Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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1429 - This French woman leads the siege of Orleans and encourages the son of the late King Charles VI to become King of France against the Treaty of Troyes | Joan of Arc | 89%
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1469 - An important marriage takes place in Valladolid between Isabella of Castile and this heir to the throne of Aragon | Ferdinand | 69%
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1415 - The last of three great English victories in the Hundred Years War | Agincourt | 65%
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1453 - This year sees the fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans and the end of the Hunded Years' War. Bordeaux is conquered by the French after three centuries of English rule, but this last city remains English | Calais | 62%
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1498 - This Portuguese explorer is the first European to reach India by sea | Vasco da Gama | 52%
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1492 - This year sees the death of Lorenzo de Medici, the discovery of America by Columbus, and also the end of the Reconquista in Spain whith the fall of this city | Granada | 51%
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1437 - This house becomes practically hereditary house in the Holy Roman Empire | Habsburg | 51%
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1478 - This city surrenders to Ivan III the Great, Grand Prince of Moscow | Novgorod | 39%
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1485 - This battle of the War of the Roses is won by Henry VII who founds the Tudor dynasty | Bosworth Field | 33%
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1419 - These wars begin that are named after the theologian who was burned at the stake during the above mentioned concile | Hussite | 27%
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1401 - This battle takes place in central Anatolia between Timur and the Ottoman Sultan Bayezid II | Ankara | 19%
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1498 - This Dominican friar, preacher, and reformer is executed in Florence | Savonarola | 18%
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1438 - This French King issues the Pragmatic sanction of Bourges that constitutes one first step towards gallicanism | Charles VII | 16%
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1414 - The concile that will put an end to the Western Schism begins in this city | Constance | 15%
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1407 - The murder of this nobleman by John the Fearles unleashes the Armagnac–Burgundian Civil War in France | Louis of Orleans | 6%
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