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| 163756942 | 8000 BCE | beginnings of agriculture | 0 | |
| 163756943 | 3000 BCE | beginnings of Bronze Age - early civ's | 1 | |
| 163756944 | 1300 BCE | Iron Age | 2 | |
| 163756945 | 6th century BCE | life of Buddha, Confucius, Lao Tsu (beginnings of Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism) | 3 | |
| 163756946 | 5th century BCE | Greek Golden Age - philosophers | 4 | |
| 163756947 | 323 BCE | Alexander the Great | 5 | |
| 163756948 | 221 BCE | Qin unified China | 6 | |
| 163756949 | 32 | beginnings of Christianity | 7 | |
| 163756950 | 180 | end of Pax Romana | 8 | |
| 163756951 | 220 | end of Han Dynasty | 9 | |
| 163756952 | 333 | Roman capital moved to Constantinople | 10 | |
| 163756953 | 4th century | beginnings of Trans-Saharan Trade Routes | 11 | |
| 163756954 | 476 | fall of Rome | 12 | |
| 163756955 | 527 | Justinian rule of Byzantine Empire | 13 | |
| 163756956 | 632 | Rise of Islam | 14 | |
| 163756957 | 732 | Battle of Tours (end of Muslim move into France) | 15 | |
| 163756958 | 1054 | 1st Schism in Christian Church | 16 | |
| 163756959 | 1066 | Norman conquest of England | 17 | |
| 163756960 | 1071 | Battle of Manzikert (Seljuk Turks defeat Byz) | 18 | |
| 163756961 | 1095 | 1st Crusade | 19 | |
| 163756962 | 1258 | Mongols sack Baghdad | 20 | |
| 163756963 | 1271-1295 | Marco Polo travels | 21 | |
| 163756964 | 1324 | Mansa Musa's pilgrimage | 22 | |
| 163756965 | 1325-1349 | travels of Ibn Battuta | 23 | |
| 163756966 | 1347-1348 | Bubonic plague in Europe | 24 | |
| 163756967 | 1433 | end of Zheng He's voyages / Rise of Ottomans | 25 | |
| 163756968 | 1453 | Ottomans capture Constantinople | 26 | |
| 163756969 | 1488 | Dias rounded Cape of Good Hope | 27 | |
| 163756970 | 1492 | Columbus sailed the ocean blue / Reconquista of Spain | 28 | |
| 163756971 | 1502 | slaves to Americas | 29 | |
| 163756972 | 1517 | Maritn Luther / 95 theses | 30 | |
| 163756973 | 1521 | Cortez conquered the Aztecs | 31 | |
| 163756974 | 1533 | Pizarro toppled the Inca | 32 | |
| 163756975 | 1571 | Battle of Lepanto (naval defeat of Ottomans) | 33 | |
| 163756976 | 1588 | defeat of the Spanish Armada by the British | 34 | |
| 163756977 | 1600 | Battle of Sekigahara - beginning of Tokugawa | 35 | |
| 163756978 | 1607 | foundation of Jamestown | 36 | |
| 163756979 | 1618-1648 | 30 years war | 37 | |
| 163756980 | 1683 | unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna | 38 | |
| 163756981 | 1689 | Glorious Revolution / English Bill of Rights | 39 | |
| 163756982 | 1756-1763 | 7 years war / French and Indian War | 40 | |
| 163756983 | 1776 | American Revolution / Smith writes Wealth of Nations | 41 | |
| 163756984 | 1789 | French Revolution | 42 | |
| 163756985 | 1804 | Haitian independence | 43 | |
| 163756986 | 1815 | Congress of Vienna | 44 | |
| 163756987 | 1820s | Independence in Latin America | 45 | |
| 163756988 | 1839 | 1st opium war in China | 46 | |
| 163756989 | 1848 | European revolutions / Marx & Engles write Communist Manifesto | 47 | |
| 163756990 | 1853 | Commodore Perry opens Japan | 48 | |
| 163756991 | 1857 | Sepoy Mutiny | 49 | |
| 163756992 | 1861 | end of Russian serfdom / Italian unification | 50 | |
| 163756993 | 1863 | Emancipation Proclamation in US | 51 | |
| 163756994 | 1871 | German unification | 52 | |
| 163756995 | 1885 | Berlin Conference - division of Africa | 53 | |
| 163756996 | 1898 | Spanish-American War - US acquires Philippines, Cuba, Guam, & Puerto Rico | 54 | |
| 163756997 | 1899 | Boer War - British in control of South Africa | 55 | |
| 163756998 | 1905 | Russo-Japanese war | 56 | |
| 163756999 | 1910-1920 | Mexican Revolution | 57 | |
| 163757000 | 1911 | Chinese Revolution | 58 | |
| 163757001 | 1914 | WWI | 59 | |
| 163757002 | 1917 | Russian Revolution | 60 | |
| 163757003 | 1919 | Treaty of Versailles - end of WWI | 61 | |
| 163757004 | 1929 | stock market crash | 62 | |
| 163757005 | 1931 | Japanese invasion of Manchuria | 63 | |
| 163757006 | 1935 | Italian invasion of Ethiopia | 64 | |
| 163757007 | 1939 | German blitzkrieg in Poland | 65 | |
| 163757008 | 1941 | Pearl Harbor, entry of US into WWII | 66 | |
| 163757009 | 1945 | end of WWII | 67 | |
| 163757010 | 1947 | independence & partition of India | 68 | |
| 163757011 | 1948 | birth of Israel | 69 | |
| 163757012 | 1949 | Chinese Communist Revolution | 70 | |
| 163757013 | 1950-1953 | Korean War | 71 | |
| 163757014 | 1954 | Vietnamese defeat French at Dien Bien Phu | 72 | |
| 163757015 | 1956 | de-Stalinization/nationalization of Suez Canal | 73 | |
| 163757016 | 1959 | Cuban Revolution | 74 | |
| 163757017 | 1962 | Cuban missile crisis | 75 | |
| 163757018 | 1967 | 6-day war / Chinese Cultural Revolution | 76 | |
| 163757019 | 1973 | Yom Kippur war | 77 | |
| 163757020 | 1979 | Iranian Revolution | 78 | |
| 163757021 | 1987 | 1st Palestinian Intifada | 79 | |
| 163757022 | 1989 | Tiananmen Square / fall of Berlin Wall | 80 | |
| 163757023 | 1991 | fall of USSR / 1st Gulf War | 81 | |
| 163757024 | 1994 | genocide in Rwanda / 1st all race elections in S. Africa | 82 | |
| 163757025 | 2001 | 9/11 Attacks | 83 |
