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[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]Roman conquest of Britain[/li][li]Jewish revolt defeated, Temple of Jerusalem destroyed[/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]Holy Roman Empire created[/li][li]Poland converts to Christianity[/li][li]Russia converts to Christianity [/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]Teutonic Order settled in Prussia [/li][li]Kublai Khan’s two expeditions vs Japan fail[/li][li]Hundreds’ Year War between France and England [/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]Martin Luther vandalizes a Church door [/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]Cromwell becomes Lord Protector of England [/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]Versailles Peace Treaty [/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]Churchill becomes British PM [/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]Battle of the Bulge[/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]Truman approves development of H-bomb [/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]Beatles come to USA [/li][li]Star Trek premieres [/li][li]Humans walk on another world[/li][li]Apollo 13 crew returns safely [/li][li]Nixon resigns over Watergate scandal [/li][li]Ford pardons Nixon[/li][li]Word processors begin to supplant typewriters [/li][li]U.S. Bicentennial [/li][li]Carter defeats Ford for U.S. Presidency[/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]U.S. Federal stimulus package passes[/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]U.S. healthcare reform bill passes[/li][li]Pentagon policy of “Don’t ask, don’t tell” repealed [/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]
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[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]Roman conquest of Britain[/li][li]Jewish revolt defeated, Temple of Jerusalem destroyed[/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]Viking attacks begin[/li][li]Holy Roman Empire created[/li][li]Poland converts to Christianity[/li][li]Russia converts to Christianity[/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]Teutonic Order settled in Prussia[/li][li]Kublai Khan’s two expeditions vs Japan fail[/li][li]Hundreds’ Year War between France and England[/li][li]A rat, no cat, an epidemic–the Black Death[/li][li]Invention of gunpowder[/li][li]Movable type[/li][li]Wycliffe questions Papal supremacy[/li][li]Joan of Arc in action[/li][li]Byzantium falls to Ottomans[/li][li]Discovery & colonization of the Americas[/li][li]Michaelangelo paints Sistene Chapel ceiling[/li][li]Erasmus calls for reform of RC church corruption[/li][li]Martin Luther vandalizes a Church door[/li][li]Henry VIII takes England out of Roman Catholic church[/li][li]Calvin in Geneva[/li][li]Scandinavian countries leave the RC church[/li][li]Copernican model of the Solar System[/li][li]Netherlands revolt against Spain begins[/li][li]Queen Elizabeth I takes the throne[/li][li]Shakespeare gets a pen for his birthday[/li][li]Spanish Armada[/li][li]Kepler’s Laws of planetary motion[/li][li]The Gunpowder Plot[/li][li]Trial of Galileo[/li][li]Cromwell becomes Lord Protector of England[/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]Versailles Peace Treaty[/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]Churchill becomes British PM[/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]Battle of the Bulge[/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]Truman approves development of H-bomb[/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]Beatles come to USA[/li][li]Star Trek premieres[/li][li]Humans walk on another world[/li][li]Apollo 13 crew returns safely[/li][li]Nixon resigns over Watergate scandal[/li][li]Ford pardons Nixon[/li][li]Word processors begin to supplant typewriters[/li][li]U.S. Bicentennial[/li][li]Carter defeats Ford for U.S. Presidency[/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]U.S. Federal stimulus package passes[/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]U.S. healthcare reform bill passes[/li][li]Pentagon policy of “Don’t ask, don’t tell” repealed[/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]
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[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]Roman conquest of Britain[/li][li]Jewish revolt defeated, Temple of Jerusalem destroyed[/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]Viking attacks begin[/li][li]Holy Roman Empire created[/li][li]Poland converts to Christianity[/li][li]Russia converts to Christianity[/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]Teutonic Order settled in Prussia[/li][li]Kublai Khan’s two expeditions vs Japan fail[/li][li]Hundreds’ Year War between France and England[/li][li]A rat, no cat, an epidemic–the Black Death[/li][li]Invention of gunpowder[/li][li]Movable type[/li][li]Wycliffe questions Papal supremacy[/li][li]Joan of Arc in action[/li][li]Byzantium falls to Ottomans[/li][li]Discovery & colonization of the Americas[/li][li]Michaelangelo paints Sistene Chapel ceiling[/li][li]Erasmus calls for reform of RC church corruption[/li][li]Martin Luther vandalizes a Church door[/li][li]Henry VIII takes England out of Roman Catholic church[/li][li]Calvin in Geneva[/li][li]Scandinavian countries leave the RC church[/li][li]Copernican model of the Solar System[/li][li]Netherlands revolt against Spain begins[/li][li]Queen Elizabeth I takes the throne[/li][li]Shakespeare gets a pen for his birthday[/li][li]Spanish Armada[/li][li]Kepler’s Laws of planetary motion[/li][li]The Gunpowder Plot[/li][li]Trial of Galileo[/li][li]Cromwell becomes Lord Protector of England[/li][li]Restoration of British monarchy[/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]George Washington, as Virginia militia officer, first comes under enemy fire [/li][li]French and Indian War ends[/li][li]Ben Franklin begins “Poor Richard’s Almanac”[/li][li]Stamp Act imposed in America[/li][li]British troops fire on Minutemen at Lexington and Concord[/li][li]Bunker Hill[/li][li]7/4/1776[/li][li]Washington wins at Trenton, Princeton[/li][li]Ludwig van Beethoven begins piano lessons[/li][li]Saratoga[/li][li]U.S., France form alliance[/li][li]Articles of Confederation adopted[/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]President John Adams signs Alien & Sedition Acts[/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]Versailles Peace Treaty[/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]Hitler writes “Mein Kampf”[/li][li]Scopes Monkey Trial[/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]Churchill becomes British PM[/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]Battle of the Bulge[/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]Truman approves development of H-bomb[/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]Beatles come to USA[/li][li]“Star Trek” premieres[/li][li]Humans walk on another world[/li][li]Apollo 13 crew returns safely[/li][li]Nixon resigns over Watergate scandal[/li][li]Ford pardons Nixon[/li][li]Word processors begin to supplant typewriters[/li][li]U.S. Bicentennial[/li][li]Carter defeats Ford for U.S. Presidency[/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]U.S. Federal stimulus package passes[/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]U.S. healthcare reform bill passes[/li][li]Pentagon policy of “Don’t ask, don’t tell” repealed[/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]
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[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]Greeks and Phoenicians start colonizing Mediterranean [/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]Egypt 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]Unsuccessful land reform attempted in Rome[/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]Roman conquest of Britain[/li][li]Nero starts persecution of Christians[/li][li]Jewish revolt defeated, Temple of Jerusalem destroyed[/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]Viking attacks begin[/li][li]Holy Roman Empire created[/li][li]Poland converts to Christianity[/li][li]Russia converts to Christianity[/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]Teutonic Order settled in Prussia[/li][li]Kublai Khan’s two expeditions vs Japan fail[/li][li]Hundreds’ Year War between France and England[/li][li]A rat, no cat, an epidemic–the Black Death[/li][li]Invention of gunpowder[/li][li]Movable type[/li][li]Wycliffe questions Papal supremacy[/li][li]Joan of Arc in action[/li][li]Byzantium falls to Ottomans[/li][li]Discovery & colonization of the Americas[/li][li]Michaelangelo paints Sistene Chapel ceiling[/li][li]Erasmus calls for reform of RC church corruption[/li][li]Martin Luther vandalizes a Church door[/li][li]Henry VIII takes England out of Roman Catholic church[/li][li]Calvin in Geneva[/li][li]Scandinavian countries leave the RC church[/li][li]Copernican model of the Solar System[/li][li]Netherlands revolt against Spain begins[/li][li]Queen Elizabeth I takes the throne[/li][li]Shakespeare gets a pen for his birthday[/li][li]Spanish Armada[/li][li]Kepler’s Laws of planetary motion[/li][li]The Gunpowder Plot[/li][li]Trial of Galileo[/li][li]Cromwell becomes Lord Protector of England[/li][li]Restoration of British monarchy[/li][li]Isaac Newton creates modern physics and mathematics[/li][li]Leibniz invents modern calculus notation[/li][li]Ottoman Empire expansion stopped at Vienna[/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]George Washington, as Virginia militia officer, first comes under enemy fire[/li][li]French and Indian War ends[/li][li]Ben Franklin begins “Poor Richard’s Almanac”[/li][li]Stamp Act imposed in America[/li][li]British troops fire on Minutemen at Lexington and Concord[/li][li]Bunker Hill[/li][li]7/4/1776[/li][li]Washington wins at Trenton, Princeton[/li][li]Ludwig van Beethoven begins piano lessons[/li][li]Saratoga[/li][li]U.S., France form alliance[/li][li]Articles of Confederation adopted[/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]3rd Partition of Poland-Lithuania[/li][li]Napoleon takes power[/li][li]Battle of Austerlitz[/li][li]President John Adams signs Alien & Sedition Acts[/li][li]Battle of Trafalgar - death of Nelson[/li][li]Waterloo[/li][li]Congress of Vienna[/li][li]Steam engines developed[/li][li]Major electoral reform in Great Britain [/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]Versailles Peace Treaty[/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]Hitler writes “Mein Kampf”[/li][li]Scopes Monkey Trial[/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]Churchill becomes British PM[/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]Battle of the Bulge[/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]Truman approves development of H-bomb[/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]Year of Africa, many European colonies granted independence[/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]Beatles come to USA[/li][li]“Star Trek” premieres[/li][li]Humans walk on another world[/li][li]Apollo 13 crew returns safely[/li][li]Nixon resigns over Watergate scandal[/li][li]Ford pardons Nixon[/li][li]Word processors begin to supplant typewriters[/li][li]U.S. Bicentennial[/li][li]Carter defeats Ford for U.S. Presidency[/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]Maastricht Treaty signed, European Community becomes European Union[/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]U.S. Federal stimulus package passes[/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]U.S. healthcare reform bill passes[/li][li]Pentagon policy of “Don’t ask, don’t tell” repealed[/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]
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[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]Greeks and Phoenicians start colonizing Mediterranean[/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]Egypt 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]Unsuccessful land reform attempted in Rome[/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]Battle Actium- Octavian wins control of Rome[/li][li]Roman Empire founded[/li][li]Jesus born[/li][li]Tiberius succeeds Augustus[/li][li]Caligula succeeds Tiberius[/li][li]Caligula assassinated, Claudius succeeds[/li][li]Roman conquest of Britain[/li][li]Nero starts persecution of Christians[/li][li]Nero deposed, four generals vie for power[/li][li]Vespasian wins power struggle, becomes Emperor[/li][li]Jewish revolt defeated, Temple of Jerusalem destroyed[/li][li]Titus succeeds Vespasian[/li][li]Domitian succeeds Titus[/li][li]Domitian assassinated, Nerva chosen Emperor by Senate[/li][li]Trajan Emperor, Tacitus writes Annals[/li][li]Hadrian succeeds Trajan, builds wall[/li][li]Diocletian reforms the Roman Empire[/li][li]Antoninus Pius succeeds Hadrian[/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]Viking attacks begin[/li][li]Holy Roman Empire created[/li][li]Poland converts to Christianity[/li][li]Russia converts to Christianity[/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]Teutonic Order settled in Prussia[/li][li]Kublai Khan’s two expeditions vs Japan fail[/li][li]Hundreds’ Year War between France and England[/li][li]A rat, no cat, an epidemic–the Black Death[/li][li]Invention of gunpowder[/li][li]Movable type[/li][li]Wycliffe questions Papal supremacy[/li][li]Joan of Arc in action[/li][li]Byzantium falls to Ottomans[/li][li]Discovery & colonization of the Americas[/li][li]Michaelangelo paints Sistene Chapel ceiling[/li][li]Erasmus calls for reform of RC church corruption[/li][li]Martin Luther vandalizes a Church door[/li][li]Henry VIII takes England out of Roman Catholic church[/li][li]Calvin in Geneva[/li][li]Scandinavian countries leave the RC church[/li][li]Copernican model of the Solar System[/li][li]Netherlands revolt against Spain begins[/li][li]Queen Elizabeth I takes the throne[/li][li]Shakespeare gets a pen for his birthday[/li][li]Spanish Armada[/li][li]Kepler’s Laws of planetary motion[/li][li]The Gunpowder Plot[/li][li]Trial of Galileo[/li][li]Cromwell becomes Lord Protector of England[/li][li]Restoration of British monarchy[/li][li]Isaac Newton creates modern physics and mathematics[/li][li]Leibniz invents modern calculus notation[/li][li]Ottoman Empire expansion stopped at Vienna[/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]George Washington, as Virginia militia officer, first comes under enemy fire[/li][li]French and Indian War ends[/li][li]Ben Franklin begins “Poor Richard’s Almanac”[/li][li]Stamp Act imposed in America[/li][li]British troops fire on Minutemen at Lexington and Concord[/li][li]Bunker Hill[/li][li]7/4/1776[/li][li]Washington wins at Trenton, Princeton[/li][li]Ludwig van Beethoven begins piano lessons[/li][li]Saratoga[/li][li]U.S., France form alliance[/li][li]Articles of Confederation adopted[/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]3rd Partition of Poland-Lithuania[/li][li]Napoleon takes power[/li][li]Battle of Austerlitz[/li][li]President John Adams signs Alien & Sedition Acts[/li][li]Battle of Trafalgar - death of Nelson[/li][li]Waterloo[/li][li]Congress of Vienna[/li][li]Steam engines developed[/li][li]Major electoral reform in Great Britain[/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]Versailles Peace Treaty[/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]Hitler writes “Mein Kampf”[/li][li]Scopes Monkey Trial[/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]Churchill becomes British PM[/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]Battle of the Bulge[/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]Truman approves development of H-bomb[/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]DNA described by Watson and Crick[/li][li]Eisenhower defeats Stevenson again[/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]Year of Africa, many European colonies granted independence[/li][li]John F. Kennedy becomes U.S. President[/li][li]John Lennon meets Paul McCartney[/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]Beatles come to USA[/li][li]Star Trek premieres[/li][li]Humans walk on another world[/li][li]Apollo 13 crew returns safely[/li][li]Nixon resigns over Watergate scandal[/li][li]Ford pardons Nixon[/li][li]Word processors begin to supplant typewriters[/li][li]U.S. Bicentennial[/li][li]Carter defeats Ford for U.S. Presidency[/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]Maastricht Treaty signed, European Community becomes European Union[/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]U.S. Federal stimulus package passes[/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]U.S. healthcare reform bill passes[/li][li]Pentagon policy of “Don’t ask, don’t tell” repealed[/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]
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[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]Greeks and Phoenicians start colonizing Mediterranean[/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]Egypt 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]Unsuccessful land reform attempted in Rome[/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]Battle Actium- Octavian wins control of Rome[/li][li]Roman Empire founded[/li][li]Jesus born[/li][li]Tiberius succeeds Augustus[/li][li]Caligula succeeds Tiberius[/li][li]Caligula assassinated, Claudius succeeds[/li][li]Roman conquest of Britain[/li][li]Nero starts persecution of Christians[/li][li]Nero deposed, four generals vie for power[/li][li]Vespasian wins power struggle, becomes Emperor[/li][li]Jewish revolt defeated, Temple of Jerusalem destroyed[/li][li]Titus succeeds Vespasian[/li][li]Domitian succeeds Titus[/li][li]Domitian assassinated, Nerva chosen Emperor by Senate[/li][li]Trajan Emperor, Tacitus writes Annals[/li][li]Hadrian succeeds Trajan, builds wall[/li][li]Diocletian reforms the Roman Empire[/li][li]Antoninus Pius succeeds Hadrian[/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]Viking attacks begin[/li][li]Holy Roman Empire created[/li][li]Poland converts to Christianity[/li][li]Russia converts to Christianity[/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]Teutonic Order settled in Prussia[/li][li]Kublai Khan’s two expeditions vs Japan fail[/li][li]Hundreds’ Year War between France and England[/li][li]A rat, no cat, an epidemic–the Black Death[/li][li]Invention of gunpowder[/li][li]Movable type[/li][li]Wycliffe questions Papal supremacy[/li][li]Joan of Arc in action[/li][li]Byzantium falls to Ottomans[/li][li]Discovery & colonization of the Americas[/li][li]Michaelangelo paints Sistene Chapel ceiling[/li][li]Erasmus calls for reform of RC church corruption[/li][li]Martin Luther vandalizes a Church door[/li][li]Henry VIII takes England out of Roman Catholic church[/li][li]Calvin in Geneva[/li][li]Scandinavian countries leave the RC church[/li][li]Copernican model of the Solar System[/li][li]Netherlands revolt against Spain begins[/li][li]Queen Elizabeth I takes the throne[/li][li]Shakespeare gets a pen for his birthday[/li][li]Spanish Armada[/li][li]Kepler’s Laws of planetary motion[/li][li]The Gunpowder Plot[/li][li]Trial of Galileo[/li][li]Cromwell becomes Lord Protector of England[/li][li]Restoration of British monarchy[/li][li]Isaac Newton creates modern physics and mathematics[/li][li]Leibniz invents modern calculus notation[/li][li]Ottoman Empire expansion stopped at Vienna[/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]George Washington, as Virginia militia officer, first comes under enemy fire[/li][li]French and Indian War ends[/li][li]Ben Franklin begins “Poor Richard’s Almanac”[/li][li]Stamp Act imposed in America[/li][li]British troops fire on Minutemen at Lexington and Concord[/li][li]Bunker Hill[/li][li]7/4/1776[/li][li]Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense” published[/li][li]Washington wins at Trenton, Princeton[/li][li]Ludwig van Beethoven begins piano lessons[/li][li]Saratoga[/li][li]U.S., France form alliance[/li][li]Articles of Confederation adopted[/li][li]Yorktown[/li][li]United States adopts its Constitution[/li][li]George Washington becomes first U.S. President[/li][li]Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” published[/li][li]Bastille stormed[/li][li]Metric system first introduced[/li][li]Reign of Terror in France[/li][li]3rd Partition of Poland-Lithuania[/li][li]Napoleon takes power[/li][li]Battle of Austerlitz[/li][li]President John Adams signs Alien & Sedition Acts[/li][li]Battle of Trafalgar - death of Nelson[/li][li]Waterloo[/li][li]Congress of Vienna[/li][li]Steam engines developed[/li][li]Major electoral reform in Great Britain[/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]Harriet Beecher Stowe’s “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” published[/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]Versailles Peace Treaty[/li][li]Prohibition in USA[/li][li]Sherwood Anderson’s “Winesburg, Ohio” published[/li][li]Henry Ford introduces the assembly line and mass production[/li][li]James Joyce publishes “Ulysses”[/li][li]Lenin dies[/li][li]Hitler writes “Mein Kampf”[/li][li]Scopes Monkey Trial[/li][li]Sinclair Lewis’s “The Jungle” published[/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]Churchill becomes British PM[/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]Battle of the Bulge[/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]George Orwell’s “1984” published[/li][li]Truman defeats Dewey[/li][li]Communists win Chinese Civil War[/li][li]Truman approves development of H-bomb[/li][li]Korean War begins[/li][li]Isaac Asimov’s “Foundation Trilogy” published[/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]DNA described by Watson and Crick[/li][li]Eisenhower defeats Stevenson again[/li][li]First nuclear power station on-line[/li][li]Maser (precursor to laser) invented[/li][li]Arthur C. Clarke’s “Childhood’s End” published[/li][li]A man, a plan, a rocket–Sputnik[/li][li]Harper Lee’s “To Kill A Mockingbird” published[/li][li]Year of Africa, many European colonies granted independence[/li][li]John F. Kennedy becomes U.S. President[/li][li]Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring” published[/li][li]John Lennon meets Paul McCartney[/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]Beatles come to USA[/li][li]“Star Trek” premieres[/li][li]Humans walk on another world[/li][li]Apollo 13 crew returns safely[/li][li]Nixon resigns over Watergate scandal[/li][li]Ford pardons Nixon[/li][li]Word processors begin to supplant typewriters[/li][li]U.S. Bicentennial[/li][li]Carter defeats Ford for U.S. Presidency[/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]Maastricht Treaty signed, European Community becomes European Union[/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]U.S. Federal stimulus package passes[/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]U.S. healthcare reform bill passes[/li][li]Pentagon policy of “Don’t ask, don’t tell” repealed[/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]
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[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]The Great Dying[/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]Greeks and Phoenicians start colonizing Mediterranean[/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]Egypt 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]Unsuccessful land reform attempted in Rome[/li][li]Marius foremost Roman strongman[/li][li]Sulla foremost Roman strongman[/li][li]1st Triumvirate: Caesar-Pompey-Crassus[/li] [li]Caesar defeats Pompey[/li][li]Caesar assassinated[/li][li]2nd Triumvirate: Octavian (later ka Augustus)-Antony-Lepidus[/li][li]Battle Actium- Octavian wins control of Rome[/li][li]Roman Empire founded[/li] [li]Vesuvius buries Pompeii under ash[/li][li]Jesus born[/li][li]Tiberius succeeds Augustus[/li][li]Caligula succeeds Tiberius[/li][li]Caligula assassinated, Claudius succeeds[/li][li]Roman conquest of Britain[/li][li]Nero starts persecution of Christians[/li][li]Nero deposed, four generals vie for power[/li][li]Vespasian wins power struggle, becomes Emperor[/li][li]Jewish revolt defeated, Temple of Jerusalem destroyed[/li][li]Titus succeeds Vespasian[/li][li]Domitian succeeds Titus[/li][li]Domitian assassinated, Nerva chosen Emperor by Senate[/li][li]Trajan Emperor, Tacitus writes Annals[/li][li]Hadrian succeeds Trajan, builds wall[/li][li]Diocletian reforms the Roman Empire[/li][li]Antoninus Pius succeeds Hadrian[/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]Viking attacks begin[/li][li]Holy Roman Empire created[/li][li]Poland converts to Christianity[/li][li]Russia converts to Christianity[/li][li]Great Schism between Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches[/li] [li]Lief Erikson discovers America[/li] [li]Crab Supernova[/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]Teutonic Order settled in Prussia[/li][li]Kublai Khan’s two expeditions vs Japan fail[/li][li]Hundreds’ Year War between France and England[/li][li]A rat, no cat, an epidemic–the Black Death[/li][li]Invention of gunpowder[/li][li]Movable type[/li][li]Wycliffe questions Papal supremacy[/li][li]Joan of Arc in action[/li][li]Byzantium falls to Ottomans[/li][li]Discovery & colonization of the Americas[/li][li]Michaelangelo paints Sistene Chapel ceiling[/li][li]Erasmus calls for reform of RC church corruption[/li][li]Martin Luther vandalizes a Church door[/li][li]Henry VIII takes England out of Roman Catholic church[/li][li]Calvin in Geneva[/li][li]Scandinavian countries leave the RC church[/li][li]Copernican model of the Solar System[/li][li]Netherlands revolt against Spain begins[/li][li]Queen Elizabeth I takes the throne[/li][li]Shakespeare gets a pen for his birthday[/li][li]Spanish Armada[/li][li]Kepler’s Laws of planetary motion[/li][li]The Maunder Minimum[/li][li]The Gunpowder Plot[/li][li]Trial of Galileo[/li][li]Cromwell becomes Lord Protector of England[/li][li]Restoration of British monarchy[/li][li]Isaac Newton creates modern physics and mathematics[/li][li]Leibniz invents modern calculus notation[/li][li]Ottoman Empire expansion stopped at Vienna[/li] [li]Haley explains the motion of comets[/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]George Washington, as Virginia militia officer, first comes under enemy fire[/li][li]French and Indian War ends[/li][li]Ben Franklin begins “Poor Richard’s Almanac”[/li][li]Stamp Act imposed in America[/li][li]British troops fire on Minutemen at Lexington and Concord[/li][li]Bunker Hill[/li][li]7/4/1776[/li][li]Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense” published[/li][li]Washington wins at Trenton, Princeton[/li][li]Ludwig van Beethoven begins piano lessons[/li][li]Saratoga[/li][li]U.S., France form alliance[/li][li]Articles of Confederation adopted[/li][li]Yorktown[/li][li]United States adopts its Constitution[/li][li]George Washington becomes first U.S. President[/li][li]Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” published[/li][li]Bastille stormed[/li][li]Metric system first introduced[/li][li]Reign of Terror in France[/li][li]3rd Partition of Poland-Lithuania[/li][li]Napoleon takes power[/li][li]Battle of Austerlitz[/li][li]President John Adams signs Alien & Sedition Acts[/li][li]Battle of Trafalgar - death of Nelson[/li][li]Waterloo[/li][li]Congress of Vienna[/li][li]Steam engines developed[/li][li]Major electoral reform in Great Britain[/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]Harriet Beecher Stowe’s “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” published[/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]Maxwell’s laws of electromagnetism[/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]Versailles Peace Treaty[/li][li]Prohibition in USA[/li][li]Sherwood Anderson’s “Winesburg, Ohio” published[/li][li]Henry Ford introduces the assembly line and mass production[/li][li]James Joyce publishes “Ulysses”[/li][li]Lenin dies[/li][li]Hitler writes “Mein Kampf”[/li][li]Scopes Monkey Trial[/li][li]Sinclair Lewis’s “The Jungle” published[/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]Churchill becomes British PM[/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]Battle of the Bulge[/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]Cosmic Microwave Background radiation discovered[/li][li]George Orwell’s “1984” published[/li][li]Truman defeats Dewey[/li][li]Communists win Chinese Civil War[/li][li]Truman approves development of H-bomb[/li][li]Korean War begins[/li][li]Isaac Asimov’s “Foundation Trilogy” published[/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]DNA described by Watson and Crick[/li][li]Eisenhower defeats Stevenson again[/li][li]First nuclear power station on-line[/li][li]Maser (precursor to laser) invented[/li][li]Arthur C. Clarke’s “Childhood’s End” published[/li][li]A man, a plan, a rocket–Sputnik[/li][li]Harper Lee’s “To Kill A Mockingbird” published[/li][li]Year of Africa, many European colonies granted independence[/li][li]John F. Kennedy becomes U.S. President[/li][li]Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring” published[/li][li]John Lennon meets Paul McCartney[/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]Beatles come to USA[/li][li]“Star Trek” premieres[/li][li]Humans walk on another world[/li][li]Apollo 13 crew returns safely[/li][li]Nixon resigns over Watergate scandal[/li][li]Ford pardons Nixon[/li][li]Word processors begin to supplant typewriters[/li][li]U.S. Bicentennial[/li][li]Carter defeats Ford for U.S. Presidency[/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]Maastricht Treaty signed, European Community becomes European Union[/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]U.S. Federal stimulus package passes[/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]U.S. healthcare reform bill passes[/li][li]Pentagon policy of “Don’t ask, don’t tell” repealed[/li][li]S&P downgrades US Debt from AAA to AA+[/li] [li]Voyager probes pass the heliopause[/li][li]Sun becomes a red giant[/li][li]Heat death of the Universe[/li][/ol]
This is getting frustrating-- There are a few events I want to add, but I don’t know where exactly they fit in with the existing timeline.
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[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]The Great Dying[/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]Greeks and Phoenicians start colonizing Mediterranean[/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]Egypt 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]Unsuccessful land reform attempted in Rome[/li][li]Marius foremost Roman strongman[/li][li]Sulla foremost Roman strongman[/li][li]1st Triumvirate: Caesar-Pompey-Crassus[/li] [li]Caesar defeats Pompey[/li][li]Caesar assassinated[/li][li]2nd Triumvirate: Octavian (later ka Augustus)-Antony-Lepidus[/li][li]Battle Actium- Octavian wins control of Rome[/li][li]Roman Empire founded[/li] [li]Vesuvius buries Pompeii under ash[/li][li]Jesus born[/li][li]Tiberius succeeds Augustus[/li][li]Caligula succeeds Tiberius[/li][li]Caligula assassinated, Claudius succeeds[/li][li]Roman conquest of Britain[/li][li]Nero starts persecution of Christians[/li][li]Nero deposed, four generals vie for power[/li][li]Vespasian wins power struggle, becomes Emperor[/li][li]Jewish revolt defeated, Temple of Jerusalem destroyed[/li][li]Titus succeeds Vespasian[/li][li]Domitian succeeds Titus[/li][li]Domitian assassinated, Nerva chosen Emperor by Senate[/li][li]Trajan Emperor, Tacitus writes Annals[/li][li]Hadrian succeeds Trajan, builds wall[/li][li]Diocletian reforms the Roman Empire[/li][li]Antoninus Pius succeeds Hadrian[/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]Viking attacks begin[/li][li]Holy Roman Empire created[/li][li]Poland converts to Christianity[/li][li]Russia converts to Christianity[/li][li]Great Schism between Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches[/li] [li]Lief Erikson discovers America[/li] [li]Crab Supernova[/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]Teutonic Order settled in Prussia[/li][li]Kublai Khan’s two expeditions vs Japan fail[/li][li]Hundreds’ Year War between France and England[/li][li]A rat, no cat, an epidemic–the Black Death[/li][li]Invention of gunpowder[/li][li]Movable type[/li][li]Wycliffe questions Papal supremacy[/li][li]Joan of Arc in action[/li][li]Byzantium falls to Ottomans[/li][li]Discovery & colonization of the Americas[/li][li]Michaelangelo paints Sistene Chapel ceiling[/li][li]Erasmus calls for reform of RC church corruption[/li][li]Martin Luther vandalizes a Church door[/li][li]Henry VIII takes England out of Roman Catholic church[/li][li]Calvin in Geneva[/li][li]Scandinavian countries leave the RC church[/li][li]Copernican model of the Solar System[/li][li]Netherlands revolt against Spain begins[/li][li]Queen Elizabeth I takes the throne[/li][li]Shakespeare gets a pen for his birthday[/li][li]Spanish Armada[/li][li]The Tokugawa Shogunate begins[/li][li]Kepler’s Laws of planetary motion[/li][li]The Maunder Minimum[/li][li]The Gunpowder Plot[/li][li]Trial of Galileo[/li][li]Cromwell becomes Lord Protector of England[/li][li]Restoration of British monarchy[/li][li]Boyle discoveres the existence of elements[/li][li]Isaac Newton creates modern physics and mathematics[/li][li]Leibniz invents modern calculus notation[/li][li]Ottoman Empire expansion stopped at Vienna[/li] [li]Haley explains the motion of comets[/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]George Washington, as Virginia militia officer, first comes under enemy fire[/li][li]Britain conquers Canada[/li][li]French and Indian War ends[/li][li]Ben Franklin begins “Poor Richard’s Almanac”[/li][li]Stamp Act imposed in America[/li][li]British troops fire on Minutemen at Lexington and Concord[/li][li]Bunker Hill[/li][li]7/4/1776[/li][li]Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense” published[/li][li]Washington wins at Trenton, Princeton[/li][li]Ludwig van Beethoven begins piano lessons[/li][li]Saratoga[/li][li]U.S., France form alliance[/li][li]Articles of Confederation adopted[/li][li]Yorktown[/li][li]United States adopts its Constitution[/li][li]George Washington becomes first U.S. President[/li][li]Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” published[/li][li]Bastille stormed[/li][li]Metric system first introduced[/li][li]Reign of Terror in France[/li][li]3rd Partition of Poland-Lithuania[/li][li]Napoleon takes power[/li][li]Battle of Austerlitz[/li][li]President John Adams signs Alien & Sedition Acts[/li][li]Battle of Trafalgar - death of Nelson[/li][li]Waterloo[/li][li]Congress of Vienna[/li][li]Bolivarian wars end with Spain defeated[/li][li]Steam engines developed[/li][li]Major electoral reform in Great Britain[/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]Harriet Beecher Stowe’s “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” published[/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]Confederation of Canada[/li][li]A man, a plan, a canal–Suez[/li][li]Telephone invented[/li][li]Maxwell’s laws of electromagnetism[/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]Spanish-American War[/li][li]Airplane invented[/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]German Empire collapses[/li][li]Versailles Peace Treaty[/li][li]Prohibition in USA[/li][li]Sherwood Anderson’s “Winesburg, Ohio” published[/li][li]Henry Ford introduces the assembly line and mass production[/li][li]James Joyce publishes “Ulysses”[/li][li]Lenin dies[/li][li]Hitler writes “Mein Kampf”[/li][li]Scopes Monkey Trial[/li][li]Sinclair Lewis’s “The Jungle” published[/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]Churchill becomes British PM[/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]Battle of the Bulge[/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]Cosmic Microwave Background radiation discovered[/li][li]India and Pakistan gain independence from Britain[/li][li]George Orwell’s “1984” published[/li][li]Truman defeats Dewey[/li][li]Communists win Chinese Civil War[/li][li]Truman approves development of H-bomb[/li][li]Korean War begins[/li][li]Isaac Asimov’s “Foundation Trilogy” published[/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]DNA described by Watson and Crick[/li][li]Eisenhower defeats Stevenson again[/li][li]First nuclear power station on-line[/li][li]Maser (precursor to laser) invented[/li][li]Arthur C. Clarke’s “Childhood’s End” published[/li][li]A man, a plan, a rocket–Sputnik[/li][li]Harper Lee’s “To Kill A Mockingbird” published[/li][li]Year of Africa, many European colonies granted independence[/li][li]John F. Kennedy becomes U.S. President[/li][li]Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring” published[/li][li]John Lennon meets Paul McCartney[/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]Beatles come to USA[/li][li]“Star Trek” premieres[/li][li]Humans walk on another world[/li][li]Apollo 13 crew returns safely[/li][li]Nixon resigns over Watergate scandal[/li][li]Ford pardons Nixon[/li][li]Word processors begin to supplant typewriters[/li][li]U.S. Bicentennial[/li][li]Carter defeats Ford for U.S. Presidency[/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]Maastricht Treaty signed, European Community becomes European Union[/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]U.S. Federal stimulus package passes[/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]U.S. healthcare reform bill passes[/li][li]Pentagon policy of “Don’t ask, don’t tell” repealed[/li][li]S&P downgrades US Debt from AAA to AA+[/li] [li]Voyager probes pass the heliopause[/li][li]Sun becomes a red giant[/li][li]Heat death of the Universe[/li][/ol]
Just do your best, Chronos. The timeline is already a bit off at several points.
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[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]The Great Dying[/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]Greeks and Phoenicians start colonizing Mediterranean[/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]Egypt 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]Unsuccessful land reform attempted in Rome[/li][li]Marius foremost Roman strongman[/li][li]Sulla foremost Roman strongman[/li][li]1st Triumvirate: Caesar-Pompey-Crassus[/li] [li]Caesar defeats Pompey[/li][li]Caesar assassinated[/li][li]2nd Triumvirate: Octavian (later ka Augustus)-Antony-Lepidus[/li][li]Battle Actium- Octavian wins control of Rome[/li][li]Roman Empire founded[/li] [li]Vesuvius buries Pompeii under ash[/li][li]Jesus born[/li][li]Tiberius succeeds Augustus[/li][li]Caligula succeeds Tiberius[/li][li]Caligula assassinated, Claudius succeeds[/li][li]Roman conquest of Britain[/li][li]Nero starts persecution of Christians[/li][li]Nero deposed, four generals vie for power[/li][li]Vespasian wins power struggle, becomes Emperor[/li][li]Jewish revolt defeated, Temple of Jerusalem destroyed[/li][li]Titus succeeds Vespasian[/li][li]Domitian succeeds Titus[/li][li]Domitian assassinated, Nerva chosen Emperor by Senate[/li][li]Trajan Emperor, Tacitus writes Annals[/li][li]Hadrian succeeds Trajan, builds wall[/li][li]Diocletian reforms the Roman Empire[/li][li]Antoninus Pius succeeds Hadrian[/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]Viking attacks begin[/li][li]Holy Roman Empire created[/li][li]Poland converts to Christianity[/li][li]Russia converts to Christianity[/li][li]Great Schism between Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches[/li] [li]Lief Erikson discovers America[/li] [li]Crab Supernova[/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]Teutonic Order settled in Prussia[/li][li]Kublai Khan’s two expeditions vs Japan fail[/li][li]Hundreds’ Year War between France and England[/li][li]A rat, no cat, an epidemic–the Black Death[/li][li]Invention of gunpowder[/li][li]Movable type[/li][li]Wycliffe questions Papal supremacy[/li][li]Joan of Arc in action[/li][li]Byzantium falls to Ottomans[/li][li]Discovery & colonization of the Americas[/li][li]Michaelangelo paints Sistene Chapel ceiling[/li][li]Erasmus calls for reform of RC church corruption[/li][li]Martin Luther vandalizes a Church door[/li][li]Henry VIII takes England out of Roman Catholic church[/li][li]Calvin in Geneva[/li][li]Scandinavian countries leave the RC church[/li][li]Copernican model of the Solar System[/li][li]Netherlands revolt against Spain begins[/li][li]Queen Elizabeth I takes the throne[/li][li]Shakespeare gets a pen for his birthday[/li][li]Spanish Armada[/li][li]Kepler’s Laws of planetary motion[/li] [li]The Maunder Minimum[/li][li]The Gunpowder Plot[/li][li]Trial of Galileo[/li][li]Cromwell becomes Lord Protector of England[/li][li]Restoration of British monarchy[/li][li]Isaac Newton creates modern physics and mathematics[/li][li]Leibniz invents modern calculus notation[/li][li]Ottoman Empire expansion stopped at Vienna[/li] [li]Haley explains the motion of comets[/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]George Washington, as Virginia militia officer, first comes under enemy fire[/li][li]French and Indian War ends[/li][li]Ben Franklin begins “Poor Richard’s Almanac”[/li][li]Stamp Act imposed in America[/li][li]British troops fire on Minutemen at Lexington and Concord[/li][li]Bunker Hill[/li][li]7/4/1776[/li][li]Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense” published[/li][li]Washington wins at Trenton, Princeton[/li][li]Ludwig van Beethoven begins piano lessons[/li][li]Saratoga[/li][li]U.S., France form alliance[/li][li]Articles of Confederation adopted[/li][li]Yorktown[/li][li]United States adopts its Constitution[/li][li]George Washington becomes first U.S. President[/li][li]U.S. Bill of Rights adopted[/li][li]Whiskey Rebellion[/li][li]Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” published[/li][li]Washington’s Farewell Address printed[/li][li]Bastille stormed[/li][li]Metric system first introduced[/li][li]Reign of Terror in France[/li][li]3rd Partition of Poland-Lithuania[/li][li]Napoleon takes power[/li][li]Battle of Austerlitz[/li][li]President John Adams signs Alien & Sedition Acts[/li][li]Battle of Trafalgar - death of Nelson[/li][li]Washington, D.C. burned by British troops[/li][li]Battle of Lake Erie - Perry: “We have met the enemy…”[/li][li]Battle of New Orleans[/li][li]Treaty of Ghent[/li][li]Waterloo[/li][li]Congress of Vienna[/li][li]Steam engines developed[/li][li]Major electoral reform in Great Britain[/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]Harriet Beecher Stowe’s “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” published[/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]Maxwell’s laws of electromagnetism[/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]Versailles Peace Treaty[/li][li]Prohibition in USA[/li][li]Sherwood Anderson’s “Winesburg, Ohio” published[/li][li]Henry Ford introduces the assembly line and mass production[/li][li]James Joyce publishes “Ulysses”[/li][li]Lenin dies[/li][li]Hitler writes “Mein Kampf”[/li][li]Scopes Monkey Trial[/li][li]Sinclair Lewis’s “The Jungle” published[/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]Churchill becomes British PM[/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]Battle of the Bulge[/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]Cosmic Microwave Background radiation discovered[/li][li]George Orwell’s “1984” published[/li][li]Truman defeats Dewey[/li][li]Communists win Chinese Civil War[/li][li]Truman approves development of H-bomb[/li][li]Korean War begins[/li][li]Isaac Asimov’s “Foundation Trilogy” published[/li][li]Checkers speech[/li][li]Eisenhower beats Stevenson the first time[/li][li]USS Nautilus goes under the North Pole[/li][li]J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings” is published[/li][li]DNA described by Watson and Crick[/li][li]Suez Canal Crisis[/li][li]Eisenhower defeats Stevenson again[/li][li]First nuclear power station on-line[/li][li]Maser (precursor to laser) invented[/li][li]Arthur C. Clarke’s “Childhood’s End” published[/li][li]A man, a plan, a rocket–Sputnik[/li][li]Harper Lee’s “To Kill A Mockingbird” published[/li][li]Year of Africa, many European colonies granted independence[/li][li]John F. Kennedy becomes U.S. President[/li][li]Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring” published[/li][li]John Lennon meets Paul McCartney[/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]Integration of Ole Miss[/li][li]Cuban Missile Crisis[/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]Beatles come to USA[/li][li]“Star Trek” premieres[/li][li]Humans walk on another world[/li][li]Apollo 13 crew returns safely[/li][li]Nixon resigns over Watergate scandal[/li][li]Ford pardons Nixon[/li][li]Word processors begin to supplant typewriters[/li][li]U.S. Bicentennial[/li][li]Carter defeats Ford for U.S. Presidency[/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]Maastricht Treaty signed, European Community becomes European Union[/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]U.S. Federal stimulus package passes[/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]U.S. healthcare reform bill passes[/li][li]Pentagon policy of “Don’t ask, don’t tell” repealed[/li][li]S&P downgrades US Debt from AAA to AA+[/li] [li]Voyager probes pass the heliopause[/li][li]Sun becomes a red giant[/li][li]Heat death of the Universe[/li][/ol]
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[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]The Great Dying[/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]Greeks and Phoenicians start colonizing Mediterranean[/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]Egypt 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]Unsuccessful land reform attempted in Rome[/li][li]Marius foremost Roman strongman[/li][li]Sulla foremost Roman strongman[/li][li]1st Triumvirate: Caesar-Pompey-Crassus[/li][li]Caesar defeats Pompey[/li][li]Caesar assassinated[/li][li]2nd Triumvirate: Octavian (later ka Augustus)-Antony-Lepidus[/li][li]Battle Actium- Octavian wins control of Rome[/li][li]Roman Empire founded[/li][li]Vesuvius buries Pompeii under ash[/li][li]Jesus born[/li][li]Tiberius succeeds Augustus[/li][li]Caligula succeeds Tiberius[/li][li]Caligula assassinated, Claudius succeeds[/li][li]Roman conquest of Britain[/li][li]Nero starts persecution of Christians[/li][li]Nero deposed, four generals vie for power[/li][li]Vespasian wins power struggle, becomes Emperor[/li][li]Jewish revolt defeated, Temple of Jerusalem destroyed[/li][li]Titus succeeds Vespasian[/li][li]Domitian succeeds Titus[/li][li]Domitian assassinated, Nerva chosen Emperor by Senate[/li][li]Trajan Emperor, Tacitus writes Annals[/li][li]Hadrian succeeds Trajan, builds wall[/li][li]Antoninus Pius succeeds Hadrain[/li][li]Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus corulers, then Marcus alone.[/li][li]Marcus writes Meditations; campaign vs Macromanni[/li][li]Commodus succeeds Marcus Aurelius[/li][li]Commodus assassinated, Pertinax chosen Emperor by Senate[/li][li]Pertinax assassinated by Praetorian Guard[/li][li]Han dynasty collapses[/li][li]Diocletian reforms the Roman Empire[/li][li]Antoninus Pius succeeds Hadrian[/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]Viking attacks begin[/li][li]Holy Roman Empire created[/li][li]Poland converts to Christianity[/li][li]Russia converts to Christianity[/li][li]Great Schism between Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches[/li][li]Lief Erikson discovers America[/li][li]Crab Supernova[/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]Teutonic Order settled in Prussia[/li][li]Kublai Khan’s two expeditions vs Japan fail[/li][li]Hundreds’ Year War between France and England[/li][li]A rat, no cat, an epidemic–the Black Death[/li][li]Invention of gunpowder[/li][li]Movable type[/li][li]Ming dynasty replaces Yuan/Mongol dynasty[/li][li]Wycliffe questions Papal supremacy[/li][li]Joan of Arc in action[/li][li]Byzantium falls to Ottomans[/li][li]Discovery & colonization of the Americas[/li][li]Michaelangelo paints Sistene Chapel ceiling[/li][li]Erasmus calls for reform of RC church corruption[/li][li]Martin Luther vandalizes a Church door[/li][li]Henry VIII takes England out of Roman Catholic church[/li][li]Calvin in Geneva[/li][li]Scandinavian countries leave the RC church[/li][li]Copernican model of the Solar System[/li][li]Netherlands revolt against Spain begins[/li][li]Queen Elizabeth I takes the throne[/li][li]Shakespeare gets a pen for his birthday[/li][li]Spanish Armada[/li][li]Kepler’s Laws of planetary motion[/li][li]The Maunder Minimum[/li][li]The Gunpowder Plot[/li][li]Trial of Galileo[/li][li]Cromwell becomes Lord Protector of England[/li][li]Restoration of British monarchy[/li][li]Isaac Newton creates modern physics and mathematics[/li][li]Leibniz invents modern calculus notation[/li][li]Chin/Manchu dynasty replaces Ming[/li][li]Ottoman Empire expansion stopped at Vienna[/li][li]Haley explains the motion of comets[/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]George Washington, as Virginia militia officer, first comes under enemy fire[/li][li]French and Indian War ends[/li][li]Ben Franklin begins “Poor Richard’s Almanac”[/li][li]Stamp Act imposed in America[/li][li]British troops fire on Minutemen at Lexington and Concord[/li][li]Bunker Hill[/li][li]7/4/1776[/li][li]Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense” published[/li][li]Washington wins at Trenton, Princeton[/li][li]Ludwig van Beethoven begins piano lessons[/li][li]Saratoga[/li][li]U.S., France form alliance[/li][li]Articles of Confederation adopted[/li][li]Yorktown[/li][li]United States adopts its Constitution[/li][li]George Washington becomes first U.S. President[/li][li]U.S. Bill of Rights adopted[/li][li]Whiskey Rebellion[/li][li]Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” published[/li][li]Washington’s Farewell Address printed[/li][li]Bastille stormed[/li][li]Metric system first introduced[/li][li]Reign of Terror in France[/li][li]3rd Partition of Poland-Lithuania[/li][li]Napoleon takes power[/li][li]Battle of Austerlitz[/li][li]President John Adams signs Alien & Sedition Acts[/li][li]Battle of Trafalgar - death of Nelson[/li][li]Washington, D.C. burned by British troops[/li][li]Battle of Lake Erie - Perry: “We have met the enemy…”[/li][li]Battle of New Orleans[/li][li]Treaty of Ghent[/li][li]Waterloo[/li][li]Congress of Vienna[/li][li]Steam engines developed[/li][li]Major electoral reform in Great Britain[/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]Harriet Beecher Stowe’s “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” published[/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]Maxwell’s laws of electromagnetism[/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 murdered[/li][li]Versailles Peace Treaty[/li][li]Prohibition in USA[/li][li]Sherwood Anderson’s “Winesburg, Ohio” published[/li][li]Henry Ford introduces the assembly line and mass production[/li][li]James Joyce publishes “Ulysses”[/li][li]Lenin dies[/li][li]Hitler writes “Mein Kampf”[/li][li]Scopes Monkey Trial[/li][li]Sinclair Lewis’s “The Jungle” published[/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]Churchill becomes British PM[/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]Battle of the Bulge[/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]Cosmic Microwave Background radiation hypothesized[/li][li]George Orwell’s “1984” published[/li][li]Truman defeats Dewey[/li][li]Communists win Chinese Civil War[/li][li]Truman approves development of H-bomb[/li][li]Korean War begins[/li][li]Isaac Asimov’s “Foundation Trilogy” published[/li][li]Checkers speech[/li][li]Eisenhower beats Stevenson the first time[/li][li]USS Nautilus goes under the North Pole[/li][li]J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings” is published[/li][li]DNA described by Watson and Crick[/li][li]Suez Canal Crisis[/li][li]Eisenhower defeats Stevenson again[/li][li]First nuclear power station on-line[/li][li]Maser (precursor to laser) invented[/li][li]Arthur C. Clarke’s “Childhood’s End” published[/li][li]A man, a plan, a rocket–Sputnik[/li][li]Harper Lee’s “To Kill A Mockingbird” published[/li][li]Year of Africa, many European colonies granted independence[/li][li]John F. Kennedy becomes U.S. President[/li][li]Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring” published[/li][li]John Lennon meets Paul McCartney[/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]Integration of Ole Miss[/li][li]Cuban Missile Crisis[/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]Beatles come to USA[/li][li]Star Trek premieres[/li][li]Cosmic Microwave Background radiation discovered[/li][li]Humans walk on another world[/li][li]Apollo 13 crew returns safely[/li][li]Nixon resigns over Watergate scandal[/li][li]Ford pardons Nixon[/li][li]Word processors begin to supplant typewriters[/li][li]U.S. Bicentennial[/li][li]Carter defeats Ford for U.S. Presidency[/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]Maastricht Treaty signed, European Community becomes European Union[/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]U.S. Federal stimulus package passes[/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]U.S. healthcare reform bill passes[/li][li]Pentagon policy of “Don’t ask, don’t tell” repealed[/li][li]S&P downgrades US Debt from AAA to AA+[/li][li]Voyager probes pass the heliopause[/li][li]Sun becomes a red giant[/li][li]Heat death of the Universe[/li][/ol]
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[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]The Great Dying[/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]Greeks and Phoenicians start colonizing Mediterranean[/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]Egypt 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]Unsuccessful land reform attempted in Rome[/li][li]Marius foremost Roman strongman[/li][li]Sulla foremost Roman strongman[/li][li]1st Triumvirate: Caesar-Pompey-Crassus[/li][li]Caesar defeats Pompey[/li][li]Caesar assassinated[/li][li]2nd Triumvirate: Octavian (later ka Augustus)-Antony-Lepidus[/li][li]Battle Actium- Octavian wins control of Rome[/li][li]Roman Empire founded[/li][li]Vesuvius buries Pompeii under ash[/li][li]Jesus born[/li][li]Tiberius succeeds Augustus[/li][li]Caligula succeeds Tiberius[/li][li]Caligula assassinated, Claudius succeeds[/li][li]Roman conquest of Britain[/li][li]Nero starts persecution of Christians[/li][li]Nero deposed, four generals vie for power[/li][li]Vespasian wins power struggle, becomes Emperor[/li][li]Jewish revolt defeated, Temple of Jerusalem destroyed[/li][li]Titus succeeds Vespasian[/li][li]Domitian succeeds Titus[/li][li]Domitian assassinated, Nerva chosen Emperor by Senate[/li][li]Trajan Emperor, Tacitus writes Annals[/li][li]Hadrian succeeds Trajan, builds wall[/li][li]Antoninus Pius succeeds Hadrain[/li][li]Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus corulers, then Marcus alone.[/li][li]Marcus writes Meditations; campaign vs Macromanni[/li][li]Commodus succeeds Marcus Aurelius[/li][li]Commodus assassinated, Pertinax chosen Emperor by Senate[/li][li]Pertinax assassinated by Praetorian Guard[/li][li]Han dynasty collapses[/li][li]Diocletian reforms the Roman Empire[/li][li]Antoninus Pius succeeds Hadrian[/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]Viking attacks begin[/li][li]Holy Roman Empire created[/li][li]Poland converts to Christianity[/li][li]Russia converts to Christianity[/li][li]Great Schism between Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches[/li][li]Lief Erikson discovers America[/li][li]Crab Supernova[/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]Teutonic Order settled in Prussia[/li][li]Kublai Khan’s two expeditions vs Japan fail[/li][li]Hundreds’ Year War between France and England[/li][li]Henry V wins at Agincourt on St. Crispin’s Day[/li][li]A rat, no cat, an epidemic–the Black Death[/li][li]Invention of gunpowder[/li][li]Movable type[/li][li]Ming dynasty replaces Yuan/Mongol dynasty[/li][li]Wycliffe questions Papal supremacy[/li][li]Joan of Arc in action[/li][li]Byzantium falls to Ottomans[/li][li]Magna Carta signed[/li][li]Discovery & colonization of the Americas[/li][li]Michaelangelo paints Sistene Chapel ceiling[/li][li]Erasmus calls for reform of RC church corruption[/li][li]Martin Luther vandalizes a Church door[/li][li]Henry VIII takes England out of Roman Catholic church[/li][li]Calvin in Geneva[/li][li]Scandinavian countries leave the RC church[/li][li]Copernican model of the Solar System[/li][li]Netherlands revolt against Spain begins[/li][li]Queen Elizabeth I takes the throne[/li][li]Shakespeare gets a pen for his birthday[/li][li]Spanish Armada[/li][li]Kepler’s Laws of planetary motion[/li][li]The Maunder Minimum[/li][li]The Gunpowder Plot[/li][li]Trial of Galileo[/li][li]Cromwell becomes Lord Protector of England[/li][li]Restoration of British monarchy[/li][li]Isaac Newton creates modern physics and mathematics[/li][li]Leibniz invents modern calculus notation[/li][li]Chin/Manchu dynasty replaces Ming[/li][li]Ottoman Empire expansion stopped at Vienna[/li][li]Haley explains the motion of comets[/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]George Washington, as Virginia militia officer, first comes under enemy fire[/li][li]French and Indian War ends[/li][li]Ben Franklin begins “Poor Richard’s Almanack”[/li][li]Stamp Act imposed in America[/li][li]British troops fire on Minutemen at Lexington and Concord[/li][li]Bunker Hill[/li][li]7/4/1776[/li][li]Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense” published[/li][li]Washington wins at Trenton, Princeton[/li][li]Ludwig van Beethoven begins piano lessons[/li][li]Saratoga[/li][li]U.S., France form alliance[/li][li]Articles of Confederation adopted[/li][li]Yorktown[/li][li]United States adopts its Constitution[/li][li]George Washington becomes first U.S. President[/li][li]U.S. Bill of Rights adopted[/li][li]Whiskey Rebellion[/li][li]Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” published[/li][li]Washington’s Farewell Address printed[/li][li]Bastille stormed[/li][li]Metric system first introduced[/li][li]Reign of Terror in France[/li][li]3rd Partition of Poland-Lithuania[/li][li]Napoleon takes power[/li][li]Battle of Austerlitz[/li][li]President John Adams signs Alien & Sedition Acts[/li][li]Battle of Trafalgar - death of Nelson[/li][li]Washington, D.C. burned by British troops[/li][li]Battle of Lake Erie - Perry: “We have met the enemy…”[/li][li]Battle of New Orleans[/li][li]Treaty of Ghent[/li][li]Waterloo[/li][li]Congress of Vienna[/li][li]Steam engines developed[/li][li]Major electoral reform in Great Britain[/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]Harriet Beecher Stowe’s “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” published[/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]Maxwell’s laws of electromagnetism[/li][li]Radio invented[/li][li]Michelson-Morley experiment[/li][li]McKinley elected 1st term[/li][li]Spanish-American War[/li][li]Quantum theory discovered[/li][li]X-Rays described[/li][li]McKinley assassinated; Theodore Roosevelt becomes U.S. President[/li][li]A man, a plan, a canal–Panama[/li][li]Automobile invented[/li][li]RMS Titanic sinks[/li][li]Einstein’s miracle year[/li][li]Sarajevo[/li][li]General Relativity discovered[/li][li]Russian Revolution[/li][li]Tsar and his family murdered[/li][li]Versailles Peace Treaty[/li][li]Prohibition in USA[/li][li]Sherwood Anderson’s “Winesburg, Ohio” published[/li][li]Henry Ford introduces the assembly line and mass production[/li][li]James Joyce publishes “Ulysses”[/li][li]Lenin dies[/li][li]Hitler writes “Mein Kampf”[/li][li]Scopes Monkey Trial[/li][li]Sinclair Lewis’s “The Jungle” published[/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]Churchill becomes British PM[/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]Battle of the Bulge[/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]Cosmic Microwave Background radiation hypothesized[/li][li]George Orwell’s “1984” published[/li][li]Truman defeats Dewey[/li][li]Communists win Chinese Civil War[/li][li]Truman approves development of H-bomb[/li][li]Korean War begins[/li][li]Queen Elizabeth II takes British throne[/li][li]Isaac Asimov’s “Foundation Trilogy” published[/li][li]Checkers speech[/li][li]Eisenhower beats Stevenson the first time[/li][li]USS Nautilus sails to the North Pole[/li][li]J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings” is published[/li][li]DNA described by Watson and Crick[/li][li]Suez Canal Crisis[/li][li]Eisenhower defeats Stevenson again[/li][li]First nuclear power station on-line[/li][li]Maser (precursor to laser) invented[/li][li]Arthur C. Clarke’s “Childhood’s End” published[/li][li]A man, a plan, a rocket–Sputnik[/li][li]Harper Lee’s “To Kill A Mockingbird” published[/li][li]Year of Africa, many European colonies granted independence[/li][li]U-2 spyplane shootdown sours U.S.-Soviet relations[/li][li]John F. Kennedy becomes U.S. President[/li][li]Kennedy, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev meet in Vienna[/li][li]Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring” published[/li][li]John Lennon meets Paul McCartney[/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]Integration of Ole Miss[/li][li]Cuban Missile Crisis[/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]Beatles come to USA[/li][li]“Star Trek” premieres[/li][li]Cosmic Microwave Background radiation discovered[/li][li]Humans walk on another world[/li][li]Apollo 13 crew returns safely[/li][li]Nixon resigns over Watergate scandal[/li][li]Ford pardons Nixon[/li][li]Word processors begin to supplant typewriters[/li][li]U.S. Bicentennial[/li][li]Carter defeats Ford for U.S. Presidency[/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]Sandra Day O’Connor appointed to U.S. Supreme Court[/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]Collapse of Soviet Union[/li][li]Maastricht Treaty signed, European Community becomes European Union[/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]U.S. Federal stimulus package passes[/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]U.S. healthcare reform bill passes[/li][li]Pentagon policy of “Don’t ask, don’t tell” repealed[/li][li]S&P downgrades US Debt from AAA to AA+[/li][li]Voyager probes pass the heliopause[/li][li]Sun becomes a red giant[/li][li]Heat death of the Universe[/li][/ol]
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[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]The Great Dying[/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]Greeks and Phoenicians start colonizing Mediterranean[/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]Egypt 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]Socrates dies[/li][li]Plato and the Platonic Academy[/li][li]Philip becomes king of Macedon[/li][li]Aristotles of Stagira and the Lyceum[/li][li]Battle of Chaeronia- Macedon hegemon of Greece[/li][li]Philip assassinated, Alexander succeeds[/li][li]Thebes destroyed, Pindar’s house excepted[/li][li]Battle of the Granicus- Alexander wins Asia Minor[/li][li]A man, a sword, a knot, a cut: the Gordian Knot[/li][li]Battle of Issus[/li][li]Capture of Tyre[/li][li]Surrender of Egypt[/li][li]Battle of Guagamela[/li][li]Darius assassinated, Alexander succeeds as Persian Emperor[/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]Unsuccessful land reform attempted in Rome[/li][li]Marius foremost Roman strongman[/li][li]Sulla foremost Roman strongman[/li][li]1st Triumvirate: Caesar-Pompey-Crassus[/li][li]Caesar defeats Pompey[/li][li]Caesar assassinated[/li][li]2nd Triumvirate: Octavian (later ka Augustus)-Antony-Lepidus[/li][li]Battle Actium- Octavian wins control of Rome[/li][li]Roman Empire founded[/li][li]Vesuvius buries Pompeii under ash[/li][li]Jesus born[/li][li]Tiberius succeeds Augustus[/li][li]Caligula succeeds Tiberius[/li][li]Caligula assassinated, Claudius succeeds[/li][li]Roman conquest of Britain[/li][li]Nero starts persecution of Christians[/li][li]Nero deposed, four generals vie for power[/li][li]Vespasian wins power struggle, becomes Emperor[/li][li]Jewish revolt defeated, Temple of Jerusalem destroyed[/li][li]Titus succeeds Vespasian[/li][li]Domitian succeeds Titus[/li][li]Domitian assassinated, Nerva chosen Emperor by Senate[/li][li]Trajan Emperor, Tacitus writes Annals[/li][li]Hadrian succeeds Trajan, builds wall[/li][li]Antoninus Pius succeeds Hadrain[/li][li]Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus corulers, then Marcus alone.[/li][li]Marcus writes Meditations; 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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]Maxwell’s laws of electromagnetism[/li][li]Radio invented[/li][li]Michelson-Morley experiment[/li][li]McKinley elected 1st term[/li][li]Spanish-American War[/li][li]Quantum theory discovered[/li][li]X-Rays described[/li][li]McKinley assassinated; Theodore Roosevelt becomes U.S. President[/li][li]A man, a plan, a canal–Panama[/li][li]Automobile invented[/li][li]RMS Titanic sinks[/li][li]Einstein’s miracle year[/li][li]Sarajevo[/li][li]General Relativity discovered[/li][li]Russian Revolution[/li][li]Tsar and his family murdered[/li][li]Versailles Peace Treaty[/li][li]Prohibition in USA[/li][li]Sherwood Anderson’s “Winesburg, Ohio” published[/li][li]Henry Ford introduces the assembly line and mass production[/li][li]James Joyce publishes “Ulysses”[/li][li]Lenin dies[/li][li]Hitler writes “Mein Kampf”[/li][li]Scopes Monkey Trial[/li][li]Sinclair Lewis’s “The Jungle” published[/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]Churchill becomes British PM[/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]Battle of the Bulge[/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]Cosmic Microwave Background radiation hypothesized[/li][li]George Orwell’s “1984” published[/li][li]Truman defeats Dewey[/li][li]Communists win Chinese Civil War[/li][li]Truman approves development of H-bomb[/li][li]Korean War begins[/li][li]Queen Elizabeth II takes British throne[/li][li]Isaac Asimov’s “Foundation Trilogy” published[/li][li]Checkers speech[/li][li]Eisenhower beats Stevenson the first time[/li][li]USS Nautilus sails to the North Pole[/li][li]J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings” is published[/li][li]DNA described by Watson and Crick[/li][li]Suez Canal Crisis[/li][li]Eisenhower defeats Stevenson again[/li][li]First nuclear power station on-line[/li][li]Maser (precursor to laser) invented[/li][li]Arthur C. Clarke’s “Childhood’s End” published[/li][li]A man, a plan, a rocket–Sputnik[/li][li]Harper Lee’s “To Kill A Mockingbird” published[/li][li]Year of Africa, many European colonies granted independence[/li][li]U-2 spyplane shootdown sours U.S.-Soviet relations[/li][li]John F. Kennedy becomes U.S. President[/li][li]Kennedy, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev meet in Vienna[/li][li]Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring” published[/li][li]John Lennon meets Paul McCartney[/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]Integration of Ole Miss[/li][li]Cuban Missile Crisis[/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]Beatles come to USA[/li][li]Star Trek premieres[/li][li]Cosmic Microwave Background radiation discovered[/li][li]Humans walk on another world[/li][li]Apollo 13 crew returns safely[/li][li]Nixon resigns over Watergate scandal[/li][li]Ford pardons Nixon[/li][li]Word processors begin to supplant typewriters[/li][li]U.S. Bicentennial[/li][li]Carter defeats Ford for U.S. Presidency[/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]Sandra Day O’Connor appointed to U.S. Supreme Court[/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]Collapse of Soviet Union[/li][li]Maastricht Treaty signed, European Community becomes European Union[/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]U.S. Federal stimulus package passes[/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]U.S. healthcare reform bill passes[/li][li]Pentagon policy of “Don’t ask, don’t tell” repealed[/li][li]S&P downgrades US Debt from AAA to AA+[/li][li]Voyager probes pass the heliopause[/li][li]Sun becomes a red giant[/li][li]Heat death of the Universe[/li][/ol]
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[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]The Great Dying[/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]Greeks and Phoenicians start colonizing Mediterranean[/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]Egypt 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]Socrates dies[/li][li]Plato and the Platonic Academy[/li][li]Philip becomes king of Macedon[/li][li]Aristotles of Stagira and the Lyceum[/li][li]Battle of Chaeronia- Macedon hegemon of Greece[/li][li]Philip assassinated, Alexander succeeds[/li][li]Thebes destroyed, Pindar’s house excepted[/li][li]Battle of the Granicus- Alexander wins Asia Minor[/li][li]A man, a sword, a knot, a cut: the Gordian Knot[/li][li]Battle of Issus[/li][li]Capture of Tyre[/li][li]Surrender of Egypt[/li][li]Battle of Guagamela[/li][li]Darius assassinated, Alexander succeeds as Persian Emperor[/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]Unsuccessful land reform attempted in Rome[/li][li]Marius foremost Roman strongman[/li][li]Sulla foremost Roman strongman[/li][li]1st Triumvirate: Caesar-Pompey-Crassus[/li][li]Caesar defeats Pompey[/li][li]Caesar assassinated[/li][li]2nd Triumvirate: Octavian (later ka Augustus)-Antony-Lepidus[/li][li]Battle Actium- Octavian wins control of Rome[/li][li]Roman Empire founded[/li][li]Vesuvius buries Pompeii under ash[/li][li]Jesus born[/li][li]Tiberius succeeds Augustus[/li][li]Caligula succeeds Tiberius[/li][li]Caligula assassinated, Claudius succeeds[/li][li]Roman conquest of Britain[/li][li]Nero starts persecution of Christians[/li][li]Nero deposed, four generals vie for power[/li][li]Vespasian wins power struggle, becomes Emperor[/li][li]Jewish revolt defeated, Temple of Jerusalem destroyed[/li][li]Titus succeeds Vespasian[/li][li]Domitian succeeds Titus[/li][li]Domitian assassinated, Nerva chosen Emperor by Senate[/li][li]Trajan Emperor, Tacitus writes Annals[/li][li]Hadrian succeeds Trajan, builds wall[/li][li]Antoninus Pius succeeds Hadrain[/li][li]Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus corulers, then Marcus alone.[/li][li]Marcus writes Meditations; campaign vs Macromanni[/li][li]Commodus succeeds Marcus Aurelius[/li][li]Commodus assassinated, Pertinax chosen Emperor by Senate[/li][li]Pertinax assassinated by Praetorian Guard[/li][li]Han dynasty collapses[/li][li]Diocletian reforms the Roman Empire[/li][li]Antoninus Pius succeeds Hadrian[/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]Viking attacks begin[/li][li]Holy Roman Empire created[/li][li]Poland converts to Christianity[/li][li]Russia converts to Christianity[/li][li]Great Schism between Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches[/li][li]Lief Erikson discovers America[/li][li]Crab Supernova[/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]Teutonic Order settled in Prussia[/li][li]Kublai Khan’s two expeditions vs Japan fail[/li][li]Hundreds’ Year War between France and England[/li][li]Henry V wins at Agincourt on St. Crispin’s Day[/li][li]A rat, no cat, an epidemic–the Black Death[/li][li]Invention of gunpowder[/li][li]Movable type[/li][li]Ming dynasty replaces Yuan/Mongol dynasty[/li][li]Wycliffe questions Papal supremacy[/li][li]Joan of Arc in action[/li][li]Byzantium falls to Ottomans[/li][li]Magna Carta signed[/li][li]Discovery & colonization of the Americas[/li][li]Michaelangelo paints Sistene Chapel ceiling[/li][li]Erasmus calls for reform of RC church corruption[/li][li]Martin Luther vandalizes a Church door[/li][li]Henry VIII takes England out of Roman Catholic church[/li][li]Calvin in Geneva[/li][li]Scandinavian countries leave the RC church[/li][li]Copernican model of the Solar System[/li][li]Netherlands revolt against Spain begins[/li][li]Queen Elizabeth I takes the throne[/li][li]Shakespeare gets a pen for his birthday[/li][li]Spanish Armada[/li][li]Kepler’s Laws of planetary motion[/li][li]The Maunder Minimum[/li][li]The Gunpowder Plot[/li][li]Trial of Galileo[/li][li]Cromwell becomes Lord Protector of England[/li][li]Restoration of British monarchy[/li][li]Isaac Newton creates modern physics and mathematics[/li][li]Leibniz invents modern calculus notation[/li][li]Chin/Manchu dynasty replaces Ming[/li][li]Ottoman Empire expansion stopped at Vienna[/li][li]Haley explains the motion of comets[/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]George Washington, as Virginia militia officer, first comes under enemy fire[/li][li]French and Indian War ends[/li][li]Ben Franklin begins “Poor Richard’s Almanack”[/li][li]Stamp Act imposed in America[/li][li]British troops fire on Minutemen at Lexington and Concord[/li][li]Bunker Hill[/li][li]7/4/1776[/li][li]Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense” published[/li][li]Washington wins at Trenton, Princeton[/li][li]Ludwig van Beethoven begins piano lessons[/li][li]Saratoga[/li][li]U.S., France form alliance[/li][li]Articles of Confederation adopted[/li][li]Yorktown[/li][li]United States adopts its Constitution[/li][li]George Washington becomes first U.S. President[/li][li]U.S. Bill of Rights adopted[/li][li]Whiskey Rebellion[/li][li]Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” published[/li][li]Washington’s Farewell Address printed[/li][li]Bastille stormed[/li][li]Metric system first introduced[/li][li]Reign of Terror in France[/li][li]3rd Partition of Poland-Lithuania[/li][li]Napoleon takes power[/li][li]Battle of Austerlitz[/li][li]President John Adams signs Alien & Sedition Acts[/li][li]John Marshall named Chief Justice[/li][li]Battle of Trafalgar - death of Nelson[/li][li]USS Constitution wins naval glory as “Old Ironsides”[/li][li]Washington, D.C. burned by British troops[/li][li]Battle of Lake Erie - Perry: “We have met the enemy…”[/li][li]Battle of New Orleans[/li][li]Treaty of Ghent[/li][li]Waterloo[/li][li]Congress of Vienna[/li][li]Steam engines developed[/li][li]Queen Victoria takes British throne[/li][li]Major electoral reform in Great Britain[/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]Harriet Beecher Stowe’s “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” published[/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]President Andrew Johnson impeached by House but not convicted by Senate[/li][li]A man, a plan, a canal–Suez[/li][li]Maxwell’s laws of electromagnetism[/li][li]Battle of Little Big Horn[/li][li]Election of 1876 - Hayes “defeats” Tilden[/li][li]End of Reconstruction[/li][li]Radio invented[/li][li]Michelson-Morley experiment[/li][li]McKinley elected 1st term[/li][li]Spanish-American War[/li][li]Quantum theory discovered[/li][li]X-Rays described[/li][li]McKinley assassinated; Theodore Roosevelt becomes U.S. President[/li][li]A man, a plan, a canal–Panama[/li][li]Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. appointed to U.S. Supreme Court[/li][li]Automobile invented[/li][li]RMS Titanic sinks[/li][li]Einstein’s miracle year[/li][li]Sarajevo[/li][li]General Relativity discovered[/li][li]Russian Revolution[/li][li]Tsar and his family murdered[/li][li]Versailles Peace Treaty[/li][li]Prohibition in USA[/li][li]Sherwood Anderson’s “Winesburg, Ohio” published[/li][li]Henry Ford introduces the assembly line and mass production[/li][li]James Joyce publishes “Ulysses”[/li][li]Lenin dies[/li][li]Hitler writes “Mein Kampf”[/li][li]Scopes Monkey Trial[/li][li]Sinclair Lewis’s “The Jungle” published[/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]Churchill becomes British PM[/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]Battle of the Bulge[/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]Cosmic Microwave Background radiation hypothesized[/li][li]George Orwell’s “1984” published[/li][li]Truman defeats Dewey[/li][li]Communists win Chinese Civil War[/li][li]Truman approves development of H-bomb[/li][li]Korean War begins[/li][li]Queen Elizabeth II takes British throne[/li][li]Isaac Asimov’s “Foundation Trilogy” published[/li][li]Checkers speech[/li][li]Eisenhower beats Stevenson the first time[/li][li]USS Nautilus sails to the North Pole[/li][li]J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings” is published[/li][li]DNA described by Watson and Crick[/li][li]Suez Canal Crisis[/li][li]Eisenhower defeats Stevenson again[/li][li]First nuclear power station on-line[/li][li]Maser (precursor to laser) invented[/li][li]Arthur C. Clarke’s “Childhood’s End” published[/li][li]A man, a plan, a rocket–Sputnik[/li][li]Harper Lee’s “To Kill A Mockingbird” published[/li][li]Year of Africa, many European colonies granted independence[/li][li]U-2 spyplane shootdown sours U.S.-Soviet relations[/li][li]John F. Kennedy becomes U.S. President[/li][li]Kennedy, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev meet in Vienna[/li][li]Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring” published[/li][li]John Lennon meets Paul McCartney[/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]Integration of Ole Miss[/li][li]Cuban Missile Crisis[/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]Beatles come to USA[/li][li]Star Trek premieres[/li][li]Cosmic Microwave Background radiation discovered[/li][li]Humans walk on another world[/li][li]Apollo 13 crew returns safely[/li][li]Nixon resigns over Watergate scandal[/li][li]Ford pardons Nixon[/li][li]Word processors begin to supplant typewriters[/li][li]U.S. Bicentennial[/li][li]Carter defeats Ford for U.S. Presidency[/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]Sandra Day O’Connor appointed to U.S. Supreme Court[/li][li]Wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer[/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]Collapse of Soviet Union[/li][li]Maastricht Treaty signed, European Community becomes European Union[/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]U.S. Federal stimulus package passes[/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]U.S. healthcare reform bill passes[/li][li]Pentagon policy of “Don’t ask, don’t tell” repealed[/li][li]S&P downgrades US Debt from AAA to AA+[/li][li]British youth rioting[/li][li]Voyager probes pass the heliopause[/li][li]Sun becomes a red giant[/li][li]Heat death of the Universe[/li][/ol]
As a suggestion, can this go to a moderated wiki page of some sort where players can insert their ten to an existing list, rather than create new, longer ones?
Not sure what you mean by “moderated wiki page”, and we are inserting 10 to an existing list.
The list may eventually grow to be unwieldly in length. I wonder if forum software could be made
to support columnar formatting. That way entires might be edited to reduce width, and allow use of
two or more columns.
We could put the list in spoiler boxes each time, so it wouldn’t fill up the entire screen post by post.
Why don’t you do that with your next addition?
Hopefully people like me will be able to figure out from your post how to do the same.
Here you go.
[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]The Great Dying[/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]Greeks and Phoenicians start colonizing Mediterranean[/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]Egypt 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]Socrates dies[/li][li]Plato and the Platonic Academy[/li][li]Philip becomes king of Macedon[/li][li]Aristotles of Stagira and the Lyceum[/li][li]Battle of Chaeronia- Macedon hegemon of Greece[/li][li]Philip assassinated, Alexander succeeds[/li][li]Thebes destroyed, Pindar’s house excepted[/li][li]Battle of the Granicus- Alexander wins Asia Minor[/li][li]A man, a sword, a knot, a cut: the Gordian Knot[/li][li]Battle of Issus[/li][li]Capture of Tyre[/li][li]Surrender of Egypt[/li][li]Battle of Guagamela[/li][li]Darius assassinated, Alexander succeeds as Persian Emperor[/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]Unsuccessful land reform attempted in Rome[/li][li]Marius foremost Roman strongman[/li][li]Sulla foremost Roman strongman[/li][li]1st Triumvirate: Caesar-Pompey-Crassus[/li][li]Caesar defeats Pompey[/li][li]Caesar assassinated[/li][li]2nd Triumvirate: Octavian (later ka Augustus)-Antony-Lepidus[/li][li]Battle Actium- Octavian wins control of Rome[/li][li]Roman Empire founded[/li][li]Vesuvius buries Pompeii under ash[/li][li]Jesus born[/li][li]Tiberius succeeds Augustus[/li][li]Caligula succeeds Tiberius[/li][li]Caligula assassinated, Claudius succeeds[/li][li]Roman conquest of Britain[/li][li]Nero starts persecution of Christians[/li][li]Nero deposed, four generals vie for power[/li][li]Vespasian wins power struggle, becomes Emperor[/li][li]Jewish revolt defeated, Temple of Jerusalem destroyed[/li][li]Titus succeeds Vespasian[/li][li]Domitian succeeds Titus[/li][li]Domitian assassinated, Nerva chosen Emperor by Senate[/li][li]Trajan Emperor, Tacitus writes Annals[/li][li]Hadrian succeeds Trajan, builds wall[/li][li]Antoninus Pius succeeds Hadrain[/li][li]Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus corulers, then Marcus alone.[/li][li]Marcus writes Meditations; campaign vs Macromanni[/li][li]Commodus succeeds Marcus Aurelius[/li][li]Commodus assassinated, Pertinax chosen Emperor by Senate[/li][li]Pertinax assassinated by Praetorian Guard[/li][li]Han dynasty collapses[/li][li]Diocletian reforms the Roman Empire[/li][li]Antoninus Pius succeeds Hadrian[/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]Viking attacks begin[/li][li]Holy Roman Empire created[/li][li]Poland converts to Christianity[/li][li]Russia converts to Christianity[/li][li]Great Schism between Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches[/li][li]Lief Erikson discovers America[/li][li]Crab Supernova[/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]Teutonic Order settled in Prussia[/li][li]Kublai Khan’s two expeditions vs Japan fail[/li][li]Hundreds’ Year War between France and England[/li][li]English victories at Crecy, Poitiers[/li][li]Henry V wins at Agincourt on St. Crispin’s Day[/li][li]A rat, no cat, an epidemic–the Black Death[/li][li]Invention of gunpowder[/li][li]Movable type[/li][li]Ming dynasty replaces Yuan/Mongol dynasty[/li][li]Wycliffe questions Papal supremacy[/li][li]Joan of Arc in action[/li][li]Byzantium falls to Ottomans[/li][li]Magna Carta signed[/li][li]Discovery & colonization of the Americas[/li][li]Michaelangelo paints Sistene Chapel ceiling[/li][li]Erasmus calls for reform of RC church corruption[/li][li]Martin Luther vandalizes a Church door[/li][li]Henry VIII takes England out of Roman Catholic church[/li][li]Calvin in Geneva[/li][li]Scandinavian countries leave the RC church[/li][li]Copernican model of the Solar System[/li][li]Netherlands revolt against Spain begins[/li][li]Queen Elizabeth I takes the throne[/li][li]Shakespeare gets a pen for his birthday[/li][li]Spanish Armada[/li][li]Lost Colony of Roanoke[/li][li]Kepler’s Laws of planetary motion[/li][li]The Maunder Minimum[/li][li]The Gunpowder Plot[/li][li]Trial of Galileo[/li][li]Cromwell becomes Lord Protector of England[/li][li]Restoration of British monarchy[/li][li]Isaac Newton creates modern physics and mathematics[/li][li]Leibniz invents modern calculus notation[/li][li]Chin/Manchu dynasty replaces Ming[/li][li]Ottoman Empire expansion stopped at Vienna[/li][li]Haley explains the motion of comets[/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]George Washington, as Virginia militia officer, first comes under enemy fire[/li][li]French and Indian War ends[/li][li]Ben Franklin begins “Poor Richard’s Almanack”[/li][li]Stamp Act imposed in America[/li][li]First Continental Congress meets[/li][li]British troops fire on Minutemen at Lexington and Concord[/li][li]Bunker Hill[/li][li]7/4/1776[/li][li]Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense” published[/li][li]Washington wins at Trenton, Princeton[/li][li]Ludwig van Beethoven begins piano lessons[/li][li]Saratoga[/li][li]U.S., France form alliance[/li][li]Articles of Confederation adopted[/li][li]Yorktown[/li][li]United States adopts its Constitution[/li][li]George Washington becomes first U.S. President[/li][li]U.S. adopts Bill of Rights[/li][li]Whiskey Rebellion[/li][li]Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” published[/li][li]Washington’s Farewell Address[/li][li]Bastille stormed[/li][li]Metric system first introduced[/li][li]Reign of Terror in France[/li][li]3rd Partition of Poland-Lithuania[/li][li]Napoleon takes power[/li][li]Battle of Austerlitz[/li][li]President John Adams signs Alien & Sedition Acts[/li][li]John Marshall named Chief Justice[/li][li]Battle of Trafalgar - death of Nelson[/li][li]USS Constitution wins naval glory as “Old Ironsides”[/li][li]Washington, D.C. burned by British troops[/li][li]Battle of Lake Erie - Perry: “We have met the enemy…”[/li][li]Battle of New Orleans[/li][li]Treaty of Ghent[/li][li]Napoleon deposed, exiled, returns[/li][li]Waterloo[/li][li]Congress of Vienna[/li][li]Steam engines developed[/li][li]Queen Victoria takes British throne[/li][li]Major electoral reform in Great Britain[/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]Harriet Beecher Stowe’s “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” published[/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]President Andrew Johnson impeached by House but not convicted by Senate[/li][li]A man, a plan, a canal–Suez[/li][li]Maxwell’s laws of electromagnetism[/li][li]Battle of Little Big Horn[/li][li]Election of 1876 - Hayes “defeats” Tilden[/li][li]End of Reconstruction[/li][li]Gladstone and Disraeli alternate as British prime minister[/li][li]Radio invented[/li][li]Michelson-Morley experiment[/li][li]McKinley elected 1st term[/li][li]Spanish-American War[/li][li]Theodore Roosevelt and Rough Riders charge up San Juan Hill[/li][li]Quantum theory discovered[/li][li]X-Rays described[/li][li]McKinley assassinated; Roosevelt becomes U.S. President[/li][li]A man, a plan, a canal–Panama[/li][li]Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. appointed to U.S. Supreme Court[/li][li]Automobile invented[/li][li]RMS Titanic sinks[/li][li]Woodrow Wilson elected President[/li][li]Einstein’s miracle year[/li][li]Sarajevo[/li][li]World War I breaks out[/li][li]General Relativity discovered[/li][li]Russian Revolution[/li][li]Tsar and his family murdered[/li][li]Versailles Peace Treaty[/li][li]League of Nations established[/li][li]Prohibition in USA[/li][li]Sherwood Anderson’s “Winesburg, Ohio” published[/li][li]Henry Ford introduces the assembly line and mass production[/li][li]James Joyce publishes “Ulysses”[/li][li]Lenin dies[/li][li]Stalin rises to power in USSR[/li][li]Hitler writes “Mein Kampf”[/li][li]Scopes Monkey Trial[/li][li]Sinclair Lewis’s “The Jungle” published[/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]Churchill becomes British PM[/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]Battle of the Bulge[/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]Cosmic Microwave Background radiation hypothesized[/li][li]George Orwell’s “1984” published[/li][li]Truman defeats Dewey[/li][li]Communists win Chinese Civil War[/li][li]Truman approves development of H-bomb[/li][li]Korean War begins[/li][li]Queen Elizabeth II takes British throne[/li][li]Isaac Asimov’s “Foundation Trilogy” published[/li][li]Checkers speech[/li][li]Eisenhower beats Stevenson the first time[/li][li]USS Nautilus sails to the North Pole[/li][li]J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings” is published[/li][li]DNA described by Watson and Crick[/li][li]Suez Canal Crisis[/li][li]Eisenhower defeats Stevenson again[/li][li]First nuclear power station on-line[/li][li]Maser (precursor to laser) invented[/li][li]Arthur C. Clarke’s “Childhood’s End” published[/li][li]A man, a plan, a rocket–Sputnik[/li][li]Harper Lee’s “To Kill A Mockingbird” published[/li][li]Year of Africa, many European colonies granted independence[/li][li]U-2 spyplane shootdown sours U.S.-Soviet relations[/li][li]John F. Kennedy becomes U.S. President[/li][li]Kennedy, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev meet in Vienna[/li][li]Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring” published[/li][li]John Lennon meets Paul McCartney[/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]Integration of Ole Miss[/li][li]Cuban Missile Crisis[/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]Beatles come to USA[/li][li]Star Trek premieres[/li][li]Cosmic Microwave Background radiation discovered[/li][li]Humans walk on another world[/li][li]Apollo 13 crew returns safely[/li][li]Nixon resigns over Watergate scandal[/li][li]Ford pardons Nixon[/li][li]Word processors begin to supplant typewriters[/li][li]U.S. Bicentennial[/li][li]Carter defeats Ford for U.S. Presidency[/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]Sandra Day O’Connor appointed to U.S. Supreme Court[/li][li]Wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer[/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]Collapse of Soviet Union[/li][li]Maastricht Treaty signed, European Community becomes European Union[/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]U.S. Federal stimulus package passes[/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]U.S. healthcare reform bill passes[/li][li]Pentagon policy of “Don’t ask, don’t tell” repealed[/li][li]S&P downgrades US Debt from AAA to AA+[/li][li]British youth rioting[/li][li]Voyager probes pass the heliopause[/li][li]Sun becomes a red giant[/li][li]Heat death of the Universe[/li][/ol]
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[li]Catherine the Great succeeds assassinated husband Peter[/li][li]Napoleon’s Egyptian fiasco; Battle of the Nile[/li][li]Louisiana Purchease[/li][li]Napoleon invades Russia[/li][li]Monitor-Merrimack 1st ironclad warship battle[/li][li]Battle of Chancellorsville [/li][li]Battle of Jutland[/li][li]Kirov assassinated, Stalin’s Purges begin[/li][li]Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact[/li][li]Quantum ElectroDynamics developed[/li][/ol]
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[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]The Great Dying [/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]Greeks and Phoenicians start colonizing Mediterranean [/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]Egypt 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]Socrates dies [/li][li]Plato and the Platonic Academy [/li][li]Philip becomes king of Macedon [/li][li]Aristotles of Stagira and the Lyceum [/li][li]Battle of Chaeronia- Macedon hegemon of Greece [/li][li]Philip assassinated, Alexander succeeds [/li][li]Thebes destroyed, Pindar’s house excepted [/li][li]Battle of the Granicus- Alexander wins Asia Minor [/li][li]A man, a sword, a knot, a cut: the Gordian Knot [/li][li]Battle of Issus [/li][li]Capture of Tyre [/li][li]Surrender of Egypt [/li][li]Battle of Guagamela [/li][li]Darius assassinated, Alexander succeeds as Persian Emperor [/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]Unsuccessful land reform attempted in Rome [/li][li]Marius foremost Roman strongman [/li][li]Sulla foremost Roman strongman [/li][li]1st Triumvirate: Caesar-Pompey-Crassus [/li][li]Caesar defeats Pompey [/li][li]Caesar assassinated [/li][li]2nd Triumvirate: Octavian (later ka Augustus)-Antony-Lepidus [/li][li]Battle Actium- Octavian wins control of Rome [/li][li]Roman Empire founded [/li][li]Vesuvius buries Pompeii under ash [/li][li]Roman defeat Teutonberg Forest; permanent loss of Germany[/li][li]Jesus born [/li][li]Tiberius succeeds Augustus [/li][li]Caligula succeeds Tiberius [/li][li]Caligula assassinated, Claudius succeeds [/li][li]Roman conquest of Britain [/li][li]Nero starts persecution of Christians [/li][li]Nero deposed, four generals vie for power [/li][li]Vespasian wins power struggle, becomes Emperor [/li][li]Jewish revolt defeated, Temple of Jerusalem destroyed [/li][li]Titus succeeds Vespasian [/li][li]Domitian succeeds Titus [/li][li]Domitian assassinated, Nerva chosen Emperor by Senate [/li][li]Trajan Emperor, Tacitus writes Annals [/li][li]Hadrian succeeds Trajan, builds wall [/li][li]Antoninus Pius succeeds Hadrain [/li][li]Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus corulers, then Marcus alone. 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Sumter [/li][li]USS Monitor and CSS Virginia in first ironclad duel [/li][li]Monitor-Merrimack 1st ironclad warship battle[/li][li]Battle of Antietam [/li][li]Emancipation Proclamation [/li][li]Battle of Gettysburg [/li][li]Battle of Chancellorsville [/li][li]Gettysburg Address [/li][li]USS Kearsarge defeats CSS Alabama off Cherbourg, France [/li][li]Lee surrenders at Appomattox [/li][li]President Andrew Johnson impeached by House but not convicted by Senate [/li][li]A man, a plan, a canal–Suez [/li][li]Maxwell’s laws of electromagnetism [/li][li]Battle of Little Big Horn [/li][li]Election of 1876 - Hayes “defeats” Tilden [/li][li]End of Reconstruction [/li][li]Gladstone and Disraeli alternate as British prime minister [/li][li]Radio invented [/li][li]Michelson-Morley experiment [/li][li]McKinley elected 1st term [/li][li]Spanish-American War [/li][li]Theodore Roosevelt and Rough Riders charge up San Juan Hill [/li][li]Quantum theory discovered [/li][li]X-Rays described [/li][li]McKinley assassinated; Roosevelt becomes U.S. President [/li][li]A man, a plan, a canal–Panama [/li][li]Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. appointed to U.S. Supreme Court [/li][li]Automobile invented [/li][li]RMS Titanic sinks [/li][li]Woodrow Wilson elected President [/li][li]Einstein’s miracle year [/li][li]Sarajevo [/li][li]World War I breaks out [/li][li]General Relativity discovered [/li][li]Battle of Jutland[/li][li]Russian Revolution [/li][li]Tsar and his family murdered [/li][li]Versailles Peace Treaty [/li][li]League of Nations established [/li][li]Prohibition in USA [/li][li]Sherwood Anderson’s “Winesburg, Ohio” published [/li][li]Henry Ford introduces the assembly line and mass production [/li][li]James Joyce publishes “Ulysses” [/li][li]Lenin dies [/li][li]Stalin rises to power in USSR [/li][li]Hitler writes “Mein Kampf” [/li][li]Scopes Monkey Trial [/li][li]Sinclair Lewis’s “The Jungle” published [/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]Kirov assassinated, Stalin’s Purges begin[/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]Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact[/li][li]Finland vs USSR Winter War [/li][li]Germany invades Denmark and Norway [/li][li]Churchill becomes British PM [/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]Battle of the Bulge [/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]Quantum ElectroDynamics developed[/li][li]Transistor invented [/li][li]Cosmic Microwave Background radiation hypothesized [/li][li]George Orwell’s “1984” published [/li][li]Truman defeats Dewey [/li][li]Communists win Chinese Civil War [/li][li]Truman approves development of H-bomb [/li][li]Korean War begins [/li][li]Queen Elizabeth II takes British throne [/li][li]Isaac Asimov’s “Foundation Trilogy” published [/li][li]Checkers speech [/li][li]Eisenhower beats Stevenson the first time [/li][li]USS Nautilus sails to the North Pole [/li][li]J.R.R. 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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]U.S. Federal stimulus package passes [/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]U.S. healthcare reform bill passes [/li][li]Pentagon policy of “Don’t ask, don’t tell” repealed [/li][li]S&P downgrades US Debt from AAA to AA+ [/li][li]British youth rioting [/li][li]Voyager probes pass the heliopause [/li][li]Sun becomes a red giant [/li][li]Heat death of the Universe[/li][/ol]
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[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]The Great Dying[/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]Greeks and Phoenicians start colonizing Mediterranean[/li][li]Carthage founded[/li][li]First Olympic Games[/li][li]Rome founded[/li][li]Assyria dominates Middle East[/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]Egypt 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]Socrates dies[/li][li]Plato and the Platonic Academy[/li][li]Philip becomes king of Macedon[/li][li]Aristotles of Stagira and the Lyceum[/li][li]Battle of Chaeronia- Macedon hegemon of Greece[/li][li]Philip assassinated, Alexander succeeds[/li][li]Thebes destroyed, Pindar’s house excepted[/li][li]Battle of the Granicus- Alexander wins Asia Minor[/li][li]A man, a sword, a knot, a cut: the Gordian Knot[/li][li]Battle of Issus[/li][li]Capture of Tyre[/li][li]Surrender of Egypt[/li][li]Battle of Guagamela[/li][li]Darius assassinated, Alexander succeeds as Persian Emperor[/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]Unsuccessful land reform attempted in Rome[/li][li]Marius foremost Roman strongman[/li][li]Sulla foremost Roman strongman[/li][li]1st Triumvirate: Caesar-Pompey-Crassus[/li][li]Caesar defeats Pompey[/li][li]Caesar assassinated[/li][li]2nd Triumvirate: Octavian (later ka Augustus)-Antony-Lepidus[/li][li]Battle Actium- Octavian wins control of Rome[/li][li]Roman Empire founded[/li][li]Vesuvius buries Pompeii under ash[/li][li]Roman defeat Teutonberg Forest; permanent loss of Germany[/li][li]Jesus born[/li][li]Tiberius succeeds Augustus[/li][li]Caligula succeeds Tiberius[/li][li]Caligula assassinated, Claudius succeeds[/li][li]Roman conquest of Britain[/li][li]Nero starts persecution of Christians[/li][li]Nero deposed, four generals vie for power[/li][li]Vespasian wins power struggle, becomes Emperor[/li][li]Jewish revolt defeated, Temple of Jerusalem destroyed[/li][li]Titus succeeds Vespasian[/li][li]Domitian succeeds Titus[/li][li]Domitian assassinated, Nerva chosen Emperor by Senate[/li][li]Trajan Emperor, Tacitus writes Annals[/li][li]Hadrian succeeds Trajan, builds wall[/li][li]Antoninus Pius succeeds Hadrain[/li][li]Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus corulers, then Marcus alone.[/li][li]Marcus writes Meditations; campaign vs Macromanni[/li][li]Commodus succeeds Marcus Aurelius[/li][li]Commodus assassinated, Pertinax chosen Emperor by Senate[/li][li]Pertinax assassinated by Praetorian Guard[/li][li]Han dynasty collapses[/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]Viking attacks begin[/li][li]Holy Roman Empire created[/li][li]Poland converts to Christianity[/li][li]Russia converts to Christianity[/li][li]Great Schism between Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches[/li][li]Lief Erikson discovers America[/li][li]Crab Supernova[/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]Teutonic Order settled in Prussia[/li][li]Kublai Khan’s two expeditions vs Japan fail[/li][li]Hundreds’ Year War between France and England[/li][li]English victories at Crecy, Poitiers[/li][li]Henry V wins at Agincourt on St. Crispin’s Day[/li][li]A rat, no cat, an epidemic–the Black Death[/li][li]Invention of gunpowder[/li][li]Movable type[/li][li]Ming dynasty replaces Yuan/Mongol dynasty[/li][li]Wycliffe questions Papal supremacy[/li][li]Joan of Arc in action[/li][li]Byzantium falls to Ottomans[/li][li]Magna Carta signed[/li][li]Discovery & colonization of the Americas[/li][li]Michaelangelo paints Sistene Chapel ceiling[/li][li]Erasmus calls for reform of RC church corruption[/li][li]Martin Luther vandalizes a Church door[/li][li]Henry VIII takes England out of Roman Catholic church[/li][li]Calvin in Geneva[/li][li]Scandinavian countries leave the RC church[/li][li]Copernican model of the Solar System[/li][li]Netherlands revolt against Spain begins[/li][li]Queen Elizabeth I takes the throne[/li][li]Shakespeare gets a pen for his birthday[/li][li]Spanish Armada[/li][li]Lost Colony of Roanoke[/li][li]Kepler’s Laws of planetary motion[/li][li]The Maunder Minimum[/li][li]The Gunpowder Plot[/li][li]Trial of Galileo[/li][li]Cromwell becomes Lord Protector of England[/li][li]Restoration of British monarchy[/li][li]Isaac Newton creates modern physics and mathematics[/li][li]Leibniz invents modern calculus notation[/li][li]Chin/Manchu dynasty replaces Ming[/li][li]Ottoman Empire expansion stopped at Vienna[/li][li]Haley explains the motion of comets[/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]Catherine the Great succeeds murderd husband Peter[/li][li]George Washington, as Virginia militia officer, first comes under enemy fire[/li][li]French and Indian War ends[/li][li]Ben Franklin begins “Poor Richard’s Almanack”[/li][li]Stamp Act imposed in America[/li][li]First Continental Congress meets[/li][li]British troops fire on Minutemen at Lexington and Concord[/li][li]Bunker Hill[/li][li]7/4/1776[/li][li]Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense” published[/li][li]Washington wins at Trenton, Princeton[/li][li]Ludwig van Beethoven begins piano lessons[/li][li]Saratoga[/li][li]U.S., France form alliance[/li][li]Articles of Confederation adopted[/li][li]Yorktown[/li][li]United States adopts its Constitution[/li][li]George Washington becomes first U.S. President[/li][li]U.S. adopts Bill of Rights[/li][li]Whiskey Rebellion[/li][li]Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” published[/li][li]Washington’s Farewell Address[/li][li]Bastille stormed[/li][li]Metric system first introduced[/li][li]Reign of Terror in France[/li][li]3rd Partition of Poland-Lithuania[/li][li]Napolean’s Egyptian fiasco; Battle of the Nile[/li][li]Napoleon takes power[/li][li]Battle of Austerlitz[/li][li]President John Adams signs Alien & Sedition Acts[/li][li]John Marshall named Chief Justice[/li][li]Battle of Trafalgar - death of Nelson[/li][li]Louisiana Purchease[/li][li]Napoleon invades Russia[/li][li]USS Constitution wins naval glory as “Old Ironsides”[/li][li]Washington, D.C. burned by British troops[/li][li]Battle of Lake Erie - Perry: “We have met the enemy…”[/li][li]Treaty of Ghent[/li][li]Battle of New Orleans[/li][li]Napoleon deposed, exiled, returns[/li][li]Waterloo[/li][li]Congress of Vienna[/li][li]Steam engines developed[/li][li]France invades Algeria[/li][li]Belgium becomes independent[/li][li]Queen Victoria takes British throne[/li][li]Major electoral reform in Great Britain[/li][li]“Spring of Nations” threatens established order in Europe[/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]Harriet Beecher Stowe’s “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” published[/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]Monitor-Merrimack 1st ironclad warship battle[/li][li]Battle of Antietam[/li][li]Emancipation Proclamation[/li][li]Battle of Gettysburg[/li][li]Battle of Chancellorsville[/li][li]Gettysburg Address[/li][li]USS Kearsarge defeats CSS Alabama off Cherbourg, France[/li][li]Lee surrenders at Appomattox[/li][li]President Andrew Johnson impeached by House but not convicted by Senate[/li][li]A man, a plan, a canal–Suez[/li][li]Maxwell’s laws of electromagnetism[/li][li]Battle of Little Big Horn[/li][li]Election of 1876 - Hayes “defeats” Tilden[/li][li]End of Reconstruction[/li][li]Gladstone and Disraeli alternate as British prime minister[/li][li]Radio invented[/li][li]Michelson-Morley experiment[/li][li]McKinley elected 1st term[/li][li]Spanish-American War[/li][li]Theodore Roosevelt and Rough Riders charge up San Juan Hill[/li][li]Quantum theory discovered[/li][li]X-Rays described[/li][li]McKinley assassinated; Roosevelt becomes U.S. President[/li][li]A man, a plan, a canal–Panama[/li][li]Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. appointed to U.S. Supreme Court[/li][li]Russian-Japanese War, Japanese victory shocks the World.[/li][li]Automobile invented [/li][li]RMS Titanic sinks[/li][li]Woodrow Wilson elected President[/li][li]Einstein’s miracle year[/li][li]Sarajevo[/li][li]World War I breaks out[/li][li]General Relativity discovered[/li][li]Battle of Jutland[/li][li]Russian Revolution[/li][li]Tsar and his family murdered[/li][li]Versailles Peace Treaty[/li][li]League of Nations established[/li][li]Prohibition in USA[/li][li]Sherwood Anderson’s “Winesburg, Ohio” published[/li][li]Henry Ford introduces the assembly line and mass production[/li][li]James Joyce publishes “Ulysses”[/li][li]Lenin dies[/li][li]Stalin rises to power in USSR[/li][li]Hitler writes “Mein Kampf”[/li][li]Scopes Monkey Trial[/li][li]Sinclair Lewis’s “The Jungle” published[/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]Kirov assassinated, Stalin’s Purges begin[/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]Spanish Civil War starts[/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]Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact[/li][li]Finland vs USSR Winter War[/li][li]Germany invades Denmark and Norway[/li][li]Churchill becomes British PM[/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]Battle of the Bulge[/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]Quantum ElectroDynamics developed[/li][li]Transistor invented[/li][li]Cosmic Microwave Background radiation hypothesized[/li][li]George Orwell’s “1984” published[/li][li]Truman defeats Dewey[/li][li]Communists win Chinese Civil War[/li][li]Truman approves development of H-bomb[/li][li]Korean War begins[/li][li]Queen Elizabeth II takes British throne[/li][li]Isaac Asimov’s “Foundation Trilogy” published[/li][li]Checkers speech[/li][li]Eisenhower beats Stevenson the first time[/li][li]USS Nautilus sails to the North Pole[/li][li]J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings” is published[/li][li]DNA described by Watson and Crick[/li][li]Suez Canal Crisis[/li][li]Eisenhower defeats Stevenson again[/li][li]First nuclear power station on-line[/li][li]Maser (precursor to laser) invented[/li][li]Arthur C. Clarke’s “Childhood’s End” published[/li][li]A man, a plan, a rocket–Sputnik[/li][li]Harper Lee’s “To Kill A Mockingbird” published[/li][li]Year of Africa, many European colonies granted independence[/li][li]U-2 spyplane shootdown sours U.S.-Soviet relations[/li][li]John F. Kennedy becomes U.S. President[/li][li]Kennedy, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev meet in Vienna[/li][li]Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring” published[/li][li]John Lennon meets Paul McCartney[/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]Integration of Ole Miss[/li][li]Cuban Missile Crisis[/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]Beatles come to USA[/li][li]Star Trek premieres[/li][li]Cosmic Microwave Background radiation discovered[/li][li]Humans walk on another world[/li][li]Apollo 13 crew returns safely[/li][li]Nixon resigns over Watergate scandal[/li][li]Ford pardons Nixon[/li][li]Word processors begin to supplant typewriters[/li][li]U.S. Bicentennial[/li][li]Carter defeats Ford for U.S. Presidency[/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]Sandra Day O’Connor appointed to U.S. Supreme Court[/li][li]Wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer[/li][li]IBM PC introduced[/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]Collapse of Soviet Union[/li][li]Maastricht Treaty signed, European Community becomes European Union[/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]EURO introduced as a common European currency[/li][li]U.S. and allies invade Iraq[/li][li]Facebook invented[/li][li]Ten new countries join European Union[/li][li]President George W. Bush reelected[/li][li]Hurricane Katrina[/li][li]Romania and Bulgaria join European Union[/li][li]First life form with completely synthetic genetic material[/li][li]Barack Obama becomes 44th U.S. President[/li][li]U.S. Federal stimulus package passes[/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]U.S. healthcare reform bill passes[/li][li]Pentagon policy of “Don’t ask, don’t tell” repealed[/li][li]S&P downgrades US Debt from AAA to AA+[/li][li]British youth rioting[/li][li]Voyager probes pass the heliopause[/li][li]Sun becomes a red giant[/li][li]Heat death of the Universe[/li][/ol]