Statistics for Historical Years II

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Second World War ends	1945	96%
The Titanic Sinks	1912	95%
Archduke Franz Ferdinand is assassinated	1914	90%
Queen Victoria dies on the Isle of Wight	1901	78%
Marie Antoinette is executed	1793	64%
Elizabeth I ascends the throne	1558	33%
The Bubonic Plague first strikes	1347	28%
Decimal Day occurs (UK and Irish currency)	1971	27%
William III dies of pneumonia (previously fell from his horse)	1702	17%
The Year Without a Summer	1816	11%
Princess Amelia dies (partly resulting in George III's insanity)	1810	10%
Richard I is born	1157	9%
Charlotte Brontë's 'Jane Eyre' is published	1847	7%
The Big Stink	1858	7%
Sophia Dorothea of Celle is divorced and imprisoned by George I	1694	6%

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