Arrange the following events in the chronological sequence of their occurrence.
(A) Final abolition of slavery in the French colonies
(B) Bloody Sunday in St Petersburg, Russia
(C) Meiji Restoration in Japan
(D) Printing of copies of the Bible in Johannes Gutenberg’s workshop
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → (D), (A), (C), (B)
Each event is placed by the year it took place.
(D) Printing of the Bible in Gutenberg’s workshop — 1455, when copies of the Bible were printed in his workshop in Germany.
(A) Final abolition of slavery in the French colonies — 1848. Slavery had been abolished in 1794 but Napoleon brought it back, and it ended for good only in 1848.
(C) Meiji Restoration in Japan — 1868, when the Tokugawa shogun was removed and the Emperor Meiji was restored to power.
(B) Bloody Sunday — January 1905, when troops fired on a procession of workers at the Winter Palace in St Petersburg.