Year | Event | Answer | % Correct |
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1501 | Michelangelo begins work on this statue | David | 96%
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1506 | Leonardo da Vinci completes this painting, his masterpiece | Mona Lisa | 88%
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1507 | The first recorded epidemic of this disease in the New World | Smallpox | 83%
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1508 | This artist begins painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel | Michelangelo | 79%
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1517 | This German professor nails his Ninety-Five Theses to a church door | Martin Luther | 75%
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1536 | This wife of Henry VIII is executed for alleged adultery | Anne Boleyn | 71%
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1512 | Florence returns to the rule of this family | Medici | 71%
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1544 | The first written record of this New World fruit in Europe | Tomato | 67%
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1505 | Juan de Bermudez discovers this uninhabited island | Bermuda | 63%
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1563 | A quarter of London's population perishes in an outbreak of this medieval disease | Bubonic plague | 63%
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1582 | The Catholic Church issues this new form of calendar | Gregorian | 63%
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1519 | This Spanish conquistador marches into the Aztec capital, Tenochtitlan | Hernan Cortes | 63%
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1568 | This deposed queen flees Scotland for England | Mary | 63%
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1577 | This explorer departs England on a circumnavigation of the globe | Sir Francis Drake | 63%
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1537 | This Florentine ruler is assassinated | Alessandro de' Medici | 58%
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1558 | This female monarch ascends to the throne aged just 25 | Elizabeth I | 58%
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1521 | This Portuguese explorer is killed in the Philippines | Ferdinand Magellan | 58%
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1533 | The Pope excommunicates this monarch | Henry VIII | 58%
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1555 | This French astrologer publishes a book of predictions about the future | Nostradamus | 58%
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1543 | This astronomer publishes his theory that the earth revolves around the sun | Copernicus | 54%
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1523 | Sweden establishes its full independence from this kingdom | Denmark | 54%
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1504 | Christopher Columbus awes the natives of Jamaica by predicting this phenomenon | Eclipse | 54%
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1550 | Pope Julius III permits the expansion of this evangelical order | Jesuits | 54%
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1553 | This woman rules as Queen of England for just nine days | Lady Jane Grey | 54%
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1527 | The Sack of _____ | Rome | 54%
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1588 | The _______ _______ is defeated in the English Channel | Spanish Armada | 54%
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1561 | The completion of this Moscow landmark | St Basil's Cathedral | 54%
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1557 | The Chinese government leases this peninsula to Portugal | Macau | 50%
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1532 | The posthumous publication of The Prince by this Italian diplomat | Niccolo Machiavelli | 50%
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1556 | The deadliest earthquake in recorded history occurs in this country | China | 46%
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1541 | This conquistadore is assassinated in his palace in Lima | Francisco Pizarro | 46%
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1502 | The first transatlantic African slaves are brought to this island in the Americas | Hispaniola | 46%
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1542 | Blown off course by a storm, a Portuguese ship makes the first European contact with this Asian country | Japan | 46%
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1538 | Expelled from Geneva, this French Protestant Reformer travels to Strasbourg | John Calvin | 46%
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1526 | The First Battle of Panipat marks the rise of the ________ Empire in India | Mughal | 46%
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1520 | This Italian artist dies aged 37, supposedly from sexually-induced exhaustion | Raphael | 46%
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1562 | Huguenots are massacred in France, sparking the First War of ________ | Religion | 46%
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1534 | This Catholic adviser to Henry VIII is imprisoned in the Tower of London | Sir Thomas More | 46%
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1599 | This theatre is opened on the south bank of the Thames | Globe Theatre | 42%
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1510 | The first established global pandemic of this disease | Influenza | 42%
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1545 | An attempted French invasion of this English island is repulsed | Isle of Wight | 42%
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1594 | The architect Domenico Fontana uncovers the ruins of this lost Roman city | Pompeii | 42%
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1585 | This besieged Flemish city falls to Spanish forces | Antwerp | 38%
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1516 | The death of this enigmatic Dutch artist, painter of The Garden of Earthly Delights | Hieronymus Bosch | 38%
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1573 | The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth grants its citizens freedom of ________ | Religion | 38%
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1574 | The first public garden in Europe, La Alameda, opens in this city | Seville | 38%
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1509 | Mathematician Luca Pacioli publishes his treatise on the ______ Ratio | Golden | 33%
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1580 | Portugal and Spain enter a dynastic union under this monarch | Philip | 33%
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1525 | Laypeople baptise each other in Zurich, marking the beginning of this Christian sect | Anabaptism | 29%
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1595 | Sir Walter Raleigh sails up the Orinoco in search of this fabled city of gold | El Dorado | 29%
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1581 | In a fit of rage, this monarch kills his own son and heir | Ivan IV | 29%
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1559 | This theologian returns from exile to begin the Protestant Reformation in Scotland | John Knox | 29%
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1513 | This explorer leads the first European expedition to Florida | Juan Ponce de Leon | 29%
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1569 | The first publication of this style of world map | Mercator projection | 29%
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1539 | An expedition by Hernando de Soto to Florida introduces this animal to North America | Pig | 29%
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1522 | Ottoman forces expel the Knights Hospitallers from this island | Rhodes | 29%
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1514 | This adviser to Henry VIII is appointed Archbishop of York | Thomas Wolsey | 29%
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1592 | The foundation of this college in Ireland | Trinity College | 29%
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1597 | Twenty-six Japanese Catholics are executed in Nagasaki by this method | Crucifixion | 25%
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1518 | Strasbourg sees an outbreak of _______ mania | Dancing | 25%
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1547 | This nine-year-old ascends to the English throne after the death of Henry VIII | Edward IV | 25%
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1511 | The first publication of In Praise of Folly by this Dutch scholar | Erasmus | 25%
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1548 | The foundation of this city in the Andes | La Paz | 25%
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1571 | The Ottoman fleet is defeated by a Christian coalition in the Battle of _______ | Lepanto | 25%
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1587 | A colony is established on this American island, but will soon mysteriously vanish | Roanoke | 25%
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1565 | This artist completes the painting The Hunters in the Snow | Bruegel the Elder | 21%
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1600 | This company receives a royal charter from Elizabeth I | East India Company | 21%
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1564 | First record of this phenomenon in which rats are gathered together by their tails | Rat king | 21%
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1598 | A succession crisis sparks the 'Time of Troubles' in this country | Russia | 21%
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1546 | This influential astronomer is born to Danish nobility | Tycho Brahe | 21%
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1586 | Execution of conspirators in the ________ Plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth | Babington | 17%
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1530 | This founder of the Mughal Empire dies in Agra | Babur | 17%
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1524 | This Italian explorer becomes the first European to sight Manhattan | Giovanni da Verrazzano | 17%
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1535 | This Breton captain becomes the first European to sail up the St Lawrence River | Jacques Cartier | 17%
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1503 | Margaret Tudor is wed to this king | James IV | 17%
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1572 | This new object appears in the sky | Supernova | 17%
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1596 | Sir John Harington installs in his manor a forerunner to this modern household device | Flush toilet | 13%
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1549 | This Catholic missionary arrives in Japan | Francis Xavier | 13%
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1528 | The coronation of this king, the 'Father of Sweden' | Gustav I | 13%
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1583 | Sir Humphrey Gilbert claims this island, already privately colonised, for England | Newfoundland | 13%
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1531 | Construction begins on this Tudor palace in Surrey | Nonsuch Palace | 13%
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1515 | This pioneering German physician graduates from the University of Ferrara | Paracelsus | 13%
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1566 | Violent Calvinist protests in the Low Countries lead to the _______ _____ War | Eighty Years' | 8%
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1584 | This weak-willed monarch ascends to the Russian throne | Feodor I | 8%
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1560 | This 16-year-old monarch dies of an infection after less than two years on the throne | Francis II | 8%
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1593 | The death of this Italian painter, known for his compositions of fruits and other objects to resemble human portraits | Giuseppe Arcimboldo | 8%
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1589 | The death of Henry III draws the War of Three ______ to a conclusion in France | Henrys | 8%
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1591 | This bridge is completed across the Grand Canal in Venice | Rialto | 8%
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1554 | This English landowner launches a rebellion against Queen Mary | Sir Thomas Wyatt | 8%
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1552 | The Siege of _____ by Ottoman troops in Hungary | Eger | 4%
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1570 | This Scottish regent becomes the first person to be assassinated with a firearm | James Stewart | 4%
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1578 | This explorer returns from Arctic Canada with a cargo of fool's gold | Martin Frobisher | 4%
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1575 | Seven of the Twenty-Four Generals of Takeda Shingen die in this battle | Nagashino | 4%
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1551 | The final outbreak of this now-vanished disease in England | Sweating sickness | 4%
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1590 | This pope dies of malaria after just 12 days, the shortest papacy in history | Urban VII | 4%
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1579 | The Treaty of _______ marks the foundation of the Dutch Republic | Utrecht | 4%
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1529 | The Treaty of __________ divides the world into Spanish and Portuguese spheres | Zaragoza | 4%
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1576 | This epidemic causes millions of deaths in New Spain | Cocoliztli | 0%
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1567 | His insanity worsening, King Eric XIV personally murders members of this family | Sture | 0%
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1540 | This church is the last to be closed under Henry VIII's Dissolution of the Monasteries | Waltham Abbey | 0%
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