Dates Quiz

The 95 Theses were posted by Martin Luther in

• 1776

• 1588

• 1517

• 1518

Constantinople fell to the Ottoman Turks, ending the Byzantine Empire, in

• 1314

• 1492

• 1555

• 1453

Archduke Francis Ferdinand was assassinated and WWI began in

• 1905

• 1914

• 1917

• 1918

The Spanish Armada was defeated by the English in

• 1588

• 1517

• 1649

• 1492

The Berlin Wall was built in

• 1945

• 1959

• 1961

• 1965

James I succeeded Elizabeth I, the last Tudor monarch, launching the Stuart dynasty in England in

• 1602

• 1603

• 1604

• 1605

Cromwell came to power and proclaimed the Commonwealth of England in

• 1630

• 1660

• 1713

• 1649

The Commonwealth ended with the Restoration in

• 1660

• 1776

• 1715

• 1688

Habsburg Emperor Charles VI ensured his daughter could inherit the throne when the Pragmatic Sanction was issued in

• 1617

• 1660

• 1688

• 1713

European powers met in Berlin to discuss the Scramble for Africa in

• 1848

• 1871

• 1885

• 1899