2803704217 | 2380 BCE | Urukagina, author of one of the first codes of laws, reigns in Lagash | 0 | |
2803704218 | 1760 BCE | Hammurabi's code is published | 1 | |
2803704219 | 17th century BCE | Zarathustra, the founder of Zoroastrianism, lives | 2 | |
2803704220 | 1812 BCE | Abraham, the father of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, is born | 3 | |
2803704221 | 1235 BCE | Sundiata Kieta becomes the King of Mali | 4 | |
2803704222 | 1200 BCE | Vyasa writes the Hindu Vedas | 5 | |
2803704223 | 900-800 BCE | Homer writes the Iliad and the Odyssey | 6 | |
2803704224 | 594 BCE | Solon is entrusted with writing a new Athenian constitution | 7 | |
2803704225 | 563 BCE | Siddhartha (Buddha) is born | 8 | |
2803704226 | 554 BCE | Confucius is born | 9 | |
2803704227 | 550 BCE | Lao-Tze, founder of Taoism, is born | 10 | |
2803704228 | 550 BCE | Cyrus overcomes the Medians in the Persians' first victory | 11 | |
2803704229 | 434 BCE | Peloponnesian War begins with Pericles as a leading Athenian statesman | 12 | |
2803704230 | 360 BCE | Plato publishes The Republic | 13 | |
2803704231 | 335 BCE | Aristotle builds his school of philosophy in Athens | 14 | |
2803704232 | 329 BCE | Alexander the Great defeats the Achaemenid Persian Empire | 15 | |
2803704233 | 320 BCE | Chandragupta found the Maurya Empire | 16 | |
2803704234 | 273 BCE | Reign of Ashoka begins in India | 17 | |
2803704235 | 210 BCE | Shi Huangdi, 1st emperor of China, founds the Qin dynasty | 18 | |
2803704236 | 206 BCE-195 BCE | Liu Bang, the first emperor of the Han dynasty, reigns | 19 | |
2803704237 | 63 BCE | Cicero is elected Consul | 20 | |
2803704238 | 49 BCE | Julius Caesar becomes sole leader of Rome and dissolves the Roman Republic | 21 | |
2803704239 | 27 BCE | Octavian becomes the first Roman emperor | 22 | |
2803704240 | 5 BCE | Jesus is born | 23 | |
2803704241 | 36 AD | Paul's conversion to Christianity | 24 | |
2803704242 | 272 AD | Constantine, who would go on to be Roman emperor | 25 | |
2803704243 | 496 AD | Clovis, King of the Franks, converts to Christianity | 26 | |
2803704244 | 570 AD | Justinian becomes the Byzantine Emperor | 27 | |
2803704245 | 604 AD | Prince Shotoku publishes the Seventeen Article Constitution in Japan | 28 | |
2803704246 | 622 AD | Muhammad leads the Hegira | 29 | |
2803704247 | 732 AD | Charles Martel leads the Franks to defeat the Moors at the Battle of Tours | 30 | |
2803704248 | 800 AD | Charlemagne is crowned the first Holy Roman Emperor | 31 | |
2803704249 | 1066 AD | William the Conqueror begins his reign in England | 32 | |
2803704250 | 1095 AD | Pope Urban II calls for crusades to take back the holy land | 33 | |
2803704251 | 1187 AD | Saladin takes back Jerusalem for the Muslims during the Crusades | 34 | |
2803704252 | 1206 AD | At the age of 42, Temujin takes the title Genghis Khan, which means "Universal Ruler" | 35 | |
2803704253 | 1270 AD | Marco Polo departs on his voyage to China | 36 | |
2803704254 | 1324 AD | Mansa Musa sets out of his famous pilgrimage to Mecca | 37 | |
2803704255 | 1368 AD | Hongwu founds the Ming Dynasty | 38 | |
2803704256 | 1405 AD | First voyage of Chinese explorer Zheng He | 39 | |
2803704257 | 1420 AD | Portuguese explorers begin looking around | 40 | |
2803704258 | 1431 AD | Joan of Arc is burned at the stake at age 19 | 41 | |
2803704259 | 1438 AD | Pachacuti, the founder of the Incan Empire, is born | 42 | |
2803704260 | 1439 AD | Johann Gutenberg invents the printing press | 43 | |
2803704261 | 1448 AD | Moctezuma I becomes the fifth Aztec emperor | 44 | |
2803704262 | 1492 AD | Christopher Columbus "discovers" the "new world" | 45 | |
2803704263 | 1497 AD | John Cabot becomes the first explorer to "discover" North America | 46 | |
2803704264 | 1503 AD | Leonardo da Vinci is commissioned to paint the Mona Lisa | 47 | |
2803704265 | 1509 AD | Henry VIII becomes King of England | 48 | |
2803704266 | 1519 AD | Martin Luther posts the 95 Theses | 49 | |
2803704267 | 1520 AD | Suleyman the Magnificent becomes Sultan | 50 | |
2803704268 | 1534 AD | Cartier lands in Canada | 51 | |
2803704269 | 1536 AD | John Calvin publishes the Institutes of Christian Religion | 52 | |
2803704270 | 1542 AD | Akbar the Great, who would become an Indian ruler, was born | 53 | |
2803704271 | 1558 AD | Queen Elizabeth I becomes Queen of England | 54 | |
2803704272 | 1603 AD | The reunification of Japan under Tokugawa Ieyasu | 55 | |
2803704273 | 1616 AD | Galileo begins having difficulties with the church | 56 | |
2803704274 | 1637 AD | Rene Descartes, the father of modern philosophy, publishes his first works | 57 | |
2803704275 | 1648 AD | Taj Mahal is completed in India under the direction of Shah Jahan | 58 | |
2803704276 | 1652 AD | Jan van Riebeck and other Dutch settlers found Capetown | 59 | |
2803704277 | 1653 AD | Oliver Cromwell becomes the leader of England after the English Civil War | 60 | |
2803704278 | 1654 AD | Louis XIV is crowned King of France | 61 | |
2803704279 | 1682 AD | Peter the Great becomes Czar of Russia | 62 | |
2803704280 | 1687 AD | Newton publishes the Principia | 63 | |
2803704281 | 1689 AD | John Locke publishes the Two Treatises of Government | 64 | |
2803704282 | 1762 AD | Catherine the Great becomes ruler of Russia | 65 | |
2803704283 | 1764 AD | Hargreaves invents the spinning jenny and kicks off the Industrial Revolution | 66 | |
2803704284 | 1782 AD | Mary Wollstonecraft wrote A Vindication of Women's Rights | 67 | |
2803704285 | 1793 AD | Marie Antoinette is guillotined during the French Revolution | 68 | |
2803704286 | 1804 AD | Napoleon crowns himself emperor of France | 69 | |
2803704287 | 1812 AD | Shaka Zulu creates the Zulu Empire | 70 | |
2803704288 | 1819 AD | Simon Bolivar founds Gran Colombia after liberating South America from Spain | 71 | |
2803704289 | 1842 AD | King Leopold I tries and fails to pass a child labor law in Belgium | 72 | |
2803704290 | 1848 AD | Karl Marx and Fredrich Engels publish The Communist Manifesto | 73 | |
2803704291 | 1859 AD | Charles Darwin publishes The Origin of Species | 74 | |
2803704292 | 1861 AD | Victor Emmanuel II becomes the first king of a united Italy | 75 | |
2803704293 | 1871 AD | Otto van Bismarck oversees the reunification of Germany | 76 | |
2803704294 | 1876 AD | Leo Tolstoy writes Anna Karenina | 77 | |
2803704295 | 1877 AD | Thomas Edison invents the phonograph | 78 | |
2803704296 | 1889 AD | Cecil Rhodes gets a license from the British government to rule southern Africa | 79 | |
2803704297 | 1907 AD | Rachel Carson, author of Silent Spring, is born | 80 | |
2803704298 | 1914 AD | Francis Ferdinand is assassinated, starting World War I | 81 | |
2803704299 | 1917 AD | V.I. Lenin seizes control of Russia during the Russian Revolution | 82 | |
2803704300 | 1921 AD | Albert Einstein receives the Nobel Prize for physics | 83 | |
2803704301 | 1922 AD | Joseph Stalin becomes the leader of the USSR after Lenin's death | 84 | |
2803704302 | 1930 AD | Gandhi leads the Salt March in India | 85 | |
2803704303 | 1932 AD | Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany | 86 | |
2803704304 | 1946 AD | Ho Chi Minh becomes prime minister/president of North Vietnam | 87 | |
2803704305 | 1946 AD | Jawarhal Nehru is elected the first president of post-colonial India | 88 | |
2803704306 | 1949 AD | Mao Tse-tung becomes the chairman of the People's Republic of China | 89 | |
2803704307 | 1953 AD | Nikita Kruschev comes to power in the Soviet Union | 90 | |
2803704308 | 1959 AD | Fidel Castro becomes leader of Cuba | 91 | |
2803704309 | 1963 AD | Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers the "I Have a Dream" speech during the march to Washington | 92 | |
2803704310 | 1990 AD | Mikhail Gorbachev wins the Nobel Peace Prize for his work in ending the Cold War | 93 | |
2803704311 | 1994 AD | Former prisoner Nelson Mandela is elected president of South Africa | 94 |
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