Statistics for 18th Century Events

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This quiz has been taken 34 times
The average score is 40 of 100

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Year	Hint	Answer	% Correct
1705	This English scientist is knighted by Queen Anne	Sir Isaac Newton	81%
1729	Consumption of this drug is criminalised in China	Opium	77%
1706	The Treaty of Union is agreed between England and this country	Scotland	73%
1796	Edward Jenner conducts his first test of a vaccination against this disease	Smallpox	73%
1707	The last recorded eruption of this Japanese volcano	Mount Fuji	69%
1714	Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit develops the first reliable prototype of this instrument	Thermometer	69%
1752	This American scientist flies a kite in a lightning storm	Benjamin Franklin	65%
1762	This woman ascends to the Russian throne after orchestrating the overthrow of her husband in a coup d'etat	Catherine the Great	65%
1757	The works of this astronomer are removed from the list of texts banned by the Vatican	Galileo Galilei	65%
1793	Louis XVI of France is executed by this method	Guillotine	65%
1719	Daniel Defoe publishes this novel about a castaway	Robinson Crusoe	65%
1748	This Scottish economist begins lecturing at the University of Edinburgh	Adam Smith	62%
1718	This infamous pirate is killed in battle off North Carolina	Blackbeard	62%
1773	This act of protest occurs in Boston	Boston Tea Party	62%
1799	This American politician dies of unclear causes in Virginia	George Washington	62%
1779	Captain James Cook is killed in a dispute with indigenous people on this island	Hawaii	62%
1701	This exiled king of England and Scotland dies in France	James II	62%
1774	This prince becomes the King of France at age 19	Louis XVI	62%
1776	The US Declaration of Independence is signed in this city	Philadelphia	62%
1722	Dutch explorers land on this island on Easter Sunday	Easter Island	58%
1764	This 8-year-old child prodigy performs a private concert for British royalty	Mozart	58%
1791	An ultimately successful slave revolt begins in this French colony	Saint-Domingue	58%
1747	James Lind conducts experiments to see if citrus fruits prevent this disease	Scurvy	58%
1786	The first ascent of this European mountain	Mont Blanc	54%
1790	Tam o' Shanter is published by this Scottish poet	Robert Burns	54%
1745	A Jacobite uprising begins in this country	Scotland	54%
1721	This man becomes the de facto first Prime Minister of Great Britain	Sir Robert Walpole	54%
1744	Construction begins on this famous building in Texas	The Alamo	54%
1725	The first publication of these violin concerti by Antonio Vivaldi	The Four Seasons	54%
1716	George Seton, Earl of Winton, escapes this London prison	Tower of London	54%
1742	A translation by Charles Jervas of this Spanish novel is published in English	Don Quixote	50%
1789	An infamous mutiny occurs aboard this Royal Navy ship in the South Pacific	HMS Bounty	50%
1767	Adherents of this Christian religious order are expelled from Spain's South American colonies	Jesuits	50%
1753	A law is passed in Britain permitting adherents of this religion to become citizens	Judaism	50%
1783	The first manned hot air balloon flight takes place in this city	Paris	50%
1763	This lost Roman city is identified	Pompeii	50%
1709	Defeat at the Battle of Poltava marks the beginning of decline for this European power	Sweden	50%
1759	The satire Candide is published by this French philosopher	Voltaire	50%
1766	This famous Italian womaniser is injured in a duel in Warsaw	Giacomo Casanova	46%
1726	Gulliver's Travels is published by this Irish satirist	Jonathan Swift	46%
1711	The Quebec Expedition fails when eight of its ships are wrecked in this river	St Lawrence	46%
1741	This infamous American Revolutionary War officer and traitor is born in Connecticut	Benedict Arnold	42%
1734	This famous explorer and frontiersman is born in Pennsylvania	Daniel Boone	42%
1704	Anglo-Dutch forces capture this territory from Spain in the War of Spanish Succession	Gibraltar	42%
1738	John Wesley experiences a spiritual rebirth on Aldersgate Street, the foundational moment for this Christian movement	Methodism	42%
1769	This island is partitioned from Nova Scotia, becoming a separate colony	St John's Island	42%
1781	This celestial object is first identified as a planet, not a star	Uranus	42%
1728	The Bering Strait is discovered by this Danish explorer	Vitus Bering	42%
1746	Following last year's failed rebellion, this Jacobite pretender flees to France	Bonnie Prince Charlie	38%
1727	King George II of Great Britain dies while visiting this electorate of the Holy Roman Empire - his place of birth	Hanover	38%
1715	The first major uprising in Scotland by these supporters of the House of Stuart	Jacobites	38%
1775	The first battles of the American Revolution are fought in these towns in Massachusetts	Lexington and Concord	38%
1792	A Vindication of the Rights of Woman is published by this feminist writer	Mary Wollstonecraft	38%
1800	A Christmas Eve assassination plot fails to kill this European ruler	Napoleon	38%
1717	Spain invades this Mediterranean island	Sardinia	38%
1708	Construction is completed on this London landmark	St Paul's Cathedral	38%
1777	This region, which will eventually become a US state, declares itself an independent republic	Vermont	38%
1743	The last of these animals in Britain is shot near Killiecrankie, Scotland	Wolf	38%
1751	George Washington contracts smallpox while visiting this Caribbean island	Barbados	35%
1735	This Swedish zoologist introduces modern taxonomy in Systema Naturæ	Carl Linnaeus	35%
1724	The Treaty of Hanover joins Hanover, Prussia, France and ______________ into a defensive alliance	Great Britain	35%
1798	The Royal Navy defeats the French Navy in the Battle of the _____	Nile	35%
1740	Austrian-held Silesia is invaded by this kingdom	Prussia	35%
1755	First publication of this London writer's dictionary	Samuel Johnson	35%
1782	King Taksin is overthrown and executed in this Asian country	Siam	35%
1720	This economic bubble collapses	South Sea Bubble	35%
1731	The sailor Robert Jenkins' ear is cut off by Spanish privateers, sparking this war	War of Jenkins' Ear	35%
1754	This war begins in North America	French and Indian War	31%
1761	Likely the bloodiest battle of the century is fought between Maratha and Durrani forces in this modern-day country	India	31%
1712	John Arbuthnot creates this fictional national personification of Great Britain	John Bull	31%
1788	The First Fleet completes its voyage and founds this city	Sydney	31%
1770	Over 10 million people starve to death in a famine in this Indian region	Bengal	27%
1702	This number of ronin commit seppuku after avenging their master	Forty-seven	27%
1768	A peace agreement is concluded between Great Britian and this Native American nation	Iroquois Confederacy	27%
1756	Most of the prisoners held in this overcrowded Calcutta prison die of suffocation and exhaustion	Black Hole	23%
1749	The comic novel Tom Jones is published by this English writer	Henry Fielding	23%
1758	Russian troops capture this Prussian city	Konigsberg	23%
1732	Benjamin Franklin publishes the first edition of this long-running almanac	Poor Richard's Almanack	23%
1765	This unpopular tax is introduced in Britain's thirteen American colonies	Stamp Act	23%
1703	This mysterious prisoner dies in the Bastille	The Man in the Iron Mask	23%
1710	The Royal Society of Sciences is founded in this Swedish city	Uppsala	23%
1795	Following the French occupation of the Netherlands, the British seize this Dutch colony	Cape Colony	19%
1739	This English highwayman is hanged in Yorkshire	Dick Turpin	19%
1784	More than half the livestock in this country die from the effects of ongoing volcanic eruptions	Iceland	19%
1760	Tacky's War, a slave rebellion, takes place in this North American colony	Jamaica	19%
1736	Russia invades this country	Ottoman Empire	19%
1785	This newspaper begins publication under the title of the Daily Universal Register	The Times	19%
1797	Napoleon conquers this city, ending its 1100 years of independence	Venice	19%
1794	William Blake publishes "The Tyger" as part of his collection Songs of __________	Experience	15%
1771	An outbreak of bubonic plague in this European city reaches epidemic levels	Moscow	15%
1730	This Russian emperor dies of smallpox	Peter II	15%
1780	The first running of this English horse race	Epsom Derby	12%
1750	This city, under the control of the Qing Dynasty, is swept with riots	Lhasa	12%
1787	The foundation of this English cricket club	Marylebone Cricket Club	12%
1737	The News Letter, the oldest English-language newspaper still in circulation, is founded in this city	Belfast	8%
1772	This British customs vessel is attacked and burned by Patriots off Rhode Island	Gaspee	8%
1723	The Treaty of St Petersburg concludes a war between Russia and this country	Persia	8%
1778	This British prime minister collapses during a speech, and later dies	Pitt the Elder	8%
1733	The death of this Polish king sparks a Europe-wide war of succession	Augustus II	4%
1713	The Treaty of Portsmouth brings an end to this war	Queen Anne's War	0%