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- 8000 B.C. Agriculture invented in the area of the Fertile Crescent
- 4000 B.C. First civilization (Sumer) emerges
- 2680 B.C. Great Pyramid of Khufu built at Gizah
- 2000 B.C. Indo-Europeans invade Europe (present-day Iran)
- 1790 B.C. Code of Hammurabi codified (Babylonia)
- 1400 B.C. Phoenicians develop alphabet
- 1300 B.C. Hebrews depart Egypt in Exodus (Sinai)
- 1000 B.C. Iron Age begins (Anatolia)
- 800 B.C. Homer compiles Iliad in Ionia
- 586 B.C. Jerusalem falls, Babylonian exile begins
- 500 B.C. Basic Old Testament canon completed in Jerusalem
- 480 B.C. Greeks repel Persians (Battle of Marathon)
- 480-430 B.C. Greek Golden Age flourishes in Athens
- 469-322 B.C. Greek philosophy develops (with Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle)
- 336-323 B.C. Alexander the Great expands his empire to Bactria in Afghanistan
- 146 B.C. Rome destroys Carthage
- 45-44 B.C. Julius Caesar comes to power in Rome
- 31 B.C. Octavian ends Roman civil wars, begins Principate in Rome
- 4 A.D. Jesus Christ is born in Bethlehem
- 30 A.D. Public ministry of Jesus ends in Jerusalem
- 312 Battle of Mulvian Bridge occurs, Constantine ends Christian persecution in the Balkans
- 330 Constantine accepts Christianity, moves Roman capital to Constantinople
- 476 Last Western Roman emperor deposed (Rome)
- 570 Mohammed is born in Mecca
- 622 Muhammad's Hijra Islamic community at Medina
- 733 Charles Martel defeats Muslims in Tours, France
- 800 Charlemagne crowned emperor in Rome
- ca. 1000 Norse cross Atlantic to Vinland (Nova Scotia)
- 1054 Orthodox and Catholic churches (Eastern and Western) split between Rome and Constantinople
- 1066 Normans conquer England at Battle of Hastings
- 1095 Pope Urban II calls for First Crusade (Clermont-Ferand, France)
- 1215 King John signs Magna Carta at Runnymede
- 1242 Mongols withdraw from the West
- 1292 Marco Polo publishes account of his travels (Venice)
- 1305-1377 Papacy's Babylonian Captivity forges on in Avignon, France
- 1347 Black Death arrives in western Europe (Messina, Sicily)
- 1453 Ottomans capture Constantinople
- ca. 1455 Moveable type first used in printing at Mainz
- 1492 Columbus begins his first transatlantic voyage from Palos de la Frontera, Spain
- 1498 Vasco da Gama sails to India
- 1505 Slave trade begins in Americas at Santo Domingo
- 1513 Niccolò Machiavelli writes The Prince in Florence
- 1517 Luther posts his 95 Theses at Wittenberg
- 1521 Cortés conquers Mexico, Tenochtitlan (Mexico City)
- 1522 Magellan dies on voyage around world (Philippines)
- 1543 Copernicus publishes De revolutionibus Wittenberg
- 1545-1563 Council of Trent convenes
- 1573 Europeans discover uses for potatoes
- 1588 Spanish Armada defeated in the English Channel
- 1601 William Shakespeare writes Hamlet in London
- 1602 Dutch East India Company enters Spice Island trade (Indonesia)
- 1607 English settlers establish Jamestown (Virginia)
- 1610 Galileo observes the moons of Jupiter from Florence
- 1648 Thirty Years' War ends with Peace of Westphalia
- 1649 King Charles I executed
- 1687 Newton publishes Principia mathematica in London
- 1688 The Glorious Revolution occurs at Torbay, England
- 1712 Newcomen invents steam engine in Staffordshire, England
- 1713-1714 Peace of Utrecht ends War of the Spanish Succession
- 1722 Table of Ranks introduced by Peter the Great, St. Petersburg
- 1759 British defeat French at Quebec, Canada
- 1760 Industrial Revolution begins in England
- 1775 James Watt invents steam engine in Glasgow, England
- 1776 Americans declare independence from Britain (Philadelphia)
- 1789 French Revolution begins in Paris
- 1807 British abolish slave trade at Guyana
- 1812 Napoleon retreats from Moscow
- 1815 Napoleon defeated at Waterloo, Belgium
- 1825 Spain loses American empire at Bolivia
- 1832 Great Reform Bill passed in London
- 1842 Britain wins Opium War at Nanking, China
- 1848 European uprisings occur
- 1859 Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species from London
- 1867 South African diamonds discovered
- 1867 Russia sells Alaska to United States
- 1868 Meiji Restoration modernizes Japan
- 1869 Suez Canal opens
- 1870 Prussians defeat France, establish Germany
- 1885 European powers partition Africa
- 1905 Japanese defeat Russian fleet in Tsushima Straits
- 1905 Albert Einstein publishes his theory of relativity from Bern, Switzerland
- 1907 Pablo Picasso paints Les Desmoiselles d'Avignon in Paris
- 1914 Archduke Ferdinand assassinated in Sarajevo, leads to World War I
- 1917 Bolshevik Revolution defeats Imperial reign at St. Petersburg
- 1929 Stock market crashes, Depression begins
- 1939 World War II starts
- 1941 Japan attacks Pearl Harbor
- 1945 Nazism defeated in Berlin
- 1945 Atomic bombs fall on cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan
- 1947 India gains independence from Britain in New Delhi
- 1947 Transistor invented at Murray Hill, New Jersey
- 1948 Israel declares independence, achieves statehood
- 1949 Communists win in China (Beijing)
- 1949 Computer age begins
- 1957 Soviets launch Sputnik
- 1962 Rachel Carson publishes Silent Spring
- 1975 United States loses Vietnam conflict
- 1989 Berlin Wall falls
- 08-02-1990 Iraq invades Kuwait, Gulf War begins.
- 1991 Soviet Union dissolves in Moscow
- 1994 White rule (apartheid) ends in South Africa
- 01-01-1995 The World Trade Organization (WTO) established.
- 01-09-1996 Fighting breaks out between Russian soldiers and rebel fighters in Chechnya.
- 08-20-1997 NATO troops capture six Serbian police bases.
- 1998 More Than 10,000 Dead in Cantrell America Hurricane, U.S. President Clinton Impeached,
- 1999 The Euro the New European Currency, NATO Attacks Serbia, Panama Canal Returns to Panama
- 2000Three Astronauts Reach the International Space Station First Time,
- 2001 9-11 US Under Attack. World Trade Center Towers Collapsed,The Currency Euro Entering Circulation.
- 2002 NATO Expands by Seven Countries.
- 2003 Peace Plan Proposed for Middle East.
- 2004 Rover spirit and opportunity landed on Mars, Tsunami in South East Asia Kills Tens of Thousands.
- 2005 Syria Withdrawal from Lebanon.
- 2006 Iraq Ousted President Saddam Hussein Executed, Fighting Breaks Out in Somalia with Ethiopia Troops Invasion.
- 2007 India and US Reach Accord on Civilian Nuclear Power,
- 2008 Indians First Time Planted Their Flag on the Moon, Global Financial Crisis, US Approves 700B Financial Rescue Plan.
- 2009 Computer Virus Zero Day Infects Millions of Computers,
- 2010 China leads the world in high-speed trains.
- 2011 U.S. military formally ends mission in Iraq, Osama bin Laden killed.
- 2012 Rover Curiosity lands on Mars successfully,
- 2013 US government shutdown,Egypt Army Ousts President Mursi, Nelson Mandela Dies at 95,
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