10 When Was That? Questions | History Trivia Quiz

Answer: December 7, 1941

This is the date that President Franklin D Roosevelt said "will live in infamy". The result of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour was the that the USA joined the war on the Allied side and, the best part of four years later, emerged victorious.

Answer: June 18, 1815

Napoleon Bonaparte's final defeat and a victory that established the Duke of Wellington as a British national hero for the rest of time. He would eventually serve two terms as Prime Minister.

Answer: August 18, 1969

Paid double that of any other artist at the festival, Hendrix closed the 3-night/4-day festival with a double, 2-hour set starting at 9am on Monday morning.

Answer: November 17, 1869

Linking the Mediterranean to the Red Sea and providing Europe's primary seafaring trading nations with a much faster route to their markets in southern Asia and Oceania. Prior to the opening of the canal, ships had to travel far to the south and around the Cape of Good Hope in southern Africa.

Answer: October 26, 1881

The most famous shootout in the history of the American Wild West lasted just 30 seconds. The place was Tombstone in Arizona Territory and the protagonists were the outlaws Billy Claiborne, Ike & Billy Clanton, Tom & Frank McLaury on one side and lawmen Virgil, Morgan & Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday on the other.

Answer: June 4, 1989

Seven weeks of protests end with around 300 dead and thousands injured. The square, whose name means "Gate of Heavenly Peace", is located in the centre of the Chinese capital, Beijing. One of the world's largest city squares, it covers an area of 109 acres (or about 100 American football fields).

Answer: July 14, 1789

The prison contained just seven inmates when it was stormed but the date is still commemorated annually as France's national day.

Answer: April 29, 1770

Cook's landing marked the beginning of British interest in Australia. Today the bay serves as the main cargo seaport for the city of Sydney.

Answer: December 16, 1773

The protest of dumping tea into Boston Harbour eventually escalated into the American Revolutionary War.

Answer: January 24, 1848

Gold was first discovered Sutter's Mill in the township of Coloma, 35 north of Sacramento. As word of the discovery spread, so more than a quarter of a million gold-seekers (known as 49ers), including tens of thousands from outside North America, descended on the region. The Gold Rush lasted until the middle of the 1850s.