Past events
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Historical events around the world - Verbs
Complete the sentences using the correct verb.
| The French revolution _______ in 1789. | ||
| Titanic hit iceberg on April 14, and _______ on April 15, 1912. | ||
| In 1945, the United States _______ two atomic bombs on Japan. | ||
| The Roman Empire _______ founded when Augustus Caesar proclaimed himself the first emperor of Rome in 31BC. | ||
| Armstrong famously _______, "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." | ||
| Hernan Cortés _______ Mexico in 1519 and conquered the Aztec Empire. | ||
| The attack on Pearl Harbor _______ to the United States' formal entry into World War II. | ||
| On April 14, 1865, actor John Wilkes Booth entered the presidential box at Ford's Theatre in Washington D.C., and fatally _______ President Abraham Lincoln. | ||
| In 1492, the navigator Christopher Columbus _______ westward from Spain in hopes of finding a new sea route to South and Southeast Asia. | ||
| The Black Death _______ more than 20 million people in Europe—almost one-third of the continent’s population. | ||
| Hunted by Soviet troops storming Berlin, in an underground bunker Adolf Hitler _______ suicide. | ||
| Leonardo Da Vinci _______ the Mona Lisa from 1503 to 1506, but was considered incomplete by Da Vinci until 1516. |
