Date Test: Grading

First off, here's the naked list for those who want to take the test:

1776 -
1812 -
1860 -
1914 -
1941 -
1066 -
1215 -
1640 -
1688 -
753 BC -
44 BC -
476 -
1453 -
1783 -
1865 -
1799 -
1918 -
1945 -
1820 -
1815 -
1917 -
1500 BC -
1912 -
1916 -
1588 -
1929 -
2001 million BC -
1348 -
1607 -
1877 -
1788 -
1898 -
0 -
1984 -
"Four thousand and some BC" -
1919 -
1944 -
1836 -
399 BC -
1564 -
33 -
1871 -
337 -
1848 -
323 BC -
1452 -
1789 -
1660 -
1763 -
1849 -

Now, here's the answers. Ones I got right (or right enough) get a DING, others get corrected.

Checked it as simply as I could: Went to Wikipedia, looked up the year. BLAM:

1776 - Yeah, DING.
1812 - DING. I was right about the post-treaty battle being the Battle of New Orleans, too. Good guess. Andrew Jackson was the general in that one, turns out.
1860 - Uh, I looked it up and I'm still not sure. It's either Lincoln winning the Presidency on Nov 6, or it's South Carolina seceding from the union on Dec 20.
1914 - DING.
1941 - DING.
1066 - "Battle of Hastings, fought between King Harold II of England and Duke William of Normandy. Harold is allegedly killed by an arrow to the eye and William is victorious." El Cid died in 1099, is what I was thinking of.
1215 - DING. Still only know it was something to do w/ the King having less power, for the first time ever.
1640 - Short Parliament and Long Parliament? Portuguese independence? No clue.
1688 - Glorious Revolution, is what that was.
753 BC - Rome founded, or so the story goes.
44 BC - Julius Caesar assassinated.
476 - "September 4 - Romulus Augustus, the last Emperor of the Western Roman Empire, is deposed by Odoacer. Traditionally this was regarded as the date of the fall of the Roman Empire and the beginning of the European Dark Ages; historians now consider it to be essentially insignificant." OK.
1453 - Printing press invented. I'm stupid.
1783 - American Revolution ends, Treaty of Paris signed. Let's call that a DING, even though we all know I got lucky.
1865 - DING.
1799 - Napoleon takes power, first as co-emperor in name only, then stops pretending.
1918 - Wait, WWI ended this year? So what the hell is 1919?
1945 - DING.
1820 - Missouri Compromise.
1815 - Waterloo. (Battle of New Orleans on Jan 8, incidentally)
1917 - DING, but it was more complex than I described. Lennin didn't just shoot the Czar in the head and take over.
1500 BC - "Date of the Biblical Exodus, according to Simcha Jacobovich in the documentary Exodus Decoded."
1912 - DING
1916 - Uh... Battle of the Somme? Probably.
1588 - DING, but I know nothing further.
1929 - DING
2001 million BC - DING
1348 - Black Death begins, basically.
1607 - JAMESTOWN. I knew that. They even have the banner ads lately. I'm stupid.
1877 - This must be the Compromise of 1877. Reconstruction ends.
1788 - New Orleans fire?
1898 - Right about the lease, wrong about them taking it over (happened 60 years before). Spanish-American War is the right answer anyway.
0 - DING
1984 - I suspect this is more than a reference to the book, so I'm neither going to DING myself or count this one towards my final grade.
"Four thousand and some BC" - Um, Sumeria?
1919 - Treaty of Versailles. Half-DING.

And we'll put the rest of this test to bed tomorrow. PBS is calling...