Modern Era Historical Milestones

Question 1

Elizabeth Tudor is born

1755

1780

1728

1736

1533

1686

Question 2

Flight of the Earls (the fleeing of most of the native Gaelic aristocracy) occurs from County Donegal in the west of Ulster in Ireland

1607

1653

Question 3

Jews expelled from Spain

1644

1621

1492

1712

1581

Question 4

"The Sorrows of Young Werther" by Goethe first published

1674

1774

1498

1781

Question 5

Kingdom of Mysore conquers the Kingdom of Keladi

1599

1658

1763

1545

1782

Question 6

Peter I reforms the Russian Orthodox Church

1721

1654

Question 7

The Nine Years War starts. The Grand Alliance sought to stop French expansion during this war

1751

1688

1752

1781

1535

Question 8

Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope

1504

1511

1644

1663

1678

Question 9

Mahmud I takes over Ottoman Empire after the Patrona Halil revolt, ending the Tulip period

1748

1510

1730

Question 10

New Amsterdam founded by the Dutch West India Company in North America

1741

1671

1581

1625

1649

1721

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