70 delegates were chosen for this 1781 gathering; 55 attended & 39 ended up signing |
the Constitutional Convention |
200 |
December 30, 2014 |
70 delegates were chosen for this 1781 gathering; 55 attended & 39 ended up signing |
the Constitutional Convention |
200 |
December 30, 2014 |
Protests in the Philippines in 1986 drove this longtime leader into exile |
(Ferdinand) Marcos |
400 |
December 30, 2014 |
Protests in the Philippines in 1986 drove this longtime leader into exile |
(Ferdinand) Marcos |
400 |
December 30, 2014 |
In 2013 this Brazilian president was not happy that the U.S. was listening in on her phone calls |
Dilma Rousseff |
600 |
December 30, 2014 |
In 2013 this Brazilian president was not happy that the U.S. was listening in on her phone calls |
Dilma Rousseff |
600 |
December 30, 2014 |
She was the mother of England's Queen Elizabeth I |
Anne Boleyn |
800 |
December 30, 2014 |
She was the mother of England's Queen Elizabeth I |
Anne Boleyn |
800 |
December 30, 2014 |
In 1867 Mutsuhito, known as this "M"peror, came to the throne & the modernization of Japan began |
Meiji |
1000 |
December 30, 2014 |
In 1867 Mutsuhito, known as this "M"peror, came to the throne & the modernization of Japan began |
Meiji |
1000 |
December 30, 2014 |
In the 11th century she was the occasionally naked in public wife of Earl Leofric |
Lady Godiva |
200 |
June 4, 2013 |
In the 11th century she was the occasionally naked in public wife of Earl Leofric |
Lady Godiva |
200 |
June 4, 2013 |
More than 200 U.S. soldiers died at this June 1876 battle named for a river |
Little Big Horn |
400 |
June 4, 2013 |
More than 200 U.S. soldiers died at this June 1876 battle named for a river |
Little Big Horn |
400 |
June 4, 2013 |
Her temperance newspapers included "The Smasher's Mail" & "The Hatchet" |
Carrie Nation |
600 |
June 4, 2013 |
Her temperance newspapers included "The Smasher's Mail" & "The Hatchet" |
Carrie Nation |
600 |
June 4, 2013 |
On Aug. 7, 1964 this resolution passed in the House, 414 to zero |
the Gulf of Tonkin resolution |
800 |
June 4, 2013 |
On Aug. 7, 1964 this resolution passed in the House, 414 to zero |
the Gulf of Tonkin resolution |
800 |
June 4, 2013 |
He redesigned more than 50 of the 87 churches lost in London's Great Fire |
Christopher Wren |
|
June 4, 2013 |
He redesigned more than 50 of the 87 churches lost in London's Great Fire |
Christopher Wren |
|
June 4, 2013 |
The German Empire had this "Iron Chancellor" from 1871 to 1890 |
Bismarck |
200 |
May 25, 2012 |
The German Empire had this "Iron Chancellor" from 1871 to 1890 |
Bismarck |
200 |
May 25, 2012 |
Napoleon & his troops captured Cairo in the 1798 battle of these landmarks |
the Pyramids |
400 |
May 25, 2012 |
Napoleon & his troops captured Cairo in the 1798 battle of these landmarks |
the Pyramids |
400 |
May 25, 2012 |
Decisions of this tribunal were made public, as in the auto-da-fe in Spain |
the Inquisition |
600 |
May 25, 2012 |
Decisions of this tribunal were made public, as in the auto-da-fe in Spain |
the Inquisition |
600 |
May 25, 2012 |
Clause 39 of this influenced Britain's Habeas Corpus Act of 1679 |
the Magna Carta |
800 |
May 25, 2012 |
Clause 39 of this influenced Britain's Habeas Corpus Act of 1679 |
the Magna Carta |
800 |
May 25, 2012 |
This conference Nov. 28-Dec. 1, 1943 guaranteed Iran's postwar independence |
the Tehran Conference |
1000 |
May 25, 2012 |
This conference Nov. 28-Dec. 1, 1943 guaranteed Iran's postwar independence |
the Tehran Conference |
1000 |
May 25, 2012 |
Cardinal Richelieu was the first to use this Paris fortress as a state prison |
the Bastille |
200 |
May 4, 2012 |
Cardinal Richelieu was the first to use this Paris fortress as a state prison |
the Bastille |
200 |
May 4, 2012 |
The cargo of the Beaver, Eleanor & Dartmouth got dumped in this December 1773 incident |
the Boston Tea Party |
400 |
May 4, 2012 |
The cargo of the Beaver, Eleanor & Dartmouth got dumped in this December 1773 incident |
the Boston Tea Party |
400 |
May 4, 2012 |
Marigalante was another name for this 1492 flagship |
the Santa Maria |
600 |
May 4, 2012 |
Marigalante was another name for this 1492 flagship |
the Santa Maria |
600 |
May 4, 2012 |
Nickname of the 1900 rebellion to expel foreigners from China |
the Boxer Rebellion |
800 |
May 4, 2012 |
Nickname of the 1900 rebellion to expel foreigners from China |
the Boxer Rebellion |
800 |
May 4, 2012 |
This king who put his seal on a historic 13th Century document was known as Lackland |
King John I |
1000 |
May 4, 2012 |
This king who put his seal on a historic 13th Century document was known as Lackland |
King John I |
1000 |
May 4, 2012 |
Disappointment with the Livonian War & suspected treasons in 1582 may have led this czar to order his 1st executions |
Ivan the Terrible |
200 |
October 7, 2011 |
Disappointment with the Livonian War & suspected treasons in 1582 may have led this czar to order his 1st executions |
Ivan the Terrible |
200 |
October 7, 2011 |
In 1449 Henry VI instituted the (hopefully non-evil) office of sheriff here, now an industrial city in central England |
Nottingham |
400 |
October 7, 2011 |
In 1449 Henry VI instituted the (hopefully non-evil) office of sheriff here, now an industrial city in central England |
Nottingham |
400 |
October 7, 2011 |
"Black Thursday" happened on Oct. 24 of this year; 5 days later, share prices had fallen 80% |
1929 |
600 |
October 7, 2011 |
"Black Thursday" happened on Oct. 24 of this year; 5 days later, share prices had fallen 80% |
1929 |
600 |
October 7, 2011 |
In 62 A.D. this Roman emperor had his wife Octavia put to death, then he got remarried the same year... coincidence? |
Nero |
1000 |
October 7, 2011 |
In 62 A.D. this Roman emperor had his wife Octavia put to death, then he got remarried the same year... coincidence? |
Nero |
1000 |
October 7, 2011 |
Delegates from 34 countries attended this body's final session April 18, 1946 |
the League of Nations |
|
October 7, 2011 |
Delegates from 34 countries attended this body's final session April 18, 1946 |
the League of Nations |
|
October 7, 2011 |
The Meiji reforms of the 19th century permanently abolished this Japanese warrior class |
samurai |
200 |
July 5, 2005 |
In 1966 this university's Public Policy program became the Kennedy School of Government |
Harvard |
400 |
July 5, 2005 |
One of France's major ports, it was the site of the 1940 evacuation of more than 300,000 men |
Dunkirk |
600 |
July 5, 2005 |
In February 1790 this man presided over the first meeting of the Supreme Court |
John Jay |
800 |
July 5, 2005 |
The cathedral of this city in Spain claims to hold the remains of Christopher Columbus, moved there in 1899 |
Seville |
1000 |
July 5, 2005 |
For the last 8 years of his life, Galileo was under house arrest for espousing this man's theory |
Copernicus |
200 |
December 31, 2004 |
Built in 312 B.C. to link Rome & the South of Italy, it's still in use today |
the Appian Way |
400 |
December 31, 2004 |
In 1000 Rajaraja I of the Cholas battled to take this Indian Ocean island now known for its tea |
Ceylon (or Sri Lanka) |
600 |
December 31, 2004 |
Karl led the first of these Marxist organizational efforts; the second one began in 1889 |
the International |
800 |
December 31, 2004 |
This Asian political party was founded in 1885 with "Indian National" as part of its name |
the Congress Party |
1000 |
December 31, 2004 |
On December 2, 1804 this man crowned himself emperor |
Napoleon Bonaparte |
200 |
June 30, 2003 |
Around 600 B.C. some Phoenicians claimed to have sailed around this continent, 2,000 years before the Portuguese |
Africa |
400 |
June 30, 2003 |
The Sonderbund was an 1845 confederation of 7 cantons in what's now this country |
Switzerland |
600 |
June 30, 2003 |
A tsar from age 16, during his despotic reign Russia got its first printing press in 1563 |
Ivan the Terrible |
800 |
June 30, 2003 |
In 1993 this Israeli P.M. said, "You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies" |
Yitzhak Rabin |
1000 |
June 30, 2003 |
In 1429, she was given control of troops in France |
Joan of Arc |
100 |
July 18, 2001 |
Using photos he had taken the month before, Clyde Tombaugh discovered this planet February 18, 1930 |
Pluto |
200 |
July 18, 2001 |
In February 1984 he announced his resignation as Prime Minister of Canada |
Trudeau |
300 |
July 18, 2001 |
Every president since Taft has been an honorary president of this organization founded in the U.S. in Feb. 1910 |
the Boy Scouts |
400 |
July 18, 2001 |
In a 1778 treaty, the U.S. and France granted each other this commerce "status" |
most favored nation |
500 |
July 18, 2001 |
The storming of this prison in 1789 is one of the most famous events of the French Revolution |
Bastille |
100 |
February 13, 2001 |
This German earned the nickname "The Desert Fox" while commanding the Afrika Korps in WWII |
Erwin Rommel |
200 |
February 13, 2001 |
Even though it's been "found", this Peruvian ruin, seen here, is still called "The Lost City of the Incas" |
Machu Picchu |
300 |
February 13, 2001 |
As queen of the Netherlands during WWI, she helped maintain Dutch neutrality |
Wilhelmina |
400 |
February 13, 2001 |
This "Magnificent" sultan, seen here, was the 10th ruler of the Ottoman Empire |
Suleiman |
500 |
February 13, 2001 |
The California Gold Rush started the first big wave of immigration from this Asian nation |
China |
100 |
December 15, 2000 |
In the 1880s the Mahdi led a revolution in the Sudan to restore the prominence of this religion |
Islam |
200 |
December 15, 2000 |
As Secretary of War from 1904 to 1908, William Howard Taft oversaw construction of this waterway |
Panama Canal |
300 |
December 15, 2000 |
In 1939 he wrote to FDR to present the military potential of an uncontrolled fission chain reaction |
Albert Einstein |
400 |
December 15, 2000 |
Born aboard the Mayflower in the New World, he grew up to be a captain of militia, & maybe a falconer too |
Peregrine White |
500 |
December 15, 2000 |
7 years after crossing the Alps, he reached the gates of Rome with his troops in 211 B.C., but didn't get in |
Hannibal |
100 |
November 1, 2000 |
In 1533 Pizarro killed Atahualpa, the leader of these people |
the Incas |
200 |
November 1, 2000 |
Ivan the Great made the great decision to gain independence from this group known as the Golden Horde |
the Mongols |
300 |
November 1, 2000 |
In 1632 this lord founded the colony of Maryland |
Lord Baltimore |
400 |
November 1, 2000 |
He succeeded Henry II as king of England in 1189 & was himself succeeded by John in 1199 |
Richard the Lionhearted |
500 |
November 1, 2000 |
Legend says in 1811 & 1812 earthquakes on the Midwest's New Madrid Fault made this river run backwards |
Mississippi River |
100 |
June 22, 2000 |
Around 1200 this city became capital of a Muslim empire in India; its "New" version is India's capital today |
Delhi |
200 |
June 22, 2000 |
Pope Paul III was a leader in this movement whose name implies it opposed Protestantism |
the Counter-Reformation |
300 |
June 22, 2000 |
"Rich" in democracy, this country held some of Central America's first free elections in the 1890s |
Costa Rica |
400 |
June 22, 2000 |
This "Great" king who died in 4 B.C. married Mariamne, the last princess of the Maccabees' line |
Herod the Great |
500 |
June 22, 2000 |
1903's Treaty of Petropolis "erased" a South American dispute over an area rich in this plant resource |
Rubber |
100 |
April 22, 1999 |
In 1931 the invading Japanese made this Chinese area a puppet state called Manchukuo |
Manchuria |
200 |
April 22, 1999 |
The limited Irish autonomy proposed by Isaac Butt around 1870 was called this type of "rule" |
Home Rule |
300 |
April 22, 1999 |
Brugge in Flemish, this Belgian city's trade declined with the silting of the Zwyn River in the 1400s |
Bruges |
400 |
April 22, 1999 |
In 897 Pope Stephen VI had his predecessor Formosus exhumed, put on trial & thrown into this river |
Tiber |
|
April 22, 1999 |
In 1898 Britain leased the New Territories from China, adding to the area of this dependency |
Hong Kong |
100 |
October 9, 1997 |
In 1273 Rudolf I became the first from this family to rule the Holy Roman Empire, though he was never crowned |
the Hapsburgs |
200 |
October 9, 1997 |
In January 1943 FDR & Winston Churchill met in this North African city to discuss the war effort |
Casablanca |
300 |
October 9, 1997 |
In 1701 this pirate was hanged in London for murder & 5 counts of piracy |
Captain Kidd |
400 |
October 9, 1997 |
The first European to round Africa's southern tip, he was also on the voyage that discovered Brazil |
Bartolomeo Diaz |
500 |
October 9, 1997 |
In June 1987 she became the first British prime minister in the 20th c. elected to 3 straight terms |
Margaret Thatcher |
100 |
June 16, 1997 |
On September 23, 1949 President Truman announced that this country had detonated a nuclear device |
Soviet Union/U.S.S.R./Russia |
200 |
June 16, 1997 |
In 338 B.C. this country's Philip II defeated Thebes & Athens at the Battle of Chaeronea |
Macedonia |
300 |
June 16, 1997 |
In 781 he persuaded Pope Adrian I to crown his sons Pepin & Louis kings of Italy & Aquitaine |
Charlemagne |
400 |
June 16, 1997 |
"The Thousand" was a novel written by this Italian guerrilla leader based on his 1860 Sicilian expedition |
Giuseppe Garibaldi |
500 |
June 16, 1997 |
In 1589 Boris Godunov got this country's Orthodox Church recognized as an independent patriarchate |
Russia |
100 |
May 28, 1997 |
When he went to Europe in 1971, he became the first reigning Japanese monarch to travel abroad |
Hirohito |
200 |
May 28, 1997 |
In 1942 he replaced Gandhi as leader of India's National Congress Party |
Nehru |
300 |
May 28, 1997 |
In 1973 Menachem Begin helped form this Israeli political party, a merger of several smaller parties |
Likud |
400 |
May 28, 1997 |
Great Britain gained most of Eastern Canada from France as a result of this war |
the French & Indian War |
500 |
May 28, 1997 |
A potato famine during the 1840s caused this island's population to decline by about 2 million |
Ireland |
100 |
May 9, 1997 |
The Treaty of Versailles ended this war & set up the League of Nations |
World War I |
200 |
May 9, 1997 |
Hernando Cortes conquered the Aztecs & Francisco Pizarro conquered this Indian empire |
Incan |
300 |
May 9, 1997 |
By the end of his reign in 1786, Frederick the Great doubled this kingdom's area |
Prussia |
400 |
May 9, 1997 |
In 1977 this Ugandan leader survived at least one assassination attempt & 2 attempted coups |
Idi Amin |
500 |
May 9, 1997 |
By the 6th century this group had joined with the Angles to found kingdoms in Britain |
Saxons |
100 |
March 27, 1997 |
Ponce de Leon's 1513 quest was to find this legendary spring; they didn't have facelifts back then |
Fountain of Youth |
200 |
March 27, 1997 |
This daughter of Chief Powhatan became a Christian & married an Englishman in 1614 |
Pocahontas |
300 |
March 27, 1997 |
In 1519 he sailed from Cuba to conquer the Aztec empire |
Hernando Cortez |
400 |
March 27, 1997 |
Some call this son of Pepin & king of the Franks the Father of Europe |
Charlemagne |
500 |
March 27, 1997 |
In 1493 he reached Montserrat in the West Indies & named it for a Spanish mountain |
Christopher Columbus |
100 |
March 14, 1997 |
From 1815 to 1861 this principality on the Riviera was under the protection of Sardinia |
Monaco |
200 |
March 14, 1997 |
In 1855 this victor at the Alamo was deposed as Mexican dictator & fled to the Caribbean |
Santa Anna |
300 |
March 14, 1997 |
Tangier was returned to this north African nation in 1956, after 33 years of international control |
Morocco |
400 |
March 14, 1997 |
1 of the 2 Mideast countries in which the Baath Party has held power for over 20 years |
Iraq or Syria |
|
March 14, 1997 |
After years of construction, this canal finally opened for business August 15, 1914 |
Panama Canal |
100 |
March 3, 1997 |
In 1794 this hero of Trafalgar lost the sight in his right eye due to a wound suffered while taking Calvi, Corsica |
Lord Nelson |
200 |
March 3, 1997 |
Around 1605 Dutchman Willem Jansz became the first European to sight this continent |
Australia |
300 |
March 3, 1997 |
In February 1825 this "liberator" was elected president of Peru |
Simon Bolivar |
400 |
March 3, 1997 |
Founded in 1933, this Spanish political party was named for a Greek military formation |
Falange |
500 |
March 3, 1997 |
Sung T'ai Tsu founded this country's Sung dynasty in 960 |
China |
100 |
February 5, 1997 |
This island famous for its stone statues was annexed by Chile in 1888 |
Easter Island |
200 |
February 5, 1997 |
In 1860 the Second Maori War broke out in this country |
New Zealand |
300 |
February 5, 1997 |
In 1989 this former Philippine leader died in exile in Hawaii |
Ferdinand Marcos |
400 |
February 5, 1997 |
In 1521 Martin Luther was summoned to the Diet of this city to renounce his beliefs |
Worms |
500 |
February 5, 1997 |
The third of these military expeditions was led by Frederick I Barbarossa, Philip II & Richard the Lion-Hearted |
the Crusades |
100 |
January 29, 1997 |
In 1513 he reached & named Florida |
Ponce de León |
200 |
January 29, 1997 |
In 1718 the British tracked down & killed this "dark" pirate in a North Carolina inlet |
Blackbeard |
300 |
January 29, 1997 |
The treaty that ended the Russo-Japanese War in 1905 was named for this New Hampshire city |
Portsmouth |
500 |
January 29, 1997 |
In 1946 the Ivory Coast was made an overseas territory of this country; in 1960 it gained its independence |
France |
|
January 29, 1997 |
In 1982 this country's president Jose Lopez Portillo devalued the peso & nationalized the banks |
Mexico |
100 |
December 12, 1996 |
On July 5, 1945 he announced that "The entire Philippine Islands are now liberated" |
Douglas MacArthur |
200 |
December 12, 1996 |
In 1815 the Congress of Vienna guaranteed this country's neutrality |
Switzerland |
300 |
December 12, 1996 |
Elizabeth Petrovna, the daughter of this czar, became empress of Russia in 1741 |
Peter the Great |
400 |
December 12, 1996 |
This country formerly known as Dutch Guiana gained independence in 1975 |
Suriname |
500 |
December 12, 1996 |
In accepting this charter, King John acknowledged that he too was subject to the law of the land |
Magna Carta |
100 |
December 11, 1996 |
His son-in-law, Galeazzo Ciano, was executed by Fascists as a traitor in January 1944 |
Benito Mussolini |
200 |
December 11, 1996 |
Theodora helped save the Byzantine throne by keeping Justinian from fleeing this city during the Nika Riots |
Constantinople |
300 |
December 11, 1996 |
The Osmanli Empire became known as this in English |
Ottoman Empire |
400 |
December 11, 1996 |
In 1980 this deposed president of Nicaragua was assassinated in Paraguay |
Anastasio Somoza |
|
December 11, 1996 |
This volunteer cavalry unit organized by Teddy Roosevelt included miners, cowboys & college athletes |
the Rough Riders |
100 |
November 21, 1996 |
Around 122 A.D. this emperor ordered a wall built to separate the Romans from the Barbarians |
Hadrian |
200 |
November 21, 1996 |
The Yi dynasty ruled this country from 1392 until its annexation by Japan in 1910 |
Korea |
300 |
November 21, 1996 |
The Peace of Westphalia in 1648 ended this numerical war |
Thirty Years\' War |
400 |
November 21, 1996 |
The Mau Mau Rebellion, which began in 1952, was an uprising against British rule in this African country |
Kenya |
|
November 21, 1996 |
In 1868 Emperor Mutsuhito of this country adopted the reign name Meiji, meaning "enlightened rule" |
Japan |
100 |
September 13, 1996 |
In 1919 this country's new constitution established the Reichstag & the Reichsrat |
Germany |
200 |
September 13, 1996 |
Since 1940 only Harold Wilson & this man have served as British prime minister on 2 separate occasions |
Winston Churchill |
300 |
September 13, 1996 |
Around 200 A.D., Soranus wrote the earliest known biography of this physician |
Hippocrates |
400 |
September 13, 1996 |
When this first Hungarian king was crowned in 1000, he made Esztergom the capital |
St. Stephen |
500 |
September 13, 1996 |
Only 7 prisoners were inside this fortress when it was stormed by French citizens July 14, 1789 |
The Bastille |
100 |
July 18, 1996 |
In 1923 it replaced Constantinople as the capital of Turkey |
Ankara |
200 |
July 18, 1996 |
It's estimated that as many as 300,000 Ugandans were killed during his 1970s regime |
Idi Amin |
300 |
July 18, 1996 |
In January of 1926, Theodoros Pangalos declared himself dictator of this country - he was deposed in August |
Greece |
500 |
July 18, 1996 |
In 1975, the Himalayan country of Sikkim was absorbed by this country |
India |
|
July 18, 1996 |
In 1993 he hinted that he'd be willing to give up power if the U.S. ended its embargo of Cuba |
Fidel Castro |
100 |
March 21, 1996 |
In 1951 Macao became an overseas province of this country, & in 1974 a "Special Territory" |
Portugal |
200 |
March 21, 1996 |
In 1867 Emperor Franz Joseph created this dual monarchy |
Austria-Hungary |
300 |
March 21, 1996 |
A skirmish over the theft of one of the Discovery's boats led to this explorer's murder in 1779 |
Captain James Cook |
400 |
March 21, 1996 |
Tradition says this country's first emperor, Menelik I, was the son of King Solomon & the Queen of Sheba |
Ethiopia |
500 |
March 21, 1996 |
It became a U.S. territory in 1900 & was attacked 18 years before becoming a state |
Hawaii |
100 |
January 18, 1996 |
From 1954 to 1969 he was president of North Vietnam |
Ho Chi Minh |
200 |
January 18, 1996 |
The U.S. arsenal at this Shenandoah Valley location was raided October 16, 1859 |
Harper\'s Ferry |
300 |
January 18, 1996 |
Roman emperor, 117-138, he built walls in Germany as well as in Britain |
Hadrian |
400 |
January 18, 1996 |
Mode of protest used by Emmeline Pankhurst & Mohandas Gandhi while in jail |
hunger strike |
500 |
January 18, 1996 |
At its height the Aztec empire covered roughly one-fifth of what's now this country |
Mexico |
100 |
December 1, 1995 |
She went to Rome after she bore Caesarion, who became Ptolemy XV |
Cleopatra |
200 |
December 1, 1995 |
With their conquest of Granada in 1492, this ruling pair unified Spain |
Ferdinand and Isabella |
300 |
December 1, 1995 |
In 1901 the colonies of Victoria & Queensland became states in this new commonwealth |
Australia |
400 |
December 1, 1995 |
She took the Russian throne in 1762 after her husband Peter III, was deposed |
Catherine the Great |
500 |
December 1, 1995 |
In 1869 it cut the travel distance between London & Bombay by over 4,000 miles |
the Suez Canal |
100 |
November 4, 1994 |
When Hannibal was 9, his father forced him to swear eternal hatred for this city |
Rome |
200 |
November 4, 1994 |
A March 31, 1492 edict in this country offered the Jews there the choice of baptism or exile |
Spain |
300 |
November 4, 1994 |
In 1324 Mali's ruler Mansa Musa made a 4,000-mile pilgrimage to this city, taking a reported 12,000 slaves |
Mecca |
400 |
November 4, 1994 |
In 751 Pepin the Short's title was changed from "Mayor of the Palace" to "King of" these people |
the Franks |
500 |
November 4, 1994 |
When this man died in 1969, Ton Duc Thang, his vice-president, became president of North Vietnam |
Ho Chi Minh |
100 |
November 29, 1993 |
Estimates of when these people abandoned the city of Uxmal range from 600 to 1,000 years ago |
Mayans |
200 |
November 29, 1993 |
Peter the Cruel & Joan the Mad ruled this Spanish kingdom sometimes paired with Leon & Aragon |
Castille |
300 |
November 29, 1993 |
In 1935 the Saar territory was reunited with this country |
Germany |
400 |
November 29, 1993 |
Juan Vincente Gomez was dictator of this South American country in 1918 when it first exploited its oil |
Venezuela |
500 |
November 29, 1993 |
In 1964 the Palestinian Arab guerrillas organized themselves as this group |
PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) |
100 |
November 2, 1993 |
When she was about 16 the "voices" told her to aid the Dauphin |
Joan of Arc |
200 |
November 2, 1993 |
In 1816 he took control of the Zulu nation |
Shaka |
400 |
November 2, 1993 |
Called reckless & extravagant, she abdicated at age 27 & left Sweden disguised as a man in 1654 |
Queen Christina |
500 |
November 2, 1993 |
In 615 the Persian Chosroes II sacked this city, taking away the True Cross |
Jerusalem |
|
November 2, 1993 |
On Sept. 9, 1087, this English king died at Rouyn in Normandy after falling from his horse |
William the Conqueror |
100 |
November 17, 1992 |
The first 18 years of this French king's reign were managed by Cardinal Mazarin |
Louis XIV |
200 |
November 17, 1992 |
As a child, Roman emperor Gaius Julius Caesar Germanicus was nicknamed this, meaning "little boot" |
Caligula |
300 |
November 17, 1992 |
In 1524 this Florentine navigator became the first European to visit the New York area |
Giovanni da Verrazzano |
400 |
November 17, 1992 |
This territory, known for its coal mines, voted to become part of Germany in 1935 |
The Saar |
500 |
November 17, 1992 |
At the same time Joan of Arc led the French, Itzcoatl was leading this group in Mexico |
Aztecs |
100 |
May 8, 1990 |
People began digging up this Italian city in 1748, only 1,669 years after it was buried |
Pompeii |
200 |
May 8, 1990 |
4 treaties to mitigate the horrors of war were signed in this city in August 1949 |
Geneva |
300 |
May 8, 1990 |
This cardinal helped establish the Academie Francaise in the 1630s |
Cardinal Richelieu |
500 |
May 8, 1990 |
The Pope excommunicated her in 1570 after she made the Anglican church England's official religion |
Elizabeth I |
|
May 8, 1990 |
She restored Charles VII to the throne, but he didn't lift a finger to save her from the stake |
Joan of Arc |
100 |
May 5, 1988 |
It's said this royal grandmother of Kaiser Wilhelm II wouldn't let him visit Ireland |
Queen Victoria |
200 |
May 5, 1988 |
In 1881, despite a $10,000 reward for the arrest of these brothers, the posters left out "dead or alive" |
the James Brothers (Frank & Jessie) |
300 |
May 5, 1988 |
Darius I ruled this vast empire from 2 capitals, Susa & Persepolis |
the Persian Empire |
400 |
May 5, 1988 |
In 1858, the Brittish government took over the rule of India from this company |
the East India Company |
500 |
May 5, 1988 |
In 1867, Alexander II of Russia sold it to the United States |
Alaska |
100 |
February 19, 1988 |
Country which gained its independence August 14, 1947, 1 day before its neighbor India |
Pakistan |
200 |
February 19, 1988 |
Lucrezia & Cesare Borgia are 2 of the few people in history whose father held this position |
Pope |
300 |
February 19, 1988 |
1794 skirmishes caused by the imposition of Alexander Hamilton's liquor excise tax |
Whiskey Rebellion |
400 |
February 19, 1988 |
WWII ended when Japan surrendered on September 2, 1945 in a ceremony presided over by this general |
Douglas MacArthur |
500 |
February 19, 1988 |
In July 1099, crusaders stormed this holy city, killing its Muslim & Jewish inhabitants |
Jerusalem |
100 |
March 16, 1987 |
Legend says an Etruscan family, the Tarquins, ruled this "Eternal City" from 616 to 510 B.C. |
Rome |
200 |
March 16, 1987 |
Because of his Albanian descent, some said this king, deposed in 1952, was not a true Egyptian |
Farouk |
300 |
March 16, 1987 |
In 1570, Pius V issued a papal bull which excommunicated & tried to depose this English queen |
Elizabeth I |
400 |
March 16, 1987 |
Circa 950, under Harald Bluetooth, this was 1st Scandinavian country unified under just 1 king |
Denmark |
500 |
March 16, 1987 |
The last married man to hold this job was Adrian II in the 9th century |
Pope |
100 |
November 3, 1986 |
It's said he angered Sioux by letting cavalry trample sacred cannabis field on way to Little Big Horn |
General Custer |
200 |
November 3, 1986 |
In 1763 he battled the English for Detroit -- where his name still builds excitement |
Pontiac |
300 |
November 3, 1986 |
When Dr. Pauling won his 2nd Nobel Prize in '62, he was 1st 2-time winner since this woman 51 years earlier |
Marie Curie |
400 |
November 3, 1986 |
This country reported in 1923 that U.S. famine relief efforts there had saved 10 million lives in 2 years |
Soviet Union |
500 |
November 3, 1986 |
From 1905-7, Austria & Serbia fought an economic "war" over tariffs, such as over this porcine animal |
a pig |
100 |
May 26, 1986 |
The western jury system is thought to have been brought to England by these peoples in 1066 |
the Normans |
200 |
May 26, 1986 |
Century known as the "high Renaissance" |
the 16th |
300 |
May 26, 1986 |
World power whose emperor gave up claims to divinity before it adopted a new constitution in 1947 |
Japan |
400 |
May 26, 1986 |
1957 U.S. policy allowing the president to use armed force in the Middle East |
the Eisenhower Doctrine |
500 |
May 26, 1986 |