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Event
Date
Battle of Waterloo
1815
Declaration of American Independence
1776
Battle of Trafalgar
1805
Battle of Hastings
1066
9/11 - Twin Towers Attacked
2001
Start of WWI
1914
End of WWI
1918
India gains independence from Great Britain
1947
7/7 - London Terrorist Attacks
2005
Falklands War
1982
Start of WWII
1939
End of WWII
1945
Australia gains independence from Great Britain
1901
Invasion of Iraq
2003
Vietnam War Begins
1959
Year the Titanic Sank
1912
Year the Magna Carta was signed
1215
Hitler comes to power
1933
New Zealand gains independence from Great Britain
1907
Fifth and current French Republic introduced
1958
Collapse of the Berlin Wall
1989
Ireland gains independence from Great Britain
1921/22
USA purchases Alaska
1867
Queen Victoria Died
1901
Wright Brothers invent the airplane
1903
Columbus discovers 'The Americas'
1492
CBTemple
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Level 81
Apr 17, 2012
Good quiz!
Ozchris
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Level 33
Jan 22, 2013
Great quiz. Really nice range of topics.
Berney
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Level 80
Apr 17, 2013
The Wright Brothers did not "invent the airplane". They were the first to make a powered flight.
Quizmaster
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Level ∞
Apr 17, 2013
I would say this comment was pedantic if it wasn't simply incorrect. Airplanes are by definition powered. The Wright Brothers were the first to demonstrate a working model. Ergo, they invented the airplane.
Arp2600
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Level 86
Mar 16, 2014
Of course, french people will probably say that Clément Ader was the true pionner but his plane was not very stable and his flight is thus questionable.
IsleAuHaulte
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Level 89
Oct 9, 2018
Well give them their balloon all day long.
Goomaster7
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Level 67
Feb 16, 2015
New Zealand did not gain independence in 1907. That is merely when New Zealand became a 'dominion' of Great Britain rather than a 'colony'. There was no practical change to New Zealand's position, just a change in title.

http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/culture/dominion-day

omgitsolivia1
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Level 35
Feb 27, 2018
Thank god. New Zealand gained independence in 1947. It became a Dominion of the British Empire in 1907, and was the last Dominion to adopt the Treaty of Westminster (1931) granting it sovereignty.

I was really frustrated with this quiz for that.

DaisyGeekyTGirl
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Level 52
May 3, 2015
The Vietnam War started in 1955 actually.
IsleAuHaulte
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Level 89
Oct 9, 2018
Kind of a vague clue, whether you mean the American Vietnam War, which is what is almost universally the understanding in the English language or the civil war between the proxy states of north and south or the final phase of war against the French. Most would go for the U.S.-Vietnam War 1964-1973 in English.
shortyf1
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Level 48
May 5, 2015
To be picky, technically 1918 was just the year of the armistice in WW1, the war didn't officially end until the treaty of Versailles was signed in 1919
divantilya
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Level 37
Jun 5, 2017
Since everyone is being so "technical"... To be technically correct, while the Twin Towers were demolished in 2001, they were attacked twice, the first time in 1993.
IsleAuHaulte
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Level 89
Oct 9, 2018
Technically, World War 2 began as soon as that Treaty of Versailles was signed so we could say it was one war and ended in 1945, although it led to directly to the conflicts in Palestine so technically it's still going on. Pedantism duly noted and diagnosed.
rtabram
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Level 59
Mar 22, 2020
Thanks to COVID-19 isolation, I have just finished watching every episode of Ken Burn's Vietnam War documentary.

Although conflicts started almost as soon as WWII ended, most historians agree that the American war started in 1954-1955 when France withdrew and they moved in. Whatever event made you think it started later, you should maybe mention that in the clue.

tomwinkler95
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Level 70
Jun 13, 2020
Nice one... I wouldn't mind yellow boxes though
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