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804892677610Muhammad begins receiving revelations.0
8048926781517Martin Luther nails the 95 Theses to a church door in Wittenberg.1
804892679551 BCEThe birth of Confucius.2
8048926801861The emancipation of the serfs in Russia.3
8048926811990Nelson Mandela is released from prison.4
8048926821469The union of Aragon and Castile, which creates a unified Spanish monarchy.5
8048926831200 BCEJudaism, the first monotheistic religion begins.6
804892684535Fall of the Gupta Empire.7
804892685220Fall of Han China.8
804892686476Fall of the Roman Empire.9
8048926871613Beginning of the Romanov dynasty.10
804892688313The Roman Emperor Constantine converts to Christianity.11
8048926891815The Congress of Vienna begins.12
8048926901803The purchase of Louisiana from France by the United States.13
8048926911776The Wealth of Nations is published.14
8048926921324The pilgrimage of Mansa Musa.15
80489269339The Trung Sisters revolt in Vietnam.16
804892694500 BCELao-zi and Daoism.17
804892695563 BCEBirth of Siddhartha Gautama who later becomes the Buddha.18
804892696622Muhammad leaves Mecca for Medina. The Hijra, the official beginning of Islam.19
804892697330Constantine establishes Constantinople as the capital of the Roman Empire.20
8048926981533Fall of the Inca to Pizarro.21
8048926991929Beginning of the Great Depression.22
8048927001492Fall of Granada, the last Muslim kingdom in Spain.23
8048927011792Slave rebellion in Saint Domingue led by Toussaint L'Overture.24
8048927021258Fall of Baghdad to Mongol destruction.25
806618550794Japanese capital moves to Heian.26
806618551800Crowning of Charlemagne.27
8066185521919Treaty of Versailles ends World War I.28
8066185531991Fall of the Soviet Union.29
8066185541869The opening of the Suez Canal.30
8066185551914The opening of the Panama Canal.31
8066185561776The Declaration of Independence is written in America.32
8066185571789The French Revolution begins with the storming of the Bastille.33
8066185581519Hernan Cortes invades Tenochtitlan.34
8066185591997The British return Hong Kong to China.35
8066185601914World War I begins.36
8066185611979The Islamic Revolution takes place in Iran.37
8066185621215The Magna Carta is signed in England.38
8066185631941Japanese attack Pearl Harbor which draws the US into world War I.39
8066185641054The schism between eastern and western Christianity.40
8066185651604Beginning of the Time of Troubles.41
80661856663Romans remove the Jews from Jerusalem. The Jewish Diaspora.42
8066185671600Tokugawa Shogunate founded.43
8066185681949Peoples Republic of China is proclaimed.44
8066185691917The Communist (Bolshevik) Revolution in Russia.45
8066185701950Korean War begins.46
8066185711571Spanish defeat the Ottomans at the Battle of Lepanto.47
8066185721265The First English Parliament is convened.48
8066185731481Portuguese for of El Mina is established.49
8066185741854Beginning of the Crimean War.50
8066185751939World War II begins.51
8066185761096The First Crusade begins.52
8066185771368End of Mongol rule in China.53
8066185781441First shipment of African slaves to Portugal.54
8066185791962Cuban Missile Crisis.55
8066185801954Vietnamese defeat the French at Dien Bien Phu.56
8066185811492Columbus discovers the Americas.57
8066185821455Gutenberg's printing press.58
8066185831050China's printing press.59
8066185841931Gandhi leads the Salt March.60
8066185851453Fall of Constantinople.61
8066185861480End of Mongol rule in Russia.62
8066185871789George Washington becomes the first American president as the new Constitution goes into effect.63
8066185881918Treaty of Bret-Litovsk allows Russia to withdraw from World War I.64
8066185891066William of Normandy is victorious at the Battle of Hastings.65
806618590632Muhammad dies.66
8066185911947India and Pakistan achieve independence.67
8066185921945World War II ends with the dropping of the atomic bombs in Japan.68
8066185931588British defeats the Spanish Armada.69
8066185941514Ottomans defeat the Safavids at Chaldiran.70
8066185951904Russo-Japanese War begins.71
8066185961985Mikhail Gorbachev takes power in the Soviet Union.72
8066185971917Balfour Declaration is issued.73
806618598690Beginning of the reign of Empress Wu. Buddhist influence peaks in China.74
8066185991607First permanent British colony in Virginia.75
8066186001961Berlin Wall is constructed.76
8066186011757Victory at the Battle of Plassey gives the British dominance over India.77
8066186021948Israel achieves independence. The first Arab-Israeli War begins immediately.78
8066186031839Beginning of the Opium War.79

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