13737949740 | 8000 BCE | Beginning of agriculture | 0 | |
13737952162 | 3000 BCE | Beginnings of Bronze Age - early civilizations | 1 | |
13737959283 | 1300 BCE | Iron Age | 2 | |
13737961136 | 6th century BCE | Life of Buddha, Confucius, and Lao Tsu | 3 | |
13737966413 | 5th century BCE | Greek Golden Age - philosophers | 4 | |
13737972554 | 323 BCE | Alexander the Great | 5 | |
13737973833 | 221 BCE | Qin unified China | 6 | |
13737997343 | 32 CE | Beginnings of Christianity | 7 | |
13738002850 | 180 CE | End of Pax Romana | 8 | |
13738004821 | 220 CE | End of Han Dynasty | 9 | |
13738007596 | 333 CE | Roman capital moved to Constantinople | 10 | |
13738016820 | 4th century CE | Beginning of Trans-Saharan Trade Routes | 11 | |
13738020557 | 476 CE | Fall of Rome | 12 | |
13738023396 | 527 CE | Justinian rule of Byzantine Empire | 13 | |
13738030995 | 622 CE | Founding of Islam | 14 | |
13738033127 | 732 CE | Battle of Tours (end of Muslim move into France) | 15 | |
13738035231 | 1054 CE | Great Schism in Christian Church (Roman Catholic & Eastern Orthodox) | 16 | |
13738039085 | 1066 CE | Norman conquest of England | 17 | |
13738047033 | 1071 CE | Battle of Manzikert (Seljuk Turks defeat Byzantine Empire) | 18 | |
13738048827 | 1095 CE | 1st Crusade | 19 | |
13738056388 | 1258 CE | Mongols sack Baghdad | 20 | |
13738059674 | 1271-1295 | Travels of Marco Polo | 21 | |
13738075857 | 1324 CE | Mansa Musa's pilgrimage | 22 | |
13738077383 | 1325-1349 | Travels of Ibn Battuta | 23 | |
13738080825 | 1347-1348 CE | Bubonic plague in Europe | 24 | |
13738083830 | 1433 CE | end of Zheng He's voyages/Rise of Ottomans | 25 | |
13738151329 | 1453 CE | Ottomans capture Constantinople | 26 | |
13738155490 | 1488 CE | Dias rounded Cape of Good Hope | 27 | |
13738158837 | 1492 CE | Columbus sailed the ocean blue/ Reconquista of Spain | 28 | |
13738161486 | 1502 CE | First slaves to Americas | 29 | |
13738167959 | 1517 CE | Martin Luther/95 theses | 30 | |
13738169506 | 1521 CE | Cortez conquered the Aztecs | 31 | |
13738170536 | 1533 CE | Pizarro toppled the Inca | 32 | |
13738175667 | 1571 CE | Battle of Lepanto (naval defeat of Ottomans) | 33 | |
13738180702 | 1588 CE | Defeat of the Spanish Armada by the British | 34 | |
13738183501 | 1600 CE | Battle of Sekigahara - beginning of Tokugawa | 35 | |
13738191757 | 1607 CE | Founding of Jamestown | 36 | |
13738193976 | 1618-1648 | 30 years war | 37 | |
13738209370 | 1683 CE | Unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna | 38 | |
13738210811 | 1689 CE | Glorious Revolution/English Bill of Rights | 39 | |
13738213627 | 1756-1763 | 7 years war/French and Indian War | 40 | |
13738216016 | 1776 CE | American Revolution/Smith writes Wealth of Nations | 41 | |
13738228644 | 1789 CE | French Revolution | 42 | |
13738232284 | 1804 CE | Haitian independence | 43 | |
13738234304 | 1815 CE | Congress of Vienna | 44 | |
13738238729 | 1820s | Independence in Latin America | 45 | |
13738240347 | 1839 CE | First Opium War in China | 46 | |
13738248441 | 1848 CE | European revolutions/Marx & Engles write Communist Manifesto | 47 | |
13738251794 | 1853 CE | Commodore Perry opens Japan | 48 | |
13738253009 | 1857 CE | Sepoy Mutiny | 49 | |
13738256305 | 1861 CE | end of Russian serfdom/Italian unification | 50 | |
13738257988 | 1863 CE | Emancipation Proclamation in US | 51 | |
13738263887 | 1871 CE | German unification | 52 | |
13738265059 | 1885 CE | Berlin Conference - division of Africa | 53 | |
13738266349 | 1898 CE | Spanish-American War - US acquires Philippines, Cuba, Guam, & Puerto Rico | 54 | |
13738269681 | 1899 CE | Boer War - British in control of South Africa | 55 | |
13738276895 | 1905 CE | Russo-Japanese War | 56 | |
13738280513 | 1910-1920 CE | Mexican Revolution | 57 | |
13738282553 | 1911 CE | Chinese Revolution | 58 | |
13738287113 | 1914-1918 | World War I | 59 | |
13738288849 | 1917 CE | Russian Revolution | 60 | |
13738291244 | 1919 CE | Treaty of Versailles - end of WWI | 61 | |
13738294560 | 1929 CE | stock market crash | 62 | |
13738297040 | 1931 CE | Japanese invasion of Manchuria | 63 | |
13738304708 | 1935 CE | Italian invasion of Ethiopia | 64 | |
13738325424 | 1939 CE | German blitzkrieg in Poland | 65 | |
13738328190 | 1941 CE | Pearl Harbor, entry of US into WWII | 66 | |
13738336586 | 1945 CE | End of WWII | 67 | |
13738339479 | 1947 CE | Independence and partition of India | 68 | |
13738342420 | 1948 CE | Birth of Israel | 69 | |
13738344621 | 1949 CE | Chinese Communist Revolution | 70 | |
13738350653 | 1950-1953 CE | Korean War | 71 | |
13738352470 | 1954 CE | Vietnamese defeat French at Dien Bien Phu | 72 | |
13738355207 | 1956 CE | de-Stalinization/nationalization of Suez Canal | 73 | |
13738358844 | 1959 CE | Cuban Revolution | 74 | |
13738360404 | 1962 CE | Cuban Missile Crisis | 75 | |
13738365912 | 1967 CE | 6-day war/Chinese Cultural Revolution | 76 | |
13738367676 | 1973 CE | Yom Kippur War | 77 | |
13738378817 | 1979 CE | Iranian Revolution | 78 | |
13738381501 | 1987 CE | 1st Palestinian Intifada | 79 | |
13738385656 | 1989 CE | Tiananmen Square/fall of Berlin Wall | 80 | |
13738388770 | 1991 CE | Fall of USSR/1st Gulf War | 81 | |
13738390376 | 1994 CE | genocide in Rwanda/1st all race elections in South Africa | 82 | |
13738391425 | 2001 CE | 9/11 Attacks on U.S. | 83 |
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