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| 12684878196 | 1500 BCE | Hinduism: Founded in the Indus River Valley | 0 | |
| 12684882743 | 321 BCE | Alexander the Great: King of Macedonia, Spreads Hellenism, Defeats Persians and Egyptians, Does not go into India | 1 | |
| 12684884856 | 221 BCE | Qin unifies China: Qin Shi Huang founded the Qin Dynasty, becoming the first sovereign ruler of a united China. | 2 | |
| 12684888781 | 44 BCE - 476 CE | Roman Empire begins (Pax Romana: peace in Rome): began when Augustus Caesar became the first emperor of Rome | 3 | |
| 12684892317 | 32 CE | Christianity begins: Jesus resurrects Lazarus | 4 | |
| 12685904107 | 476 | Dark Ages/ Medieval Times begin with the fall of the Roman Empire: marked by frequent warfare and a virtual disappearance of urban life | 5 | |
| 12685919436 | 622 | Islam founded: Muhammad traveled from Mecca to Medina with his supporters | 6 | |
| 12685926554 | 732 | Battle of Tours: fought between forces under the Frankish leader Charles Martel and a massive invading Islamic army near the city of Tours, France | 7 | |
| 12685931567 | 750-1258 | Abbasid Dynasty (Islamic Golden Age): the third of the Islamic caliphates to succeed the Islamic prophet Muhammad | 8 | |
| 12685939798 | 1054 | Great Schism: the separation between Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches | 9 | |
| 12685945580 | 1066 | William the Conquerer: conquer and united England | 10 | |
| 12685956898 | 1095 | Crusades begin: the first of a number of crusades that attempted to recapture the Holy Land, called for by Pope Urban II at the Council of Clermont | 11 | |
| 12685959520 | 1200 | Rise of the Mongols: time Genghis Khan came to power within the All the Mongols league and was proclaimed khan | 12 | |
| 12685962577 | 1215 | Magna Carta: a charter of rights agreed to by King John of England | 13 | |
| 12685969903 | 1271 | Marco Polo: he began his travels from Europe to Asia and wrote about them | 14 | |
| 12685975553 | 1324 | Mansa Musa: he began his elaborate pilgrimage to the Muslim holy city of Mecca | 15 | |
| 12685975554 | 1325 | Ibn Battuta: he left Tangier to make a pilgrimage to Mecca | 16 | |
| 12685986478 | 1347-1348 | Plagues in Europe: the Black Death was a devastating global epidemic of bubonic plague that struck Europe and Asia | 17 | |
| 12685989282 | 1400's | Renaissance begins in Florence: a fervent period of European cultural, artistic, political and economic "rebirth" following the Middle Ages | 18 | |
| 12685998120 | 1453 | Ottomans capture Constantinople (End Byzantine Empire): Constantinople was conquered by the Ottoman Army, under the command Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II on 29th of May. With this conquest Ottomans became an Empire and one of the most powerful empires, The Eastern Roman Empire fell and lasted. | 19 | |
| 12686005386 | 1492 | Columbus sails to the Americas: Columbus led his three ships - the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria - out of the Spanish port of Palos to sail west until he reached Asia (the Indies) | 20 | |
| 12686009305 | 1517 | Martin Luther 95 Theses: wrote a list of questions and propositions for debate and defiantly nailed a copy of his 95 Theses to the door of the Wittenberg Castle church. | 21 | |
| 12686014024 | 1526 | Mughal Empire begins: dynasty was founded by a Chagatai Turkic prince named Bābur | 22 | |
| 12686021976 | 1543 | Scientific Revolution Begins: refers to historical changes in thought & belief, to changes in social & institutional organization, that unfolded in Europe between roughly 1550-1700; beginning with Nicholas Copernicus, who asserted a heliocentric (sun-centered) cosmos, it ended with Isaac Newton, who proposed universal laws and a Mechanical Universe. | 23 | |
| 12686025077 | 1571 | Battle of Lepanto: a naval engagement that took place on 7 October when a fleet of the Holy League, led by the Venetian Republic and the Spanish Empire, inflicted a major defeat on the fleet of the Ottoman Empire in the Gulf of Patras | 24 | |
| 12686033000 | 1600 | Japan unified under the Tokugawa Shogunate: Tokugawa Ieyasu defeated the daimyo, who were loyal to the late Toyotomi Hideyoshi and his young son Hideyori, at the Battle of Sekigahara in October | 25 | |
| 12686037776 | 1650 | Enlightenment begins: included a range of ideas centered on reason as the primary source of knowledge and advanced ideals such as liberty, progress, toleration, fraternity, constitutional government and separation of church and state. | 26 | |
| 12686040726 | 1683 | Siege of Vienna: expedition by the Turks against the Habsburg Holy Roman emperor Leopold I that resulted in their defeat by a combined force led by John III Sobieski of Poland. The siege marked the beginning of the end of Turkish domination in eastern Europe. | 27 | |
| 12686044632 | 1750 | Industrial Revolution begins in England: a slow process in which production shifted from simple hand tools to complex machines | 28 | |
| 12686050957 | 1789 | French Revolution: overthrew the monarchy, established a republic, catalyzed violent periods of political turmoil, and finally culminated in a dictatorship under Napoleon | 29 | |
| 12686050958 | 1791 | Haitian Revolution begins: begins with the Bois Caïman ceremony; Ready to carry out their plans, the slaves meet in Morne-Rouge to make final preparations and to give instructions. The slaves decide that "Upon a given signal, the plantations would be systematically set aflame, and a generalized slave insurrection set afoot." | 30 | |
| 12686054287 | 1815 | Congress of Vienna: was a meeting of ambassadors of European states chaired by Austrian statesman Klemens von Metternich, and held in Vienna; The objective of the Congress was to provide a long-term peace plan for Europe by settling critical issues arising from the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. | 31 | |
| 12686059727 | 1839-1842 | Opium Wars: was a series of military engagements fought between the United Kingdom and the Qing dynasty of China over diplomatic relations, trade, and the administration of justice in China | 32 | |
| 12686059728 | 1848 | Communist Manifesto written: formed the basis for the modern communist movement as we know it, arguing that capitalism would inevitably self-destruct, to be replaced by socialism and ultimately communism | 33 | |
| 12686068227 | 1853 | Commodore Perry opens Japan to trade: led his four ships into the harbor at Tokyo Bay, seeking to re-establish for the first time in over 200 years regular trade and discourse between Japan and the western world | 34 | |
| 12686072578 | 1857 | Sepoy Mutiny: a large part of the Indian army rebelled against the British authorities; the ensuing bloodshed sent shockwaves throughout colonial Britain. | 35 | |
| 12686080142 | 1861 | Russian serfdom ends/ Italy unifies: Emancipation Manifesto proclaimed the emancipation of the serfs on private estates and of the domestic (household) serfs. By this edict more than 23 million people received their liberty.// a national parliament convened and proclaimed the Kingdom of Italy, with Victor Emmanuel II as its king. | 36 | |
| 12686084545 | 1870 | 2nd Industrial Revolution begins: witnessed the expansion of electricity, petroleum and steel | 37 | |
| 12686091083 | 1885 | Berlin Conference: meeting at which the major European powers negotiated and formalized claims to territory in Africa | 38 | |
| 12686094395 | 1896 | Battle of Adowa: the Ethiopian army of Emperor Menilek II and Italian forces. The Ethiopian army's victory checked Italy's attempt to build an empire in Africa. | 39 | |
| 12686100458 | 1905 | Russo-Japanese War: military conflict in which a victorious Japan forced Russia to abandon its expansionist policy in the Far East, becoming the first Asian power in modern times to defeat a European power | 40 | |
| 12686100459 | 1910 | Mexican Revolution begins: ended dictatorship in Mexico and established a constitutional republic | 41 | |
| 12686104013 | 1911 | Chinese Revolution: a group of revolutionaries in southern China led a successful revolt against the Qing Dynasty, establishing in its place the Republic of China and ending the imperial system. | 42 | |
| 12686108527 | 1914-1918 | WWI (Panama Canal completed in 1914): a global war originating in Europe; cause of World War I that made alliances, imperialism, militarism, nationalism come into play was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary | 43 | |
| 12686116626 | 1917 | Russian Revolution: The Russian Revolution involved the collapse of an empire under Tsar Nicholas II and the rise of Marxian socialism under Lenin and his Bolsheviks. It sparked the beginning of a new era in Russia that had effects on countries around the world. | 44 | |
| 12686119953 | 1939-1945 | WWII: conflict that involved virtually every part of the world; The war was in many respects a continuation, after an uneasy 20-year hiatus, of the disputes left unsettled by World War I. | 45 | |
| 12686129654 | 1947 | Cold War begins/ India and Pakistan split: the great rivalry between the communist Soviet Union and its allies against the United States and its Western allies//British India won its independence from the British and split into two new states that would rule themselves. The new countries were India and Pakistan. | 46 | |
| 12686133984 | 1948 | Israel founded/Gandhi assassinated: David Ben-Gurion, the head of the Jewish Agency, proclaimed the establishment of the State of Israel. U.S. President Harry S. Truman recognized the new nation on the same day//Gandhi had just walked up the low steps to the raised lawn behind Birla House where he conducted his multi-faith prayer meetings every evening. Godse stepped out from the crowd flanking the path leading to the dais and into Gandhi's path, firing three bullets at point-blank range | 47 | |
| 12686143683 | 1949 | Communist Chinese Revolution: a revolution in China that was led by the Communist Party of China and Mao Zedong which resulted in the proclamation of the People's Republic of China on 1 October | 48 | |
| 12686147922 | 1962 | Cuban Missile Crisis: leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 13-day political and military standoff in October over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba, just 90 miles from U.S. shores | 49 | |
| 12686152556 | 1989 | Tiananmen Square Protest/Berlin Wall falls: mourning students march through the capital to Tiananmen Square, calling for a more democratic government. In the weeks that follow, thousands of people join the students in the square to protest against China's Communist rulers//ecstatic crowds swarmed the wall. Some crossed freely into West Berlin, while others brought hammers and picks and began to chip away at the wall itself. To this day, the Berlin Wall remains one of the most powerful and enduring symbols of the Cold War. | 50 | |
| 12686163990 | 2001 | 9/11 attacks on US: series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda against the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11 | 51 |
