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6587040201The American Revolution begins17750
6587044677Discovery of the "New World"14921
6587047164End of Zheng He's voyages14332
6587049321Fall of the Byzantine Empire14533
6587052950Fall of the Western Roman Empire4764
6587054896Split of the Christian Church10545
6587065272Rise of Islam6106
6587066732Start of World War I19147
6587087027Beginning of agriculturec. 8000 BCE8
6587091685invention of wheel, plough (Mesopotamia), and sail (Egypt)c. 3500 BCE9
6587094343invention of writing in Mesopotamiac. 3200 BCE10
6587099057Qin unified China221 BCE11
6587100920Fall of the Mauryan dynasty184 BCE12
6587102564Beginnings of Christianity32 CE13
6587104984end of Pax Romana180 CE14
6587106519end of Han Dynasty220 CE15
6587108890Rise of the Gupta in India320 CE16
6587112545Printing invented in China73017
6587112546Battle of Tours73218
6587116066decline of classical Mayac. 90019
6587119267Norman conquest of England106620
6587123057Seljuk defeat of Byzantines (Battle of Manzikert)107121
6587124482First Crusades109522
6587128153Genghis Khan begins his conquest of Asia120623
6587130117Magna Carta signed121524
6587135664Rise of the Inca143825
6587138824Ottomans capture Constantinople145326
6587140737Aztec Empire at its height148627
6587142830Dias rounded Cape of Good Hope148828
6587145878first enslaved Africans transported to the Caribbean150229
6587149747Martin Luther/95 theses - beginning of Protestant Reformation151730
6587159009Thirty Years' War1618 - 164831
6587162349End of the Ming dynasty - rise of the Qing164432
6587165649Establishment of Cape Town Colony (South Africa)165233
6587168556Glorious Revolution/English Bill of Rights168934
6587172559French and Indian War aka Seven Years War1756 - 176335
6587176534French Revolution178936
6587180341Jenner's smallpox vaccination179637
6587181973Haitian Revolution180438
6587184808British abolition of the slave trade180739
6587189224Latin American independence movements (first Mexican revolution)1810 - 182540
6587193597Sepoy Mutiny in India185741
6587196702end of serfdom in Russia186142
6587198817Emancipation Proclamation issued in the US186343
6587198818German unification187144
6587200104Berlin Conference188545
6587206338New Zealand is the first to grant women suffrage189346
6587209106Battle of Adwa - Ethiopians fend of Italians189647
6587211035Spanish-American War189848
6587212795Boer War (South Africa)189949
6587214582Russo-Japanese war and Einstein's theory of relativity published190550
6587219889Mexican Revolution/Chinese Revolution191051
6587224480Treat of Versailles191952
6587224481Russian Revolution191753
6587226749Great Depression192954
6587231131Japanese invasion of Manchuria193155
6587232526Italian invasion of Ethiopia193556
6587234070Pearl Harbor194157
6587237688end of World War II194558
6587241708freedom and partition of India194759
6587243963establishment of the state of Israel194860
6587243996Chinese Communist Revolution194961
6587245510Korean War1950 - 195362
6587249828Ghana is first African nation to gain independence195763
6587252548Cuban Revolution195964
6587254268Chinese Cultural Revolution196765
6587254269Iranian Revolution197966
6587258082Tiananmen Square/fall of Berlin War198967
6587260932Namibia is the last country gain independence in Africa199068
6587262929Fall of USSR/1st Gulf Wat199169

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