Guess the Year Quiz

1. A museum placard marks the restoration of imperial rule under Japan's Emperor Meiji. Which year belongs on the placard?

2. A traveler begins using euro banknotes and coins when they first enter general circulation. What year is it?

3. In which year was the United States Declaration of Independence adopted?

4. A soldier writes that an armistice has stopped the fighting on the Western Front of World War I. In which year was the letter written?

5. A witness in New Delhi sees the transfer of power ending British rule and the beginning of independent India. What year is it?

6. In which year was the Nineteenth Amendment, which prohibited denying U.S. citizens the vote on the basis of sex, ratified?

7. Which year is associated with Martin Luther's Ninety-five Theses and the conventional beginning of the Protestant Reformation?

8. Christopher Columbus's first voyage reached the Caribbean in which year?

9. A live television broadcast shows Apollo 11 astronauts walking on the Moon. In which year is the audience watching?

10. Charles Darwin first published On the Origin of Species in which year?

11. A Paris newspaper reports that crowds have stormed the Bastille. What year should appear on its front page?

12. A London diary describes flames spreading from a bakery on Pudding Lane and consuming much of the city. In which year did this fire begin?

13. Television footage shows crowds crossing through newly opened checkpoints in the Berlin Wall. In which year did this happen?

14. Haiti declared independence from France following a successful revolution in which year?

15. South Africa held its first national election with citizens of all races able to vote in which year?

16. In which year was Magna Carta sealed at Runnymede?