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| 381580904 | 490 BCE | Battle of Marathon | 0 | |
| 381580905 | 324 BCE | Chadragupta founds Mauryan Dynasty | 1 | |
| 381580906 | 323 BCE | Alexander the Great dies | 2 | |
| 381580907 | 221 BCE | Shi Huangdi establish Qin empire | 3 | |
| 381580908 | 44 BCE | Julius Ceasar dies | 4 | |
| 381580909 | 220 | Fall of the Han Dynasty | 5 | |
| 381580910 | 313 | Edict of Milan (Constantine legalizes Christianity in Roman Empire) | 6 | |
| 381580911 | 476 | Fall of the Roman Empire in the West | 7 | |
| 381580912 | 622 | The Hijra (flight of Muhammad from Mecca to Medina) | 8 | |
| 381580913 | 800 | Charlemagne crowned first Holy Roman Emperor | 9 | |
| 381580914 | 1066 | Norman Conquest of England | 10 | |
| 381580915 | 1095 | Council of Clermont begins Crusades | 11 | |
| 381580916 | 1206 | Delhi Sultanate founded in India; Genghis Khan's reign begins | 12 | |
| 381580917 | 1215 | Magna Carta in England | 13 | |
| 381580918 | 1347 | Black Death in Europe | 14 | |
| 381580919 | 1324 | Mansa Musa's Hajj | 15 | |
| 381580920 | 1368 | Ming Dynasty founded | 16 | |
| 381580921 | 1453 | Ottomans take Constantinople | 17 | |
| 381580922 | 1454 | Gutenberg Bible printed | 18 | |
| 381580923 | 1492 | Christian Reconquista of Spain; Columbus's first voyage to the Americas | 19 | |
| 381580924 | 1517 | Martin Luther posts 95 Theses, igniting the Protestant Reformation | 20 | |
| 381580925 | 1520 | Suleiman the Magnificent ascends Ottoman throne | 21 | |
| 381580926 | 1526 | Babur founds Mughal Empire (India) | 22 | |
| 381580927 | 1592 | Japanese invasion of Korea | 23 | |
| 381580928 | 1644 | Qing dynasty defeat Ming, capture Beijing | 24 | |
| 381580929 | 1642-1649 | English Civil War | 25 | |
| 381580930 | 1688 | Glorious Revolution (England) | 26 | |
| 381580931 | 1712 | Peter I moves Russian capital to St. Petersburg | 27 | |
| 381580932 | 1776 | Declaration of Independence | 28 | |
| 381580933 | 1787 | US Constitutional Convention | 29 | |
| 381580934 | 1789 | Storming of Bastille (French Revolution) | 30 | |
| 381580935 | 1804 | Haiti achieves independence | 31 | |
| 381580936 | 1807 | Abolition of Slave Trade in British Empire | 32 | |
| 381580937 | 1815 | Battle of Waterloo (Allies defeat Napoleon); Congress of Vienna | 33 | |
| 381580938 | c. 1820 | Latin American states achieve independence | 34 | |
| 381580939 | 1848 | Year of Revolutions in Europe; Marx & Engels publish The Communist Manifesto; Women's Rights Convention at Seneca Falls | 35 | |
| 381580940 | 1850-1864 | Taiping Rebellion | 36 | |
| 381580941 | 1857 | Sepoy Rebellion" (India) | 37 | |
| 381580942 | 1861 | Alexander II frees the serfs (Russia); American Civil War begins | 38 | |
| 381580943 | 1871 | Unification of Germany | 39 | |
| 381580944 | 1884-1885 | Berlin Conference sets off the "Scramble for Africa" | 40 | |
| 381580945 | 1914-1919 | World War I | 41 | |
| 381580946 | 1917 | Russian Revolution begins | 42 | |
| 381580947 | 1939-1945 | World War II | 43 | |
| 381580948 | 1947 | Indian and Pakistan Independence | 44 | |
| 381580949 | 1960 | Many successful African independence movements | 45 | |
| 381580950 | 1961-1989 | Berlin Wall separates East and West Berlin | 46 | |
| 381580951 | 2003 | U.S. invasion of Iraq | 47 | |
| 381580952 | 2008 | Housing Market Crash | 48 | |
| 381580953 | 2011 | Arab Spring | 49 |