Turn Back Time! Test Your Historical Knowledge: Top 50 Years in History Trivia!

Can you place these pivotal moments in history? Challenge yourself with our timeline of 50 significant years and events that shaped our world!

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Easy Level

  1. In what year did World War II end?
  2. What year did the Titanic sink?
  3. In what year did man first walk on the moon?
  4. What year did the United States declare independence?
  5. In what year did World War I begin?
  6. What year did the Berlin Wall fall?
  7. In what year was Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated?
  8. What year did the COVID-19 pandemic begin?
  9. In what year did the French Revolution begin?
  10. What year did the Roman Empire fall (Western Roman Empire)?
  11. In what year did the American Civil War begin?
  12. What year did Christopher Columbus reach the Americas?
  13. In what year was Jesus Christ traditionally believed to have been born?
  14. What year did the Industrial Revolution begin in Britain?
  15. In what year did the September 11 attacks occur?

Medium Level

  1. In what year did the Black Death plague reach Europe?
  2. What year did the Renaissance begin in Italy?
  3. In what year did the Russian Revolution occur?
  4. What year did the first successful airplane flight occur (Wright brothers)?
  5. In what year was the Magna Carta signed?
  6. What year did the Protestant Reformation begin (Martin Luther's 95 Theses)?
  7. In what year did the California Gold Rush begin?
  8. What year did the first atomic bomb drop on Hiroshima?
  9. In what year did the first iPhone get released?
  10. What year did the Cuban Missile Crisis occur?
  11. In what year did the first European settlers arrive at Plymouth Rock?
  12. What year did the first woman go to space (Valentina Tereshkova)?
  13. In what year did the first Harry Potter book get published?
  14. What year did the first Star Wars movie premiere?
  15. In what year did the first transatlantic telegraph cable get laid?
  16. What year did the first successful heart transplant occur?
  17. In what year did the first modern Olympic Games take place?
  18. What year did the first personal computer (Altair 8800) get released?
  19. In what year did the first Earth Day celebration occur?
  20. What year did the first woman win a Nobel Prize (Marie Curie)?

Hard Level

  1. In what year did the Battle of Hastings occur (Norman conquest of England)?
  2. What year did the first Crusade begin?
  3. In what year did the Spanish Armada get defeated by England?
  4. What year did the first printing press with movable type get invented (Gutenberg)?
  5. In what year did the first successful vaccination occur (smallpox, Edward Jenner)?
  6. What year did the first underground railway open (London Underground)?
  7. In what year did the first color photograph get taken?
  8. What year did the first Nobel Prizes get awarded?
  9. In what year did the first commercial radio broadcast occur?
  10. What year did the first test-tube baby (Louise Brown) get born?
  11. In what year did the first human genome get completely sequenced?
  12. What year did the first successful parachute jump from a moving airplane occur?
  13. In what year did the first successful helicopter flight occur?
  14. What year did the first successful kidney transplant occur?
  15. In what year did the first commercial jet airliner (de Havilland Comet) enter service?