4196105761 | 8000 BCE | Beginning of agriculture | 0 | |
4196105762 | 3000 BCE | Beginning of Bronze Age-early civilization | 1 | |
4196105763 | 1300 BCE | Iron Age | 2 | |
4196105764 | 6th C BCE | Life of Buddha, Confucius, Laozi, | 3 | |
4196105765 | 5th C BCE | Greek Golden Age - philosophers | 4 | |
4196105766 | 403-221 BCE | Era of Warring State | 5 | |
4196105767 | 323 BCE | Alexander the Great dies | 6 | |
4196105768 | 221 BCE | Qin Dynasty unified China | 7 | |
4196105769 | 184 BCE | Fall of the Mauryan Dynasty | 8 | |
4196105770 | 32 CE | Beginning of Christianity | 9 | |
4196105771 | 180 | End of Pax Romana | 10 | |
4196105772 | 220 | End of Han Dynasty | 11 | |
4196105773 | 312 | Emperor Constantine converts to Christianity | 12 | |
4196105774 | 333 | Roman capital moved to Constantinople | 13 | |
4196105775 | 4th Century | Beginning of Trans-Saharan Trade Routes | 14 | |
4196105776 | 476 | "Fall" of Rome | 15 | |
4196105777 | 527 | Justinian rule of Byzantine Empire | 16 | |
4196105778 | 550 | Fall of Gupta dynasty | 17 | |
4196105779 | 622 | Founding of islam | 18 | |
4196105780 | 730 | Printing invented in China | 19 | |
4196105781 | 732 | Battle of Tours | 20 | |
4196105782 | 900 | Decline of classical Maya | 21 | |
4196105783 | 1054 | Great schism in Christian Church | 22 | |
4196105784 | 1066 | Norman conquest of England | 23 | |
4196105785 | 1071 | Battle of manzikert | 24 | |
4196105786 | 1095 | 1st Crusade | 25 | |
4196105787 | 1206 | Chinggis Khan begins Mongol conquest | 26 | |
4196105788 | 1258 | Mongols sacked Baghdad, end of Abbasid caliphate | 27 | |
4196105789 | 1271-1295 | Marco Polo's travels | 28 | |
4196105790 | 1324 | Mansa Musas pilgrimage | 29 | |
4196105791 | 1324-1349 | Travels of Ibn Battuta | 30 | |
4196105792 | 1347-1348 | Bubonic plague in Europe | 31 | |
4196105793 | 1368-1644 | Ming Dynasty | 32 | |
4196105794 | 1405-1433 | Zheng He's voyages | 33 | |
4196105795 | 1438 | Rise of Inca Empire | 34 | |
4196105796 | 1453 | Ottomans conquer Constantinople | 35 | |
4196105797 | 1450s | Printing press in Europe | 36 | |
4196105798 | 1480s | Height of Aztec Empire | 37 | |
4196105799 | 1488 | Dias rounds Cape of Goods | 38 | |
4196105800 | 1492 | Columbus/Reconquista of Spain | 39 | |
4196105801 | 1502 | First African slaves to America | 40 | |
4196105802 | 1517 | Martin Luther/Prot Reformation | 41 | |
4196105803 | 1521 | Cortez conquer the Aztec | 42 | |
4196105804 | 1529 | First unsuccessful ottoman siege of Vienna | 43 | |
4196105805 | 1533 | Pizarro toppled Inca | 44 | |
4196105806 | 1545 | Discovery of silver at Potosí | 45 | |
4196105807 | 1571 | Battle of Lepanto/First Manila Galleon | 46 | |
4196105809 | 1588 | Spanish Armada | 47 | |
4196105810 | 1600 | Battle of Sekigahara | 48 | |
4196105811 | 1607 | Foundation of Jamestown | 49 | |
4196105812 | 1618-1648 | 30 year war | 50 | |
4196105813 | 1644 | End of Ming/ beginning of Qin Dynasty | 51 | |
4196105814 | 1653 | Cape Town colony founded | 52 | |
4196105815 | 1683 | Second unsuccessful ottoman siege of Vienna | 53 | |
4196105816 | 1689 | Glorious Revolution/English Bill of Rights | 54 | |
4196105817 | 1756-1763 | 7 year war | 55 | |
4196105818 | 1767 | Invention of the Spinning Jenny | 56 | |
4196105819 | 1776 | Deceleration of Independence/Smith writes wealth of nations | 57 | |
4196105821 | 1789 | French Revolution begins | 58 | |
4196105822 | 1796 | Jenner's smallpox vaccine | 59 | |
4196105823 | 1804 | Haitian independence | 60 | |
4196105824 | 1807 | British abolish Trans-Atlantic slave trade | 61 | |
4196105825 | 1807-08 | Janissary Revolt | 62 | |
4196105826 | 1815 | Congress of Vienna | 63 | |
4196105827 | 1820s | Independence in Latin America | 64 | |
4196105828 | 1839 | First opium war | 65 | |
4196105829 | 1839-1878 | Tanzimat Reforms | 66 | |
4196105830 | 1848 | Mark and Eagles the communist manifesto | 67 | |
4196105831 | 1848-1849 | European revolution | 68 | |
4196105832 | 1853 | Commodore Perry opens Japan | 69 | |
4196105833 | 1857 | Sepoy Mutiny | 70 | |
4196105834 | 1861 | End of Russian serfdom | 71 | |
4196105835 | 1861-1865 | US Civil War | 72 | |
4196105836 | 1861-1870 | Italian unification | 73 | |
4196105837 | 1863 | US Emancipation Proclamation | 74 | |
4196755001 | 1871 | German unification | 75 | |
4196755002 | 1885 | Berlin Conference division of Africa(begins scramble for Africa) | 76 | |
4196755003 | 1893 | New Zealand grants women suffrage | 77 | |
4196755004 | 1896 | Battle of Adowa | 78 | |
4196755005 | 1898 | Spanish-American War | 79 | |
4196755006 | 1899-1902 | Boer War | 80 | |
4196755007 | 1905 | Russo-Japanese War | 81 | |
4196755008 | 1919-1920 | Mexican Revolution | 82 | |
4196755009 | 1911 | Chinese Revolution(end of Qin) | 83 | |
4196755010 | 1914-1918 | WW1 | 84 | |
4196755011 | 1917 | Russian Revolution | 85 | |
4196755012 | 1918 | Armistice(end of WW1 fighting) | 86 | |
4196755013 | 1919 | Treaty of Versailles | 87 | |
4196755014 | 1928 | Kellogg-Briand Oact | 88 | |
4196755015 | 1929 | Stock market crash | 89 | |
4196755016 | 1931 | Japanese invasion of Manchuria | 90 | |
4196755017 | 1935 | Italian invasion Ethiopia | 91 | |
4196755018 | 1937 | Japanese invasion of (rest of) china | 92 | |
4196755019 | 1939 | German Blitzkrieg in Poland | 93 | |
4196755020 | 1941 | Pearl Harbor, entry of WW2 | 94 | |
4196755021 | 1945 | Yalta Conference/ end of WW2/Hiroshima and Nagasaki | 95 | |
4196755022 | 1947 | Independence and partition of India | 96 | |
4196755023 | 1948 | Birth Israel | 97 | |
4196755024 | 1948-1949 | Berlin Blockade/Airlift | 98 | |
4196755025 | 1949 | NATO founded/Chinese Communist Revolution | 99 | |
4196755026 | 1950-1953 | Korean War | 100 | |
4196755027 | 1954 | Vietnam expels France | 101 | |
4196755028 | 1955 | Bandung Conference | 102 | |
4196755029 | 1956 | Khrushchev begins de-Salinization/Nationalization of Suez Canal | 103 | |
4196755030 | 1962 | Cuban Missile Crisis | 104 | |
4196755031 | 1966-1976 | Chinese Culture Revolution | 105 | |
4196755032 | 1967 | 6-Day War | 106 | |
4196755033 | 1973 | Yom Kippur War | 107 | |
4196755034 | 1979 | Iranian Revolution/China begins "Socialist Mark Economy" reforms | 108 | |
4196755035 | 1987 | 1st Palestine Intifada | 109 | |
4196755036 | 1989 | Fall of Berlin Wall/Tiananmen Square | 110 | |
4196755037 | 1990 | Namibia gains independence | 111 | |
4196755038 | 1991 | 1st Persian war | 112 | |
4196755039 | 1991 | USSR disbands | 113 | |
4196755040 | 1994 | Genocide in Rwanda/1st all race election in South Africa | 114 | |
4196755041 | 2001 | 9/11 attacks | 115 | |
4196755042 | 2003 | US invades Iraq | 116 | |
4196755043 | 2004 | Facebook founded | 117 | |
4196755044 | 2007 | Global "Great Recession" begins | 118 | |
4196755045 | 2011 | Wikileaks "Arab Springs" democracy | 119 |
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