Pop Bluff

Home›Trivia›Historical Events

📜Historical Events Trivia Questions

Wars, revolutions, discoveries, and disasters — test what you really know about the events that shaped our world.

200 subjects

Moon Landing (1969)

World War II

The Moon Landing (1969)

The Moon Landing 1969

Moon Landing 1969

First Moon Landing

Moon Landing

The Moon Landing

Holocaust

First human spaceflight 1961

Apollo 11 Moon Landing

9/11 terrorist attacks

French Revolution

The Discovery of Fire by Early Humans

World War I

Industrial Revolution

Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings

Construction of the Great Wall of China

The Fall of the Berlin Wall

Invention of the internet

COVID-19 pandemic

September 11 attacks

Fall of the Berlin Wall

The Building of the Great Wall of China

Berlin Wall fall

The Invention of the Printing Press

Cuban Missile Crisis

Great Depression 1929

First Flight by Wright Brothers

First powered aircraft flight

The Construction of the Great Wall of China

Abolition of slavery USA

Gutenberg printing press

Berlin Wall fall 1989

Yuri Gagarin spaceflight

American War of Independence

Fall of Berlin Wall

Construction of the Pyramids

First flight by Wright Brothers

Fall of Roman Empire

Black Death pandemic

Civil Rights Movement

Titanic sinking

Printing press invention

American Revolution

Discovery of penicillin

D-Day Normandy invasion

Building of the Great Wall of China

The Discovery of Penicillin

Alexander's conquests

Global Financial Crisis 2008

Building of the Great Wall

Indian independence 1947

Sputnik launch 1957

Great Depression

Theory of Evolution publication

The First Flight of the Wright Brothers

Titanic maiden voyage

Cold War

Roman Empire founding

American Constitution signing

American Civil War

Chernobyl disaster

Discovery of Tutankhamun's Tomb

Berlin Wall construction

DNA structure discovery

End of apartheid in South Africa

First nuclear bomb test

Eruption of Mount Vesuvius (Pompeii)

Invention of the telephone

Discovery of the Titanic Wreck

The Launch of Sputnik

Transatlantic slave trade

Invention of the Printing Press

The First Olympics

Spanish Flu pandemic

Challenger disaster

United Nations founding

The Trojan War

Treaty of Versailles

Magna Carta signing

Vietnam War

Scientific Revolution

Age of Enlightenment

The Silk Road establishment

The First Successful Heart Transplant

Invention of the internet protocols

Iraq War 2003

2004 Indian Ocean tsunami

Battle of Stalingrad

Pompeii destruction

Women's suffrage movement

European colonization of Americas

Russian Revolution 1917

The Building of the Panama Canal

Women's right to vote USA

The Discovery of Tutankhamun's Tomb

First Woman in Space (Valentina Tereshkova)

French declaration of human rights

Smallpox eradication

Digital Revolution

Space Race

Civil Rights Act 1964

The Exploration of the Titanic Wreck

Atomic bomb testing Trinity

First telephone call

The Signing of the Magna Carta

Apollo 13 crisis

Dissolution of Soviet Union

Oil crisis 1973

Battle of Britain

Discovery of Penicillin

First Olympic Games (Ancient Greece)

Signing of the Magna Carta

Eruption of Mount Vesuvius (79 AD)

First Olympic Games (Ancient)

The First Olympic Games

Discovery of DNA Structure

First Olympic Games

The First Transatlantic Flight

Completion of the Panama Canal

First Successful Heart Transplant

Construction of the Great Wall of China (major phases)

Mongol Empire expansion

2008 Financial Crisis

Great Fire of London

Partition of India

Creation of United Nations

Hurricane Katrina

Brown v Board of Education

Polio vaccine development

Battle of Waterloo

Battle of the Somme

Space Shuttle Columbia disaster

Soviet invasion of Afghanistan

Brexit referendum

Gulf War 1991

Rwandan genocide

2010 Haiti earthquake

Opening of Suez Canal

Opening of Panama Canal

First television broadcast

Battle of Midway

French Revolution Reign of Terror

First spacewalk 1965

Korean War

Human Genome Project completion

Napoleonic Wars

Tiananmen Square protests

First heart transplant

Krakatoa eruption

Space Shuttle program

Irish Potato Famine

Roe v Wade

Voting Rights Act 1965

Treaty of Westphalia

Congress of Vienna

Agricultural Revolution

First Transatlantic Flight (Lindbergh)

Liberation of Paris

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Gold Rush California

Hubble Space Telescope launch

The Eruption of Mount Vesuvius (79 AD)

First antibiotic treatment

Rwandan Genocide

Battle of Gettysburg

First Successful Vaccine (Smallpox)

Battle of Hastings

San Francisco earthquake 1906

1883 Krakatoa eruption

First test-tube baby

Battle of Trafalgar

Battle of Verdun

Chinese Revolution 1949

The Voyage of the Mayflower

International Space Station

Founding of the United Nations (1945)

Dot-com bubble burst

Gulf War

McCarthyism

Voyager 1 launch

Khmer Rouge genocide

Asian financial crisis 1997

Human genome sequencing

Decolonization of Africa

1906 San Francisco earthquake

Discovery of fire

Completion of Transcontinental Railroad

First Transcontinental Railroad (US)

Great Plague of London

Chinese Cultural Revolution

Fukushima disaster

The First Transcontinental Railroad

Marshall Plan

Lisbon earthquake 1755

Dust Bowl drought

Deepwater Horizon oil spill

Hundred Years War

Spanish Civil War

Explore More Topics

👑Historical Figures 🎵Music Stars 🏆Sports Stars 💼Business Leaders

Browse all trivia topics →

Think you know your historical events?

Play the daily swipe game — new questions every day, free forever.

Play PopBluff Free →