World History
Pre-History
40,000 BC - Neanderthals die out
10,000 BC - Neolithic Revolution - Farming & Domestication of Animals
Ancient History
4,000 BC - Wheels Invented
3,500 BC - Domestication of the Horse
3,300 BC - Bronze Age
3,200 BC - First Writing
3,000 BC Stonehenge
3,000 BC Papyrus used in Egypt
2,700 BC - Epic of Gilgamesh - Oldest Surviving Literature
2,600 BC Mayan Culture in America
2,500 BC - Mammoth goes Extinct
2,490 BC - Great Pyramids Built
2,300 BC - Mesopotamia Founded
2,000 BC - First Chariot
1,600 BC - Great Shang Dynasty in China
1,500 BC - Sundial Invented
1,400 BC - Oldest Known Song
1,342 BC - Tutankhamen Born
1,200 BC - Judaism Founded
1,200 BC - Illiad and Odyssey Set
1,150 BC - Bronze Age Ends, Iron Age Begins
1,100 BC - Use of Iron becomes common
957 BC - First Temple of Jerusalem Built
890 BC - Illiad and Odyssey Written
800 BC - Rise of Ancient Greece
776 BC - First Olympic Games
753 BC - Founding of Roman Republic
745 BC - Assyrian Empire
653 BC - Persian Empire
620 BC - Aesop is born
612 BC - Fall of the Assyrian Empire
600 BC - Hanging Gardens of Babylon Constructed
600 BC - Steel Invented
600 BC - First University
600 BC - Susjruta Samhita - First mention of Prosthetic Limbs, Plastic Surgery & C Section.
586 BC - First Temple of Jerusalem Destroyed
551 BC - Confucius born
550 BC - Temple of Artemis Constructed
538 BC - Second Temple of Jerusalem Built
515 BC - Crane Invented
509 BC - Founding of Rome
508 BC - Democracy Founded in Greece
500 BC - Hinduism Founded
500 BC - Reality of Spherical Earth founded
500 BC - First Lighthouse
485 BC - First Catapult
483 BC - Buddhism Founded
470 BC - Birth of Socrates
466 BC - Statue of Zeus Construction
450 BC - Petra built
432 BC - Parthenon Built
427 BC - Plato Born
400 BC - Dead Sea Scrolls Written
384 BC - Aristotle Born
356 BC - Alexander the Great is born
351 BC - Mausoleum of Halicarnassus Constructed
292 BC - Colossus of Rhodes Constructed
280 BC - Lighthouse of Alexandria Constructed
226 BC - Earthquake destroys Colossus of Rhodes
221 BC - Unified China
210 BC - Terracotta Army Built
200 BC - Paper invented in China
200 BC- Silk Road Opens Up
167 - 160 BC - Maccabean Revolt
146 BC - Roman Conquest of Greece
100 BC - Julius Caesar Born
69 BC - Cleopatra Born
50 BC- First Newspaper
44 BC - Julius Caesar Killed & Start of Roman Empire
30 BC - Roman Conquest of Egypt & Mark Anthony kills himself
4 BC - Jesus Born
9 AD - Romes worst defeat against Germanic Tribes
30 AD - Christianity Founded
43 AD - Romans invade Britain
54 AD - Reign of Nero
70 AD - Second Temple of Jerusalem Destroyed
79 AD - Pompeii
80 AD - Colosseum completed
150 AD - Sugar Invented
161 AD - Reign of Marcus Aurelius
180 AD - Reign of Commodus
280 AD - Chess invented
350 AD - Unified Japan
350 AD - Teotequan pyramid finished
406 AD - Romans Expelled from Britain
410 AD - Germanic Visigoths sack Rome
434 AD - Attila the Hun
Middle Ages
532 AD - Hagia Sofia built
565 AD- Peak of the Byzantine Empire
632 AD - Islam Founded
650 AD - First Windmill
589 AD - Toilet Paper Invented
691 AD - Dome on the Rock Built
759 AD - fall of Teotihuacan
800 AD - Charlemagne conquers Europe and forces Christianity on everyone
850 AD - Gunpowder Invented
900 AD - Chichen Itza built
910 AD - Holy Roman Empire forms
950 AD - Medieval Warm Period
950 AD - Fireworks Invented
1000 AD - Beowolf written
1000 - Leif Erickson lands in North America
1028 - William the Conqueror
1054 - Separation of Catholicism and Orthodox
1096 - Crusades begin
1096 - Rhineland Massacres
1100 - Ankor Wat built
1155 - Genghis Khan Born
1163 - Notre Dame built
1206 - 1294 - Mongol Empire
1250 - Buttons Invented
1256 - Thomas Aquinas
1271 - Adventures of Marco Polo
1273 - Hapsburg Dynasty Established
1279 - Mansa Musa born
1286 - Eyeglasses Invented
1303 - Earthquake destroys Lighthouse of Alexandria
1326 - First Cannon
1326 - Ottoman Empire Founded
1337 - Hundred Years War
1346–1353 AD - Black Plague
1372 - Leaning Tower of Pisa built
1387 - The Canterbury Tales published
1431 - Joan of Arc dies
1450 - Machu Picchu founded
1450 - Gutenberg invents Printing Press
1450 - First Rifle Invented
1450 - Renaissance begins
1453 - Fall of Constantinople
1469 - Union of Spain
1478 - Spanish Inquisition
1487 - Portuguese First to Explore South Africa
1492 - Columbus Sails
1497- Vasco da Gama first to sail to India
Modern History
1501- Statue of David
1506- Mona Lisa painted
1519- Hernan Cortes starts conquest of Mexico
1521 - Protestant Reformation
1521- Spanish topple Aztecs
1543 - Copernicus
1547- Ivan the terrible becomes Czar
1562 - French Wars of Religion
1584- William of orange assassination
1605- Don Quixote published
1606 - Australia Discovered
1608 - First Telescope
1611- King James Bible published
1642 - Galileo
1646 - Term Electricity First Coined
1653 - Taj Mahal built
1709 - Piano Invented
1709 - Fahrenheit invents thermometer
1715 - The Enlightenment
1715- first works by Voltaire
1752 - Benjamin Franklin flew kite to study electricity
1760 - Start of Industrial Revolution
1762- Catherine the great becomes czar
1769- Napoleon born
1783 - First Steamboat
1783- First Manned Hot Air Balloon
1782- first music by Beethoven
1789- French revolution
1793- French reign of terror
1798 - Edward Jenner Smallpox Vaccine
1799 - Rosetta stone discovered
1804 - Morphine Discovered
1804- Napoleon
1804 - Steam Engine Invented
1806 - Holy Roman Empire dissolves
1810 - Canned Foods Invented
1816 - Electric Telegraphs Invented
1817 - First Bicycle Invented
1820 - Mormonism Founded
1821- napoleon dies
1830 - Lawnmower Invented
1837 - Morse Code Invented
1848- Franz Joseph I crowned emperor of Austria-Hungary
1852 - First Manned Blimp Flight
1855 - Color Photography Invented
1856 - First Electrical Refrigerator
1861- France invade Mexico
1864 - Louis Pasteur - Pasteurizes Milk
1864- maximillian on Mexican throne
1867- maximillian killed & French defeated
1867 - Alfred Nobel invents Dynamite
1872 - Stainless Steel Invented
1876 - Alexander Graham Bell invents telephone
1877 - Record Player Invented by Edison
1879 - Edison purchases patent for light bulbs
1879 - Albert Einstein Born
1886 - Benz Invents the car
1887 - First Wind Turbine
1889- Crown Prince commits suicide
1889- Manchester united founded
1891 - Zipper Invented
1892 - First Film Camera
1895 - First Radio
1895 - First X-Ray
1899 - Asprin Invented
1900
1911- discovery of Machu Picchu
1912 - sinking of titanic
1914 - Panama Canal Opens
1914- Assassination of the Archduke
1914-1918 - First world war
1915- women's suffrage
1915- first transcontinental phone call
1916- Rasputin murdered
1916- Franz Joseph I dies
1917- Russian Revolution
1918- Romamovs executed
1918- The Red Barron
1919- first toaster
1922- Gandi
1923- king Tut discovered
1923- insulin discovered
1924- first winter Olympics
1924- first around the world flight
1924- J Edgar Hoover first head of FBI
1926- Houdini dies
1928- amelia Earnhardt flight
1928- first Mickey mouse cartoon
1930- first world cup
1930- great depression begins
1931 - Christ the Redeemer constructed
1933- Hitler named Chancellor of Germany
1936-1939 - Spanish Civil War
1939- 1945- Second World War
1940- jaques cresteau invents suba diving
1945- Hiroshima
1945- United Nations created
1946- Dead Sea Scrolls Discovered
1947- india and Pakistan gain independence
1948- Israel gains independence
1948- velcro invented
1950- first credit cards
1950- korean war begins
1951- term rock n roll coined
1951- first oral contraceptives
1952- queen Elizabeth II crowned
1953- Everest first climbed
1953- stalin dies
1953- polio vaccine
1954- first to run a mile in 4 minutes
1954- frozen dinners invented
1955-1975- Vietnam war
1957- Sputnik 1 is first satellite
1958- microchip invented
1959- Luna 2 first man made object on moon
1960- biggest earthquake on record
1961 - Yuri Gagarin - First Man in Space
1961- WWF founded
1961- Berlin Wall
1962 - Nelson Mandela goes to Prison
1965- mini skirt invented
1965- first space walk by Soviet
1967- South African first heart transplant
1969- USA first moonwalk
1970- first jumbo jet
1972- Pong is the first video game
1973 - Sydney Opera House Opens
1975- Microsoft created
1976- Apple founded
1976- Concord flights
1978- first test tube baby born
1979- Walkman released
1980- john Lennon shot
1980- Pacman released
1981- AIDS diagnosed
1982- CDs invented in Japan
1983- first mobile phones
1985- titanic discovered
1986- Chernobyl
1987- contact lenses first sold
1989- Berlin wall taken down
1989- Tiananmen square protests
1989- Gameboy released
1990 - Nelson Mandela Released from Prison
1990- internet invented
1992-1995- Bosnian War
1993 - European Union Established
1994 - Nelson Mandela wins South African Election
1995- Ebay founded
1996- ask jeeves founded
1997- first successful cloning of a sheep
1997- first rover lands on mars
1998- Google founded
1999- eleven countries adopt the Euro
2000- Y2K
2001- 9/11 attacks
2001- Ipod released
2001- African Union established
2001- Segway invented
2001- Wikipedia launched
2002- international criminal court established
2003- Myspace launched
2003- last concord flight
2004- Facebook founded
2005- YouTube founded
2005- Kyoto Climate Protocol
2006- Lebanon war
2006- Pluto not a planet
2006- twitter launched
2007- first Iphone
2008- housing market crash
2008- first Tesla released
2009- bitcoin released
2010-2012- Arab spring
2010- Burj Khalifa becomes tallest structure
2010- Instagram launched
2010- Icelandic volcano erupts
2011- killing of Osama bin laden
2011- Fukashima disaster
2012- felix Baumgartner
2012- Bengazi
2014- Ebola outbreak
2015- Paris attacks
2015- water found on Mars
2020- Covid 19
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