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| 7676418078 | 2380 BCE | Urukagina, author of one of the first codes of laws, reigns in Lagash | 0 | |
| 7676418079 | 1760 BCE | Hammurabi's code is published | 1 | |
| 7676418080 | 17th century BCE | Zarathustra, the founder of Zoroastrianism, lives | 2 | |
| 7676418081 | 1812 BCE | Abraham, the father of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, is born | 3 | |
| 7676418083 | 1200 BCE | Vyasa writes the Hindu Vedas | 4 | |
| 7676418086 | 563 BCE | Siddhartha (Buddha) is born | 5 | |
| 7676418087 | 554 BCE | Confucius is born | 6 | |
| 7676418088 | 550 BCE | Lao-Tze, founder of Taoism, is born | 7 | |
| 7676418089 | 550 BCE | Cyrus overcomes the Medians in the Persians' first victory | 8 | |
| 7676418090 | 434 BCE | Peloponnesian War begins with Pericles as a leading Athenian statesman | 9 | |
| 7676418091 | 360 BCE | Plato publishes The Republic | 10 | |
| 7676418092 | 335 BCE | Aristotle builds his school of philosophy in Athens | 11 | |
| 7676418093 | 329 BCE | Alexander the Great defeats the Achaemenid Persian Empire | 12 | |
| 7676418094 | 320 BCE | Chandragupta found the Maurya Empire | 13 | |
| 7676418095 | 273 BCE | Reign of Ashoka begins in India | 14 | |
| 7676418096 | 210 BCE | Shi Huangdi, 1st emperor of China, founds the Qin dynasty | 15 | |
| 7676418097 | 206 BCE-195 BCE | Liu Bang, the first emperor of the Han dynasty, reigns | 16 | |
| 7676418098 | 63 BCE | Cicero is elected Consul | 17 | |
| 7676418099 | 49 BCE | Julius Caesar becomes sole leader of Rome and dissolves the Roman Republic | 18 | |
| 7676418100 | 27 BCE | Octavian becomes the first Roman emperor | 19 | |
| 7676418101 | 5 BCE | Jesus is born | 20 | |
| 7676418102 | 36 AD | Paul's conversion to Christianity | 21 | |
| 7676418103 | 272 AD | Constantine, who would go on to be Roman emperor | 22 | |
| 7676418104 | 496 AD | Clovis, King of the Franks, converts to Christianity | 23 | |
| 7676418105 | 570 AD | Justinian becomes the Byzantine Emperor | 24 | |
| 7676418106 | 604 AD | Prince Shotoku publishes the Seventeen Article Constitution in Japan | 25 | |
| 7676418107 | 622 AD | Muhammad leads the Hegira | 26 | |
| 7676418108 | 732 AD | Charles Martel leads the Franks to defeat the Moors at the Battle of Tours | 27 | |
| 7676418109 | 800 AD | Charlemagne is crowned the first Holy Roman Emperor | 28 | |
| 7676418110 | 1066 AD | William the Conqueror begins his reign in England | 29 | |
| 7676418111 | 1095 AD | Pope Urban II calls for crusades to take back the holy land | 30 | |
| 7676418112 | 1187 AD | Saladin takes back Jerusalem for the Muslims during the Crusades | 31 | |
| 7676418113 | 1206 AD | At the age of 42, Temujin takes the title Genghis Khan, which means "Universal Ruler" | 32 | |
| 7676418114 | 1270 AD | Marco Polo departs on his voyage to China | 33 | |
| 7676418115 | 1324 AD | Mansa Musa sets out of his famous pilgrimage to Mecca | 34 | |
| 7676418116 | 1368 AD | Hongwu founds the Ming Dynasty | 35 | |
| 7676418117 | 1405 AD | First voyage of Chinese explorer Zheng He | 36 | |
| 7676418118 | 1420 AD | Portuguese explorers begin looking around | 37 | |
| 7676418119 | 1431 AD | Joan of Arc is burned at the stake at age 19 | 38 | |
| 7676418120 | 1438 AD | Pachacuti, the founder of the Incan Empire, is born | 39 | |
| 7676418121 | 1439 AD | Johann Gutenberg invents the printing press | 40 | |
| 7676418122 | 1448 AD | Moctezuma I becomes the fifth Aztec emperor | 41 | |
| 7676418123 | 1492 AD | Christopher Columbus "discovers" the "new world" | 42 | |
| 7676418124 | 1497 AD | John Cabot becomes the first explorer to "discover" North America | 43 | |
| 7676418125 | 1503 AD | Leonardo da Vinci is commissioned to paint the Mona Lisa | 44 | |
| 7676418126 | 1509 AD | Henry VIII becomes King of England | 45 | |
| 7676418127 | 1519 AD | Martin Luther posts the 95 Theses | 46 | |
| 7676418128 | 1520 AD | Suleyman the Magnificent becomes Sultan | 47 | |
| 7676418129 | 1534 AD | Cartier lands in Canada | 48 | |
| 7676418130 | 1536 AD | John Calvin publishes the Institutes of Christian Religion | 49 | |
| 7676418131 | 1542 AD | Akbar the Great, who would become an Indian ruler, was born | 50 | |
| 7676418132 | 1558 AD | Queen Elizabeth I becomes Queen of England | 51 | |
| 7676418133 | 1603 AD | The reunification of Japan under Tokugawa Ieyasu | 52 | |
| 7676418134 | 1616 AD | Galileo begins having difficulties with the church | 53 | |
| 7676418135 | 1637 AD | Rene Descartes, the father of modern philosophy, publishes his first works | 54 | |
| 7676418136 | 1648 AD | Taj Mahal is completed in India under the direction of Shah Jahan | 55 | |
| 7676418137 | 1652 AD | Jan van Riebeck and other Dutch settlers found Capetown | 56 | |
| 7676418138 | 1653 AD | Oliver Cromwell becomes the leader of England after the English Civil War | 57 | |
| 7676418139 | 1654 AD | Louis XIV is crowned King of France | 58 | |
| 7676418140 | 1682 AD | Peter the Great becomes Czar of Russia | 59 | |
| 7676418141 | 1687 AD | Newton publishes the Principia | 60 | |
| 7676418142 | 1689 AD | John Locke publishes the Two Treatises of Government | 61 | |
| 7676418143 | 1762 AD | Catherine the Great becomes ruler of Russia | 62 | |
| 7676418144 | 1764 AD | Hargreaves invents the spinning jenny and kicks off the Industrial Revolution | 63 | |
| 7676418145 | 1782 AD | Mary Wollstonecraft wrote A Vindication of Women's Rights | 64 | |
| 7676418146 | 1793 AD | Marie Antoinette is guillotined during the French Revolution | 65 | |
| 7676418147 | 1804 AD | Napoleon crowns himself emperor of France | 66 | |
| 7676418148 | 1812 AD | Shaka Zulu creates the Zulu Empire | 67 | |
| 7676418149 | 1819 AD | Simon Bolivar founds Gran Colombia after liberating South America from Spain | 68 | |
| 7676418150 | 1842 AD | King Leopold I tries and fails to pass a child labor law in Belgium | 69 | |
| 7676418151 | 1848 AD | Karl Marx and Fredrich Engels publish The Communist Manifesto | 70 | |
| 7676418152 | 1859 AD | Charles Darwin publishes The Origin of Species | 71 | |
| 7676418153 | 1861 AD | Victor Emmanuel II becomes the first king of a united Italy | 72 | |
| 7676418154 | 1871 AD | Otto van Bismarck oversees the reunification of Germany | 73 | |
| 7676418155 | 1876 AD | Leo Tolstoy writes Anna Karenina | 74 | |
| 7676418156 | 1877 AD | Thomas Edison invents the phonograph | 75 | |
| 7676418157 | 1889 AD | Cecil Rhodes gets a license from the British government to rule southern Africa | 76 | |
| 7676418158 | 1907 AD | Rachel Carson, author of Silent Spring, is born | 77 | |
| 7676418159 | 1914 AD | Francis Ferdinand is assassinated, starting World War I | 78 | |
| 7676418160 | 1917 AD | V.I. Lenin seizes control of Russia during the Russian Revolution | 79 | |
| 7676418161 | 1921 AD | Albert Einstein receives the Nobel Prize for physics | 80 | |
| 7676418162 | 1922 AD | Joseph Stalin becomes the leader of the USSR after Lenin's death | 81 | |
| 7676418163 | 1930 AD | Gandhi leads the Salt March in India | 82 | |
| 7676418164 | 1932 AD | Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany | 83 | |
| 7676418165 | 1946 AD | Ho Chi Minh becomes prime minister/president of North Vietnam | 84 | |
| 7676418166 | 1946 AD | Jawarhal Nehru is elected the first president of post-colonial India | 85 | |
| 7676418167 | 1949 AD | Mao Tse-tung becomes the chairman of the People's Republic of China | 86 | |
| 7676418168 | 1953 AD | Nikita Kruschev comes to power in the Soviet Union | 87 | |
| 7676418169 | 1959 AD | Fidel Castro becomes leader of Cuba | 88 | |
| 7676418170 | 1963 AD | Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers the "I Have a Dream" speech during the march to Washington | 89 | |
| 7676418171 | 1990 AD | Mikhail Gorbachev wins the Nobel Peace Prize for his work in ending the Cold War | 90 | |
| 7676418172 | 1994 AD | Former prisoner Nelson Mandela is elected president of South Africa | 91 |
