Statistics for 17th Century Events

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This quiz has been taken 40 times
The average score is 42 of 100

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Year	Hint	Answer	% Correct
1603	This female monarch dies, having reigned since 1558	Elizabeth I	91%
1605	First publication of this foundational Spanish novel	Don Quixote	88%
1606	This member of the Gunpowder Plot falls to his death from the scaffold before his execution	Guy Fawkes	88%
1620	This ship of Puritan colonists arrives in Massachusetts	Mayflower	85%
1614	Practice of this religion is banned in Japan	Christianity	82%
1621	A feast at Plymouth marks the first occasion of this North American holiday	Thanksgiving	82%
1613	This London theatre is destroyed by fire	Globe	79%
1636	The foundation of this university, today one of the world's most prestigious	Harvard	79%
1612	The astronomer Galileo discovers this planet but mistakenly classes it as a star	Neptune	76%
1664	This new name is given by the English to the captured city of New Amsterdam	New York	76%
1684	This future Russian empress is born into a peasant family	Catherine I	74%
1617	The first use of one-way streets is documented in this city	London	74%
1616	This Native American woman is taken to London and becomes a celebrity	Pocahontas	74%
1618	This English adventurer is beheaded at the Palace of Westminster	Sir Walter Raleigh	74%
1665	An outbreak of this medieval disease in London kills tens of thousands	Bubonic plague	71%
1647	Celebration of this religious festival is banned in England	Christmas	71%
1662	Final sighting of this now-extinct flightless bird	Dodo	71%
1687	This English physicist publishes his three laws of motion	Isaac Newton	71%
1666	This European city is razed by fire	London	71%
1632	Construction begins on this Asian monument	Taj Mahal	71%
1663	John Eliot publishes a translation of this book in the Massachusett language	Bible	65%
1607	This town is established, the first permanent English settlement in the Americas	Jamestown	65%
1649	This English king is beheaded in Whitehall	Charles I	62%
1653	This dictator assumes control of the British Isles	Oliver Cromwell	62%
1626	The newly-crowned Charles I dissolves this institution	Parliament	62%
1644	This dynasty rises to power in China, and will rule until 1912	Qing dynasty	62%
1640	A revolt breaks out in this Spanish region	Catalonia	59%
1615	The writings of this scientist are submitted to the Roman Inquisition for heresy	Galileo Galilei	59%
1650	This French philosopher dies in Stockholm	Rene Descartes	59%
1661	The Treaty of Cardis ends hostilities between Sweden and this country	Russia	59%
1630	This major American city is founded	Boston	56%
1677	Missionary Louis Hennepin becomes the first European to see this waterfall	Niagara Falls	56%
1608	Foundation of this city on the Saint Lawrence River	Quebec City	56%
1648	The Peace of Westphalia brings an end to this war	Thirty Years' War	56%
1700	Most of Protestant Western Europe, barring Britain, begins using this calendar	Gregorian	53%
1670	This company is granted a royal charter to operate the fur trade in North America	Hudson's Bay Company	53%
1622	Portuguese forces repel a Dutch invasion of this Asian city	Macau	53%
1682	The foundation of this city of brotherly love	Philadelphia	53%
1693	This European island is devastated by an earthquake	Sicily	53%
1637	This speculative economic bubble collapses in the Netherlands	Tulip mania	53%
1643	Evangelista Torricelli invents this device for measuring air pressure	Barometer	50%
1689	The English Bill of Rights bars adherents of this religion from the throne	Catholicism	50%
1688	William III seizes the English throne in the ________ Revolution	Glorious Revolution	50%
1686	Russia signs a peace treaty with this neighbouring country	Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth	50%
1683	Defeat for the Ottoman Empire at this battle turns the tide of the Great Turkish War	Battle of Vienna	47%
1652	The Dutch East India Company establishes this colony in Africa	Cape Colony	47%
1669	The final formal meeting of this once-powerful league of Baltic merchants	Hanseatic League	47%
1667	This English poet publishes his masterpiece, Paradise Lost	John Milton	47%
1690	The first paper money in North America is issued in this colony	Massachusetts	47%
1675	Construction begins on this London observatory	Royal Greenwich	47%
1658	This country's army marches across the frozen sea to attack its neighbour	Sweden	47%
1602	Foundation of this Dutch mega-corporation	Dutch East India Company	44%
1633	Jesuit missionaries are expelled from this African empire	Ethiopia	44%
1641	A Dutch trading post is established in this Japanese city	Nagasaki	44%
1673	This English architect is knighted	Sir Christopher Wren	44%
1638	This European nation establishes a colony on the Delaware River	Sweden	44%
1694	The foundation of this national bank	Bank of England	41%
1609	This English mariner explores what will become New York State	Henry Hudson	41%
1645	The ___ _____ Army is established by the Parliamentarians in the English Civil War	New Model Army	41%
1668	England and the Netherlands enter a short-lived alliance with this third country	Sweden	38%
1655	Astronomer Christiaan Huygens discovers this moon of Saturn	Titan	38%
1660	This English parliamentarian begins keeping his famous diary	Samuel Pepys	35%
1642	Rembrandt completes this painting, generally considered his masterpiece	The Night Watch	35%
1678	Paul Bunyan publishes the first part of this Christian allegory	The Pilgrim's Progress	32%
1627	This European species of wild cattle goes extinct	Auroch	29%
1625	A Dutch trading post is established on this island	Manhattan	29%
1651	Thomas Hobbes publishes this treatise on society and government	Leviathan	26%
1611	This play, Shakespeare's last solo production, is performed for the first time	The Tempest	26%
1601	This Nordic astronomer dies under mysterious circumstances in Prague	Tycho Brahe	26%
1623	First publication of this collection of Shakespeare's plays	First Folio	24%
1659	The first settlers arrive on this isolated Atlantic island	St Helena	24%
1654	This French philosopher experiences a religious vision which marks him for life	Blaise Pascal	21%
1692	An infamous massacre occurs in this Scottish glen	Glen Coe	21%
1610	This Baroque painter dies in Tuscany	Caravaggio	18%
1695	This unpopular tax is introduced in England	Window tax	18%
1696	The death at age 27 of this mentally and physically disabled Russian Tsar	Ivan V	15%
1674	The skeletal remains of these princes are discovered at the Tower of London	Princes in the Tower	15%
1697	Thomas Aikenhead becomes the last person in Great Britain executed for this crime	Blasphemy	12%
1631	This explorer of Virginia dies in London	John Smith	12%
1619	This Holy Roman Emperor dies without leaving an heir	Matthias	12%
1634	This Bohemian military leader is assassinated by soldiers in his own forces	Albrecht von Wallenstein	9%
1672	The __ ____ brothers are slaughtered by a mob in The Hague	de Witt	9%
1657	The Spanish treasure fleet is sunk by English ships in a raid on this island	Tenerife	9%
1628	This vessel sinks in Stockholm Harbour on her maiden voyage	Vasa	9%
1629	This Dutch ship is wrecked off Western Australia, leading to mutiny and massacre	Batavia	6%
1656	Birth of this English astronomer and mathematician	Edmond Halley	6%
1676	This Virginia landholder instigates an uprising against the colonial government	Nathaniel Bacon	6%
1680	This Marathi warrior-king dies of dysentery	Shivaji	6%
1671	This drunken Irishman unsuccessfully attempts to steal the Crown Jewels in London	Thomas Blood	6%
1681	This English priest is arrested for fabricating the Popish Plot	Titus Oates	6%
1699	This pirate is arrested in Boston	William Kidd	6%
1639	Beginning of the _______ Wars between Scottish Royalists and Covenanters	Bishops'	3%
1691	A Jacobite army departs Ireland, the Flight of the ____ _____	Wild Geese	3%
1624	This Thomas Middleton play is banned for its allusions to the Spanish Match	A Game at Chess	0%
1685	This battle is the last major engagement to be fought on English soil	Battle of Sedgemoor	0%
1698	The establishment of this short-lived Scottish colony in Central America	Darien scheme	0%
1679	The brigantine Le _______ is towed up the Niagara River to become the first ship to sail the Great Lakes	Griffon	0%
1604	This supernova appears, named for the German astronomer who described it	Kepler's Supernova	0%
1635	This Englishman dies at the alleged age of 152	Old Tom Parr	0%
1646	Defeat for the Royalists at the Battle of __________ in Devon	Torrington	0%