8000 BCE-1914 CE
2543836079 | 1756-1763 | 7 Year's War (French and Indian War) | 0 | |
2543870873 | 1767 | Spinning Jenny | 1 | |
2543836080 | 1776 | American Revolution, Dec of Ind Smith's 'The Wealth of Nations' | 2 | |
2543836081 | 1789 | French Revolution | 3 | |
2543874584 | 1796 | Jenner's smallpox vaccine | 4 | |
2543836082 | 1804 | Haitian independence | 5 | |
2543876245 | 1807 | British abolish Tran-Atlantic slave trade | 6 | |
2543877179 | 1807-08 | Janissary Revolt | 7 | |
2543836083 | 1815 | Congress of Vienna | 8 | |
2543836084 | 1820's | Independence in Latin America | 9 | |
2543836085 | 1839 | First Opium War in China | 10 | |
2543879751 | 1839-1878 | Tanzimat Reforms | 11 | |
2543836086 | 1848 | European revolutions Marx and Engles' 'Communist Manifesto' | 12 | |
2543836087 | 1853 | Commodore Perry opens Japan | 13 | |
2543836088 | 1857 | Sepoy Mutiny | 14 | |
2543836089 | 1861 | End of Russian serfdom Italian unification | 15 | |
2543836090 | 1863 | Emancipation Proclamation in U.S. | 16 | |
2543836091 | 1871 | German unification | 17 | |
2543836092 | 1885 | Berlin Conference (division of Africa) | 18 | |
2543836093 | 1898 | Spanish-American War (U.S. acquires Philippines, Cuba, Guam, and Puerto Rico) | 19 | |
2543836094 | 1899 | Boer War (British controls South Africa) | 20 | |
2543836095 | 1905 | Russo-Japanese War Decembrist Revolt in Russia | 21 | |
2543836096 | 1910-1920 | Mexican Revolution | 22 | |
2543836097 | 1911 | Chinese Revolution | 23 | |
2543836098 | 1914 | World War I | 24 | |
2543836099 | 1917 | Russian Revolution | 25 | |
2543836100 | 1919 | Treaty of Versailles (end of World War I) | 26 | |
2543836101 | 1929 | Stock Market Crash | 27 | |
2543836102 | 1931 | Japanese invasion of Manchuria | 28 | |
2543836103 | 1935 | Italian invasion of Ethiopia | 29 | |
2543836104 | 1939 | German blitzkrieg in Poland | 30 | |
2543836105 | 1941 | Pearl Harbor (entry of US into World War II) | 31 | |
2543836106 | 1945 | End of World War II | 32 | |
2543836107 | 1947 | Independence and partition of India | 33 | |
2543836108 | 1948 | Birth of Israel | 34 | |
2543836109 | 1949 | Chinese Communist Revolution | 35 | |
2543836110 | 1950-1953 | Korean War | 36 | |
2543836111 | 1954 | Vietnamese defeat French at Dien Bien Phu | 37 | |
2543836112 | 1956 | De-Stalinization by Khrushchev Nationalization of Suez Canal | 38 | |
2543836113 | 1959 | Cuban Revolution | 39 | |
2543836114 | 1962 | Cuban Missile Crisis | 40 | |
2543836115 | 1967 | 6-Day War Chinese Cultural Revolution | 41 | |
2543836116 | 1973 | Yom Kippur War | 42 | |
2543836117 | 1979 | Iranian Revolution | 43 | |
2543836118 | 1987 | First Palestinian Intifada | 44 | |
2543836119 | 1989 | Tiananmen Square Fall of the Berlin wall | 45 | |
2543836120 | 1991 | Fall of the USSR First Gulf War | 46 | |
2543836121 | 1994 | Genocide in Rwanda First all-race elections in South Africa | 47 | |
2543836122 | 2001 | 9/11 Attacks | 48 | |
2543836123 | 2003 | US declares war on Iraq March 19th Saddam Hussein captured December 14th | 49 | |
2543902563 | 2004 | 50 | ||
2543904481 | 2007 | Global Great REcession | 51 | |
2543905178 | 2011 | Wikileaks, Arab Spring | 52 | |
2543906073 | 1861-1865 | US Civil War | 53 | |
2543907857 | 1861-1870 | Italian Unification | 54 | |
2543908765 | 1893 | New Zealand grants Women Suffrage | 55 | |
2543909393 | 1896 | Battle of Adowa (Ethiopians defeat Italians) | 56 | |
2543911757 | 1917 Oct/Nov | Russian Rev (Bolshevik) | 57 | |
2543913629 | 1928 | Kellogg-Briand Pack | 58 | |
2543914382 | 1937 | Jap invasion of China, rape of nanking | 59 | |
2543918600 | 1945 Feg;Aug | Yalta, Hiroshima&Nagasaki | 60 | |
2543919497 | 1947 June | Truman Doctrine, Official Cold War | 61 | |
2543922135 | 1948-49 | Berlin Blockade/Airlift, NATO founded | 62 | |
2543927860 | 1955 | Bandung Conf | 63 | |
2543928697 | 1957 | Sputnik | 64 | |
2543928698 | 1966-76 | Chinese Cult Rev | 65 | |
2543929764 | 1979 | Deng Xiaoping Socialist Market Econ begin | 66 | |
2543932402 | 1990 | Namibia independence | 67 |