Modern Era Historical Milestones

Question 1

Giovanni Battista Pamphili is elected Pope Innocent X at the Papal conclave

1788

1654

1644

1713

1678

Question 2

Kingdom of Mysore conquers the Kingdom of Keladi

1633

1546

1763

1666

1748

1535

Question 3

Spanish conquistador Miguel López de Legazpi establishes Manila, Philippines as the capital of the Spanish East Indies

1571

1748

Question 4

William Shakespeare is baptized

1564

1630

1706

1498

1609

Question 5

Wars of the Three Kingdoms begin, civil wars throughout Scotland, Ireland, and England

1506

1639

1769

1508

1714

1672

Question 6

The first shipment of coffee from Java reaches Amsterdam

1712

1637

Question 7

Dózsa rebellion (peasant revolt) in Hungary

1519

1652

1514

Question 8

James Watt enhances Newcomen's steam engine, allowing new steel technologies

1765

1757

1592

Question 9

Joseph Priestley first synthesis of "phlogisticated nitrous air" Nitrous Oxide "laughing gas"

1736

1775

1715

1695

1642

1645

Question 10

The Battle of Vienna finishes the Ottoman Empire's hegemony in south-eastern Europe

1502

1683

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