Modern Era Historical Milestones

Question 1

Giordano Bruno is burned at the stake for heresy in Rome

1586

1667

1731

1600

Question 2

Bethlen Gabor allies with the Ottomans and an invasion of Moldavia takes place. The Polish suffer a disaster at Cecora on the River Prut

1620

1659

1678

Question 3

The War of the Spanish Succession begins, involving most of continental Europe

1701

1493

1591

1741

1545

1586

Question 4

Akbar's reign begins. During his reign, Akbar expands the Mughal Empire in a series of conquests (in the Indian subcontinent)

1523

1556

1708

Question 5

France takes full political and military control over its colonial possessions in New France

1659

1663

1597

1730

Question 6

Captain Willem Janszoon and his crew aboard the Dutch East India Company ship Duyfken becomes the first recorded Europeans to sight and make landfall in Australia

1618

1505

1732

1606

1672

Question 7

"The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling" is written by Henry Fielding

1568

1749

1733

1626

Question 8

The Orion Nebula is identified by Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc of France

1567

1633

1577

1764

1610

Question 9

Second Javanese War of Succession

1522

1653

1719

Question 10

Battle of Kinsale, England defeats Irish and Spanish forces at the town of Kinsale, driving the Gaelic aristocracy out of Ireland and destroying the Gaelic clan system

1601

1662

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