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67486944482380 BCEUrukagina, author of one of the first codes of laws, reigns in Lagash0
67486944491760 BCEHammurabi's code is published1
674869445017th century BCEZarathustra, the founder of Zoroastrianism, lives2
67486944511812 BCEAbraham, the father of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, is born3
67486944521235 BCESundiata Kieta becomes the King of Mali4
67486944531200 BCEVyasa writes the Hindu Vedas5
6748694454900-800 BCEHomer writes the Iliad and the Odyssey6
6748694455594 BCESolon is entrusted with writing a new Athenian constitution7
6748694456563 BCESiddhartha (Buddha) is born8
6748694457554 BCEConfucius is born9
6748694458550 BCELao-Tze, founder of Taoism, is born10
6748694459550 BCECyrus overcomes the Medians in the Persians' first victory11
6748694460434 BCEPeloponnesian War begins with Pericles as a leading Athenian statesman12
6748694461360 BCEPlato publishes The Republic13
6748694462335 BCEAristotle builds his school of philosophy in Athens14
6748694463329 BCEAlexander the Great defeats the Achaemenid Persian Empire15
6748694464320 BCEChandragupta found the Maurya Empire16
6748694465273 BCEReign of Ashoka begins in India17
6748694466210 BCEShi Huangdi, 1st emperor of China, founds the Qin dynasty18
6748694467206 BCE-195 BCELiu Bang, the first emperor of the Han dynasty, reigns19
674869446863 BCECicero is elected Consul20
674869446949 BCEJulius Caesar becomes sole leader of Rome and dissolves the Roman Republic21
674869447027 BCEOctavian becomes the first Roman emperor22
67486944715 BCEJesus is born23
674869447236 ADPaul's conversion to Christianity24
6748694473272 ADConstantine, who would go on to be Roman emperor25
6748694474496 ADClovis, King of the Franks, converts to Christianity26
6748694475570 ADJustinian becomes the Byzantine Emperor27
6748694476604 ADPrince Shotoku publishes the Seventeen Article Constitution in Japan28
6748694477622 ADMuhammad leads the Hegira29
6748694478732 ADCharles Martel leads the Franks to defeat the Moors at the Battle of Tours30
6748694479800 ADCharlemagne is crowned the first Holy Roman Emperor31
67486944801066 ADWilliam the Conqueror begins his reign in England32
67486944811095 ADPope Urban II calls for crusades to take back the holy land33
67486944821187 ADSaladin takes back Jerusalem for the Muslims during the Crusades34
67486944831206 ADAt the age of 42, Temujin takes the title Genghis Khan, which means "Universal Ruler"35
67486944841270 ADMarco Polo departs on his voyage to China36
67486944851324 ADMansa Musa sets out of his famous pilgrimage to Mecca37
67486944861368 ADHongwu founds the Ming Dynasty38
67486944871405 ADFirst voyage of Chinese explorer Zheng He39
67486944881420 ADPortuguese explorers begin looking around40
67486944891431 ADJoan of Arc is burned at the stake at age 1941
67486944901438 ADPachacuti, the founder of the Incan Empire, is born42
67486944911439 ADJohann Gutenberg invents the printing press43
67486944921448 ADMoctezuma I becomes the fifth Aztec emperor44
67486944931492 ADChristopher Columbus "discovers" the "new world"45
67486944941497 ADJohn Cabot becomes the first explorer to "discover" North America46
67486944951503 ADLeonardo da Vinci is commissioned to paint the Mona Lisa47
67486944961509 ADHenry VIII becomes King of England48
67486944971519 ADMartin Luther posts the 95 Theses49
67486944981520 ADSuleyman the Magnificent becomes Sultan50
67486944991534 ADCartier lands in Canada51
67486945001536 ADJohn Calvin publishes the Institutes of Christian Religion52
67486945011542 ADAkbar the Great, who would become an Indian ruler, was born53
67486945021558 ADQueen Elizabeth I becomes Queen of England54
67486945031603 ADThe reunification of Japan under Tokugawa Ieyasu55
67486945041616 ADGalileo begins having difficulties with the church56
67486945051637 ADRene Descartes, the father of modern philosophy, publishes his first works57
67486945061648 ADTaj Mahal is completed in India under the direction of Shah Jahan58
67486945071652 ADJan van Riebeck and other Dutch settlers found Capetown59
67486945081653 ADOliver Cromwell becomes the leader of England after the English Civil War60
67486945091654 ADLouis XIV is crowned King of France61
67486945101682 ADPeter the Great becomes Czar of Russia62
67486945111687 ADNewton publishes the Principia63
67486945121689 ADJohn Locke publishes the Two Treatises of Government64
67486945131762 ADCatherine the Great becomes ruler of Russia65
67486945141764 ADHargreaves invents the spinning jenny and kicks off the Industrial Revolution66
67486945151782 ADMary Wollstonecraft wrote A Vindication of Women's Rights67
67486945161793 ADMarie Antoinette is guillotined during the French Revolution68
67486945171804 ADNapoleon crowns himself emperor of France69
67486945181812 ADShaka Zulu creates the Zulu Empire70
67486945191819 ADSimon Bolivar founds Gran Colombia after liberating South America from Spain71
67486945201842 ADKing Leopold I tries and fails to pass a child labor law in Belgium72
67486945211848 ADKarl Marx and Fredrich Engels publish The Communist Manifesto73
67486945221859 ADCharles Darwin publishes The Origin of Species74
67486945231861 ADVictor Emmanuel II becomes the first king of a united Italy75
67486945241871 ADOtto van Bismarck oversees the reunification of Germany76
67486945251876 ADLeo Tolstoy writes Anna Karenina77
67486945261877 ADThomas Edison invents the phonograph78
67486945271889 ADCecil Rhodes gets a license from the British government to rule southern Africa79
67486945281907 ADRachel Carson, author of Silent Spring, is born80
67486945291914 ADFrancis Ferdinand is assassinated, starting World War I81
67486945301917 ADV.I. Lenin seizes control of Russia during the Russian Revolution82
67486945311921 ADAlbert Einstein receives the Nobel Prize for physics83
67486945321922 ADJoseph Stalin becomes the leader of the USSR after Lenin's death84
67486945331930 ADGandhi leads the Salt March in India85
67486945341932 ADAdolf Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany86
67486945351946 ADHo Chi Minh becomes prime minister/president of North Vietnam87
67486945361946 ADJawarhal Nehru is elected the first president of post-colonial India88
67486945371949 ADMao Tse-tung becomes the chairman of the People's Republic of China89
67486945381953 ADNikita Kruschev comes to power in the Soviet Union90
67486945391959 ADFidel Castro becomes leader of Cuba91
67486945401963 ADMartin Luther King, Jr. delivers the "I Have a Dream" speech during the march to Washington92
67486945411990 ADMikhail Gorbachev wins the Nobel Peace Prize for his work in ending the Cold War93
67486945421994 ADFormer prisoner Nelson Mandela is elected president of South Africa94

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