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28037042172380 BCEUrukagina, author of one of the first codes of laws, reigns in Lagash0
28037042181760 BCEHammurabi's code is published1
280370421917th century BCEZarathustra, the founder of Zoroastrianism, lives2
28037042201812 BCEAbraham, the father of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, is born3
28037042211235 BCESundiata Kieta becomes the King of Mali4
28037042221200 BCEVyasa writes the Hindu Vedas5
2803704223900-800 BCEHomer writes the Iliad and the Odyssey6
2803704224594 BCESolon is entrusted with writing a new Athenian constitution7
2803704225563 BCESiddhartha (Buddha) is born8
2803704226554 BCEConfucius is born9
2803704227550 BCELao-Tze, founder of Taoism, is born10
2803704228550 BCECyrus overcomes the Medians in the Persians' first victory11
2803704229434 BCEPeloponnesian War begins with Pericles as a leading Athenian statesman12
2803704230360 BCEPlato publishes The Republic13
2803704231335 BCEAristotle builds his school of philosophy in Athens14
2803704232329 BCEAlexander the Great defeats the Achaemenid Persian Empire15
2803704233320 BCEChandragupta found the Maurya Empire16
2803704234273 BCEReign of Ashoka begins in India17
2803704235210 BCEShi Huangdi, 1st emperor of China, founds the Qin dynasty18
2803704236206 BCE-195 BCELiu Bang, the first emperor of the Han dynasty, reigns19
280370423763 BCECicero is elected Consul20
280370423849 BCEJulius Caesar becomes sole leader of Rome and dissolves the Roman Republic21
280370423927 BCEOctavian becomes the first Roman emperor22
28037042405 BCEJesus is born23
280370424136 ADPaul's conversion to Christianity24
2803704242272 ADConstantine, who would go on to be Roman emperor25
2803704243496 ADClovis, King of the Franks, converts to Christianity26
2803704244570 ADJustinian becomes the Byzantine Emperor27
2803704245604 ADPrince Shotoku publishes the Seventeen Article Constitution in Japan28
2803704246622 ADMuhammad leads the Hegira29
2803704247732 ADCharles Martel leads the Franks to defeat the Moors at the Battle of Tours30
2803704248800 ADCharlemagne is crowned the first Holy Roman Emperor31
28037042491066 ADWilliam the Conqueror begins his reign in England32
28037042501095 ADPope Urban II calls for crusades to take back the holy land33
28037042511187 ADSaladin takes back Jerusalem for the Muslims during the Crusades34
28037042521206 ADAt the age of 42, Temujin takes the title Genghis Khan, which means "Universal Ruler"35
28037042531270 ADMarco Polo departs on his voyage to China36
28037042541324 ADMansa Musa sets out of his famous pilgrimage to Mecca37
28037042551368 ADHongwu founds the Ming Dynasty38
28037042561405 ADFirst voyage of Chinese explorer Zheng He39
28037042571420 ADPortuguese explorers begin looking around40
28037042581431 ADJoan of Arc is burned at the stake at age 1941
28037042591438 ADPachacuti, the founder of the Incan Empire, is born42
28037042601439 ADJohann Gutenberg invents the printing press43
28037042611448 ADMoctezuma I becomes the fifth Aztec emperor44
28037042621492 ADChristopher Columbus "discovers" the "new world"45
28037042631497 ADJohn Cabot becomes the first explorer to "discover" North America46
28037042641503 ADLeonardo da Vinci is commissioned to paint the Mona Lisa47
28037042651509 ADHenry VIII becomes King of England48
28037042661519 ADMartin Luther posts the 95 Theses49
28037042671520 ADSuleyman the Magnificent becomes Sultan50
28037042681534 ADCartier lands in Canada51
28037042691536 ADJohn Calvin publishes the Institutes of Christian Religion52
28037042701542 ADAkbar the Great, who would become an Indian ruler, was born53
28037042711558 ADQueen Elizabeth I becomes Queen of England54
28037042721603 ADThe reunification of Japan under Tokugawa Ieyasu55
28037042731616 ADGalileo begins having difficulties with the church56
28037042741637 ADRene Descartes, the father of modern philosophy, publishes his first works57
28037042751648 ADTaj Mahal is completed in India under the direction of Shah Jahan58
28037042761652 ADJan van Riebeck and other Dutch settlers found Capetown59
28037042771653 ADOliver Cromwell becomes the leader of England after the English Civil War60
28037042781654 ADLouis XIV is crowned King of France61
28037042791682 ADPeter the Great becomes Czar of Russia62
28037042801687 ADNewton publishes the Principia63
28037042811689 ADJohn Locke publishes the Two Treatises of Government64
28037042821762 ADCatherine the Great becomes ruler of Russia65
28037042831764 ADHargreaves invents the spinning jenny and kicks off the Industrial Revolution66
28037042841782 ADMary Wollstonecraft wrote A Vindication of Women's Rights67
28037042851793 ADMarie Antoinette is guillotined during the French Revolution68
28037042861804 ADNapoleon crowns himself emperor of France69
28037042871812 ADShaka Zulu creates the Zulu Empire70
28037042881819 ADSimon Bolivar founds Gran Colombia after liberating South America from Spain71
28037042891842 ADKing Leopold I tries and fails to pass a child labor law in Belgium72
28037042901848 ADKarl Marx and Fredrich Engels publish The Communist Manifesto73
28037042911859 ADCharles Darwin publishes The Origin of Species74
28037042921861 ADVictor Emmanuel II becomes the first king of a united Italy75
28037042931871 ADOtto van Bismarck oversees the reunification of Germany76
28037042941876 ADLeo Tolstoy writes Anna Karenina77
28037042951877 ADThomas Edison invents the phonograph78
28037042961889 ADCecil Rhodes gets a license from the British government to rule southern Africa79
28037042971907 ADRachel Carson, author of Silent Spring, is born80
28037042981914 ADFrancis Ferdinand is assassinated, starting World War I81
28037042991917 ADV.I. Lenin seizes control of Russia during the Russian Revolution82
28037043001921 ADAlbert Einstein receives the Nobel Prize for physics83
28037043011922 ADJoseph Stalin becomes the leader of the USSR after Lenin's death84
28037043021930 ADGandhi leads the Salt March in India85
28037043031932 ADAdolf Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany86
28037043041946 ADHo Chi Minh becomes prime minister/president of North Vietnam87
28037043051946 ADJawarhal Nehru is elected the first president of post-colonial India88
28037043061949 ADMao Tse-tung becomes the chairman of the People's Republic of China89
28037043071953 ADNikita Kruschev comes to power in the Soviet Union90
28037043081959 ADFidel Castro becomes leader of Cuba91
28037043091963 ADMartin Luther King, Jr. delivers the "I Have a Dream" speech during the march to Washington92
28037043101990 ADMikhail Gorbachev wins the Nobel Peace Prize for his work in ending the Cold War93
28037043111994 ADFormer prisoner Nelson Mandela is elected president of South Africa94

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