The 70s by RalliP

What Chilean president was ousted in a 1973 military coup in favor of the US-backed general Augusto Pinochet?

At the end of the 1876 opera series Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring Cycle), what valkyrie dies by taking the titular ring into Siegfried's funeral pyre, an act which brings about the Götterdämmerung (Twilight of the Gods)?

On Christmas night in 1776, George Washington led a crossing of the Delaware river as part of a successful attack on the British-allied garrison in what city?

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek was a pioneering user of what scientific instrument during the 1670s?

Who drove the last Yoshiaki shogun from office in 1573? This person, along with his lieutenants Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu, is considered one of the three unifiers of Japan.

The 1470s War of Castilian Succession was won by the supporters of what queen (a force that notably included her husband the future king of Aragon)?

It is written that in 1378, the Muslim iconoclast Muhammad Sa'im al-Dahr was executed for damaging what object?

What Chinese dynasty was created by the Mongol Kublai Khan in 1271? It would collapse in 1368 and be replaced by the Ming dynasty.

In 1177, Pope Alexander III attempted to start a correspondance with what legendary person, supposed to be the ruler of a Christian realm in Asia?

In 1070, the Buddhist king Vijayabaha drove out the Hindu Chola rulers from what island?

What person (whose amusing epithet in fact refers to his poor advisors) became King of England in 978?

In 874, Ingolfr Arnarson, his wife, and his brother became the first permanent residents on the site of what current capital city?

Charlemagne's 778 defeat to a Basque force at Ronceveux Pass (aka Roncesvalles) is the topic of what French epic poem, named for a Frankish commander who perished?

The chemist Kallinikos of Heliopolis was, in 672, responsible for the development of what incendiary weapon?

570 was the Year of the Elephant, in which a war elephant refused to enter a certain city, sparing it from invasion. What city was spared, and in the same year was the birthplace of an influential person?

In 470, the Gothic king Euric defeated in Brittany an invading force whose leader is known as Riothamus. Riothamus is sometimes considered to be identical to what other figure?

What person, legendary for taking nine hostages from vassals and foreign realms, is supposed to have become High King of Ireland around 370?

On Christmas Day 274, the Emperor Aurelian raised to prominence the cult of what theretofore minor Roman deity, commonly known as _____ Invictus?

What Roman Emperor wrote his Meditations while on military campaign during the 170s?

What historian wrote The Jewish War in 75, about a war in which he had been a Jewish commander until defecting to the winning side?