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The 17th to 19th centuries – practice for Years 8–9

Sample questions on The 17th to 19th centuries with the right answer and a worked solution, from easy to hard. In the Pickles Academy app a child gets new questions of the same kind every time, so they can't just learn the answers by heart.

Subject
History
Year
Years 8–9
Curriculum area
The modernisation of society

Question types: Put the events in order: The 17th to 19th centuries

Rule: The 17th to 19th centuries

The Thirty Years’ War 1618–1648, American independence 1776, the French Revolution 1789.

Napoleon emperor 1804, Waterloo 1815, revolutions across Europe 1848, Germany united 1871.

Example: Watt’s steam engine (1769) came before the first public railway (1825).

Watch out: Napoleon didn’t live during the Thirty Years’ War: it ended in 1648, Napoleon was born in 1769.

Sample questions

  1. Question 1 Easy

    Put the events in order, from the oldest to the most recent.

    • A) Napoleon is finally defeated at Waterloo
    • B) Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone
    • C) The Ottoman army is defeated at Vienna
    Show the solution
    Answer:
    1. The Ottoman army is defeated at Vienna
    2. Napoleon is finally defeated at Waterloo
    3. Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone

    How it works: 1. The Ottoman army is defeated at Vienna (1683) 2. Napoleon is finally defeated at Waterloo (1815) 3. Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone (1876)

  2. Question 2 Normal

    Put the events in order, from the oldest to the most recent.

    • A) Napoleon is finally defeated at Waterloo
    • B) Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species
    • C) Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone
    • D) The Ottoman army is defeated at Vienna
    Show the solution
    Answer:
    1. The Ottoman army is defeated at Vienna
    2. Napoleon is finally defeated at Waterloo
    3. Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species
    4. Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone

    How it works: 1. The Ottoman army is defeated at Vienna (1683) 2. Napoleon is finally defeated at Waterloo (1815) 3. Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species (1859) 4. Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone (1876)

  3. Question 3 Hard

    Put the events in order, from the oldest to the most recent.

    • A) Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species
    • B) Germany is united as the German Empire
    • C) The Ottoman army is defeated at Vienna
    • D) Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone
    • E) Napoleon is finally defeated at Waterloo
    Show the solution
    Answer:
    1. The Ottoman army is defeated at Vienna
    2. Napoleon is finally defeated at Waterloo
    3. Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species
    4. Germany is united as the German Empire
    5. Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone

    How it works: 1. The Ottoman army is defeated at Vienna (1683) 2. Napoleon is finally defeated at Waterloo (1815) 3. Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species (1859) 4. Germany is united as the German Empire (1871) 5. Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone (1876)

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