374624050 | 8000 BCE | Beginnings of agriculture | 0 | |
374624051 | 3100 BCE | Unification of Egypt by Narmer | 1 | |
374624052 | 1792 BCE | Hammurabi rules Babylon | 2 | |
374624053 | 1500 BCE | Aryan invasion of Indus Valley | 3 | |
374624054 | 500's BCE | Life of the Buddha, Confucius, and Lao Tsu (Beginnings of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism) | 4 | |
374624055 | 400's BCE | -Rome becomes dominant in Italy, North Africa (Carthage), Spain, and Southern France -Punic Wars | 5 | |
374624056 | 323 BCE | Death of Alexander the Great (356BC-323BC) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_the_Great | 6 | |
374624057 | 221 BCE | Qin unified China | 7 | |
374624058 | 32 CE | Beginnings of Christianity | 8 | |
374624059 | 180 CE | End of Pax Romana (27BC-180BCE0 Roman time of peace from Caesar Augustus | 9 | |
374624060 | 220 CE | End of Han Dynasty (206BCE-220CE) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_Dynasty | 10 | |
374624061 | 333 CE | Roman capital moved to Constantinople | 11 | |
374624062 | 4th Century | Beginning of Trans-Saharan trade routes | 12 | |
374624063 | 476 CE | Fall of Rome | 13 | |
374624064 | 527 CE | Justinian rule of Byzantine Empire | 14 | |
374624065 | 632 CE | Rise of Islam/Death of Muhammad | 15 | |
374624066 | 732 CE | Battle of Tours (Muslims lost against the Franks) | 16 | |
374624067 | 1054 CE | East-West Great Schism in Christian Church | 17 | |
374624068 | 1066 CE | William (Normandy) attacks England. Battle of Hastings. Normandy Conquest. | 18 | |
374624069 | 1071 CE | Battle of Manzikert (Seljuk Turks defeat Byz) | 19 | |
374624070 | 1095 CE | First Crusade | 20 | |
374674446 | 1258 CE | Mongols conquer Baghdad, Golden Age of Islam and Abbasid Dynasty end. | 21 | |
374674447 | 1271-1295 CE | Marco Polo travels Mongol Rule of China | 22 | |
374674448 | 1324 CE | Mali King (Mansa Musa) makes pilgrimage to Mecca | 23 | |
374674449 | 1325-1349 CE | Travels of Ibn Battuta in Asia and Africa Visits most of the Islamic world | 24 | |
374674450 | 1347-1348 CE | Bubonic plague in Europe (30%-60% of Europe Population Dead) | 25 | |
374674451 | 1433 CE | End of Zheng He's Voyages (China)/Rise of Ottomans | 26 | |
374674452 | 1453 CE | Ottomans capture Constantinople | 27 | |
374674453 | 1488 CE | Diaz rounds the Cape of Good Hope Looking for a trade route to India | 28 | |
374674454 | 1492 CE | Christopher Columbus Reconquista of Spain Jews kicked out of Spain | 29 | |
374674455 | 1502 CE | First slaves to America Michaelangelo finishes the Sistine Chapel | 30 | |
374674456 | 1517 CE | 95 Theses of Martin Luther begins German Protestant Reformation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther | 31 | |
374674457 | 1521 CE | Cortez conquered the Aztecs | 32 | |
374674458 | 1533 CE | Pizarro conquers the Inca | 33 | |
374674459 | 1565 CE | Siege of Malta http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Malta_(1565) | 34 | |
374674460 | 1588 CE | Defeat of the Spanish Armada by the British | 35 | |
374674461 | 1600 CE | Battle 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 | |
374674462 | 1607 CE | First British colony in North America (Jamestown) | 37 | |
374674463 | 1618 CE | 30 Years' War Protestants vs. Catholics in Holy Roman Empire | 38 | |
374674464 | 1641 CE | Irish Rebellion | 39 | |
374674465 | 1683 CE | Ottoman Siege on Vienna. Had it succeeded all of Europe would've been Islam, but it failed and let to their deterioration | 40 | |
374674466 | 1689 CE | Glorious Revolution English Bill of Rights Peter the Great; Westernization of Russia | 41 | |
374674467 | 1756-1763 CE | Seven Years' War The European powers of Austria, France, Sweden and Russia fought against the defensively allied forces of Prussia and Britain. | 42 | |
374674468 | 1776 CE | American Revolution starts Declaration of Independence signed | 43 | |
374674469 | 1789 CE | French Revolution & Napolean | 44 | |
374674470 | 1804 CE | Haitian independence | 45 | |
374674471 | 1815 CE | Congress of Vienna | 46 | |
375566449 | 1820's CE | Mexican Revolution | 47 | |
375566450 | 1839 | 1st opium war in China | 48 | |
375566451 | 1848 | European revolutions/Marx & Engles write Communist Manifesto | 49 | |
375566452 | 1853 | Commodore Perry opens Japan to trade | 50 | |
375566453 | 1857 | Sepoy Mutiny | 51 | |
375566454 | 1861 | end of Russian serfdom/Italian unification Beginning of civil war | 52 | |
375566455 | 1863 | Emancipation Proclamation in US | 53 | |
375566456 | 1871 | Unification of Germany; Paris Commune and Third Republic in France | 54 | |
375566457 | 1885 | Berlin Conference - division of Africa | 55 | |
375566458 | 1898 | Spanish-American War, america gets puerto-rico, Cuba, Philipines, and Guam | 56 | |
375566459 | 1899-1902 | Anglo-Boer war; Brittish won | 57 | |
375566460 | 1905 | After 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 Manifesto | 58 | |
375566461 | 1910-1920 | Mexican Revolution | 59 | |
375566462 | 1911 | Chinese Revolution against traditional Chinese Imperial system Fall of Qin Dynasty | 60 | |
375566463 | 1914 | World War I begins | 61 | |
375566464 | 1917 | Russian Revolution US enter WWI | 62 | |
375566465 | 1919 | Treaty of Versailles - end of WWI | 63 | |
375566466 | 1929 | Stock market Crash/Great Depression. | 64 | |
375566467 | 1931 | Japanese invasion of MAnchuria | 65 | |
375566468 | 1935 | Italian invasion of Ethiopia | 66 | |
375566469 | 1939 | German blitzkrieg in Poland Start of WWII | 67 | |
375566470 | 1941 | Pearl Harbor, entry of US into WWII | 68 | |
375566471 | 1945 | World War II ends; United Nations founded | 69 | |
375566472 | 1947 | Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, India Independence | 70 | |
375566473 | 1948 | Israel becomes a nation | 71 | |
375566474 | 1949 | Chinese Communist Revolution NATO formed | 72 | |
375566475 | 1950-1953 | Korean War McCarthyism | 73 | |
375566476 | 1954 | Vietnamese defeat French at Dien Bien Phu Brown vs. Board of Education | 74 | |
375566477 | 1956 | de-Stalinization/nationalization of Suez Canal | 75 | |
375566478 | 1959 | Cuban Revolution | 76 | |
375566479 | 1962 | Cuban Missile Crisis | 77 | |
375566480 | 1967 | Six-day war in Israel; Chinese Cultural Revolution | 78 | |
375566481 | 1973 | Yom 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 Ends | 79 | |
375566482 | 1979 | Iranian Revolution, Soviet Union invades Afghanistan Thatcher elected prime minister in Britain | 80 | |
375566483 | 1987 | 1st Palestinian Intifada | 81 | |
375566484 | 1989 | Tiananmen Square protest in China Fall of Berlin Wall in Germany | 82 | |
375566485 | 1991 | Fall of USSR 1st Gulf war near Iraq | 83 | |
375566486 | 1994 | Genocide in Rwanda 1st all race elections in S. Africa | 84 | |
375566487 | 2001 | 9/11 Attacks | 85 |
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