490 BC - 2011 CE
NOTE: Must put "BC" after the BC dates.
384924791 | 490 BC | Battle of Marathon (Athens defeats Persia) | 0 | |
384924792 | 324 BC | Chandragupta founds Mauryan dynasty | 1 | |
384924793 | 323 BC | Alexander the Great dies | 2 | |
384924794 | 221 BC | Shi Huangdi establishes Qin Empire | 3 | |
384924795 | 44 BC | Murder of Julius Caesar | 4 | |
384924796 | 220 | Fall of Han Dynasty | 5 | |
384924797 | 313 | Edict of Milan (Constantine legalizes Christianity in Roman Empire) | 6 | |
384924798 | 476 | Fall of Western Roman Empire | 7 | |
384924799 | 622 | The Hijra (Flight of Muhammad from Mecca to Medina) | 8 | |
384924800 | 800 | Charlemagne crowned first Holy Roman Emperor | 9 | |
384924801 | 1066 | Norman Conquest of Enland | 10 | |
384924802 | 1095 | Council of Clermont begins Crusades | 11 | |
384924803 | 1206 | Delhi Sultanate founded in India; Genghis Khan's reign begins | 12 | |
384924804 | 1215 | Magna Carta in England | 13 | |
384924805 | 1347 | Black Death in Europe | 14 | |
384924806 | 1324 | Mansa Musa's Hajj | 15 | |
384924807 | 1368 | Ming Dynast founded | 16 | |
384924808 | 1453 | Ottomans take Constantinople | 17 | |
384924809 | 1454 | Gutenberg Bible printed | 18 | |
384924810 | 1492 | Christian Reconquista of Spain; Columbus's first voyage to the Americas | 19 | |
384924811 | 1517 | Martin Luther posts 95 theses igniting the Protestant Reformation | 20 | |
384924812 | 1520 | Suleiman the Magnificent ascends Ottoman throne | 21 | |
384924813 | 1526 | Babur founds Mughal Empire (India) | 22 | |
384924814 | 1592 | Japanese invasion of Korea | 23 | |
384924815 | 1644 | Qing dynasty defeats Ming and captures Bejing | 24 | |
384924816 | 1642-1649 | English Civil War | 25 | |
384924817 | 1688 | Glorious Revolution (England) | 26 | |
384924818 | 1712 | Peter I moves Russian capital to St. Petersburg | 27 | |
384924819 | 1776 | Declaration of Independence | 28 | |
384924820 | 1787 | US Constitutional Convention | 29 | |
384924821 | 1789 | Storming of Bastille (French Revolution) | 30 | |
384924822 | 1804 | Haiti achieves independence | 31 | |
384924823 | 1807 | Abolition of slave trade in British Empire | 32 | |
384924824 | 1815 | Battle of waterloo (Allies defeat Napoleon); Congress of Vienna | 33 | |
384924825 | 1820 | Latin American states achieve independence | 34 | |
384924826 | 1848 | Year of Revolutions in Europe; Marx & Engels publish Communist Manifesto; Women's Rights Convention at Seneca Falls | 35 | |
384924827 | 1850-1864 | Taiping Rebellion | 36 | |
384924828 | 1857 | Sepoy Rebellion | 37 | |
384924829 | 1861 | Alexander II frees the serfs (Russia); American Civil war begins | 38 | |
384924830 | 1871 | Unification of Germany | 39 | |
384924831 | 1884-1885 | Berlin Conference sets off "Scramble for Africa" | 40 | |
384924832 | 1910-1920 | Mexican Revolution | 41 | |
384924833 | 1914-1918 | World War I | 42 | |
384924834 | 1917 | Russian Revolution | 43 | |
384924835 | 1929 | Stock Market crash sets of Great Depression | 44 | |
384924836 | 1939-1945 | World War II | 45 | |
384924837 | 1947 | Independence and Partition of India and Pakistan | 46 | |
384924838 | 1962 | Cuban Missile Crisis | 47 | |
384924839 | 1979 | Iranian Revolution; Soviets invade Afghanistan | 48 | |
384924840 | 1989 | Tiananmen Square Massacre (China); Year of Revolutions in Easter Europe | 49 | |
384924841 | 2001 | 9/11 al-Qaeda terrorist attack on US | 50 | |
384924842 | 2008 | Global Financial Crisis | 51 | |
384924843 | 2011 | The Arab Spring | 52 |