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10,000 BC -- Agricultural Revolution
4000 BC -- Birth of Written Language in Mesopotamia 3500 BC -- Invention of the Wheel in China & Sumeria 3500 BC -- Start of Numerals in Egypt 2600 BC -- Work begins on Great Pyramids 490-480 BC -- Greek-Persian Wars 551-479 BC -- Confucious
31 BC -- Battle of Actiom
4 BC -- Jesus born
79 AD -- Mt Vesuvius erupted
214 -- Work began on Great Wall
221 -- Ch'in Dynasty started
328-333 -- Byzantium Became Constantinople
332 -- Alexander the Great
384 -- Aristotle
427 -- Plato
476 -- Rome fell to Goths/Dark Ages began
542 -- Black Death ravaged Europe
570 -- Mohammed born
732 -- Battle of Tours
768 -- Charlemagne became King of Franks
800 -- Charlemagne as Holy Roman Emperor
850 -- Chinese developed gunpowder
982 -- Erik the Red discovered Greenland
1000 -- Leif Ericsson landed in North America
1054 -- The Great Schism of Western & Eastern Christianity
1066 -- William the Conqueror
1096 -- First Crusade began
1215 -- Magna Carta signed by King John
1233 -- First Inquisition
1254-1325 -- Marco Polo
1276 -- Mongols conquer China
1350-1450 -- Renaissance began
1452-1519 -- Leonardo DaVinci
1460's -- Guttenburg Bible/ Printing Press
1337 -- Hundred Years War
1475-1564 -- Michaelangelo
1483-1546 -- Martin Luther
1492 -- Columbus discovers New World
1508-1512 -- Michelangelo paint Sistine Chapel
1517 -- Martin Luther's 95 Theses/Protestant Reformation
1519-1521 -- Magellan circumnavigated the Earth
1534 -- Henry 8th broke with Rome (Pope)
1543 -- Copernicus Publisizes Theory of Solar Sysytem
1591 -- Shakespeare
1610 -- Gallileo invented telescope
1588 -- Spanish Armada Destroyed
1619 -- First Slaves in the American Colonies
1620 -- Pilgrims came to New World on the Mayflower
1687 -- Neton publishes Principia
1750-1850 -- Industrial Revolution
1763- -- French & Indian War
1768-1779 -- Capt. Cook
1776 -- Wealth of Nations published
1776-1783 -- Declaration of Independence/Ame. Rev.
1788 -- Constitution Ratified
1789 -- French Revolution
1803 -- Louisianna Purchase
1803-- Lewis & Clark Expidition Begins
1804 -- Steam Locomotive
1805 -- Muhammed Ali goes to Egypt
1815 -- Napolean defeated
1824? -- Singapore founded
1832 -- Revolutions in Europe
1840's -- Irish Potato Famine
1840-1841 -- Opium War
1841 -- Brittish create Hong Kong
1848 -- Revolutions in Europe
1850's -- Italian Unification
1854 -- Commodore Perry opened Japan to the West
1859 -- Darwin published Origin of the Species
1860's -- German Unification
1861-1865 -- Civil War
1863 -- Suez Canal
1865 -- Lincoln Assasinated, Mendel's Laws of Genetics
1866 -- Transatlantic Cable
1868 -- Magi Restoration
1869 -- Transcontinental Railroad Completed
1876 -- Electrification began with the telephone
1898 -- Maine sinks/Spanish American War begins
1900 -- Boxer Rebellion
1903 -- Wright Brothers fly at Kitty Hawk, NC
1904-1905 -- Russo-Japanese War
1908 -- Ford launches the Model T
1911 -- Chinese Republic founded
1912 -- Titanic Disaster
1913 -- Refrigeration
1914 -- Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand Assasinated/Great War began
1915 -- Einstein publisheed Theory of Relativity
1917 -- United States entered WW I
1917-1921 -- Russian Revolution/Civil War
1928 -- Penicillan
1929 -- Stock Market Crashed/Great Depression began
1933 -- Hitler comes to power
1947 -- Indian Partition
1948 -- Israel founded
1949 -- Communists took over China
1954 -- Brown vs. Board of Education
1955 -- Polio Vaccine
1957 -- Sputnik
1963 -- Kennedy Assasinated
1964 -- Civil Rights Act
1969 -- Man "landed on Moon"
1972 -- Watergate
1989 -- Fall of the Berlin Wall
1997 -- Hong Kong reverted to Chinese Rule
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