# Game: Add the next 10 most significant events from history **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [August 6, 2011, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-add-the-next-10-most-significant-events-from-history/591705 "2011-08-06T05:49:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![colonial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/34f0e0/32.png) [@colonial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/colonial)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2011, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-add-the-next-10-most-significant-events-from-history/591705/21 "2011-08-07T05:19:02Z")
11 added because last reply was one short. [ol] [li]Big Bang[/li][li]Cosmological inflation[/li][li]First Hydrogen atom[/li][li]Population III stars form[/li][li]First galaxies[/li][li]Population II stars form[/li][li]Sun forms[/li][li]Earth forms[/li][li]Moon is formed[/li][li]Life develops on Earth[/li][li]Eating other creatures for energy develops[/li][li]Photosynthesis develops[/li][li]Eukaryotic lifeforms evolve[/li][li]First sexual reproduction[/li][li]First multicellular lifeform[/li][li]Life emerges on land[/li][li]Asteroid wipes out dinosaurs, allows mammals to rise.[/li][li]Protohumans evolve from primates[/li][li]Humans develop intelligence[/li][li]First human ancestors make tools[/li][li]Human ancestors learn how to create and use fire[/li][li]First human ancestors develop spoken language[/li][li]First Homo sapiens[/li][li]Toba supervolcano[/li][li]Global temperatures rise after the last Ice Age[/li][li]Animals domesticated[/li][li]Agriculture invented[/li][li]Wheel invented[/li][li]Bronze invented[/li][li]First professional army[/li][li]First cities[/li][li]Decimal numbering invented[/li][li]Writing invented[/li][li]Iron mining and metallurgy[/li][li]Alphabet invented[/li][li]Abraham founds a religion[/li][li]Buddha Siddhartha Gautama founds a religion[/li][li]Invention of coinage[/li][li]Lydia conquered by Persian Empire[/li][li]Ionian Greek city of Miletus revolts, sacked[/li][li]Marathon[/li][li]Thermopylae[/li][li]Salamis[/li][li]Platea[/li][li]Start of Peloponnesian War[/li][li]Pericles dies in plague[/li][li]Athenian Sicilian expedition[/li][li]Athens surrenders[/li][li]Alexander the Great conquers most of the known world[/li][li]Archimedes takes a bath[/li][li]Roman Empire founded[/li][li]Jesus born[/li][li]Muhammed born[/li][li]Paper invented[/li][li]The Crusades[/li][li]Genghis Khan conquers most of Eurasia[/li][li]A rat, no cat, an epidemic–the Black Death[/li][li]Invention of gunpowder[/li][li]Movable type[/li][li]Discovery & colonization of the Americas[/li][li]Shakespeare gets a pen for his birthday[/li][li]Spanish Armada[/li][li]Copernican model of the Solar System[/li][li]Isaac Newton creates modern physics and mathematics[/li][li]Leibniz invents modern calculus notation[/li][li]James II of Great Britain deposed[/li][li]Peter the Great founds St. Petersburg[/li][li]Battle of Blenheim[/li][li]War of the Austrian Succession begins[/li][li]French and Indian War ends[/li][li]Bunker Hill[/li][li]7/4/1776[/li][li]Saratoga[/li][li]Yorktown[/li][li]United States adopts its Constitution[/li][li]George Washington becomes first U.S. President[/li][li]Bastille stormed[/li][li]Reign of Terror in France[/li][li]Napoleon takes power in France[/li][li]Steam engines developed[/li][li]Darwin discover Theory of Evolution[/li][li]Electricity discovered[/li][li]Invention of the telegraph[/li][li]Germ theory of disease[/li][li]Abraham Lincoln is elected President[/li][li]Lincoln lets his whiskers grow[/li][li]Confederates fire on Ft. Sumter[/li][li]Battle of Antietam[/li][li]Battle of Gettysburg[/li][li]Lee surrenders at Appomattox [/li][li]A man, a plan, a canal–Suez[/li][li]Radio invented[/li][li]Michelson-Morley experiment[/li][li]Quantum theory discovered [/li][li]X-Rays described[/li][li]A man, a plan, a canal–Panama[/li][li]Automobile invented[/li][li]Einstein’s miracle year[/li][li]Sarajevo[/li][li]General Relativity discovered[/li][li]Russian Revolution[/li][li]Lenin dies[/li][li]Quantum Mechanics discovered[/li][li]Cosmological Red Shift discovered[/li][li]Antimatter discovered[/li][li]Television invented[/li][li]WA- (headline continued on page 2)[/li][li]Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany[/li][li]Reichstag Fire[/li][li]FDR 1st Inaugural[/li][li]Night of the Long Knives[/li][li]Baldwin chosen UK PM[/li][li]Edward VIII Abdication Crisis[/li][li]Germany reoccupies Rhineland[/li][li]FDR reelected[/li][li]Italy invades Ethiopia[/li][li]Japan invades China proper[/li][li]Anschluss[/li][li]Chamberlain UK PM[/li][li]Munich Crisis[/li][li]German army defeated at Stalingrad[/li][li]First nuclear weapon (tested)[/li][li]Hiroshima[/li][li]Nagasaki[/li][li]USSR declares war on Japan[/li][li]Japan surrenders[/li][li]Lamb shift discovered[/li][li]Transistor invented[/li][li]Truman defeats Dewey[/li][li]Communists win Chinese Civil War[/li][li]Korean War begins[/li][li]Checkers speech[/li][li]Eisenhower defeats Stevenson[/li][li]DNA described by Watson and Crick[/li][li]First nuclear power station on-line[/li][li]Maser (precursor to laser) invented[/li][li]A man, a plan, a rocket–Sputnik[/li][li]Descent to bottom of the Marianas Trench[/li][li]Humans walk on another world[/li][li]Internet is invented[/li][li]First GMO (a recombinant bacteria)[/li][li]Cold War ends[/li][li]United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change[/li][li]Online porn fuels critical internet commercialization[/li][li]Human genome sequenced[/li][li]Facebook invented[/li][li]First life form with completely synthetic genetic material[/li][li]S&P downgrades US Debt from AAA to AA+[/li][li]Sun becomes a red giant[/li][li]Heat death of the Universe[/li][/ol] ---
**Author:** ![Premislaus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f0a364/32.png) [@Premislaus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Premislaus)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2011, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-add-the-next-10-most-significant-events-from-history/591705/22 "2011-08-07T10:17:09Z")
[ol] [li]Big Bang[/li][li]Cosmological inflation[/li][li]First Hydrogen atom[/li][li]Population III stars form[/li][li]First galaxies[/li][li]Population II stars form[/li][li]Sun forms[/li][li]Earth forms[/li][li]Moon is formed[/li][li]Life develops on Earth[/li][li]Eating other creatures for energy develops[/li][li]Photosynthesis develops[/li][li]Eukaryotic lifeforms evolve[/li][li]First sexual reproduction[/li][li]First multicellular lifeform[/li][li]Life emerges on land[/li][li]Asteroid wipes out dinosaurs, allows mammals to rise.[/li][li]Protohumans evolve from primates[/li][li]Humans develop intelligence[/li][li]First human ancestors make tools[/li][li]Human ancestors learn how to create and use fire[/li][li]First human ancestors develop spoken language[/li][li]First Homo sapiens[/li][li]Toba supervolcano[/li][li]Global temperatures rise after the last Ice Age[/li][li]Animals domesticated[/li][li]Agriculture invented[/li][li]Wheel invented[/li][li]Bronze invented[/li][li]First professional army[/li][li]First cities[/li][li]Decimal numbering invented[/li][li]Writing invented[/li][li]Rise of Sumerians[/li][li]Egyptian Pyramids[/li][li]Iron mining and metallurgy[/li][li]Alphabet invented[/li][li]Abraham founds a religion[/li][li]Carthage founded[/li][li]First Olympic Games[/li][li]Rome founded[/li][li]Fall of Assyria[/li][li]Babylonian captivity of the Jewish people[/li][li]Buddha Siddhartha Gautama founds a religion[/li][li]Invention of coinage[/li][li]Lydia conquered by Persian Empire[/li][li]Rome becomes a Republic[/li][li]Ionian Greek city of Miletus revolts, sacked[/li][li]Marathon[/li][li]Thermopylae[/li][li]Salamis[/li][li]Platea[/li][li]Start of Peloponnesian War[/li][li]Pericles dies in plague[/li][li]Athenian Sicilian expedition[/li][li]Athens surrenders[/li][li]Plato and the Platonic Academy[/li][li]Aristotles of Stagira and the Lyceum[/li][li]Alexander the Great conquers most of the known world[/li][li]Archimedes takes a bath[/li][li]Roman Empire founded[/li][li]Jesus born[/li][li]Muhammed born[/li][li]Paper invented[/li][li]The Crusades[/li][li]Genghis Khan conquers most of Eurasia[/li][li]A rat, no cat, an epidemic–the Black Death[/li][li]Invention of gunpowder[/li][li]Movable type[/li][li]Discovery & colonization of the Americas[/li][li]Shakespeare gets a pen for his birthday[/li][li]Spanish Armada[/li][li]Copernican model of the Solar System[/li][li]Isaac Newton creates modern physics and mathematics[/li][li]Leibniz invents modern calculus notation[/li][li]James II of Great Britain deposed[/li][li]Peter the Great founds St. Petersburg[/li][li]Battle of Blenheim[/li][li]War of the Austrian Succession begins[/li][li]French and Indian War ends[/li][li]Bunker Hill[/li][li]7/4/1776[/li][li]Saratoga[/li][li]Yorktown[/li][li]United States adopts its Constitution[/li][li]George Washington becomes first U.S. President[/li][li]Bastille stormed[/li][li]Reign of Terror in France[/li][li]Napoleon takes power in France[/li][li]Steam engines developed[/li][li]Darwin discover Theory of Evolution[/li][li]Electricity discovered[/li][li]Invention of the telegraph[/li][li]Germ theory of disease[/li][li]Abraham Lincoln is elected President[/li][li]Lincoln lets his whiskers grow[/li][li]Confederates fire on Ft. Sumter[/li][li]Battle of Antietam[/li][li]Battle of Gettysburg[/li][li]Lee surrenders at Appomattox [/li][li]A man, a plan, a canal–Suez[/li][li]Radio invented[/li][li]Michelson-Morley experiment[/li][li]Quantum theory discovered [/li][li]X-Rays described[/li][li]A man, a plan, a canal–Panama[/li][li]Automobile invented[/li][li]Einstein’s miracle year[/li][li]Sarajevo[/li][li]General Relativity discovered[/li][li]Russian Revolution[/li][li]Lenin dies[/li][li]Quantum Mechanics discovered[/li][li]Cosmological Red Shift discovered[/li][li]Antimatter discovered[/li][li]Television invented[/li][li]WA- (headline continued on page 2)[/li][li]Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany[/li][li]Reichstag Fire[/li][li]FDR 1st Inaugural[/li][li]Night of the Long Knives[/li][li]Baldwin chosen UK PM[/li][li]Edward VIII Abdication Crisis[/li][li]Germany reoccupies Rhineland[/li][li]FDR reelected[/li][li]Italy invades Ethiopia[/li][li]Japan invades China proper[/li][li]Anschluss[/li][li]Chamberlain UK PM[/li][li]Munich Crisis[/li][li]German army defeated at Stalingrad[/li][li]First nuclear weapon (tested)[/li][li]Hiroshima[/li][li]Nagasaki[/li][li]USSR declares war on Japan[/li][li]Japan surrenders[/li][li]Lamb shift discovered[/li][li]Transistor invented[/li][li]Truman defeats Dewey[/li][li]Communists win Chinese Civil War[/li][li]Korean War begins[/li][li]Checkers speech[/li][li]Eisenhower defeats Stevenson[/li][li]DNA described by Watson and Crick[/li][li]First nuclear power station on-line[/li][li]Maser (precursor to laser) invented[/li][li]A man, a plan, a rocket–Sputnik[/li][li]Descent to bottom of the Marianas Trench[/li][li]Humans walk on another world[/li][li]Internet is invented[/li][li]First GMO (a recombinant bacteria)[/li][li]Cold War ends[/li][li]United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change[/li][li]Online porn fuels critical internet commercialization[/li][li]Human genome sequenced[/li][li]Facebook invented[/li][li]First life form with completely synthetic genetic material[/li][li]S&P downgrades US Debt from AAA to AA+[/li][li]Sun becomes a red giant[/li][li]Heat death of the Universe[/li][/ol] ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2011, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-add-the-next-10-most-significant-events-from-history/591705/23 "2011-08-07T11:34:33Z")
[ol] [li]Big Bang[/li][li]Cosmological inflation[/li][li]First Hydrogen atom[/li][li]Population III stars form[/li][li]First galaxies[/li][li]Population II stars form[/li][li]Sun forms[/li][li]Earth forms[/li][li]Moon is formed[/li][li]Earth form solid crust[/li][li]Plate Tectonics gets going[/li][li]Life develops on Earth[/li][li]Eating other creatures for energy develops[/li][li]Photosynthesis develops[/li][li]Great Oxygenation Event[/li][li]Eukaryotic lifeforms evolve[/li][li]First sexual reproduction[/li][li]First multicellular lifeform[/li][li]First exoskeleton[/li][li]First endoskeleton[/li][li]Life emerges on land[/li][li]First warm blooded animal[/li][li]First grass[/li][li]Asteroid wipes out dinosaurs, allows mammals to rise.[/li][li]Protohumans evolve from primates[/li][li]Humans develop intelligence[/li][li]First human ancestors make tools[/li][li]Human ancestors learn how to create and use fire[/li][li]First human ancestors develop spoken language[/li][li]First Homo sapiens[/li][li]Toba supervolcano[/li][li]Global temperatures rise after the last Ice Age[/li][li]Animals domesticated[/li][li]Agriculture invented[/li][li]Wheel invented[/li][li]Bronze invented[/li][li]First professional army[/li][li]First cities[/li][li]Decimal numbering invented[/li][li]Writing invented[/li][li]Rise of Sumerians[/li][li]Egyptian Pyramids[/li][li]Iron mining and metallurgy[/li][li]Alphabet invented[/li][li]Abraham founds a religion[/li][li]Carthage founded[/li][li]First Olympic Games[/li][li]Rome founded[/li][li]Fall of Assyria[/li][li]Babylonian captivity of the Jewish people[/li][li]Buddha Siddhartha Gautama founds a religion[/li][li]Invention of coinage[/li][li]Lydia conquered by Persian Empire[/li][li]Rome becomes a Republic[/li][li]Ionian Greek city of Miletus revolts, sacked[/li][li]Marathon[/li][li]Thermopylae[/li][li]Salamis[/li][li]Platea[/li][li]Start of Peloponnesian War[/li][li]Pericles dies in plague[/li][li]Athenian Sicilian expedition[/li][li]Athens surrenders[/li][li]Plato and the Platonic Academy[/li][li]Aristotles of Stagira and the Lyceum[/li][li]Alexander the Great conquers most of the known world[/li][li]Archimedes takes a bath[/li][li]Roman Empire founded[/li][li]Jesus born[/li][li]Muhammed born[/li][li]Paper invented[/li][li]The Crusades[/li][li]Genghis Khan conquers most of Eurasia[/li][li]A rat, no cat, an epidemic–the Black Death[/li][li]Invention of gunpowder[/li][li]Movable type[/li][li]Discovery & colonization of the Americas[/li][li]Shakespeare gets a pen for his birthday[/li][li]Spanish Armada[/li][li]Copernican model of the Solar System[/li][li]Isaac Newton creates modern physics and mathematics[/li][li]Leibniz invents modern calculus notation[/li][li]James II of Great Britain deposed[/li][li]Peter the Great founds St. Petersburg[/li][li]Battle of Blenheim[/li][li]War of the Austrian Succession begins[/li][li]French and Indian War ends[/li][li]Bunker Hill[/li][li]7/4/1776[/li][li]Saratoga[/li][li]Yorktown[/li][li]United States adopts its Constitution[/li][li]George Washington becomes first U.S. President[/li][li]Bastille stormed[/li][li]Metric system first introduced[/li][li]Reign of Terror in France[/li][li]Napoleon takes power in France[/li][li]Steam engines developed[/li][li]Darwin discover Theory of Evolution[/li][li]Electricity discovered[/li][li]Invention of the telegraph[/li][li]Germ theory of disease[/li][li]Abraham Lincoln is elected President[/li][li]Lincoln lets his whiskers grow[/li][li]Confederates fire on Ft. Sumter[/li][li]Battle of Antietam[/li][li]Battle of Gettysburg[/li][li]Lee surrenders at Appomattox [/li][li]A man, a plan, a canal–Suez[/li][li]Radio invented[/li][li]Michelson-Morley experiment[/li][li]Quantum theory discovered [/li][li]X-Rays described[/li][li]A man, a plan, a canal–Panama[/li][li]Automobile invented[/li][li]Einstein’s miracle year[/li][li]Sarajevo[/li][li]General Relativity discovered[/li][li]Russian Revolution[/li][li]Henry Ford introduces the assembly line and mass production[/li][li]Lenin dies[/li][li]Quantum Mechanics discovered[/li][li]Cosmological Red Shift discovered[/li][li]Antimatter discovered[/li][li]Television invented[/li][li]WA- (headline continued on page 2)[/li][li]Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany[/li][li]Reichstag Fire[/li][li]FDR 1st Inaugural[/li][li]Night of the Long Knives[/li][li]Baldwin chosen UK PM[/li][li]Edward VIII Abdication Crisis[/li][li]Germany reoccupies Rhineland[/li][li]FDR reelected[/li][li]Italy invades Ethiopia[/li][li]Japan invades China proper[/li][li]Anschluss[/li][li]Chamberlain UK PM[/li][li]Munich Crisis[/li][li]German army defeated at Stalingrad[/li][li]First nuclear weapon (tested)[/li][li]Hiroshima[/li][li]Nagasaki[/li][li]USSR declares war on Japan[/li][li]Japan surrenders[/li][li]Lamb shift discovered[/li][li]Transistor invented[/li][li]Truman defeats Dewey[/li][li]Communists win Chinese Civil War[/li][li]Korean War begins[/li][li]Checkers speech[/li][li]Eisenhower defeats Stevenson[/li][li]DNA described by Watson and Crick[/li][li]First nuclear power station on-line[/li][li]Maser (precursor to laser) invented[/li][li]A man, a plan, a rocket–Sputnik[/li][li]Descent to bottom of the Marianas Trench[/li][li]Humans walk on another world[/li][li]Iranian Revolution[/li][li]Internet is invented[/li][li]First GMO (a recombinant bacteria)[/li][li]Cold War ends[/li][li]United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change[/li][li]Online porn fuels critical internet commercialization[/li][li]Human genome sequenced[/li][li]Facebook invented[/li][li]First life form with completely synthetic genetic material[/li][li]S&P downgrades US Debt from AAA to AA+[/li][li]Sun becomes a red giant[/li][li]Heat death of the Universe[/li][/ol] ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2011, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-add-the-next-10-most-significant-events-from-history/591705/24 "2011-08-07T16:54:58Z")
Big Bang Cosmological inflation First Hydrogen atom Population III stars form First galaxies Population II stars form Sun forms Earth forms Moon is formed Earth form solid crust Plate Tectonics gets going Life develops on Earth Eating other creatures for energy develops Photosynthesis develops Great Oxygenation Event Eukaryotic lifeforms evolve First sexual reproduction First multicellular lifeform First exoskeleton First endoskeleton Life emerges on land First warm blooded animal First grass Asteroid wipes out dinosaurs, allows mammals to rise. Protohumans evolve from primates Humans develop intelligence First human ancestors make tools Human ancestors learn how to create and use fire First human ancestors develop spoken language First Homo sapiens Toba supervolcano Global temperatures rise after the last Ice Age Animals domesticated Agriculture invented Wheel invented Bronze invented First professional army First cities Decimal numbering invented Writing invented Rise of Sumerians Egyptian Pyramids Iron mining and metallurgy Alphabet invented Abraham founds a religion Carthage founded First Olympic Games Rome founded Fall of Assyria Babylonian captivity of the Jewish people Buddha Siddhartha Gautama founds a religion Invention of coinage Lydia conquered by Persian Empire Rome becomes a Republic Ionian Greek city of Miletus revolts, sacked Marathon Thermopylae Salamis Platea Start of Peloponnesian War Pericles dies in plague Athenian Sicilian expedition Athens surrenders Plato and the Platonic Academy Aristotles of Stagira and the Lyceum Alexander the Great conquers most of the known world Archimedes takes a bath Roman Empire founded Jesus born Muhammed born Paper invented The Crusades Genghis Khan conquers most of Eurasia A rat, no cat, an epidemic–the Black Death Invention of gunpowder Movable type Discovery & colonization of the Americas Shakespeare gets a pen for his birthday Spanish Armada Copernican model of the Solar System Isaac Newton creates modern physics and mathematics Leibniz invents modern calculus notation James II of Great Britain deposed Peter the Great founds St. Petersburg Battle of Blenheim War of the Austrian Succession begins French and Indian War ends Bunker Hill 7/4/1776 Saratoga Yorktown United States adopts its Constitution George Washington becomes first U.S. President Bastille stormed Metric system first introduced Reign of Terror in France Napoleon takes power in France Steam engines developed Darwin discover Theory of Evolution Electricity discovered Invention of the telegraph Germ theory of disease Abraham Lincoln is elected President Lincoln lets his whiskers grow Confederates fire on Ft. Sumter Battle of Antietam Battle of Gettysburg Lee surrenders at Appomattox A man, a plan, a canal–Suez Radio invented Michelson-Morley experiment Quantum theory discovered X-Rays described A man, a plan, a canal–Panama Automobile invented Einstein’s miracle year Sarajevo General Relativity discovered Russian Revolution Henry Ford introduces the assembly line and mass production Lenin dies Quantum Mechanics discovered Cosmological Red Shift discovered Antimatter discovered Television invented WA- (“Onion” headline continued on page 2) Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany Reichstag Fire FDR 1st Inaugural Night of the Long Knives Baldwin chosen UK PM Edward VIII Abdication Crisis Germany reoccupies Rhineland FDR reelected Italy invades Ethiopia Japan invades China proper Anschluss Chamberlain UK PM Munich Crisis Germany invades Poland, triggering WWII Japan bombs Pearl Harbor Battle of Midway German army defeated at Stalingrad First nuclear weapon (tested) FDR dies; Truman becomes U.S. President Nazi Germany surrenders Hiroshima Nagasaki USSR declares war on Japan Japan surrenders Lamb shift discovered Transistor invented Truman defeats Dewey Communists win Chinese Civil War Korean War begins Checkers speech “The Lord of the Rings” is published Eisenhower defeats Stevenson DNA described by Watson and Crick First nuclear power station on-line Maser (precursor to laser) invented A man, a plan, a rocket–Sputnik Descent to bottom of the Marianas Trench “Star Trek” premieres Humans walk on another world Iranian Revolution Internet is invented First GMO (a recombinant bacteria) Cold War ends United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Online porn fuels critical internet commercialization Human genome sequenced Facebook invented First life form with completely synthetic genetic material S&P downgrades US Debt from AAA to AA+ Sun becomes a red giant Heat death of the Universe I think that’s ten more… ---
**Author:** ![colonial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/34f0e0/32.png) [@colonial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/colonial)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2011, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-add-the-next-10-most-significant-events-from-history/591705/25 "2011-08-07T19:52:04Z")
[ol] [li]Big Bang[/li][li]Cosmological inflation[/li][li]First Hydrogen atom[/li][li]Population III stars form[/li][li]First galaxies[/li][li]Population II stars form[/li][li]Sun forms[/li][li]Earth forms[/li][li]Moon is formed[/li][li]Earth form solid crust[/li][li]Plate Tectonics gets going[/li][li]Life develops on Earth[/li][li]Eating other creatures for energy develops[/li][li]Photosynthesis develops[/li][li]Great Oxygenation Event[/li][li]Eukaryotic lifeforms evolve[/li][li]First sexual reproduction[/li][li]First multicellular lifeform[/li][li]First exoskeleton[/li][li]First endoskeleton[/li][li]Life emerges on land[/li][li]First warm blooded animal[/li][li]First grass[/li][li]Asteroid wipes out dinosaurs, allows mammals to rise.[/li][li]Protohumans evolve from primates[/li][li]Humans develop intelligence[/li][li]First human ancestors make tools[/li][li]Human ancestors learn how to create and use fire[/li][li]First human ancestors develop spoken language[/li][li]First Homo sapiens[/li][li]Toba supervolcano[/li][li]Global temperatures rise after the last Ice Age[/li][li]Animals domesticated[/li][li]Agriculture invented[/li][li]Wheel invented[/li][li]Bronze invented[/li][li]First professional army[/li][li]First cities[/li][li]Decimal numbering invented[/li][li]Writing invented[/li][li]Rise of Sumerians[/li][li]Egyptian Pyramids[/li][li]Iron mining and metallurgy[/li][li]Alphabet invented[/li][li]Abraham founds a religion[/li][li]Carthage founded[/li][li]First Olympic Games[/li][li]Rome founded[/li][li]Fall of Assyria[/li][li]Babylonian captivity of the Jewish people[/li][li]Buddha Siddhartha Gautama founds a religion[/li][li]Invention of coinage[/li][li]Lydia conquered by Persian Empire[/li][li]Rome becomes a Republic[/li][li]Ionian Greek city of Miletus revolts, sacked[/li][li]Marathon[/li][li]Thermopylae[/li][li]Salamis[/li][li]Platea[/li][li]Start of Peloponnesian War[/li][li]Pericles dies in plague[/li][li]Athenian Sicilian expedition[/li][li]Athens surrenders[/li][li]Plato and the Platonic Academy[/li][li]Aristotles of Stagira and the Lyceum[/li][li]Alexander the Great conquers most of the known world[/li][li]Pyrrhus defeated by Rome[/li][li]1st Punic War[/li][li]Archimedes takes a bath[/li][li]2nd Punic War[/li][li]3rd Punic War[/li][li]Marius foremost Roman strongman[/li][li]Sulla foremost Roman strongman[/li][li]1st Triumvirate: Caesar-Pompey-Crassus[/li][li]Caesar assassinated[/li][li]2nd Triumvirate: Octavian (later ka Augustus)-Antony-Lepidus[/li][li]Roman Empire founded[/li][li]Jesus born[/li][li]Tiberius succeeds Augustus[/li][li]Muhammed born[/li][li]Paper invented[/li][li]The Crusades[/li][li]Genghis Khan conquers most of Eurasia[/li][li]A rat, no cat, an epidemic–the Black Death[/li][li]Invention of gunpowder[/li][li]Movable type[/li][li]Discovery & colonization of the Americas[/li][li]Copernican model of the Solar System[/li][li]Shakespeare gets a pen for his birthday[/li][li]Spanish Armada[/li][li]The Gunpowder Plot[/li][li]Isaac Newton creates modern physics and mathematics[/li][li]Leibniz invents modern calculus notation[/li][li]James II of Great Britain deposed[/li][li]Peter the Great founds St. Petersburg[/li][li]Battle of Blenheim[/li][li]War of the Austrian Succession begins[/li][li]French and Indian War ends[/li][li]Bunker Hill[/li][li]7/4/1776[/li][li]Saratoga[/li][li]Yorktown[/li][li]United States adopts its Constitution[/li][li]George Washington becomes first U.S. President[/li][li]Bastille stormed[/li][li]Metric system first introduced[/li][li]Reign of Terror in France[/li][li]Napoleon takes power in France[/li][li]Steam engines developed[/li][li]Darwin discovers Theory of Evolution[/li][li]Electricity discovered[/li][li]Invention of the telegraph[/li][li]Germ theory of disease[/li][li]Abraham Lincoln is elected President[/li][li]Lincoln lets his whiskers grow[/li][li]Confederates fire on Ft. Sumter[/li][li]Battle of Antietam[/li][li]Emancipation Proclamation[/li][li]Battle of Gettysburg[/li][li]Lee surrenders at Appomattox[/li][li]A man, a plan, a canal–Suez[/li][li]Radio invented[/li][li]Michelson-Morley experiment[/li][li]Quantum theory discovered[/li][li]X-Rays described[/li][li]A man, a plan, a canal–Panama[/li][li]Automobile invented[/li][li]Einstein’s miracle year[/li][li]Sarajevo[/li][li]General Relativity discovered[/li][li]Russian Revolution[/li][li]Henry Ford introduces the assembly line and mass production[/li][li]Lenin dies[/li][li]Quantum Mechanics discovered[/li][li]Cosmological Red Shift discovered[/li][li]Antimatter discovered[/li][li]Television invented[/li][li]WA- (“Onion” headline continued on page 2)[/li][li]Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany[/li][li]Reichstag Fire[/li][li]FDR 1st Inaugural[/li][li]Night of the Long Knives[/li][li]Baldwin chosen UK PM[/li][li]Edward VIII Abdication Crisis[/li][li]Germany reoccupies Rhineland[/li][li]FDR reelected[/li][li]Italy invades Ethiopia[/li][li]Japan invades China proper[/li][li]Anschluss[/li][li]Chamberlain UK PM[/li][li]Munich Crisis[/li][li]Germany occupies Czechoslovakia[/li][li]Germany invades Poland, triggering WWII[/li][li]Japan bombs Pearl Harbor[/li][li]Battle of Midway[/li][li]German army defeated at Stalingrad[/li][li]FDR dies; Truman becomes U.S. President[/li][li]Nazi Germany surrenders[/li][li]First nuclear weapon (tested)[/li][li]Hiroshima[/li][li]Nagasaki[/li][li]USSR declares war on Japan[/li][li]Japan surrenders[/li][li]Lamb shift discovered[/li][li]Transistor invented[/li][li]Truman defeats Dewey[/li][li]Communists win Chinese Civil War[/li][li]Korean War begins[/li][li]Checkers speech[/li][li]The Lord of the Rings is published[/li][li]Eisenhower defeats Stevenson[/li][li]DNA described by Watson and Crick[/li][li]First nuclear power station on-line[/li][li]Maser (precursor to laser) invented[/li][li]A man, a plan, a rocket–Sputnik[/li][li]Descent to bottom of the Marianas Trench[/li][li]Star Trek premieres[/li][li]Humans walk on another world[/li][li]Iranian Revolution[/li][li]Internet is invented[/li][li]First GMO (a recombinant bacteria)[/li][li]Cold War ends[/li][li]United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change[/li][li]Online porn fuels critical internet commercialization[/li][li]Human genome sequenced[/li][li]Facebook invented[/li][li]First life form with completely synthetic genetic material[/li][li]S&P downgrades US Debt from AAA to AA+[/li][li]Sun becomes a red giant[/li][li]Heat death of the Universe[/li][/ol] ---
**Author:** ![Premislaus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f0a364/32.png) [@Premislaus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Premislaus)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2011, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-add-the-next-10-most-significant-events-from-history/591705/26 "2011-08-07T20:43:34Z")
[ol] [li]Big Bang[/li][li]Cosmological inflation[/li][li]First Hydrogen atom[/li][li]Population III stars form[/li][li]First galaxies[/li][li]Population II stars form[/li][li]Sun forms[/li][li]Earth forms[/li][li]Moon is formed[/li][li]Earth form solid crust[/li][li]Plate Tectonics gets going[/li][li]Life develops on Earth[/li][li]Eating other creatures for energy develops[/li][li]Photosynthesis develops[/li][li]Great Oxygenation Event[/li][li]Eukaryotic lifeforms evolve[/li][li]First sexual reproduction[/li][li]First multicellular lifeform[/li][li]First exoskeleton[/li][li]First endoskeleton[/li][li]Life emerges on land[/li][li]First warm blooded animal[/li][li]First grass[/li][li]Asteroid wipes out dinosaurs, allows mammals to rise.[/li][li]Protohumans evolve from primates[/li][li]Humans develop intelligence[/li][li]First human ancestors make tools[/li][li]Human ancestors learn how to create and use fire[/li][li]First human ancestors develop spoken language[/li][li]First Homo sapiens[/li][li]Toba supervolcano[/li][li]Australia settled[/li][li]Global temperatures rise after the last Ice Age[/li][li]Animals domesticated[/li][li]Homo sapiens reaches America[/li][li]Agriculture invented[/li][li]Wheel invented[/li][li]Bronze invented[/li][li]First professional army[/li][li]First cities[/li][li]Decimal numbering invented[/li][li]Writing invented[/li][li]Rise of Sumerians[/li][li]Egypt united[/li][li]Civilization flourishes in Indus Valley[/li][li]Egyptian Pyramids[/li][li]Sargon of Akkad - First Empire[/li][li]Iron mining and metallurgy[/li][li]Alphabet invented[/li][li]Abraham founds a religion[/li][li]Kingdom of David and Solomon[/li][li]Carthage founded[/li][li]First Olympic Games[/li][li]Rome founded[/li][li]Fall of Assyria[/li][li]Babylonian captivity of the Jewish people[/li][li]Cyrus the Great - rise of Persia[/li][li]Buddha Siddhartha Gautama founds a religion[/li][li]Invention of coinage[/li][li]Lydia conquered by Persian Empire[/li][li]Rome becomes a Republic[/li][li]Ionian Greek city of Miletus revolts, sacked[/li][li]Marathon[/li][li]Thermopylae[/li][li]Salamis[/li][li]Platea[/li][li]Start of Peloponnesian War[/li][li]Pericles dies in plague[/li][li]Athenian Sicilian expedition[/li][li]Athens surrenders[/li][li]Plato and the Platonic Academy[/li][li]Aristotles of Stagira and the Lyceum[/li][li]Alexander the Great conquers most of the known world[/li][li]“To the strongest” - Wars of the Diadochi[/li][li]Pyrrhus defeated by Rome[/li][li]1st Punic War[/li][li]Archimedes takes a bath[/li][li]China united by the First Emperor of Qin[/li][li]2nd Punic War[/li][li]3rd Punic War[/li][li]Marius foremost Roman strongman[/li][li]Sulla foremost Roman strongman[/li][li]1st Triumvirate: Caesar-Pompey-Crassus[/li][li]Caesar assassinated[/li][li]2nd Triumvirate: Octavian (later ka Augustus)-Antony-Lepidus[/li][li]Roman Empire founded[/li][li]Jesus born[/li][li]Tiberius succeeds Augustus[/li][li]Diocletian reforms the Roman Empire[/li][li]Muhammed born[/li][li]Paper invented[/li][li]The Crusades[/li][li]Genghis Khan conquers most of Eurasia[/li][li]A rat, no cat, an epidemic–the Black Death[/li][li]Invention of gunpowder[/li][li]Movable type[/li][li]Discovery & colonization of the Americas[/li][li]Copernican model of the Solar System[/li][li]Shakespeare gets a pen for his birthday[/li][li]Spanish Armada[/li][li]The Gunpowder Plot[/li][li]Isaac Newton creates modern physics and mathematics[/li][li]Leibniz invents modern calculus notation[/li][li]James II of Great Britain deposed[/li][li]Peter the Great founds St. Petersburg[/li][li]Battle of Blenheim[/li][li]War of the Austrian Succession begins[/li][li]French and Indian War ends[/li][li]Bunker Hill[/li][li]7/4/1776[/li][li]Saratoga[/li][li]Yorktown[/li][li]United States adopts its Constitution[/li][li]George Washington becomes first U.S. President[/li][li]Bastille stormed[/li][li]Metric system first introduced[/li][li]Reign of Terror in France[/li][li]Napoleon takes power in France[/li][li]Steam engines developed[/li][li]Darwin discovers Theory of Evolution[/li][li]Electricity discovered[/li][li]Invention of the telegraph[/li][li]Germ theory of disease[/li][li]Abraham Lincoln is elected President[/li][li]Lincoln lets his whiskers grow[/li][li]Confederates fire on Ft. Sumter[/li][li]Battle of Antietam[/li][li]Emancipation Proclamation[/li][li]Battle of Gettysburg[/li][li]Lee surrenders at Appomattox[/li][li]A man, a plan, a canal–Suez[/li][li]Radio invented[/li][li]Michelson-Morley experiment[/li][li]Quantum theory discovered[/li][li]X-Rays described[/li][li]A man, a plan, a canal–Panama[/li][li]Automobile invented[/li][li]Einstein’s miracle year[/li][li]Sarajevo[/li][li]General Relativity discovered[/li][li]Russian Revolution[/li][li]Henry Ford introduces the assembly line and mass production[/li][li]Lenin dies[/li][li]Quantum Mechanics discovered[/li][li]Cosmological Red Shift discovered[/li][li]Antimatter discovered[/li][li]Television invented[/li][li]WA- (“Onion” headline continued on page 2)[/li][li]Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany[/li][li]Reichstag Fire[/li][li]FDR 1st Inaugural[/li][li]Night of the Long Knives[/li][li]Baldwin chosen UK PM[/li][li]Edward VIII Abdication Crisis[/li][li]Germany reoccupies Rhineland[/li][li]FDR reelected[/li][li]Italy invades Ethiopia[/li][li]Japan invades China proper[/li][li]Anschluss[/li][li]Chamberlain UK PM[/li][li]Munich Crisis[/li][li]Germany occupies Czechoslovakia[/li][li]Germany invades Poland, triggering WWII[/li][li]Japan bombs Pearl Harbor[/li][li]Battle of Midway[/li][li]German army defeated at Stalingrad[/li][li]FDR dies; Truman becomes U.S. President[/li][li]Nazi Germany surrenders[/li][li]First nuclear weapon (tested)[/li][li]Hiroshima[/li][li]Nagasaki[/li][li]USSR declares war on Japan[/li][li]Japan surrenders[/li][li]Lamb shift discovered[/li][li]Transistor invented[/li][li]Truman defeats Dewey[/li][li]Communists win Chinese Civil War[/li][li]Korean War begins[/li][li]Checkers speech[/li][li]The Lord of the Rings is published[/li][li]Eisenhower defeats Stevenson[/li][li]DNA described by Watson and Crick[/li][li]First nuclear power station on-line[/li][li]Maser (precursor to laser) invented[/li][li]A man, a plan, a rocket–Sputnik[/li][li]Descent to bottom of the Marianas Trench[/li][li]Star Trek premieres[/li][li]Humans walk on another world[/li][li]Iranian Revolution[/li][li]Internet is invented[/li][li]First GMO (a recombinant bacteria)[/li][li]Cold War ends[/li][li]United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change[/li][li]Online porn fuels critical internet commercialization[/li][li]Human genome sequenced[/li][li]Facebook invented[/li][li]First life form with completely synthetic genetic material[/li][li]S&P downgrades US Debt from AAA to AA+[/li][li]Sun becomes a red giant[/li][li]Heat death of the Universe[/li][/ol] ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2011, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-add-the-next-10-most-significant-events-from-history/591705/27 "2011-08-07T21:36:00Z")
Big Bang Cosmological inflation First Hydrogen atom Population III stars form First galaxies Population II stars form Sun forms Earth forms Moon is formed Earth form solid crust Plate Tectonics gets going Life develops on Earth Eating other creatures for energy develops Photosynthesis develops Great Oxygenation Event Eukaryotic lifeforms evolve First sexual reproduction First multicellular lifeform First exoskeleton First endoskeleton Life emerges on land First warm blooded animal First grass Asteroid wipes out dinosaurs, allows mammals to rise. Protohumans evolve from primates Humans develop intelligence First human ancestors make tools Human ancestors learn how to create and use fire First human ancestors develop spoken language First Homo sapiens Toba supervolcano Australia settled Global temperatures rise after the last Ice Age Animals domesticated Homo sapiens reaches America Agriculture invented Wheel invented Bronze invented First professional army First cities Decimal numbering invented Writing invented Rise of Sumerians Egypt united Civilization flourishes in Indus Valley Egyptian Pyramids Sargon of Akkad - First Empire Iron mining and metallurgy Alphabet invented Abraham founds a religion Kingdom of David and Solomon Carthage founded First Olympic Games Rome founded Fall of Assyria Babylonian captivity of the Jewish people Cyrus the Great - rise of Persia Buddha Siddhartha Gautama founds a religion Invention of coinage Lydia conquered by Persian Empire Rome becomes a Republic Ionian Greek city of Miletus revolts, sacked Marathon Thermopylae Salamis Platea Start of Peloponnesian War Pericles dies in plague Athenian Sicilian expedition Athens surrenders Plato and the Platonic Academy Aristotles of Stagira and the Lyceum Alexander the Great conquers most of the known world “To the strongest” - Wars of the Diadochi Pyrrhus defeated by Rome 1st Punic War Archimedes takes a bath China united by the First Emperor of Qin 2nd Punic War 3rd Punic War Marius foremost Roman strongman Sulla foremost Roman strongman 1st Triumvirate: Caesar-Pompey-Crassus Caesar assassinated 2nd Triumvirate: Octavian (later ka Augustus)-Antony-Lepidus Roman Empire founded Jesus born Tiberius succeeds Augustus Diocletian reforms the Roman Empire Muhammed born Paper invented The Crusades Genghis Khan conquers most of Eurasia A rat, no cat, an epidemic–the Black Death Invention of gunpowder Movable type Discovery & colonization of the Americas Copernican model of the Solar System Shakespeare gets a pen for his birthday Spanish Armada The Gunpowder Plot Isaac Newton creates modern physics and mathematics Leibniz invents modern calculus notation James II of Great Britain deposed Peter the Great founds St. Petersburg Battle of Blenheim War of the Austrian Succession begins French and Indian War ends Bunker Hill 7/4/1776 Saratoga Yorktown United States adopts its Constitution George Washington becomes first U.S. President Bastille stormed Metric system first introduced Reign of Terror in France Napoleon takes power in France Steam engines developed Darwin discovers Theory of Evolution Electricity discovered Invention of the telegraph Germ theory of disease Abraham Lincoln is elected President Lincoln lets his whiskers grow Confederates fire on Ft. Sumter Battle of Antietam Emancipation Proclamation Battle of Gettysburg Lee surrenders at Appomattox A man, a plan, a canal–Suez Radio invented Michelson-Morley experiment Quantum theory discovered X-Rays described A man, a plan, a canal–Panama Automobile invented Einstein’s miracle year Sarajevo General Relativity discovered Russian Revolution Henry Ford introduces the assembly line and mass production Lenin dies Quantum Mechanics discovered Cosmological Red Shift discovered Antimatter discovered Television invented WA- (“Onion” headline continued on page 2) Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany Reichstag Fire FDR 1st Inaugural Night of the Long Knives Baldwin chosen UK PM Edward VIII Abdication Crisis Germany reoccupies Rhineland FDR reelected Italy invades Ethiopia Japan invades China proper Anschluss Chamberlain UK PM Munich Crisis Germany occupies Czechoslovakia Germany invades Poland, triggering WWII Japan bombs Pearl Harbor Battle of Midway German army defeated at Stalingrad FDR dies; Truman becomes U.S. President Nazi Germany surrenders First nuclear weapon (tested) Hiroshima Nagasaki USSR declares war on Japan Japan surrenders Lamb shift discovered Transistor invented Truman defeats Dewey Communists win Chinese Civil War Korean War begins Checkers speech The Lord of the Rings is published Eisenhower defeats Stevenson DNA described by Watson and Crick First nuclear power station on-line Maser (precursor to laser) invented A man, a plan, a rocket–Sputnik Descent to bottom of the Marianas Trench Star Trek premieres Humans walk on another world Iranian Revolution Three Mile Island melt down Mount Saint Helens blows off it’s top. Internet is invented First GMO (a recombinant bacteria) Cold War ends Chernobyl melt down United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Online porn fuels critical internet commercialization Human genome sequenced Facebook invented First life form with completely synthetic genetic material Australia fire storms destroy many cities. Rescue worker giving Koala water is hero. Christchurch New Zealand earthquake. Christchurch New Zealand earthquake again. Japan earthquake Fukushima melt down Christchurch New Zealand earthquake once again. S&P downgrades US Debt from AAA to AA+ Sun becomes a red giant Heat death of the Universe I did consult the spelling of Fukushima. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2011, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-add-the-next-10-most-significant-events-from-history/591705/28 "2011-08-07T22:10:02Z")
Big Bang Cosmological inflation First Hydrogen atom Population III stars form First galaxies Population II stars form Sun forms Earth forms Moon is formed Earth form solid crust Plate Tectonics gets going Life develops on Earth Eating other creatures for energy develops Photosynthesis develops Great Oxygenation Event Eukaryotic lifeforms evolve First sexual reproduction First multicellular lifeform First exoskeleton First endoskeleton Life emerges on land First warm blooded animal First grass Asteroid wipes out dinosaurs, allows mammals to rise. Protohumans evolve from primates Humans develop intelligence First human ancestors make tools Human ancestors learn how to create and use fire First human ancestors develop spoken language First Homo sapiens Toba supervolcano Australia settled Global temperatures rise after the last Ice Age Animals domesticated Homo sapiens reaches America Agriculture invented Wheel invented Bronze invented First professional army First cities Decimal numbering invented Writing invented Rise of Sumerians Egypt united Civilization flourishes in Indus Valley Egyptian Pyramids Sargon of Akkad - First Empire Iron mining and metallurgy Alphabet invented Abraham founds a religion Kingdom of David and Solomon Carthage founded First Olympic Games Rome founded Fall of Assyria Babylonian captivity of the Jewish people Cyrus the Great - rise of Persia Buddha Siddhartha Gautama founds a religion Invention of coinage Lydia conquered by Persian Empire Rome becomes a Republic Ionian Greek city of Miletus revolts, sacked Marathon Thermopylae Salamis Platea Start of Peloponnesian War Pericles dies in plague Athenian Sicilian expedition Athens surrenders Plato and the Platonic Academy Aristotles of Stagira and the Lyceum Alexander the Great conquers most of the known world “To the strongest” - Wars of the Diadochi Pyrrhus defeated by Rome 1st Punic War Archimedes takes a bath China united by the First Emperor of Qin 2nd Punic War 3rd Punic War Marius foremost Roman strongman Sulla foremost Roman strongman 1st Triumvirate: Caesar-Pompey-Crassus Caesar assassinated 2nd Triumvirate: Octavian (later ka Augustus)-Antony-Lepidus Roman Empire founded Jesus born Tiberius succeeds Augustus Diocletian reforms the Roman Empire Muhammed born Paper invented The Crusades Genghis Khan conquers most of Eurasia A rat, no cat, an epidemic–the Black Death Invention of gunpowder Movable type Discovery & colonization of the Americas Copernican model of the Solar System Shakespeare gets a pen for his birthday Spanish Armada The Gunpowder Plot Isaac Newton creates modern physics and mathematics Leibniz invents modern calculus notation James II of Great Britain deposed Peter the Great founds St. Petersburg Battle of Blenheim War of the Austrian Succession begins French and Indian War ends Bunker Hill 7/4/1776 Saratoga Yorktown United States adopts its Constitution George Washington becomes first U.S. President Bastille stormed Metric system first introduced Reign of Terror in France Napoleon takes power in France Steam engines developed Darwin discovers Theory of Evolution Electricity discovered Invention of the telegraph Germ theory of disease Abraham Lincoln is elected President Lincoln lets his whiskers grow Confederates fire on Ft. Sumter Battle of Antietam Emancipation Proclamation Battle of Gettysburg Lee surrenders at Appomattox A man, a plan, a canal–Suez Radio invented Michelson-Morley experiment Quantum theory discovered X-Rays described A man, a plan, a canal–Panama Automobile invented Einstein’s miracle year Sarajevo General Relativity discovered Russian Revolution Henry Ford introduces the assembly line and mass production Lenin dies Quantum Mechanics discovered Cosmological Red Shift discovered Antimatter discovered Television invented WA- (“Onion” headline continued on page 2) Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany Reichstag Fire FDR 1st Inaugural Night of the Long Knives Baldwin chosen UK PM Edward VIII Abdication Crisis Germany reoccupies Rhineland FDR reelected Italy invades Ethiopia Japan invades China proper Anschluss Chamberlain UK PM Munich Crisis Germany occupies Czechoslovakia Germany invades Poland, triggering WWII Japan bombs Pearl Harbor Battle of Midway German army defeated at Stalingrad FDR dies; Truman becomes U.S. President Nazi Germany surrenders First nuclear weapon (tested) Hiroshima Nagasaki USSR declares war on Japan Japan surrenders Lamb shift discovered Transistor invented Truman defeats Dewey Communists win Chinese Civil War Korean War begins Checkers speech The Lord of the Rings is published Eisenhower defeats Stevenson DNA described by Watson and Crick First nuclear power station on-line Maser (precursor to laser) invented A man, a plan, a rocket–Sputnik John F. Kennedy becomes U.S. President Kennedy sets goal of landing on Moon Descent to bottom of the Marianas Trench MLK “I have a dream” speech Kennedy signs Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Kennedy assassinated in Dallas Star Trek premieres Humans walk on another world Nixon resigns over Watergate scandal U.S Bicentennial Iranian Revolution Three Mile Island meltdown Mount Saint Helens blows off its top. Ronald Reagan elected U.S. President Internet is invented First GMO (a recombinant bacteria) Cold War ends Chernobyl melt down Fall of Berlin Wall United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Online porn fuels critical internet commercialization Human genome sequenced Facebook invented First life form with completely synthetic genetic material Barack Obama becomes 44th U.S. President Australia fire storms destroy many cities. Rescue worker giving Koala water is hero. Christchurch New Zealand earthquake. Christchurch New Zealand earthquake again. Japan earthquake Fukushima melt down Christchurch New Zealand earthquake once again. S&P downgrades US Debt from AAA to AA+ Sun becomes a red giant Heat death of the Universe ---
**Author:** ![colonial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/34f0e0/32.png) [@colonial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/colonial)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2011, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-add-the-next-10-most-significant-events-from-history/591705/29 "2011-08-08T01:04:16Z")
[ol] [li]Big Bang[/li][li]Cosmological inflation[/li][li]First Hydrogen atom[/li][li]Population III stars form[/li][li]First galaxies[/li][li]Population II stars form[/li][li]Sun forms[/li][li]Earth forms[/li][li]Moon is formed[/li][li]Earth form solid crust[/li][li]Plate Tectonics gets going[/li][li]Life develops on Earth[/li][li]Eating other creatures for energy develops[/li][li]Photosynthesis develops[/li][li]Great Oxygenation Event[/li][li]Eukaryotic lifeforms evolve[/li][li]First sexual reproduction[/li][li]First multicellular lifeform[/li][li]First exoskeleton[/li][li]First endoskeleton[/li][li]Life emerges on land[/li][li]First warm blooded animal[/li][li]First grass[/li][li]Asteroid wipes out dinosaurs, allows mammals to rise.[/li][li]Protohumans evolve from primates[/li][li]Humans develop intelligence[/li][li]First human ancestors make tools[/li][li]Human ancestors learn how to create and use fire[/li][li]First human ancestors develop spoken language[/li][li]First Homo sapiens[/li][li]Toba supervolcano[/li][li]Australia settled[/li][li]Global temperatures rise after the last Ice Age[/li][li]Animals domesticated[/li][li]Homo sapiens reaches America[/li][li]Agriculture invented[/li][li]Wheel invented[/li][li]Bronze invented[/li][li]First professional army[/li][li]First cities[/li][li]Decimal numbering invented[/li][li]Writing invented[/li][li]Rise of Sumerians[/li][li]Egypt united[/li][li]Civilization flourishes in Indus Valley[/li][li]Egyptian Pyramids[/li][li]Sargon of Akkad - First Empire[/li][li]Iron mining and metallurgy[/li][li]Alphabet invented[/li][li]Abraham founds a religion[/li][li]Kingdom of David and Solomon[/li][li]Carthage founded[/li][li]First Olympic Games[/li][li]Rome founded[/li][li]Fall of Assyria[/li][li]Babylonian captivity of the Jewish people[/li][li]Cyrus the Great - rise of Persia[/li][li]Buddha Siddhartha Gautama founds a religion[/li][li]Invention of coinage[/li][li]Lydia conquered by Persian Empire[/li][li]Rome becomes a Republic[/li][li]Ionian Greek city of Miletus revolts, sacked[/li][li]Marathon[/li][li]Thermopylae[/li][li]Salamis[/li][li]Platea[/li][li]Start of Peloponnesian War[/li][li]Pericles dies in plague[/li][li]Athenian Sicilian expedition[/li][li]Athens surrenders[/li][li]Plato and the Platonic Academy[/li][li]Philip becomes king of Macedon[/li][li]Aristotles of Stagira and the Lyceum[/li][li]Alexander the Great conquers most of the known world[/li][li]“To the strongest” - Wars of the Diadochi[/li][li]Pyrrhus defeated by Rome[/li][li]1st Punic War[/li][li]Archimedes takes a bath[/li][li]China united by the First Emperor of Qin[/li][li]Han Dynasty succeeds Quin[/li][li]2nd Punic War[/li][li]3rd Punic War[/li][li]Marius foremost Roman strongman[/li][li]Sulla foremost Roman strongman[/li][li]1st Triumvirate: Caesar-Pompey-Crassus[/li][li]Caesar assassinated[/li][li]2nd Triumvirate: Octavian (later ka Augustus)-Antony-Lepidus[/li][li]Roman Empire founded[/li][li]Jesus born[/li][li]Tiberius succeeds Augustus[/li][li]Trajan Emperor, Tacitus writes _Annals_[/li][li]Diocletian reforms the Roman Empire[/li][li]Constantine founds Constantinople[/li][li]Muhammed born[/li][li]Tang dynasty founded[/li][li]Paper invented[/li][li]The Crusades[/li][li]Genghis Khan conquers most of Eurasia[/li][li]Kublai Khan’s two expecitions vs Japan fail[/li][li]A rat, no cat, an epidemic–the Black Death[/li][li]Invention of gunpowder[/li][li]Movable type[/li][li]Discovery & colonization of the Americas[/li][li]Copernican model of the Solar System[/li][li]Shakespeare gets a pen for his birthday[/li][li]Spanish Armada[/li][li]The Gunpowder Plot[/li][li]Isaac Newton creates modern physics and mathematics[/li][li]Leibniz invents modern calculus notation[/li][li]James II of Great Britain deposed[/li][li]Peter the Great founds St. Petersburg[/li][li]Battle of Blenheim[/li][li]War of the Austrian Succession begins[/li][li]French and Indian War ends[/li][li]Bunker Hill[/li][li]7/4/1776[/li][li]Saratoga[/li][li]Yorktown[/li][li]United States adopts its Constitution[/li][li]George Washington becomes first U.S. President[/li][li]Bastille stormed[/li][li]Metric system first introduced[/li][li]Reign of Terror in France[/li][li]Napoleon takes power in France[/li][li]Waterloo[/li][li]Steam engines developed[/li][li]Darwin discovers Theory of Evolution[/li][li]Electricity discovered[/li][li]Invention of the telegraph[/li][li]Germ theory of disease[/li][li]Abraham Lincoln is elected President[/li][li]Lincoln lets his whiskers grow[/li][li]Confederates fire on Ft. Sumter[/li][li]Battle of Antietam[/li][li]Emancipation Proclamation[/li][li]Battle of Gettysburg[/li][li]Lee surrenders at Appomattox[/li][li]A man, a plan, a canal–Suez[/li][li]Radio invented[/li][li]Michelson-Morley experiment[/li][li]McKinley elected 1st term[/li][li]Quantum theory discovered[/li][li]X-Rays described[/li][li]A man, a plan, a canal–Panama[/li][li]Automobile invented[/li][li]Einstein’s miracle year[/li][li]Sarajevo[/li][li]General Relativity discovered[/li][li]Russian Revolution[/li][li]Henry Ford introduces the assembly line and mass production[/li][li]Lenin dies[/li][li]Quantum Mechanics discovered[/li][li]Cosmological Red Shift discovered[/li][li]Great Dperession begins[/li][li]Antimatter discovered[/li][li]FDR elected[/li][li]Television invented[/li][li]WA- (“Onion” headline continued on page 2)[/li][li]Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany[/li][li]Reichstag Fire[/li][li]FDR 1st Inaugural[/li][li]Night of the Long Knives[/li][li]Baldwin chosen UK PM[/li][li]Edward VIII Abdication Crisis[/li][li]Germany reoccupies Rhineland[/li][li]FDR reelected[/li][li]Italy invades Ethiopia[/li][li]Japan invades China proper[/li][li]Anschluss[/li][li]Chamberlain UK PM[/li][li]Munich Crisis[/li][li]Germany occupies Czechoslovakia[/li][li]Germany invades Poland, triggering WWII[/li][li]Germany invades Denmark and Norway[/li][li]Japan bombs Pearl Harbor[/li][li]Battle of Midway[/li][li]German army defeated at Stalingrad[/li][li]FDR dies; Truman becomes U.S. President[/li][li]Nazi Germany surrenders[/li][li]First nuclear weapon (tested)[/li][li]Hiroshima[/li][li]Nagasaki[/li][li]USSR declares war on Japan[/li][li]Japan surrenders[/li][li]Lamb shift discovered[/li][li]Transistor invented[/li][li]Truman defeats Dewey[/li][li]Communists win Chinese Civil War[/li][li]Korean War begins[/li][li]Checkers speech[/li][li]The Lord of the Rings is published[/li][li]Eisenhower defeats Stevenson[/li][li]DNA described by Watson and Crick[/li][li]First nuclear power station on-line[/li][li]Maser (precursor to laser) invented[/li][li]A man, a plan, a rocket–Sputnik[/li][li]John F. Kennedy becomes U.S. President[/li][li]Kennedy sets goal of landing on Moon[/li][li]Descent to bottom of the Marianas Trench[/li][li]MLK “I have a dream” speech[/li][li]Kennedy signs Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty[/li][li]Kennedy assassinated in Dallas[/li][li]Star Trek premieres[/li][li]Humans walk on another world[/li][li]Nixon resigns over Watergate scandal[/li][li]U.S Bicentennial[/li][li]Iranian Revolution[/li][li]Three Mile Island meltdown[/li][li]Mount Saint Helens blows off its top.[/li][li]Ronald Reagan elected U.S. President[/li][li]Internet is invented[/li][li]First GMO (a recombinant bacteria)[/li][li]Cold War ends[/li][li]Chernobyl melt down[/li][li]Fall of Berlin Wall[/li][li]United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change[/li][li]Online porn fuels critical internet commercialization[/li][li]Human genome sequenced[/li][li]Facebook invented[/li][li]First life form with completely synthetic genetic material[/li][li]Barack Obama becomes 44th U.S. President[/li][li]Australia fire storms destroy many cities. Rescue worker giving Koala water is hero.[/li][li]Christchurch New Zealand earthquake.[/li][li]Christchurch New Zealand earthquake again.[/li][li]Japan earthquake[/li][li]Fukushima melt down[/li][li]Christchurch New Zealand earthquake once again.[/li][li]S&P downgrades US Debt from AAA to AA+[/li][li]Sun becomes a red giant[/li][li]Heat death of the Universe[/li][/ol] ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2011, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-add-the-next-10-most-significant-events-from-history/591705/30 "2011-08-08T01:20:59Z")
Big Bang Cosmological inflation First Hydrogen atom Population III stars form First galaxies Population II stars form Sun forms Earth forms Moon is formed Earth form solid crust Plate Tectonics gets going Life develops on Earth Eating other creatures for energy develops Photosynthesis develops Great Oxygenation Event Eukaryotic lifeforms evolve First sexual reproduction First multicellular lifeform First exoskeleton First endoskeleton Life emerges on land First warm blooded animal First grass Asteroid wipes out dinosaurs, allows mammals to rise. Protohumans evolve from primates Humans develop intelligence First human ancestors make tools Human ancestors learn how to create and use fire First human ancestors develop spoken language First Homo sapiens Toba supervolcano Australia settled Global temperatures rise after the last Ice Age Animals domesticated Homo sapiens reaches America Agriculture invented Wheel invented Bronze invented First professional army First cities Decimal numbering invented Writing invented Rise of Sumerians Egypt united Civilization flourishes in Indus Valley Egyptian Pyramids Sargon of Akkad - First Empire Iron mining and metallurgy Alphabet invented Abraham founds a religion Kingdom of David and Solomon Carthage founded First Olympic Games Rome founded Fall of Assyria Babylonian captivity of the Jewish people Cyrus the Great - rise of Persia Buddha Siddhartha Gautama founds a religion Invention of coinage Lydia conquered by Persian Empire Rome becomes a Republic Ionian Greek city of Miletus revolts, sacked Marathon Thermopylae Salamis Platea Start of Peloponnesian War Pericles dies in plague Athenian Sicilian expedition Athens surrenders Plato and the Platonic Academy Philip becomes king of Macedon Aristotles of Stagira and the Lyceum Alexander the Great conquers most of the known world “To the strongest” - Wars of the Diadochi Pyrrhus defeated by Rome 1st Punic War Archimedes takes a bath China united by the First Emperor of Qin Han Dynasty succeeds Quin 2nd Punic War 3rd Punic War Marius foremost Roman strongman Sulla foremost Roman strongman 1st Triumvirate: Caesar-Pompey-Crassus Caesar assassinated 2nd Triumvirate: Octavian (later ka Augustus)-Antony-Lepidus Roman Empire founded Jesus born Tiberius succeeds Augustus Trajan Emperor, Tacitus writes Annals Diocletian reforms the Roman Empire Constantine founds Constantinople Muhammed born Tang dynasty founded Paper invented The Crusades Genghis Khan conquers most of Eurasia Kublai Khan’s two expeditions vs Japan fail A rat, no cat, an epidemic–the Black Death Invention of gunpowder Movable type Discovery & colonization of the Americas Copernican model of the Solar System Queen Elizabeth I takes the throne Shakespeare gets a pen for his birthday Spanish Armada The Gunpowder Plot Isaac Newton creates modern physics and mathematics Leibniz invents modern calculus notation James II of Great Britain deposed Peter the Great founds St. Petersburg Battle of Blenheim War of the Austrian Succession begins French and Indian War ends British troops fire on Minutemen at Lexington and Concord Bunker Hill 7/4/1776 Saratoga Yorktown United States adopts its Constitution George Washington becomes first U.S. President Bastille stormed Metric system first introduced Reign of Terror in France Napoleon takes power Battle of Austerlitz Battle of Trafalgar - death of Nelson Waterloo Steam engines developed Darwin discovers Theory of Evolution Electricity discovered Invention of the telegraph Germ theory of disease Abraham Lincoln is elected President Lincoln lets his whiskers grow Confederate States of America founded Confederates fire on Ft. Sumter Battle of Antietam Emancipation Proclamation Battle of Gettysburg Gettysburg Address Lee surrenders at Appomattox A man, a plan, a canal–Suez Radio invented Michelson-Morley experiment McKinley elected 1st term Quantum theory discovered X-Rays described A man, a plan, a canal–Panama Automobile invented Einstein’s miracle year Sarajevo General Relativity discovered Russian Revolution Tsar and his family executed Henry Ford introduces the assembly line and mass production Lenin dies Quantum Mechanics discovered Cosmological Red Shift discovered Great Depression begins Antimatter discovered FDR elected for first time Television invented WA- (“Onion” headline continued on page 2) Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany Reichstag Fire FDR 1st Inaugural Night of the Long Knives Baldwin chosen UK PM Edward VIII Abdication Crisis Germany reoccupies Rhineland FDR reelected Italy invades Ethiopia Japan invades China proper Anschluss Chamberlain UK PM Munich Crisis Germany occupies Czechoslovakia Germany invades Poland, triggering WWII Germany invades Denmark and Norway Japan bombs Pearl Harbor Battle of Midway Wannsee Conference German army defeated at Stalingrad D-Day landings, Normandy FDR dies; Truman becomes U.S. President Nazi Germany surrenders First nuclear weapon (tested) Hiroshima Nagasaki USSR declares war on Japan Japan surrenders Lamb shift discovered Transistor invented Truman defeats Dewey Communists win Chinese Civil War Korean War begins Checkers speech Eisenhower beats Stevenson the first time The Lord of the Rings is published Eisenhower defeats Stevenson again DNA described by Watson and Crick First nuclear power station on-line Maser (precursor to laser) invented A man, a plan, a rocket–Sputnik John F. Kennedy becomes U.S. President Peace Corps established Kennedy sets goal of landing on Moon Descent to bottom of the Marianas Trench MLK “I have a dream” speech Kennedy signs Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Kennedy assassinated in Dallas Star Trek premieres Humans walk on another world Nixon resigns over Watergate scandal U.S Bicentennial Iranian Revolution Three Mile Island meltdown Mount Saint Helens blows off its top. Ronald Reagan elected U.S. President Internet is invented First GMO (a recombinant bacteria) Cold War ends Chernobyl melt down Fall of Berlin Wall United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Online porn fuels critical internet commercialization Human genome sequenced Facebook invented First life form with completely synthetic genetic material Barack Obama becomes 44th U.S. President Australia fire storms destroy many cities. Rescue worker giving Koala water is hero. Christchurch New Zealand earthquake. Christchurch New Zealand earthquake again. Japan earthquake Fukushima melt down Christchurch New Zealand earthquake once again. S&P downgrades US Debt from AAA to AA+ Sun becomes a red giant Heat death of the Universe ---
**Author:** ![colonial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/34f0e0/32.png) [@colonial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/colonial)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2011, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-add-the-next-10-most-significant-events-from-history/591705/31 "2011-08-08T02:54:06Z")
[ol] [li]Big Bang[/li][li]Cosmological inflation[/li][li]First Hydrogen atom[/li][li]Population III stars form[/li][li]First galaxies[/li][li]Population II stars form[/li][li]Sun forms[/li][li]Earth forms[/li][li]Moon is formed[/li][li]Earth form solid crust[/li][li]Plate Tectonics gets going[/li][li]Life develops on Earth[/li][li]Eating other creatures for energy develops[/li][li]Photosynthesis develops[/li][li]Great Oxygenation Event[/li][li]Eukaryotic lifeforms evolve[/li][li]First sexual reproduction[/li][li]First multicellular lifeform[/li][li]First exoskeleton[/li][li]First endoskeleton[/li][li]Life emerges on land[/li][li]First warm blooded animal[/li][li]First grass[/li][li]Asteroid wipes out dinosaurs, allows mammals to rise.[/li][li]Protohumans evolve from primates[/li][li]Humans develop intelligence[/li][li]First human ancestors make tools[/li][li]Human ancestors learn how to create and use fire[/li][li]First human ancestors develop spoken language[/li][li]First Homo sapiens[/li][li]Toba supervolcano[/li][li]Australia settled[/li][li]Global temperatures rise after the last Ice Age[/li][li]Animals domesticated[/li][li]Homo sapiens reaches America[/li][li]Agriculture invented[/li][li]Wheel invented[/li][li]Bronze invented[/li][li]First professional army[/li][li]First cities[/li][li]Decimal numbering invented[/li][li]Writing invented[/li][li]Rise of Sumerians[/li][li]Egypt united[/li][li]Civilization flourishes in Indus Valley[/li][li]Egyptian Pyramids[/li][li]Sargon of Akkad - First Empire[/li][li]Iron mining and metallurgy[/li][li]Alphabet invented[/li][li]Abraham founds a religion[/li][li]Kingdom of David and Solomon[/li][li]Carthage founded[/li][li]First Olympic Games[/li][li]Rome founded[/li][li]Fall of Assyria[/li][li]Babylonian captivity of the Jewish people[/li][li]Cyrus the Great - rise of Persia[/li][li]Buddha Siddhartha Gautama founds a religion[/li][li]Invention of coinage[/li][li]Lydia conquered by Persian Empire[/li][li]Rome becomes a Republic[/li][li]Ionian Greek city of Miletus revolts, sacked[/li][li]Marathon[/li][li]Thermopylae[/li][li]Salamis[/li][li]Platea[/li][li]Start of Peloponnesian War[/li][li]Pericles dies in plague[/li][li]Athenian Sicilian expedition[/li][li]Athens surrenders[/li][li]Plato and the Platonic Academy[/li][li]Philip becomes king of Macedon[/li][li]Aristotles of Stagira and the Lyceum[/li][li]Alexander the Great conquers most of the known world[/li][li]To the strongest - Wars of the Diadochi[/li][li]Pyrrhus defeated by Rome[/li][li]1st Punic War[/li][li]Archimedes takes a bath[/li][li]China united by the First Emperor of Qin[/li][li]Han Dynasty succeeds Quin[/li][li]2nd Punic War[/li][li]3rd Punic War[/li][li]Marius foremost Roman strongman[/li][li]Sulla foremost Roman strongman[/li][li]1st Triumvirate: Caesar-Pompey-Crassus[/li][li]Caesar assassinated[/li][li]2nd Triumvirate: Octavian (later ka Augustus)-Antony-Lepidus[/li][li]Roman Empire founded[/li][li]Jesus born[/li][li]Tiberius succeeds Augustus[/li][li]Trajan Emperor, Tacitus writes Annals[/li][li]Diocletian reforms the Roman Empire[/li][li]Constantine founds Constantinople[/li][li]Muhammed born[/li][li]Tang dynasty founded[/li][li]Paper invented[/li][li]The Crusades[/li][li]Genghis Khan conquers most of Eurasia[/li][li]Kublai Khan’s two expeditions vs Japan fail[/li][li]A rat, no cat, an epidemic–the Black Death[/li][li]Invention of gunpowder[/li][li]Movable type[/li][li]Discovery & colonization of the Americas[/li][li]Copernican model of the Solar System[/li][li]Queen Elizabeth I takes the throne[/li][li]Shakespeare gets a pen for his birthday[/li][li]Spanish Armada[/li][li]The Gunpowder Plot[/li][li]Isaac Newton creates modern physics and mathematics[/li][li]Leibniz invents modern calculus notation[/li][li]James II of Great Britain deposed[/li][li]Peter the Great founds St. Petersburg[/li][li]Battle of Blenheim[/li][li]War of the Austrian Succession begins[/li][li]French and Indian War ends[/li][li]British troops fire on Minutemen at Lexington and Concord[/li][li]Bunker Hill[/li][li]7/4/1776[/li][li]Saratoga[/li][li]Yorktown[/li][li]United States adopts its Constitution[/li][li]George Washington becomes first U.S. President[/li][li]Bastille stormed[/li][li]Metric system first introduced[/li][li]Reign of Terror in France[/li][li]Napoleon takes power[/li][li]Battle of Austerlitz[/li][li]Battle of Trafalgar - death of Nelson[/li][li]Waterloo[/li][li]Steam engines developed[/li][li]Darwin discovers Theory of Evolution[/li][li]Electricity discovered[/li][li]Invention of the telegraph[/li][li]Germ theory of disease[/li][li]Abraham Lincoln is elected President[/li][li]Lincoln lets his whiskers grow[/li][li]Confederate States of America founded[/li][li]Confederates fire on Ft. Sumter[/li][li]Battle of Antietam[/li][li]Emancipation Proclamation[/li][li]Battle of Gettysburg[/li][li]Gettysburg Address[/li][li]Lee surrenders at Appomattox[/li][li]A man, a plan, a canal–Suez[/li][li]Radio invented[/li][li]Michelson-Morley experiment[/li][li]McKinley elected 1st term[/li][li]Quantum theory discovered[/li][li]X-Rays described[/li][li]A man, a plan, a canal–Panama[/li][li]Automobile invented[/li][li]Einstein’s miracle year[/li][li]Sarajevo[/li][li]General Relativity discovered[/li][li]Russian Revolution[/li][li]Tsar and his family executed[/li][li]Henry Ford introduces the assembly line and mass production[/li][li]Lenin dies[/li][li]Quantum Mechanics discovered[/li][li]Cosmological Red Shift discovered[/li][li]Great Depression begins[/li][li]Antimatter discovered[/li][li]FDR elected for first time[/li][li]Television invented[/li][li]WA- (“Onion” headline continued on page 2)[/li][li]Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany[/li][li]Reichstag Fire[/li][li]FDR 1st Inaugural[/li][li]Night of the Long Knives[/li][li]Baldwin chosen UK PM[/li][li]Edward VIII Abdication Crisis[/li][li]Germany reoccupies Rhineland[/li][li]FDR reelected[/li][li]Italy invades Ethiopia[/li][li]Japan invades China proper[/li][li]Anschluss[/li][li]Chamberlain UK PM[/li][li]Munich Crisis[/li][li]Germany occupies Czechoslovakia[/li][li]Germany invades Poland, triggering WWII[/li][li]Finland vs USSR Winter War[/li][li]Germany invades Denmark and Norway[/li][li]Germany invades Netherlands, Belgium, Luxemboug, France[/li][li]Dunkirk[/li][li]Battle of Britain[/li][li]Germany invades Yugoslavia, Greece[/li][li]Germany invades USSR[/li][li]Japan bombs Pearl Harbor[/li][li]Singapore falls[/li][li]Corregidor falls[/li][li]Battle of Midway[/li][li]Wannsee Conference[/li][li]German army defeated at Stalingrad[/li][li]D-Day landings, Normandy[/li][li]FDR dies; Truman becomes U.S. President[/li][li]Nazi Germany surrenders[/li][li]First nuclear weapon (tested)[/li][li]Hiroshima[/li][li]Nagasaki[/li][li]USSR declares war on Japan[/li][li]Japan surrenders[/li][li]Lamb shift discovered[/li][li]Transistor invented[/li][li]Truman defeats Dewey[/li][li]Communists win Chinese Civil War[/li][li]Korean War begins[/li][li]Checkers speech[/li][li]Eisenhower beats Stevenson the first time[/li][li]The Lord of the Rings is published[/li][li]Eisenhower defeats Stevenson again[/li][li]DNA described by Watson and Crick[/li][li]First nuclear power station on-line[/li][li]Maser (precursor to laser) invented[/li][li]A man, a plan, a rocket–Sputnik[/li][li]John F. Kennedy becomes U.S. President[/li][li]Peace Corps established[/li][li]Kennedy sets goal of landing on Moon[/li][li]Descent to bottom of the Marianas Trench[/li][li]MLK “I have a dream” speech[/li][li]Kennedy signs Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty[/li][li]Kennedy assassinated in Dallas[/li][li]Star Trek premieres[/li][li]Humans walk on another world[/li][li]Nixon resigns over Watergate scandal[/li][li]U.S Bicentennial[/li][li]Iranian Revolution[/li][li]Three Mile Island meltdown[/li][li]Mount Saint Helens blows off its top.[/li][li]Ronald Reagan elected U.S. President[/li][li]Chernobyl melt down[/li][li]Internet is invented[/li][li]First GMO (a recombinant bacteria)[/li][li]Cold War ends[/li][li]Fall of Berlin Wall[/li][li]Gulf War I[/li][li]United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change[/li][li]Online porn fuels critical internet commercialization[/li][li]Human genome sequenced[/li][li]Facebook invented[/li][li]First life form with completely synthetic genetic material[/li][li]Barack Obama becomes 44th U.S. President[/li][li]Australia fire storms. Rescue worker giving Koala water is hero.[/li][li]Christchurch New Zealand earthquake.[/li][li]Christchurch New Zealand earthquake again.[/li][li]Japan earthquake[/li][li]Fukushima melt down[/li][li]Christchurch New Zealand earthquake once again.[/li][li]S&P downgrades US Debt from AAA to AA+[/li][li]Sun becomes a red giant[/li][li]Heat death of the Universe[/li][/ol] ---
**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2011, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-add-the-next-10-most-significant-events-from-history/591705/32 "2011-08-08T03:56:00Z")
Big Bang Cosmological inflation First Hydrogen atom Population III stars form First galaxies Population II stars form Sun forms Earth forms Moon is formed Earth form solid crust Plate Tectonics gets going Life develops on Earth Eating other creatures for energy develops Photosynthesis develops Great Oxygenation Event Eukaryotic lifeforms evolve First sexual reproduction First multicellular lifeform First exoskeleton First endoskeleton Life emerges on land First warm blooded animal First grass Asteroid wipes out dinosaurs, allows mammals to rise. Protohumans evolve from primates Humans develop intelligence First human ancestors make tools Human ancestors learn how to create and use fire First human ancestors develop spoken language First Homo sapiens Toba supervolcano Australia settled Global temperatures rise after the last Ice Age Animals domesticated Homo sapiens reaches America Agriculture invented Wheel invented Bronze invented First professional army First cities Decimal numbering invented Writing invented Rise of Sumerians Egypt united Civilization flourishes in Indus Valley Egyptian Pyramids Sargon of Akkad - First Empire Iron mining and metallurgy Alphabet invented Abraham founds a religion Kingdom of David and Solomon Carthage founded First Olympic Games Rome founded Fall of Assyria Babylonian captivity of the Jewish people Cyrus the Great - rise of Persia Buddha Siddhartha Gautama founds a religion Invention of coinage Lydia conquered by Persian Empire Rome becomes a Republic Ionian Greek city of Miletus revolts, sacked Marathon Thermopylae Salamis Platea Start of Peloponnesian War Pericles dies in plague Athenian Sicilian expedition Athens surrenders Plato and the Platonic Academy Philip becomes king of Macedon Aristotles of Stagira and the Lyceum Alexander the Great conquers most of the known world To the strongest - Wars of the Diadochi Pyrrhus defeated by Rome 1st Punic War Archimedes takes a bath China united by the First Emperor of Qin Han Dynasty succeeds Quin 2nd Punic War 3rd Punic War Marius foremost Roman strongman Sulla foremost Roman strongman 1st Triumvirate: Caesar-Pompey-Crassus Caesar assassinated 2nd Triumvirate: Octavian (later ka Augustus)-Antony-Lepidus Roman Empire founded Jesus born Tiberius succeeds Augustus Trajan Emperor, Tacitus writes Annals Diocletian reforms the Roman Empire Constantine founds Constantinople Muhammed born Tang dynasty founded Paper invented First writings about tea making Roman Catholicism endures the Pornocracy Great Schism between Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches Good King Wenceslas looks out on the Feast of Steven The Crusades Genghis Khan conquers most of Eurasia Kublai Khan’s two expeditions vs Japan fail A rat, no cat, an epidemic–the Black Death Invention of gunpowder Movable type Byzantium falls to Ottomans Discovery & colonization of the Americas Copernican model of the Solar System Queen Elizabeth I takes the throne Shakespeare gets a pen for his birthday Spanish Armada The Gunpowder Plot Isaac Newton creates modern physics and mathematics Leibniz invents modern calculus notation James II of Great Britain deposed Peter the Great founds St. Petersburg Battle of Blenheim War of the Austrian Succession begins French and Indian War ends British troops fire on Minutemen at Lexington and Concord Bunker Hill 7/4/1776 Ludwig van Beethoven begins piano lessons Saratoga Yorktown United States adopts its Constitution George Washington becomes first U.S. President Bastille stormed Metric system first introduced Reign of Terror in France Napoleon takes power Battle of Austerlitz Battle of Trafalgar - death of Nelson Waterloo Steam engines developed Darwin discovers Theory of Evolution Electricity discovered Invention of the telegraph Germ theory of disease Abraham Lincoln is elected President Lincoln lets his whiskers grow Confederate States of America founded Confederates fire on Ft. Sumter Battle of Antietam Emancipation Proclamation Battle of Gettysburg Gettysburg Address Lee surrenders at Appomattox A man, a plan, a canal–Suez Radio invented Michelson-Morley experiment McKinley elected 1st term Quantum theory discovered X-Rays described A man, a plan, a canal–Panama Automobile invented Einstein’s miracle year Sarajevo General Relativity discovered Russian Revolution Tsar and his family executed Prohibition in USA Henry Ford introduces the assembly line and mass production James Joyce publishes “Ulysses” Lenin dies Quantum Mechanics discovered Cosmological Red Shift discovered Great Depression begins Antimatter discovered FDR elected for first time Television invented WA- (“Onion” headline continued on page 2) Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany Reichstag Fire FDR 1st Inaugural Night of the Long Knives Baldwin chosen UK PM Edward VIII Abdication Crisis Germany reoccupies Rhineland FDR reelected Italy invades Ethiopia Japan invades China proper Anschluss Chamberlain UK PM Munich Crisis Germany occupies Czechoslovakia Germany invades Poland, triggering WWII Finland vs USSR Winter War Germany invades Denmark and Norway Germany invades Netherlands, Belgium, Luxemboug, France Dunkirk Battle of Britain Germany invades Yugoslavia, Greece Germany invades USSR Japan bombs Pearl Harbor Singapore falls Corregidor falls Battle of Midway Wannsee Conference German army defeated at Stalingrad D-Day landings, Normandy FDR dies; Truman becomes U.S. President Nazi Germany surrenders First nuclear weapon (tested) Hiroshima Nagasaki USSR declares war on Japan Japan surrenders Lamb shift discovered Transistor invented Truman defeats Dewey Communists win Chinese Civil War Korean War begins Checkers speech Eisenhower beats Stevenson the first time The Lord of the Rings is published Eisenhower defeats Stevenson again DNA described by Watson and Crick First nuclear power station on-line Maser (precursor to laser) invented John Lennon meets Paul McCartney A man, a plan, a rocket–Sputnik John F. Kennedy becomes U.S. President Peace Corps established Kennedy sets goal of landing on Moon Descent to bottom of the Marianas Trench MLK “I have a dream” speech Kennedy signs Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Kennedy assassinated in Dallas Star Trek premieres Humans walk on another world Nixon resigns over Watergate scandal Word processors begin to supplant typewriters U.S Bicentennial Iranian Revolution Three Mile Island meltdown Mount Saint Helens blows off its top. Ronald Reagan elected U.S. President Chernobyl melt down Internet is invented First GMO (a recombinant bacteria) Cold War ends Fall of Berlin Wall Gulf War I United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Online porn fuels critical internet commercialization Human genome sequenced Facebook invented First life form with completely synthetic genetic material Barack Obama becomes 44th U.S. President Australia fire storms. Rescue worker giving Koala water is hero. Christchurch New Zealand earthquake. Christchurch New Zealand earthquake again. Japan earthquake Fukushima melt down Christchurch New Zealand earthquake once again. S&P downgrades US Debt from AAA to AA+ Sun becomes a red giant Heat death of the Universe ---
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Big Bang Cosmological inflation First Hydrogen atom Population III stars form First galaxies Population II stars form Sun forms Earth forms Moon is formed Earth form solid crust Plate Tectonics gets going Life develops on Earth Eating other creatures for energy develops Photosynthesis develops Great Oxygenation Event Eukaryotic lifeforms evolve First sexual reproduction First multicellular lifeform First exoskeleton First endoskeleton Life emerges on land First warm blooded animal First grass Asteroid wipes out dinosaurs, allows mammals to rise. Protohumans evolve from primates Humans develop intelligence First human ancestors make tools Human ancestors learn how to create and use fire First human ancestors develop spoken language First Homo sapiens Toba supervolcano Australia settled Global temperatures rise after the last Ice Age Animals domesticated Homo sapiens reaches America Agriculture invented Wheel invented Bronze invented First professional army First cities Decimal numbering invented Writing invented Rise of Sumerians Egypt united Civilization flourishes in Indus Valley Egyptian Pyramids Sargon of Akkad - First Empire Iron mining and metallurgy Alphabet invented Abraham founds a religion Kingdom of David and Solomon Carthage founded First Olympic Games Rome founded Fall of Assyria Babylonian captivity of the Jewish people Cyrus the Great - rise of Persia Buddha Siddhartha Gautama founds a religion Invention of coinage Lydia conquered by Persian Empire Rome becomes a Republic Ionian Greek city of Miletus revolts, sacked Marathon Thermopylae Salamis Platea Start of Peloponnesian War Pericles dies in plague Athenian Sicilian expedition Athens surrenders Plato and the Platonic Academy Philip becomes king of Macedon Aristotles of Stagira and the Lyceum Alexander the Great conquers most of the known world To the strongest - Wars of the Diadochi Pyrrhus defeated by Rome 1st Punic War Archimedes takes a bath China united by the First Emperor of Qin Han Dynasty succeeds Quin 2nd Punic War 3rd Punic War Marius foremost Roman strongman Sulla foremost Roman strongman 1st Triumvirate: Caesar-Pompey-Crassus Caesar assassinated 2nd Triumvirate: Octavian (later ka Augustus)-Antony-Lepidus Roman Empire founded Jesus born Tiberius succeeds Augustus Trajan Emperor, Tacitus writes Annals Diocletian reforms the Roman Empire Constantine founds Constantinople Muhammed born Tang dynasty founded Paper invented First writings about tea making Roman Catholicism endures the Pornocracy Great Schism between Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches Good King Wenceslas looks out on the Feast of Steven The Crusades Genghis Khan conquers most of Eurasia Kublai Khan’s two expeditions vs Japan fail A rat, no cat, an epidemic–the Black Death Invention of gunpowder Movable type Byzantium falls to Ottomans Discovery & colonization of the Americas Copernican model of the Solar System Queen Elizabeth I takes the throne Shakespeare gets a pen for his birthday Spanish Armada The Gunpowder Plot Isaac Newton creates modern physics and mathematics Leibniz invents modern calculus notation James II of Great Britain deposed Peter the Great founds St. Petersburg Battle of Blenheim War of the Austrian Succession begins French and Indian War ends British troops fire on Minutemen at Lexington and Concord Bunker Hill 7/4/1776 Ludwig van Beethoven begins piano lessons Saratoga Yorktown United States adopts its Constitution George Washington becomes first U.S. President Bastille stormed Metric system first introduced Reign of Terror in France Napoleon takes power Battle of Austerlitz Battle of Trafalgar - death of Nelson Waterloo Steam engines developed Darwin discovers Theory of Evolution Electricity discovered Invention of the telegraph Germ theory of disease Abraham Lincoln is elected President Lincoln lets his whiskers grow Confederate States of America founded Confederates fire on Ft. Sumter USS Monitor and CSS Virginia in first ironclad duel Battle of Antietam Emancipation Proclamation Battle of Gettysburg Gettysburg Address USS Kearsarge defeats CSS Alabama off Cherbourg, France Lee surrenders at Appomattox A man, a plan, a canal–Suez Radio invented Michelson-Morley experiment McKinley elected 1st term Quantum theory discovered X-Rays described A man, a plan, a canal–Panama Automobile invented Einstein’s miracle year Sarajevo General Relativity discovered Russian Revolution Tsar and his family executed Prohibition in USA Henry Ford introduces the assembly line and mass production James Joyce publishes “Ulysses” Lenin dies Quantum Mechanics discovered Cosmological Red Shift discovered Great Depression begins Antimatter discovered FDR elected for first time Television invented WA- (“Onion” headline continued on page 2) Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany Reichstag Fire FDR 1st Inaugural Night of the Long Knives Baldwin chosen UK PM Edward VIII Abdication Crisis Germany reoccupies Rhineland FDR reelected Italy invades Ethiopia Japan invades China proper Anschluss Chamberlain UK PM Munich Crisis Germany occupies Czechoslovakia Germany invades Poland, triggering WWII Finland vs USSR Winter War Germany invades Denmark and Norway Germany invades Netherlands, Belgium, Luxemboug, France Dunkirk Battle of Britain Germany invades Yugoslavia, Greece Germany invades USSR Japan bombs Pearl Harbor Singapore falls Corregidor falls Battle of Midway Wannsee Conference German army defeated at Stalingrad D-Day landings, Normandy FDR dies; Truman becomes U.S. President Nazi Germany surrenders First nuclear weapon (tested) Hiroshima Nagasaki USSR declares war on Japan Japan surrenders Lamb shift discovered Transistor invented Truman defeats Dewey Communists win Chinese Civil War Korean War begins Checkers speech Eisenhower beats Stevenson the first time USS Nautilus goes under the North Pole The Lord of the Rings is published Eisenhower defeats Stevenson again DNA described by Watson and Crick First nuclear power station on-line Maser (precursor to laser) invented John Lennon meets Paul McCartney A man, a plan, a rocket–Sputnik John F. Kennedy becomes U.S. President Peace Corps established Kennedy sets goal of landing on Moon Descent to bottom of the Marianas Trench MLK “I have a dream” speech Kennedy signs Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Kennedy assassinated in Dallas Star Trek premieres Humans walk on another world Nixon resigns over Watergate scandal Word processors begin to supplant typewriters U.S. Bicentennial Iranian Revolution Seizure of U.S. Embassy in Tehran Three Mile Island meltdown Mount Saint Helens blows off its top. Ronald Reagan elected U.S. President Chernobyl melt down Internet is invented First GMO (a recombinant bacteria) Cold War ends Fall of Berlin Wall Gulf War I United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Online porn fuels critical Internet commercialization Human genome sequenced Supreme Court rules in Bush v. Gore 9-11 terrorist attacks U.S. invades Afghanistan U.S. and allies invade Iraq Facebook invented President George W. Bush reelected Hurricane Katrina First life form with completely synthetic genetic material Barack Obama becomes 44th U.S. President Australia fire storms. Rescue worker giving Koala water is hero. Christchurch New Zealand earthquake. Christchurch New Zealand earthquake again. Japan earthquake Fukushima melt down Christchurch New Zealand earthquake once again. S&P downgrades US Debt from AAA to AA+ Sun becomes a red giant Heat death of the Universe ---
**Author:** ![colonial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/34f0e0/32.png) [@colonial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/colonial)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2011, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-add-the-next-10-most-significant-events-from-history/591705/34 "2011-08-08T06:12:32Z")
[ol] [li]Big Bang[/li][li]Cosmological inflation[/li][li]First Hydrogen atom[/li][li]Population III stars form[/li][li]First galaxies[/li][li]Population II stars form[/li][li]Sun forms[/li][li]Earth forms[/li][li]Moon is formed[/li][li]Earth form solid crust[/li][li]Plate Tectonics gets going[/li][li]Life develops on Earth[/li][li]Eating other creatures for energy develops[/li][li]Photosynthesis develops[/li][li]Great Oxygenation Event[/li][li]Eukaryotic lifeforms evolve[/li][li]First sexual reproduction[/li][li]First multicellular lifeform[/li][li]First exoskeleton[/li][li]First endoskeleton[/li][li]Life emerges on land[/li][li]First warm blooded animal[/li][li]First grass[/li][li]Asteroid wipes out dinosaurs, allows mammals to rise.[/li][li]Protohumans evolve from primates[/li][li]Humans develop intelligence[/li][li]First human ancestors make tools[/li][li]Human ancestors learn how to create and use fire[/li][li]First human ancestors develop spoken language[/li][li]First Homo sapiens[/li][li]Toba supervolcano[/li][li]Australia settled[/li][li]Global temperatures rise after the last Ice Age[/li][li]Animals domesticated[/li][li]Homo sapiens reaches America[/li][li]Agriculture invented[/li][li]Wheel invented[/li][li]Bronze invented[/li][li]First professional army[/li][li]First cities[/li][li]Decimal numbering invented[/li][li]Writing invented[/li][li]Rise of Sumerians[/li][li]Egypt united[/li][li]Civilization flourishes in Indus Valley[/li][li]Egyptian Pyramids[/li][li]Sargon of Akkad - First Empire[/li][li]Iron mining and metallurgy[/li][li]Alphabet invented[/li][li]Abraham founds a religion[/li][li]Kingdom of David and Solomon[/li][li]Carthage founded[/li][li]First Olympic Games[/li][li]Rome founded[/li][li]Fall of Assyria[/li][li]Babylonian captivity of the Jewish people[/li][li]Cyrus the Great - rise of Persia[/li][li]Buddha Siddhartha Gautama founds a religion[/li][li]Invention of coinage[/li][li]Lydia conquered by Persian Empire[/li][li]Rome becomes a Republic[/li][li]Ionian Greek city of Miletus revolts, sacked[/li][li]Marathon[/li][li]Thermopylae[/li][li]Salamis[/li][li]Platea[/li][li]Start of Peloponnesian War[/li][li]Pericles dies in plague[/li][li]Athenian Sicilian expedition[/li][li]Athens surrenders[/li][li]Plato and the Platonic Academy[/li][li]Philip becomes king of Macedon[/li][li]Aristotles of Stagira and the Lyceum[/li][li]Alexander the Great conquers most of the known world[/li][li]To the strongest - Wars of the Diadochi[/li][li]Pyrrhus defeated by Rome[/li][li]1st Punic War[/li][li]Archimedes takes a bath[/li][li]China united by the First Emperor of Qin[/li][li]Han Dynasty succeeds Quin[/li][li]2nd Punic War[/li][li]3rd Punic War[/li][li]Marius foremost Roman strongman[/li][li]Sulla foremost Roman strongman[/li][li]1st Triumvirate: Caesar-Pompey-Crassus[/li][li]Caesar assassinated[/li][li]2nd Triumvirate: Octavian (later ka Augustus)-Antony-Lepidus[/li][li]Roman Empire founded[/li][li]Jesus born[/li][li]Tiberius succeeds Augustus[/li][li]Trajan Emperor, Tacitus writes Annals[/li][li]Diocletian reforms the Roman Empire[/li][li]Constantine founds Constantinople[/li][li]Muhammed born[/li][li]Tang dynasty founded[/li][li]Paper invented[/li][li]First writings about tea making[/li][li]Roman Catholicism endures the Pornocracy[/li][li]Great Schism between Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches[/li][li]Good King Wenceslas looks out on the Feast of Steven[/li][li]The Crusades[/li][li]Genghis Khan conquers most of Eurasia[/li][li]Kublai Khan’s two expeditions vs Japan fail[/li][li]A rat, no cat, an epidemic–the Black Death[/li][li]Invention of gunpowder[/li][li]Movable type[/li][li]Byzantium falls to Ottomans[/li][li]Discovery & colonization of the Americas[/li][li]Copernican model of the Solar System[/li][li]Queen Elizabeth I takes the throne[/li][li]Shakespeare gets a pen for his birthday[/li][li]Spanish Armada[/li][li]The Gunpowder Plot[/li][li]Isaac Newton creates modern physics and mathematics[/li][li]Leibniz invents modern calculus notation[/li][li]James II of Great Britain deposed[/li][li]Peter the Great founds St. Petersburg[/li][li]Battle of Blenheim[/li][li]War of the Austrian Succession begins[/li][li]French and Indian War ends[/li][li]British troops fire on Minutemen at Lexington and Concord[/li][li]Bunker Hill[/li][li]7/4/1776[/li][li]Ludwig van Beethoven begins piano lessons[/li][li]Saratoga[/li][li]Yorktown[/li][li]United States adopts its Constitution[/li][li]George Washington becomes first U.S. President[/li][li]Bastille stormed[/li][li]Metric system first introduced[/li][li]Reign of Terror in France[/li][li]Napoleon takes power[/li][li]Battle of Austerlitz[/li][li]Battle of Trafalgar - death of Nelson[/li][li]Waterloo[/li][li]Steam engines developed[/li][li]Darwin discovers Theory of Evolution[/li][li]Electricity discovered[/li][li]Invention of the telegraph[/li][li]Germ theory of disease[/li][li]Abraham Lincoln is elected President[/li][li]Lincoln lets his whiskers grow[/li][li]Confederate States of America founded[/li][li]Confederates fire on Ft. Sumter[/li][li]USS Monitor and CSS Virginia in first ironclad duel[/li][li]Battle of Antietam[/li][li]Emancipation Proclamation[/li][li]Battle of Gettysburg[/li][li]Gettysburg Address[/li][li]USS Kearsarge defeats CSS Alabama off Cherbourg, France[/li][li]Lee surrenders at Appomattox[/li][li]A man, a plan, a canal–Suez[/li][li]Radio invented[/li][li]Michelson-Morley experiment[/li][li]McKinley elected 1st term[/li][li]Quantum theory discovered[/li][li]X-Rays described[/li][li]A man, a plan, a canal–Panama[/li][li]Automobile invented[/li][li]Einstein’s miracle year[/li][li]Sarajevo[/li][li]General Relativity discovered[/li][li]Russian Revolution[/li][li]Tsar and his family executed[/li][li]Prohibition in USA[/li][li]Henry Ford introduces the assembly line and mass production[/li][li]James Joyce publishes “Ulysses”[/li][li]Lenin dies[/li][li]Quantum Mechanics discovered[/li][li]Cosmological Red Shift discovered[/li][li]Great Depression begins[/li][li]Antimatter discovered[/li][li]FDR elected for first time[/li][li]Television invented[/li][li]WA- (“Onion” headline continued on page 2)[/li][li]Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany[/li][li]Reichstag Fire[/li][li]FDR 1st Inaugural[/li][li]Night of the Long Knives[/li][li]Baldwin chosen UK PM[/li][li]Edward VIII Abdication Crisis[/li][li]Germany reoccupies Rhineland[/li][li]FDR reelected[/li][li]Italy invades Ethiopia[/li][li]Japan invades China proper[/li][li]Anschluss[/li][li]Chamberlain UK PM[/li][li]Munich Crisis[/li][li]Germany occupies Czechoslovakia[/li][li]Germany invades Poland, triggering WWII[/li][li]Finland vs USSR Winter War[/li][li]Germany invades Denmark and Norway[/li][li]Germany invades Netherlands, Belgium, Luxemboug, France[/li][li]Dunkirk[/li][li]Battle of Britain[/li][li]Germany invades Yugoslavia, Greece[/li][li]Germany invades USSR[/li][li]German victory Battle of Kiev[/li][li]Seige of Leningrad begins[/li][li]USSR Moscow area counterattack = 1st German retreat of the war[/li][li]Japan bombs Pearl Harbor[/li][li]Wannsee Conference[/li][li]Singapore falls[/li][li]Battle of the Coral Sea[/li][li]Corregidor falls[/li][li]Battle of Midway[/li][li]Guadalcanal campaign begins[/li][li]El Alamein[/li][li]Operation Torch = US N. African campaign begins[/li][li]German army defeated at Stalingrad[/li][li]US/UK Sicilian invasion[/li][li]Battle of Kursk[/li][li]D-Day landings, Normandy[/li][li]Battle of Leyte[/li][li]FDR dies; Truman becomes U.S. President[/li][li]Nazi Germany surrenders[/li][li]First nuclear weapon (tested)[/li][li]Hiroshima[/li][li]Nagasaki[/li][li]USSR declares war on Japan[/li][li]Japan surrenders[/li][li]Lamb shift discovered[/li][li]Transistor invented[/li][li]Truman defeats Dewey[/li][li]Communists win Chinese Civil War[/li][li]Korean War begins[/li][li]Checkers speech[/li][li]Eisenhower beats Stevenson the first time[/li][li]USS Nautilus goes under the North Pole[/li][li]The Lord of the Rings is published[/li][li]Eisenhower defeats Stevenson again[/li][li]DNA described by Watson and Crick[/li][li]First nuclear power station on-line[/li][li]Maser (precursor to laser) invented[/li][li]John Lennon meets Paul McCartney[/li][li]A man, a plan, a rocket–Sputnik[/li][li]John F. Kennedy becomes U.S. President[/li][li]Peace Corps established[/li][li]Kennedy sets goal of landing on Moon[/li][li]Descent to bottom of the Marianas Trench[/li][li]MLK “I have a dream” speech[/li][li]Kennedy signs Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty[/li][li]Kennedy assassinated in Dallas[/li][li]Star Trek premieres[/li][li]Humans walk on another world[/li][li]Nixon resigns over Watergate scandal[/li][li]Word processors begin to supplant typewriters[/li][li]U.S. Bicentennial[/li][li]Iranian Revolution[/li][li]Seizure of U.S. Embassy in Tehran[/li][li]Three Mile Island meltdown[/li][li]Mount Saint Helens blows off its top.[/li][li]Ronald Reagan elected U.S. President[/li][li]Chernobyl melt down[/li][li]Internet is invented[/li][li]First GMO (a recombinant bacteria)[/li][li]Cold War ends[/li][li]Fall of Berlin Wall[/li][li]Gulf War I[/li][li]United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change[/li][li]Online porn fuels critical Internet commercialization[/li][li]Human genome sequenced[/li][li]Supreme Court rules in Bush v. Gore[/li][li]9-11 terrorist attacks[/li][li]U.S. invades Afghanistan[/li][li]U.S. and allies invade Iraq[/li][li]Facebook invented[/li][li]President George W. Bush reelected[/li][li]Hurricane Katrina[/li][li]First life form with completely synthetic genetic material[/li][li]Barack Obama becomes 44th U.S. President[/li][li]Australia fire storms. Rescue worker giving Koala water is hero.[/li][li]Christchurch New Zealand earthquake.[/li][li]Christchurch New Zealand earthquake again.[/li][li]Japan earthquake[/li][li]Fukushima melt down[/li][li]Christchurch New Zealand earthquake once again.[/li][li]S&P downgrades US Debt from AAA to AA+[/li][li]Sun becomes a red giant[/li][li]Heat death of the Universe[/li][/ol] ---
**Author:** ![Premislaus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f0a364/32.png) [@Premislaus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Premislaus)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2011, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-add-the-next-10-most-significant-events-from-history/591705/35 "2011-08-08T12:16:10Z")
[ol] [li]Big Bang[/li][li]Cosmological inflation[/li][li]First Hydrogen atom[/li][li]Population III stars form[/li][li]First galaxies[/li][li]Population II stars form[/li][li]Sun forms[/li][li]Earth forms[/li][li]Moon is formed[/li][li]Earth form solid crust[/li][li]Plate Tectonics gets going[/li][li]Life develops on Earth[/li][li]Eating other creatures for energy develops[/li][li]Photosynthesis develops[/li][li]Great Oxygenation Event[/li][li]Eukaryotic lifeforms evolve[/li][li]First sexual reproduction[/li][li]First multicellular lifeform[/li][li]First exoskeleton[/li][li]First endoskeleton[/li][li]Life emerges on land[/li][li]First warm blooded animal[/li][li]First grass[/li][li]Asteroid wipes out dinosaurs, allows mammals to rise.[/li][li]Protohumans evolve from primates[/li][li]Humans develop intelligence[/li][li]First human ancestors make tools[/li][li]Human ancestors learn how to create and use fire[/li][li]First human ancestors develop spoken language[/li][li]First Homo sapiens[/li][li]Toba supervolcano[/li][li]Australia settled[/li][li]Global temperatures rise after the last Ice Age[/li][li]Animals domesticated[/li][li]Homo sapiens reaches America[/li][li]Agriculture invented[/li][li]Wheel invented[/li][li]Bronze invented[/li][li]First professional army[/li][li]First cities[/li][li]Decimal numbering invented[/li][li]Writing invented[/li][li]Rise of Sumerians[/li][li]Egypt united[/li][li]Civilization flourishes in Indus Valley[/li][li]Egyptian Pyramids[/li][li]Sargon of Akkad - First Empire[/li][li]Minoan civilization flourishes on Crete[/li][li]Mykean civilization in Greece[/li][li]Troy destroyed[/li][li]Iron mining and metallurgy[/li][li]Sea People ravish Eastern Mediterranean[/li][li]Alphabet invented[/li][li]Abraham founds a religion[/li][li]Kingdom of David and Solomon[/li][li]Carthage founded[/li][li]First Olympic Games[/li][li]Rome founded[/li][li]Fall of Assyria[/li][li]Babylonian captivity of the Jewish people[/li][li]Cyrus the Great - rise of Persia[/li][li]Buddha Siddhartha Gautama founds a religion[/li][li]Invention of coinage[/li][li]Lydia conquered by Persian Empire[/li][li]Rome becomes a Republic[/li][li]Ionian Greek city of Miletus revolts, sacked[/li][li]Marathon[/li][li]Thermopylae[/li][li]Salamis[/li][li]Platea[/li][li]Start of Peloponnesian War[/li][li]Pericles dies in plague[/li][li]Athenian Sicilian expedition[/li][li]Athens surrenders[/li][li]Plato and the Platonic Academy[/li][li]Philip becomes king of Macedon[/li][li]Aristotles of Stagira and the Lyceum[/li][li]Alexander the Great conquers most of the known world[/li][li]To the strongest - Wars of the Diadochi[/li][li]Pyrrhus defeated by Rome[/li][li]1st Punic War[/li][li]Archimedes takes a bath[/li][li]China united by the First Emperor of Qin[/li][li]Han Dynasty succeeds Quin[/li][li]2nd Punic War[/li][li]3rd Punic War[/li][li]Marius foremost Roman strongman[/li][li]Sulla foremost Roman strongman[/li][li]1st Triumvirate: Caesar-Pompey-Crassus[/li][li]Caesar assassinated[/li][li]2nd Triumvirate: Octavian (later ka Augustus)-Antony-Lepidus[/li][li]Roman Empire founded[/li][li]Jesus born[/li][li]Tiberius succeeds Augustus[/li][li]Trajan Emperor, Tacitus writes Annals[/li][li]Diocletian reforms the Roman Empire[/li][li]Constantine founds Constantinople[/li][li]Christianity becomes the state religion of Roman Empire[/li][li]Fall of Roman Empire in the West[/li][li]Emperor Justinian attempts to reclaim the lost provinces[/li][li]Muhammed born[/li][li]Islamic conquest of the Middle East, Iran and North Africa[/li][li]Tang dynasty founded[/li][li]Paper invented[/li][li]First writings about tea making[/li][li]Carolingian renaissance in the West[/li][li]Roman Catholicism endures the Pornocracy[/li][li]Great Schism between Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches[/li][li]Norman conquest of England[/li][li]Good King Wenceslas looks out on the Feast of Steven[/li][li]The Crusades[/li][li]Genghis Khan conquers most of Eurasia[/li][li]Kublai Khan’s two expeditions vs Japan fail[/li][li]A rat, no cat, an epidemic–the Black Death[/li][li]Invention of gunpowder[/li][li]Movable type[/li][li]Byzantium falls to Ottomans[/li][li]Discovery & colonization of the Americas[/li][li]Copernican model of the Solar System[/li][li]Queen Elizabeth I takes the throne[/li][li]Shakespeare gets a pen for his birthday[/li][li]Spanish Armada[/li][li]The Gunpowder Plot[/li][li]Isaac Newton creates modern physics and mathematics[/li][li]Leibniz invents modern calculus notation[/li][li]James II of Great Britain deposed[/li][li]Peter the Great founds St. Petersburg[/li][li]Battle of Blenheim[/li][li]War of the Austrian Succession begins[/li][li]French and Indian War ends[/li][li]British troops fire on Minutemen at Lexington and Concord[/li][li]Bunker Hill[/li][li]7/4/1776[/li][li]Ludwig van Beethoven begins piano lessons[/li][li]Saratoga[/li][li]Yorktown[/li][li]United States adopts its Constitution[/li][li]George Washington becomes first U.S. President[/li][li]Bastille stormed[/li][li]Metric system first introduced[/li][li]Reign of Terror in France[/li][li]Napoleon takes power[/li][li]Battle of Austerlitz[/li][li]Battle of Trafalgar - death of Nelson[/li][li]Waterloo[/li][li]Steam engines developed[/li][li]Darwin discovers Theory of Evolution[/li][li]Electricity discovered[/li][li]Invention of the telegraph[/li][li]Germ theory of disease[/li][li]Abraham Lincoln is elected President[/li][li]Lincoln lets his whiskers grow[/li][li]Confederate States of America founded[/li][li]Confederates fire on Ft. Sumter[/li][li]USS Monitor and CSS Virginia in first ironclad duel[/li][li]Battle of Antietam[/li][li]Emancipation Proclamation[/li][li]Battle of Gettysburg[/li][li]Gettysburg Address[/li][li]USS Kearsarge defeats CSS Alabama off Cherbourg, France[/li][li]Lee surrenders at Appomattox[/li][li]A man, a plan, a canal–Suez[/li][li]Radio invented[/li][li]Michelson-Morley experiment[/li][li]McKinley elected 1st term[/li][li]Quantum theory discovered[/li][li]X-Rays described[/li][li]A man, a plan, a canal–Panama[/li][li]Automobile invented[/li][li]Einstein’s miracle year[/li][li]Sarajevo[/li][li]General Relativity discovered[/li][li]Russian Revolution[/li][li]Tsar and his family executed[/li][li]Prohibition in USA[/li][li]Henry Ford introduces the assembly line and mass production[/li][li]James Joyce publishes “Ulysses”[/li][li]Lenin dies[/li][li]Quantum Mechanics discovered[/li][li]Cosmological Red Shift discovered[/li][li]Great Depression begins[/li][li]Antimatter discovered[/li][li]FDR elected for first time[/li][li]Television invented[/li][li]WA- (“Onion” headline continued on page 2)[/li][li]Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany[/li][li]Reichstag Fire[/li][li]FDR 1st Inaugural[/li][li]Night of the Long Knives[/li][li]Baldwin chosen UK PM[/li][li]Edward VIII Abdication Crisis[/li][li]Germany reoccupies Rhineland[/li][li]FDR reelected[/li][li]Italy invades Ethiopia[/li][li]Japan invades China proper[/li][li]Anschluss[/li][li]Chamberlain UK PM[/li][li]Munich Crisis[/li][li]Germany occupies Czechoslovakia[/li][li]Germany invades Poland, triggering WWII[/li][li]Finland vs USSR Winter War[/li][li]Germany invades Denmark and Norway[/li][li]Germany invades Netherlands, Belgium, Luxemboug, France[/li][li]Dunkirk[/li][li]Battle of Britain[/li][li]Germany invades Yugoslavia, Greece[/li][li]Germany invades USSR[/li][li]German victory Battle of Kiev[/li][li]Seige of Leningrad begins[/li][li]USSR Moscow area counterattack = 1st German retreat of the war[/li][li]Japan bombs Pearl Harbor[/li][li]Wannsee Conference[/li][li]Singapore falls[/li][li]Battle of the Coral Sea[/li][li]Corregidor falls[/li][li]Battle of Midway[/li][li]Guadalcanal campaign begins[/li][li]El Alamein[/li][li]Operation Torch = US N. African campaign begins[/li][li]German army defeated at Stalingrad[/li][li]US/UK Sicilian invasion[/li][li]Battle of Kursk[/li][li]D-Day landings, Normandy[/li][li]Battle of Leyte[/li][li]FDR dies; Truman becomes U.S. President[/li][li]Nazi Germany surrenders[/li][li]First nuclear weapon (tested)[/li][li]Hiroshima[/li][li]Nagasaki[/li][li]USSR declares war on Japan[/li][li]Japan surrenders[/li][li]Lamb shift discovered[/li][li]Transistor invented[/li][li]Truman defeats Dewey[/li][li]Communists win Chinese Civil War[/li][li]Korean War begins[/li][li]Checkers speech[/li][li]Eisenhower beats Stevenson the first time[/li][li]USS Nautilus goes under the North Pole[/li][li]The Lord of the Rings is published[/li][li]Eisenhower defeats Stevenson again[/li][li]DNA described by Watson and Crick[/li][li]First nuclear power station on-line[/li][li]Maser (precursor to laser) invented[/li][li]John Lennon meets Paul McCartney[/li][li]A man, a plan, a rocket–Sputnik[/li][li]John F. Kennedy becomes U.S. President[/li][li]Peace Corps established[/li][li]Kennedy sets goal of landing on Moon[/li][li]Descent to bottom of the Marianas Trench[/li][li]MLK “I have a dream” speech[/li][li]Kennedy signs Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty[/li][li]Kennedy assassinated in Dallas[/li][li]Star Trek premieres[/li][li]Humans walk on another world[/li][li]Nixon resigns over Watergate scandal[/li][li]Word processors begin to supplant typewriters[/li][li]U.S. Bicentennial[/li][li]Iranian Revolution[/li][li]Seizure of U.S. Embassy in Tehran[/li][li]Three Mile Island meltdown[/li][li]Mount Saint Helens blows off its top.[/li][li]Ronald Reagan elected U.S. President[/li][li]Chernobyl melt down[/li][li]Internet is invented[/li][li]First GMO (a recombinant bacteria)[/li][li]Cold War ends[/li][li]Fall of Berlin Wall[/li][li]Gulf War I[/li][li]United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change[/li][li]Online porn fuels critical Internet commercialization[/li][li]Human genome sequenced[/li][li]Supreme Court rules in Bush v. Gore[/li][li]9-11 terrorist attacks[/li][li]U.S. invades Afghanistan[/li][li]U.S. and allies invade Iraq[/li][li]Facebook invented[/li][li]President George W. Bush reelected[/li][li]Hurricane Katrina[/li][li]First life form with completely synthetic genetic material[/li][li]Barack Obama becomes 44th U.S. President[/li][li]Australia fire storms. Rescue worker giving Koala water is hero.[/li][li]Christchurch New Zealand earthquake.[/li][li]Christchurch New Zealand earthquake again.[/li][li]Japan earthquake[/li][li]Fukushima melt down[/li][li]Christchurch New Zealand earthquake once again.[/li][li]S&P downgrades US Debt from AAA to AA+[/li][li]Sun becomes a red giant[/li][li]Heat death of the Universe[/li][/ol] ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2011, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-add-the-next-10-most-significant-events-from-history/591705/36 "2011-08-08T13:42:43Z")
Big Bang Cosmological inflation First Hydrogen atom Population III stars form First galaxies Population II stars form Sun forms Earth forms Moon is formed Earth form solid crust Plate Tectonics gets going Life develops on Earth Eating other creatures for energy develops Photosynthesis develops Great Oxygenation Event Eukaryotic lifeforms evolve First sexual reproduction First multicellular lifeform First exoskeleton First endoskeleton Life emerges on land First warm blooded animal First grass Asteroid wipes out dinosaurs, allows mammals to rise. Protohumans evolve from primates Humans develop intelligence First human ancestors make tools Human ancestors learn how to create and use fire First human ancestors develop spoken language First Homo sapiens Toba supervolcano Australia settled Global temperatures rise after the last Ice Age Animals domesticated Homo sapiens reaches America Agriculture invented Wheel invented Bronze invented First professional army First cities Decimal numbering invented Writing invented Rise of Sumerians Egypt united Civilization flourishes in Indus Valley Egyptian Pyramids Sargon of Akkad - First Empire Minoan civilization flourishes on Crete Mykean civilization in Greece Troy destroyed Iron mining and metallurgy Sea People ravish Eastern Mediterranean Alphabet invented Abraham founds a religion Kingdom of David and Solomon Carthage founded First Olympic Games Rome founded Fall of Assyria Babylonian captivity of the Jewish people Cyrus the Great - rise of Persia Buddha Siddhartha Gautama founds a religion Invention of coinage Lydia conquered by Persian Empire Rome becomes a Republic Ionian Greek city of Miletus revolts, sacked Marathon Thermopylae Salamis Platea Start of Peloponnesian War Pericles dies in plague Athenian Sicilian expedition Athens surrenders Plato and the Platonic Academy Philip becomes king of Macedon Aristotles of Stagira and the Lyceum Alexander the Great conquers most of the known world To the strongest - Wars of the Diadochi Pyrrhus defeated by Rome 1st Punic War Archimedes takes a bath China united by the First Emperor of Qin Han Dynasty succeeds Quin 2nd Punic War 3rd Punic War Marius foremost Roman strongman Sulla foremost Roman strongman 1st Triumvirate: Caesar-Pompey-Crassus Caesar assassinated 2nd Triumvirate: Octavian (later ka Augustus)-Antony-Lepidus Roman Empire founded Jesus born Tiberius succeeds Augustus Trajan Emperor, Tacitus writes Annals Diocletian reforms the Roman Empire Constantine founds Constantinople Christianity becomes the state religion of Roman Empire Fall of Roman Empire in the West Emperor Justinian attempts to reclaim the lost provinces Muhammed born Islamic conquest of the Middle East, Iran and North Africa Tang dynasty founded Paper invented First writings about tea making Carolingian renaissance in the West Roman Catholicism endures the Pornocracy Great Schism between Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches Norman conquest of England Good King Wenceslas looks out on the Feast of Steven The Crusades Genghis Khan conquers most of Eurasia Kublai Khan’s two expeditions vs Japan fail A rat, no cat, an epidemic–the Black Death Invention of gunpowder Movable type Byzantium falls to Ottomans Discovery & colonization of the Americas Copernican model of the Solar System Queen Elizabeth I takes the throne Shakespeare gets a pen for his birthday Spanish Armada The Gunpowder Plot Isaac Newton creates modern physics and mathematics Leibniz invents modern calculus notation James II of Great Britain deposed Peter the Great founds St. Petersburg Battle of Blenheim War of the Austrian Succession begins French and Indian War ends British troops fire on Minutemen at Lexington and Concord Bunker Hill 7/4/1776 Ludwig van Beethoven begins piano lessons Saratoga Yorktown United States adopts its Constitution George Washington becomes first U.S. President Bastille stormed Metric system first introduced Reign of Terror in France Napoleon takes power Battle of Austerlitz Battle of Trafalgar - death of Nelson Waterloo Steam engines developed Darwin discovers Theory of Evolution Electricity discovered Invention of the telegraph Germ theory of disease Abraham Lincoln is elected President Lincoln lets his whiskers grow Confederate States of America founded Confederates fire on Ft. Sumter USS Monitor and CSS Virginia in first ironclad duel Battle of Antietam Emancipation Proclamation Battle of Gettysburg Gettysburg Address USS Kearsarge defeats CSS Alabama off Cherbourg, France Lee surrenders at Appomattox A man, a plan, a canal–Suez Radio invented Michelson-Morley experiment McKinley elected 1st term Quantum theory discovered X-Rays described A man, a plan, a canal–Panama Automobile invented Einstein’s miracle year Sarajevo General Relativity discovered Russian Revolution Tsar and his family executed Prohibition in USA Henry Ford introduces the assembly line and mass production James Joyce publishes “Ulysses” Lenin dies Quantum Mechanics discovered Cosmological Red Shift discovered Great Depression begins Antimatter discovered FDR elected for first time Television invented WA- (“Onion” headline continued on page 2) Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany Reichstag Fire FDR 1st Inaugural Night of the Long Knives Baldwin chosen UK PM Edward VIII Abdication Crisis Germany reoccupies Rhineland FDR reelected Italy invades Ethiopia Japan invades China proper Anschluss Chamberlain UK PM Munich Crisis Germany occupies Czechoslovakia Germany invades Poland, triggering WWII Finland vs USSR Winter War Germany invades Denmark and Norway Churchill becomes British PM Germany invades Netherlands, Belgium, Luxemboug, France Dunkirk Battle of Britain Germany invades Yugoslavia, Greece Germany invades USSR German victory Battle of Kiev Seige of Leningrad begins USSR Moscow area counterattack = 1st German retreat of the war Japan bombs Pearl Harbor Wannsee Conference Singapore falls Battle of the Coral Sea Corregidor falls Battle of Midway Guadalcanal campaign begins El Alamein Operation Torch = US N. African campaign begins German army defeated at Stalingrad US/UK Sicilian invasion Battle of Kursk D-Day landings, Normandy Battle of Leyte Battle of the Bulge FDR dies; Truman becomes U.S. President Nazi Germany surrenders First nuclear weapon (tested) Hiroshima Nagasaki USSR declares war on Japan Japan surrenders Lamb shift discovered Transistor invented Truman defeats Dewey Communists win Chinese Civil War Truman approves development of H-bomb Korean War begins Checkers speech Eisenhower beats Stevenson the first time USS Nautilus goes under the North Pole The Lord of the Rings is published Eisenhower defeats Stevenson again DNA described by Watson and Crick First nuclear power station on-line Maser (precursor to laser) invented John Lennon meets Paul McCartney A man, a plan, a rocket–Sputnik John F. Kennedy becomes U.S. President Peace Corps established Kennedy sets goal of landing on Moon Descent to bottom of the Marianas Trench MLK “I have a dream” speech Kennedy signs Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Kennedy assassinated in Dallas Beatles come to USA Star Trek premieres Humans walk on another world Apollo 13 crew returns safely Nixon resigns over Watergate scandal Ford pardons Nixon Word processors begin to supplant typewriters U.S. Bicentennial Carter defeats Ford for U.S. Presidency Iranian Revolution Seizure of U.S. Embassy in Tehran Three Mile Island meltdown Mount Saint Helens blows off its top. Ronald Reagan elected U.S. President Chernobyl melt down Internet is invented First GMO (a recombinant bacteria) Cold War ends Fall of Berlin Wall Gulf War I United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Online porn fuels critical Internet commercialization Human genome sequenced Supreme Court rules in Bush v. Gore 9-11 terrorist attacks U.S. invades Afghanistan U.S. and allies invade Iraq Facebook invented President George W. Bush reelected Hurricane Katrina First life form with completely synthetic genetic material Barack Obama becomes 44th U.S. President U.S. Federal stimulus package passes Australia fire storms. Rescue worker giving Koala water is hero. Christchurch New Zealand earthquake. Christchurch New Zealand earthquake again. Japan earthquake Fukushima melt down Christchurch New Zealand earthquake once again. U.S. healthcare reform bill passes Pentagon policy of “Don’t ask, don’t tell” repealed S&P downgrades US Debt from AAA to AA+ Sun becomes a red giant Heat death of the Universe ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2011, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-add-the-next-10-most-significant-events-from-history/591705/37 "2011-08-08T15:12:23Z")
200+ entries and still no mention of the Reformation? :dubious: 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2011, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-add-the-next-10-most-significant-events-from-history/591705/38 "2011-08-08T15:24:30Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > 200+ entries and still no mention of the Reformation? :dubious: 😉 Be our guest! ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2011, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-add-the-next-10-most-significant-events-from-history/591705/39 "2011-08-08T15:28:35Z")
Please, people, don’t just copy and paste, use the quote button, and leave the list tags there! It’s easy to add more items to an existing list, but it’s hard to go through and put all the tags back in once they’re lost. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2011, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-add-the-next-10-most-significant-events-from-history/591705/40 "2011-08-08T15:34:19Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Be our guest! Naw, I’ve spent a lot of time last year trying to figure out who the [most important person in history](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=559639) was - I’ve done my share. 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-add-the-next-10-most-significant-events-from-history/591705.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-add-the-next-10-most-significant-events-from-history/591705.md?page=3)