution	Russia	89%
c. 1848/49	Many different movements in European countries, some were Revolutions, some tried to push reforms. Name one of the countries involved in some way.	Switzerland, France, Germany (German States), Italy (Italian States), Austria (Habsburg), Ottoman Empire. (Netherlands, Belgium, Scandinavia).	83%
1861-1865	Arguably a revolution, since it caused the abolition of slavery in this country. Better known as a civil war.	United States	83%
1904-1907	Climax: Bloody Sunday 1905	Russia	74%
1780	Gordon Riots	United Kingdom	68%
1857-1858	Rebellion with different names, such as Great Rebellion or Sepoy Mutiny	India	67%
1830	July Revolution	France	64%
1780-1782	Gran Rebelión, led by Túpac Amaru II.	Peru	56%
1911-1913	The country becomes a republic after millennia of being an Empire	China	52%
1910-1920	Revolution which turned into a civil war	Mexico	42%
1908	Social Group forced the ruler to reinstate the Constitution abolished in 1878	Ottoman Empire	38%
1905-1911	Constitutional Revolution	Iran	17%