4399439724 | 8000 BC | Beginnings of agriculture | 0 | |
4399439725 | 3000 BC | Beginnings of Bronze Age/ early civilization | 1 | |
4399439726 | 1300 BC | Iron Age | 2 | |
4399439727 | 6th century BC | Life of Buddha,Confucius,and Laozi (Buddhism, Confucianism, and daoism) | 3 | |
4399439728 | 5th century BC | Greek Golden Age (philosophers) | 4 | |
4399439729 | 323 BC | Alexander the Great | 5 | |
4399439730 | 221 BC | Qin unified china | 6 | |
4399439731 | 184 BC | Fall of Mauryan Dynasty | 7 | |
4399439732 | 32 CE | Beginnings of Christianity | 8 | |
4399439733 | 180 | End of Pax Romana | 9 | |
4399439734 | 220 | End of Han Dynasty | 10 | |
4399439735 | 312 | Emperor Constantine converts to Christianity | 11 | |
4399439736 | 333 | Roman capital moved to Constantinople | 12 | |
4399641977 | 4th century | Beginning of the Trans Saharan trade routes | 13 | |
4399641978 | 476 | Fall of Rome | 14 | |
4399641979 | 527 | Justinian rule of Byzantine Empire | 15 | |
4399641980 | 550 | Fall of Gupta Dynasty/Empire | 16 | |
4399641981 | 622 | Founding of Islam | 17 | |
4399641982 | 730 | Printing invented in China | 18 | |
4399641983 | 732 | Battle of Tours (end of Muslim move into France) | 19 | |
4399641984 | 900 | Decline of classical Maya | 20 | |
4399641985 | 1054 | Great Schism in Christian Church | 21 | |
4399641986 | 1066 | Norman conquest of England | 22 | |
4399641987 | 1071 | Battle of Manzikert (Seljuk Turks defeat Byzantine army) | 23 | |
4399641988 | 1095 | 1st Crusade | 24 | |
4399641989 | 1206 | Chinggis khan begins Mongol conquest | 25 | |
4399641990 | 1258 | Mongols sack Baghdad | 26 | |
4399641991 | 1271-1295 | Marco Polos travels | 27 | |
4399641992 | 1279-1368 | Yuan(Mongol) dynasty in China | 28 | |
4399641993 | 1324 | Mansa Musas pilgrimage | 29 | |
4399641994 | 1325-1349 | Travels of Ibn Battuta | 30 | |
4399641995 | 1347-1348 | Bubonic plague in Europe | 31 | |
4399641996 | 1368-1644 | Ming Dynasty | 32 | |
4399641997 | 1405-1433 | Zheng He's voyages | 33 | |
4399641998 | 1438 | Rise of the inca empire | 34 | |
4400854173 | 1453 | Ottomans capture Constantinople | 35 | |
4400854174 | 1480s | Height of Aztec empire | 36 | |
4400854175 | 1488 | Dias rounded cape of good hope | 37 | |
4400854176 | 1492 | Columbus/ reconquista of Spain | 38 | |
4400854177 | 1502 | 1st African spaces to Americas | 39 | |
4400854178 | 1517 | Martin Luther/ 95 theses | 40 | |
4400854179 | 1521 | Cortez conquered the aztecs | 41 | |
4400854180 | 1529 | 1st unsuccessful ottoman siege of Vienna | 42 | |
4400854181 | 1533 | Pizarro toppled the inca | 43 | |
4400854182 | 1545 | Discovery of silver at potosi | 44 | |
4400854183 | 1571 | Battle of lepanto (naval defeat of ottomans) | 45 | |
4400854184 | 1588 | Defeat of Spanish Armada by british | 46 | |
4400854185 | 1600 | Battle of sekigahara (beginning of Tokugawa shogunate) | 47 | |
4400854186 | 1607 | Foundation of jamestown | 48 | |
4400854187 | 1618-1648 | 30 Years War | 49 | |
4400854188 | 1644 | End of Ming/ beginning of Qing dynasty | 50 | |
4400854189 | 1653 | Cape Town colony founded (Dutch) | 51 | |
4400854190 | 1683 | 2nd unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna | 52 | |
4400854191 | 1689 | Glorious Revolution/ English Bill of Rights | 53 | |
4400854192 | 1756-1763 | 7 Years War/ French and Indian War | 54 | |
4400854193 | 1767 | Invention of the Spinning Jenny (using machines to manufacture) | 55 | |
4400854194 | 1776 | American Revolution/ Smith writes Wealth of Nations | 56 | |
4400854195 | 1789 | French Revolution begins | 57 | |
4400854196 | 1796 | Jenners smallpox vaccine | 58 | |
4400854197 | 1804 | Haitian independence | 59 | |
4400854198 | 1807 | British abolition of Trans Atlantic slave trade | 60 | |
4400854199 | 1815 | Congress of Vienna | 61 | |
4400854200 | 1820s | Independence in Latin America | 62 | |
4400854201 | 1839 | 1st opium war in china | 63 | |
4400854202 | 1848 | European revolutions/ Marx and Engles write communist manifesto | 64 | |
4400854203 | 1853 | Commodore perry opens Japan | 65 | |
4400854204 | 1857 | Sepoy mutiny | 66 | |
4400854205 | 1861 | End of Russian serfdom/ Italian unification | 67 | |
4400854206 | 1863 | Emancipation proclamation | 68 | |
4400854207 | 1871 | German unification | 69 | |
4400854208 | 1885 | Berlin conference division of africa | 70 | |
4400854209 | 1893 | New Zealand grants women suffrage | 71 | |
4400854210 | 1896 | Battle of adowa (Ethiopians defeat Italians) | 72 | |
4400854211 | 1898 | Spanish American war (IS gets Guam, Philippines, Cuba, and Puerto Rico) | 73 | |
4400854212 | 1899-1902 | Boer War, British in control of S Africa | 74 | |
4400854213 | 1905 | Russo Japanese war | 75 | |
4400854214 | 1910-1920 | Mexican Revolution | 76 | |
4400854215 | 1911 | Chinese revolution | 77 | |
4400854216 | 1914 | WWI | 78 | |
4400854217 | 1917 | Russian Revolution | 79 | |
4400854218 | 1919 | Treaty of Versailles end of WWI | 80 | |
4400854219 | 1929 | Stock market crash | 81 | |
4400854220 | 1931 | Japanese invasion of manchuria | 82 | |
4400854221 | 1935 | Italian invasion of Ethiopia | 83 | |
4400854222 | 1937 | Japanese invasion of rest of chkna | 84 | |
4400854223 | 1939 | German blitzkrieg in Poland | 85 | |
4400854224 | 1941 | Pearl harbor | 86 | |
4400854225 | 1945 | End of WWII | 87 | |
4400854226 | 1947 | Independence of partition of India | 88 | |
4400854227 | 1948 | Birth of Israel | 89 | |
4400854228 | 1949 | Chinese communist revolution | 90 | |
4400854229 | 1950-1953 | Korean War | 91 | |
4400854230 | 1954 | Vietnamese defeat French at dien bien phu | 92 | |
4400854231 | 1956 | De Stalinization/ nationalization of suez canal | 93 | |
4400854232 | 1959 | Cuban Revolution | 94 | |
4400854233 | 1962 | Cuban missile crisis | 95 | |
4400854234 | 1967 | 6 Day War/ Chinese cultural revolution | 96 | |
4400854235 | 1973 | Yom Kippur war | 97 | |
4400854236 | 1979 | Iranian Revolution | 98 | |
4400854237 | 1987 | 1st Palestinian intifada | 99 | |
4400854238 | 1988 | Tiananmen Square/ fall of Berlin wall | 100 | |
4400854239 | 1990 | Namibia gains independence (last colony to do so) | 101 | |
4400854240 | 1991 | Fall of ussr / 1st gulf war | 102 | |
4400854241 | 1994 | Genocide in Rwanda/ 1st all race elections in S Africa | 103 | |
4400854242 | 2001 | 9/11 Attacks | 104 | |
4400854243 | 2007 | Global Great Recession begins | 105 | |
4400854244 | 2011 | Wiki leaks, Arab spring democracy movement | 106 |
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