Dates quiz: France

The full answer key for this quiz, question by question.

In which year: The storming of the Bastille?

1789The fortress stood in the Faubourg Saint-Antoine

In which year: The switch to euro banknotes and coins?

2002Notes and coins replaced the franc at the counters

In which year: The first man on the Moon?

1969An astronaut of the Apollo mission, aboard the Eagle module

In which year: Women's right to vote in France?

1944An ordinance taken by the Provisional Government, at Algiers

In which year: The end of the First World War?

1918The armistice was signed in a clearing at Rethondes

In which year: Napoleon's coronation?

1804The ceremony was held at Notre-Dame de Paris, before Pope Pius

In which year: The Normandy landings?

1944An Allied operation carried out on the Normandy coast

In which year: The fall of the Berlin Wall?

1989The checkpoints of East Berlin were opened