6233140321 | 1756-63 | 7 Years' War/French and Indian War | 0 | |
6233153769 | 1776 | American Revolution/Smith writes the Wealth of Nations | 1 | |
6233287221 | 1789 | French Revolution | 2 | |
6233406358 | 1804 | Haitian Independence | 3 | |
6233406359 | 1815 | Congress of Vienna | 4 | |
6233607290 | 1820s | Independence in Latin America | 5 | |
6233609340 | 1839 | 1st Opium War in China | 6 | |
6235429228 | 1848 | European revolutions/Marx & Engles write Communist Manifesto | 7 | |
6235465427 | 1853 | Commodore Perry opens Japan | 8 | |
6235515161 | 1857 | Sepoy Mutiny | 9 | |
6235549744 | 1861 | end of Russian serfdom/Italian unification | 10 | |
6235555530 | 1863 | Emancipation Proclamation in US | 11 | |
6235558803 | 1871 | German Unification | 12 | |
6235605177 | 1885 | Berlin Conference/Division of Africa | 13 | |
6244665205 | 1898 | Spanish-American War/US acquires Philippines, Cuba, Guam, and Puerto Rico | 14 | |
6244672826 | 1899 | Boer War-British in control of South Africa | 15 | |
6244676793 | 1905 | Russo-Japanese War/Decembrist Revolt in Russia | 16 | |
6244689055 | 1910-20 | Mexican Revolution | 17 | |
6244692370 | 1911 | Boxer Rebellion | 18 | |
6244694446 | 1914 | WWI | 19 | |
6253940010 | 1917 | Russian Revolution | 20 | |
6244697549 | 1919 | Treaty of Versailles | 21 | |
6244699713 | 1929 | stock market crash | 22 | |
6244707300 | 1935 | Italian invasion of Ethiopia | 23 | |
6244704999 | 1931 | Japanese invasion of Manchuria | 24 | |
6244721306 | 1939 | German blitzkrieg in Poland | 25 | |
6244723653 | 1941 | Pearl Harbor, entry of US into WWII | 26 | |
6244732386 | 1945 | end of WWII | 27 | |
6244740701 | 1947 | independence and partition of India | 28 | |
6244747273 | 1948 | Creation of Israel | 29 | |
6244755588 | 1949 | Chinese Communist Revolution | 30 | |
6244764492 | 1950-53 | Korean War | 31 | |
6244782828 | 1954 | Vietnamese defeat French at Dien Bien Phu | 32 | |
6244817914 | 1956 | de-Stalinization/nationalization of Suez Canal | 33 | |
6244814089 | 1959 | Cuban Revolution | 34 | |
6244832917 | 1962 | Cuban missile crisis | 35 | |
6244835076 | 1967 | 6-Day War/Chinese Cultural Revolution | 36 | |
6244853151 | 1973 | Yom Kippur War | 37 | |
6244855401 | 1979 | Iranian Revolution | 38 | |
6244872698 | 1989 | Tienanmen Square/fall of the Berlin Wall | 39 | |
6244877549 | 1991 | Fall of the USS/1st Gulf War | 40 | |
6244886959 | 1994 | genocide in Rwanda/1st all race elections in South Africa | 41 | |
6244915931 | 2001 | 9/11 Attacks | 42 | |
6244918352 | 2002 | The Euro introduced into circulation | 43 | |
6244939023 | 2003 | US declares war on Iraq March 19th, Sadam Hussein captured Dec 14th | 44 | |
6244939024 | 2004 | Facebook launched | 45 | |
6244939025 | 2005 | Hurricane Katrina | 46 | |
6244953977 | 2006 | Twitter is launched; North Korea conducts first nuclear test; Hussein executed | 47 | |
6244961554 | 2007 | Beginning of global economic downturn; debut of iPhone | 48 | |
6244967847 | 2008 | Beijing Olympics; Kindle Debut; Google Street View released | 49 | |
6244978994 | 2009 | Africa's population hits 1 billion; Obama elected President of the US | 50 | |
6244983923 | 2011 | US captures Osama Bin Laden | 51 |
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