| The first farms appear when plants are domesticated (c. 11,000 BCE) |
Ancient History |
| Settlement of the first city, Uruk in Mesopotamia (c. 4,500 BCE) |
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| The wheel invented in Eastern Europe/Middle East (c. 3,500 BCE) |
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| Cuneiform, the first writing, invented in Mesopotamia (c. 3,200 BCE) |
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| The Great Pyramid of Giza built for Pharaoh Khufu (c. 2,560 BCE) |
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| First Olympic Games held in Ancient Greece (776 BCE) |
Classical Antiquity |
| Rome founded (753 BCE) |
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| The life of the Buddha (c. 563-483 BCE in India) |
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| Alexander the Great, conqueror of the largest empire yet (356-323 BCE) |
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| Julius Caesar creates the Julian calendar (45 BCE) |
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| Rome falls to Germanic tribes (476 CE) |
Dark Ages |
| Life of Mohammed, founder of Islam (571-632 CE) |
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| Charlemagne crowned as the first Holy Roman Emperor (800 CE) |
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| Gunpowder first used as a weapon in China (904 CE) |
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| Viking explorers first colonise North America (c. 986 CE) |
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| Battle of Hastings and Norman Conquest (begins 1066) |
Middle Ages |
| The first university is founded in Bologna, Italy (1088 ) |
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| Life of Genghis Khan, founder of the Mongol Empire (1162-1227) |
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| King John forced by his barons to sign the Magna Charta (1215) |
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| The Black Death kills one-third of the European population (1347-1348) |
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| Christopher Columbus arrives in the Americas (1492) |
Early Modern |
| First slaves taken from Africa to the Americas (1502) |
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| Michelangelo paints the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome (1512) |
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| Protestant Reformation begins with Martin Luthor's 95 Theses (1517) |
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| Magellan’s Expedition Is the first to circumnavigates the globe (1522) |
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| Galileo Galilei announces discoveries made with his telescope (1610) |
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| Taj Mahal built by Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan (1653) |
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| Steam engine invented by Edward Somerset (1663) |
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| Isaac Newton publishes his Principia Mathematica (1687) |
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| Beginning of the Industrial Revolution in Britain (1733) |
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| The American Revolution (1775-1783) |
Late Modern |
| The French Revolution (1789-1799) |
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| Invention of the telegraph (1832) |
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| Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species (1859) |
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| Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone (1876) |
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| Invention of radio (1879) |
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| Invention of the aeroplane (1903) |
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| Albert Einstein publishes his Special Theory of Relativity (1905) |
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| World War I (1914-1918) |
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| The invention of television (1925) |
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| The Great Depression after US Stock Market crash (1929-1939) |
Contemporary History |
| World War II (1939-1945) |
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| United Nations formed (1945) |
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| India becomes independent from the UK (1947) |
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| Double helical structure of DNA discovered (1953) |
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| Russian, Yuri Gagarin, becomes the first man in space (1961) |
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| U.S. President John F. Kennedy is assassinated (1963) |
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| The World Wide Web invented by Tim Berners-Lee (1989) |
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| The Cold War ends with the dissolution of the Soviet Union (1991) |
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| Terrorists attack and destroy the World Trade Towers (2001) |
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