8449260753 | 2380 BCE | Urukagina, author of one of the first codes of laws, reigns in Lagash | 0 | |
8449260754 | 1760 BCE | Hammurabi's code is published | 1 | |
8449260755 | 17th century BCE | Zarathustra, the founder of Zoroastrianism, lives | 2 | |
8449260756 | 1812 BCE | Abraham, the father of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, is born | 3 | |
8449260757 | 1235 BCE | Sundiata Kieta becomes the King of Mali | 4 | |
8449260758 | 1200 BCE | Vyasa writes the Hindu Vedas | 5 | |
8449260759 | 900-800 BCE | Homer writes the Iliad and the Odyssey | 6 | |
8449260760 | 594 BCE | Solon is entrusted with writing a new Athenian constitution | 7 | |
8449260761 | 563 BCE | Siddhartha (Buddha) is born | 8 | |
8449260762 | 554 BCE | Confucius is born | 9 | |
8449260763 | 550 BCE | Lao-Tze, founder of Taoism, is born | 10 | |
8449260764 | 550 BCE | Cyrus overcomes the Medians in the Persians' first victory | 11 | |
8449260765 | 434 BCE | Peloponnesian War begins with Pericles as a leading Athenian statesman | 12 | |
8449260766 | 360 BCE | Plato publishes The Republic | 13 | |
8449260767 | 335 BCE | Aristotle builds his school of philosophy in Athens | 14 | |
8449260768 | 329 BCE | Alexander the Great defeats the Achaemenid Persian Empire | 15 | |
8449260769 | 320 BCE | Chandragupta found the Maurya Empire | 16 | |
8449260770 | 273 BCE | Reign of Ashoka begins in India | 17 | |
8449260771 | 210 BCE | Shi Huangdi, 1st emperor of China, founds the Qin dynasty | 18 | |
8449260772 | 206 BCE-195 BCE | Liu Bang, the first emperor of the Han dynasty, reigns | 19 | |
8449260773 | 63 BCE | Cicero is elected Consul | 20 | |
8449260774 | 49 BCE | Julius Caesar becomes sole leader of Rome and dissolves the Roman Republic | 21 | |
8449260775 | 27 BCE | Octavian becomes the first Roman emperor | 22 | |
8449260776 | 5 BCE | Jesus is born | 23 | |
8449260777 | 36 AD | Paul's conversion to Christianity | 24 | |
8449260778 | 272 AD | Constantine, who would go on to be Roman emperor | 25 | |
8449260779 | 496 AD | Clovis, King of the Franks, converts to Christianity | 26 | |
8449260780 | 570 AD | Justinian becomes the Byzantine Emperor | 27 | |
8449260781 | 604 AD | Prince Shotoku publishes the Seventeen Article Constitution in Japan | 28 | |
8449260782 | 622 AD | Muhammad leads the Hegira | 29 | |
8449260783 | 732 AD | Charles Martel leads the Franks to defeat the Moors at the Battle of Tours | 30 | |
8449260784 | 800 AD | Charlemagne is crowned the first Holy Roman Emperor | 31 |
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