Statistics for Which Century?

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Event	Century	% Correct
William Shakespeare writes 'Romeo and Juliet'	16th	100%
The Shah of Iran is overthrown during the Iranian Revolution	20th	91%
The Colosseum is opened in Rome	1st	88%
Charles Darwin writes 'On the Origin of Species'	19th	85%
Leif Erikson becomes the first European to reach North America	11th	82%
Queen Victoria is born in London	19th	82%
Gunpowder is invented in China	9th	82%
Leonardo da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa	16th	79%
The Incas build Machu Picchu in what is now Peru	15th	76%
The Montgolfier brothers perform the first manned hot air balloon flight	18th	75%
Emperor Diocletian splits the Roman Empire	3rd	74%
Napoleon Bonaparte leads the French Empire in the Napoleonic Wars	19th	69%
The Sultanate is abolished, ending the Ottoman Empire	20th	66%
India becomes independent from the British Empire	20th	66%
Attila the Hun, raider of the Roman Empire, dies	5th	66%
The Hagia Sophia is opened in Constantinople	6th	66%
York and London are raided by Vikings	9th	66%
The first written version of the epic poem Beowulf is made	10th	62%
Michelangelo completes his statue of David	16th	60%
An assassination attempt against King James I, known as the Gunpowder plot, fails	17th	59%
New Amsterdam, now known as New York City, is founded	17th	54%
The Gupta Empire is established in India	4th	35%