4398042779 | 8000 BCE | Beginnings of agriculture | 0 | |
4398044347 | 3500 BCE | invention of wheel, plough (Mesopotamia) and sail (Egypt) | 1 | |
4398045974 | 3200 BCE | Invention of writing in Mesopotamia | 2 | |
4398045975 | 3000 BCE | founding of first cities in Sumeria | 3 | |
4398052406 | 7th C BCE | invention of ironworking | 4 | |
4398070270 | 5th C BCE | Beginnings of Confucianism, Buddhism, Daoism and Greek Golden Age | 5 | |
4398071696 | 323 BCE | Alexander the Great | 6 | |
4398072472 | 221 BCE | Qin unified China | 7 | |
4398073575 | 184 BCE | Fall of the Mauryan dynasty | 8 | |
4398075198 | 32 CE | Beginnings of Christianity | 9 | |
4398076353 | 220 CE | end of Han Dynasty | 10 | |
4398077346 | 312 CE | Roman Emperor Constantine converts to Christianity | 11 | |
4398079414 | 320 | Rise of the Gupta in India | 12 | |
4398086882 | 333 | Roman capital moved to Constantinople | 13 | |
4398089165 | 476 | Fall of Rome in the West ends 800 years of Roman hegemony | 14 | |
4398089988 | 527 | Justinian rules Byzantine Empire | 15 | |
4398089989 | 550 | Fall of the Gupta in India | 16 | |
4398093322 | 622 | Rise of Islam | 17 | |
4398093323 | 730 | Printing invented in China | 18 | |
4398094098 | 732 | Battle of Tours (end of Muslim move to France) | 19 | |
4398094099 | 900 | Decline of classical Maya | 20 | |
4398094100 | 1054 | Schism of Greek and Latin Christian Churches divides Christianity permanently into two geographical and denominational halves. | 21 | |
4398099326 | 1066 | Norman Conquest of England | 22 | |
4398099327 | 1071 | Seljuk defeat of Byzantines (Battle of Manzikert) | 23 | |
4398100245 | 1095 | 1st Crusade | 24 | |
4398104052 | 1206 | Genghis Khan begins his conquest of Asia. | 25 | |
4398105283 | 1215 | Magna Carta signed by King John at Runnymede: beginning of constitutional rule. | 26 | |
4398105284 | 1258 | Mongols sack Baghdad | 27 | |
4398106384 | 1271-1295 | Marco Polo travels | 28 | |
4398106385 | 1300s | Rise of Ottomans | 29 | |
4398107290 | 1324 | Mansa Musa's pilgrimage | 30 | |
4398115620 | 1325-1349 | travels of Ibn Battuta | 31 | |
4398115621 | 1347-1348 | Bubonic plague in Europe | 32 | |
4398116891 | 1433 | end of Zheng He's voyages | 33 | |
4398116892 | 1438 | Rise of the Inca | 34 | |
4398121689 | 1453 | Ottomans capture Constantinople | 35 | |
4398121690 | 1486 | Aztec Empire at its height | 36 | |
4398123837 | 1488 | Dias rounded Cape of Good Hope | 37 | |
4398123838 | 1492 | Columbus sailed to Hispaniola/Reconquista of Spain | 38 | |
4398125004 | 1502 | first African slaves transported to Caribbean | 39 | |
4398128019 | 1517 | Martin Luther/95 theses - Protestant Reformation | 40 | |
4398128020 | 1521 | Cortez conquered the Aztecs | 41 | |
4398132427 | 1533 | Pizarro toppled the Inca | 42 | |
4398134317 | 1545 | discovery of silver at Potosi | 43 | |
4398134318 | 1571 | Battle of Lepanto - naval defeat of Ottomans | 44 | |
4398135052 | 1588 | defeat of the Spanish Armada | 45 | |
4398135053 | 1600 | Battle of Sekigahara - beginning of Tokugawa Shogunate | 46 | |
4398136145 | 1607 | founding of Jamestown (first slaves there in 1619) | 47 | |
4398136146 | 1618-1648 | 30 years war in Europe | 48 | |
4398138128 | 1644 | - End of Ming Dynasty - rise of the Qing | 49 | |
4398141877 | 1652 | Establishment of Cape Town Colony | 50 | |
4398141878 | 1683 | unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna | 51 | |
4398141879 | 1689 | Glorious Revolution/English Bill of Rights | 52 | |
4398145488 | 1756-1763 | steam locomotive, textiles, etc. | 53 | |
4398146369 | Industrial Revolution begins | steam locomotive, textiles, etc. | 54 | |
4398146370 | 1767 | Invention of the Spinning Jenny: man-using machines | 55 | |
4398146371 | 1775 | The American Declaration of Independence | 56 | |
4398147738 | 1776 | American Revolution/Smith writes Wealth of Nations | 57 | |
4398150880 | 1789 | French Revolution - The French Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen | 58 | |
4398150881 | 1796 | Edward Jenner's smallpox vaccination: the first real breakthrough in combating infectious diseases | 59 | |
4398151683 | 1804 | Haitian independence | 60 | |
4398151684 | 1807 | British Abolition of the slave trade | 61 | |
4398154259 | 1810-1825 | Latin American independence (first Mexican Revolution) | 62 | |
4398154260 | 1815 | Metternich hosts Congress of Vienna (after Battle of Waterloo: the Napoleonic Empire ends) | 63 | |
4398155448 | 1839 | 1st opium war between China and England | 64 | |
4398163037 | 1848 | European revolutions/Marx & Engels write Communist Manifesto / The resolutions passed at the Seneca Falls Conference in 1848 | 65 | |
4398164586 | 1853 | Commodore Perry opens Japan | 66 | |
4398164587 | 1857 | Sepoy Mutiny in India | 67 | |
4398164588 | 1861 | end of Russian serfdom/Italian unification | 68 | |
4398166009 | 1863 | Emancipation Proclamation issued in US | 69 | |
4398177539 | 1871 | German unification | 70 | |
4398177540 | 1885 | Berlin Conference and Benz develops first petrol-driven car | 71 | |
4398177541 | 1893 | New Zealand is the first to award women suffrage; other nations in the Commonwealth soon follow | 72 | |
4398177542 | 1896 | Battle of Adwa - Ethiopians fend off Italians. | 73 | |
4398178688 | 1898 | Spanish-American War - Spain loses colonies (Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippines) | 74 | |
4398178689 | 1899 | Boer War - Dutch under British rule in South Africa | 75 | |
4398183508 | 1905 | Russo-Japanese war and Einstein's theory of special relativity published | 76 | |
4398185136 | 1910-1920 | Mexican Revolution / 1911- Chinese Revolution | 77 | |
4398186325 | 1914-1919 | WWI/ Treaty of Versailles / 1917 - Russian Revolution | 78 | |
4398186326 | 1929 | stock market crash/Great Depression | 79 | |
4398186364 | 1931 | Japanese invasion of Manchuria | 80 | |
4398191200 | 1935 | Italian invasion of Ethiopia / 1939 - German blitzkrieg in Poland | 81 | |
4398191201 | 1941 | Pearl Harbor / 1943 - Soviets defeat Germans at Stalingrad | 82 | |
4398191993 | 1945 | end of WWII - and dropping of atomic bombs on Japan | 83 | |
4398192775 | 1947 | freedom & partition of India | 84 | |
4398192776 | 1948 | birth of Israel / The U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights | 85 | |
4398194717 | 1949 | Chinese Communist Revolution | 86 | |
4398194718 | 1950-1953 | Korean War / 1954 - Vietnamese defeat French at Dien Bien Phu | 87 | |
4398194719 | 1956 | de-Stalinization/Nationalization of Suez Canal | 88 | |
4398194720 | 1957 | Ghana is first African nation to gain independence | 89 | |
4398195656 | 1959 | Cuban Revolution and Invention of the silicon chip (beginning of computer age). | 90 | |
4398195657 | 1967 | 6 day war/Chinese Cultural Revolution | 91 | |
4398200029 | 1973 | Yom Kippur War | 92 | |
4398200030 | 1979 | Iranian Revolution | 93 | |
4398200031 | 1987 | 1st Palestinian Intifada | 94 | |
4398201061 | 1989 | Tiananmen Square/fall of Berlin Wall - Collapse of Communist regimes in Europe; | 95 | |
4398201062 | 1990 | Namibia is the last country to gain independence in Africa | 96 | |
4398201354 | 1991 | Fall of USSR/1st Gulf war | 97 |
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