| In what year... | Year |
| Did Spain win its first World Cup title? | |
| Was the terrorist attack on the Twin Towers in New York City? | |
| Did Kyrgyzstan declare its independence from the Soviet Union? | |
| Did the first human land on the moon? | |
| Did India gain independence from Britain? | |
| Was Monopoly patented and invented? | |
| Did Arizona become a state? | |
| Was Thomas Edison's first successful trial of the lightbulb? | |
| Did the American Civil War begin? | |
| Did the Clermont (the first successful, commercial steamboat) make it's first successful trip ? | |
| Did William Herschel discover the planet Uranus? | |
| Did the Treaty of Paris end the French and Indian War/Seven Years War? | |
| Was the city of St. Petersburg, Russia, founded by Tsar Peter the Great? | |
| Was the Hudson's Bay Company founded in Canada? | |
| Did the Manchu conquer China, ending the Ming Dynasty and beginning the Qing Dynasty? | |
| Was Jamestown, Virginia, colonized? | |
| Was the Gregorian calendar internationally accepted? | |
| Did Spain become the first country to declare bankruptcy? | |
| Did Leonardo da Vinci die of natural causes? | |
| Was the first recorded epidemic of smallpox in the 'New World' on the island of Hispniola? | |