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3746240508000 BCEBeginnings of agriculture0
3746240513100 BCEUnification of Egypt by Narmer1
3746240521792 BCEHammurabi rules Babylon2
3746240531500 BCEAryan invasion of Indus Valley3
374624054500's BCELife of the Buddha, Confucius, and Lao Tsu (Beginnings of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism)4
374624055400's BCE-Rome becomes dominant in Italy, North Africa (Carthage), Spain, and Southern France -Punic Wars5
374624056323 BCEDeath of Alexander the Great (356BC-323BC) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_the_Great6
374624057221 BCEQin unified China7
37462405832 CEBeginnings of Christianity8
374624059180 CEEnd of Pax Romana (27BC-180BCE0 Roman time of peace from Caesar Augustus9
374624060220 CEEnd of Han Dynasty (206BCE-220CE) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_Dynasty10
374624061333 CERoman capital moved to Constantinople11
3746240624th CenturyBeginning of Trans-Saharan trade routes12
374624063476 CEFall of Rome13
374624064527 CEJustinian rule of Byzantine Empire14
374624065632 CERise of Islam/Death of Muhammad15
374624066732 CEBattle of Tours (Muslims lost against the Franks)16
3746240671054 CEEast-West Great Schism in Christian Church17
3746240681066 CEWilliam (Normandy) attacks England. Battle of Hastings. Normandy Conquest.18
3746240691071 CEBattle of Manzikert (Seljuk Turks defeat Byz)19
3746240701095 CEFirst Crusade20
3746744461258 CEMongols conquer Baghdad, Golden Age of Islam and Abbasid Dynasty end.21
3746744471271-1295 CEMarco Polo travels Mongol Rule of China22
3746744481324 CEMali King (Mansa Musa) makes pilgrimage to Mecca23
3746744491325-1349 CETravels of Ibn Battuta in Asia and Africa Visits most of the Islamic world24
3746744501347-1348 CEBubonic plague in Europe (30%-60% of Europe Population Dead)25
3746744511433 CEEnd of Zheng He's Voyages (China)/Rise of Ottomans26
3746744521453 CEOttomans capture Constantinople27
3746744531488 CEDiaz rounds the Cape of Good Hope Looking for a trade route to India28
3746744541492 CEChristopher Columbus Reconquista of Spain Jews kicked out of Spain29
3746744551502 CEFirst slaves to America Michaelangelo finishes the Sistine Chapel30
3746744561517 CE95 Theses of Martin Luther begins German Protestant Reformation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther31
3746744571521 CECortez conquered the Aztecs32
3746744581533 CEPizarro conquers the Inca33
3746744591565 CESiege of Malta http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Malta_(1565)34
3746744601588 CEDefeat of the Spanish Armada by the British35
3746744611600 CEBattle of Sekigahara in Japan, granting Tokugawa Ieyasu nominal control over the whole country. Battle of Nieuwpoort in the Eighty Years' War (Dutch War of Independence) between the Dutch and the Spanish East India Company granted a Royal Charter in England.36
3746744621607 CEFirst British colony in North America (Jamestown)37
3746744631618 CE30 Years' War Protestants vs. Catholics in Holy Roman Empire38
3746744641641 CEIrish Rebellion39
3746744651683 CEOttoman Siege on Vienna. Had it succeeded all of Europe would've been Islam, but it failed and let to their deterioration40
3746744661689 CEGlorious Revolution English Bill of Rights Peter the Great; Westernization of Russia41
3746744671756-1763 CESeven Years' War The European powers of Austria, France, Sweden and Russia fought against the defensively allied forces of Prussia and Britain.42
3746744681776 CEAmerican Revolution starts Declaration of Independence signed43
3746744691789 CEFrench Revolution & Napolean44
3746744701804 CEHaitian independence45
3746744711815 CECongress of Vienna46
3755664491820's CEMexican Revolution47
37556645018391st opium war in China48
3755664511848European revolutions/Marx & Engles write Communist Manifesto49
3755664521853Commodore Perry opens Japan to trade50
3755664531857Sepoy Mutiny51
3755664541861end of Russian serfdom/Italian unification Beginning of civil war52
3755664551863Emancipation Proclamation in US53
3755664561871Unification of Germany; Paris Commune and Third Republic in France54
3755664571885Berlin Conference - division of Africa55
3755664581898Spanish-American War, america gets puerto-rico, Cuba, Philipines, and Guam56
3755664591899-1902Anglo-Boer war; Brittish won57
3755664601905After Russia's defeat in the Russo-Japanese War, the Revolution of this year included events such as Bloody Sunday and Nicholas II's issuing of the October Manifesto58
3755664611910-1920Mexican Revolution59
3755664621911Chinese Revolution against traditional Chinese Imperial system Fall of Qin Dynasty60
3755664631914World War I begins61
3755664641917Russian Revolution US enter WWI62
3755664651919Treaty of Versailles - end of WWI63
3755664661929Stock market Crash/Great Depression.64
3755664671931Japanese invasion of MAnchuria65
3755664681935Italian invasion of Ethiopia66
3755664691939German blitzkrieg in Poland Start of WWII67
3755664701941Pearl Harbor, entry of US into WWII68
3755664711945World War II ends; United Nations founded69
3755664721947Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, India Independence70
3755664731948Israel becomes a nation71
3755664741949Chinese Communist Revolution NATO formed72
3755664751950-1953Korean War McCarthyism73
3755664761954Vietnamese defeat French at Dien Bien Phu Brown vs. Board of Education74
3755664771956de-Stalinization/nationalization of Suez Canal75
3755664781959Cuban Revolution76
3755664791962Cuban Missile Crisis77
3755664801967Six-day war in Israel; Chinese Cultural Revolution78
3755664811973Yom Kippur War http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yom_Kippur_War Nixon established an all volunteer army after four years of withdrawal of Vietnam Vietnam War Ends79
3755664821979Iranian Revolution, Soviet Union invades Afghanistan Thatcher elected prime minister in Britain80
37556648319871st Palestinian Intifada81
3755664841989Tiananmen Square protest in China Fall of Berlin Wall in Germany82
3755664851991Fall of USSR 1st Gulf war near Iraq83
3755664861994Genocide in Rwanda 1st all race elections in S. Africa84
37556648720019/11 Attacks85

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