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[li]Iliad and Odyssey written[/li][li]Herodotus writes history[/li][li]Thebes defeats Sparta at Leuctra, becomes dominant Greek power[/li][li]Vergil composes Aeneid[/li][li]St. Augustine writes City of God[/li][li]Battle of Tours- Muslim advance into Europe reversed[/li][li]Peasants’ Revolt in England[/li][li]Chaucer writes Canterbury Tales[/li][li]Wars of the Roses begin[/li][li]Thomas More writes Utopia[/li][/ol]Full list:
Big Bang
Cosmological inflation
First Hydrogen atom
Population III stars form
First galaxies
Population II stars form
Sun forms
Earth forms
Moon is formed
Earth form solid crust
Plate Tectonics gets going
Life develops on Earth
Eating other creatures for energy develops
Photosynthesis develops
Great Oxygenation Event
Eukaryotic lifeforms evolve
First sexual reproduction
First multicellular lifeform
First exoskeleton
First endoskeleton
Life emerges on land
The Great Dying
First warm blooded animal
First grass
Asteroid wipes out dinosaurs, allows mammals to rise.
Protohumans evolve from primates
Humans develop intelligence
First human ancestors make tools
Human ancestors learn how to create and use fire
First human ancestors develop spoken language
First Homo sapiens
Toba supervolcano
Australia settled
Global temperatures rise after the last Ice Age
Animals domesticated
Homo sapiens reaches America
Agriculture invented
Wheel invented
Bronze invented
First professional army
First cities
Decimal numbering invented
Writing invented
Rise of Sumerians
Egypt united
Civilization flourishes in Indus Valley
Egyptian Pyramids
Sargon of Akkad - First Empire
Minoan civilization flourishes on Crete
Mykean civilization in Greece
Troy destroyed
Iron mining and metallurgy
Sea People ravish Eastern Mediterranean
Alphabet invented
Abraham founds a religion
Kingdom of David and Solomon
Greeks and Phoenicians start colonizing Mediterranean
Iliad and Odyssey written
Carthage founded
First Olympic Games
Rome founded
Assyria dominates Middle East
Fall of Assyria
Babylonian captivity of the Jewish people
Cyrus the Great - rise of Persia
Buddha Siddhartha Gautama founds a religion
Invention of coinage
Lydia conquered by Persian Empire
Egypt conquered by Persian Empire
Rome becomes a Republic
Ionian Greek city of Miletus revolts, sacked
Marathon
Thermopylae
Salamis
Platea
Herodotus composes History
Start of Peloponnesian War
Pericles dies in plague
Athenian Sicilian expedition
Athens surrenders
Socrates dies
Plato and the Platonic Academy
Thebes defeats Sparta at Leuctra, becomes dominant Greek power
Philip becomes king of Macedon
Aristotles of Stagira and the Lyceum
Battle of Chaeronia- Macedon hegemon of Greece
Philip assassinated, Alexander succeeds
Thebes destroyed, Pindar’s house excepted
Battle of the Granicus- Alexander wins Asia Minor
A man, a sword, a knot, a cut: the Gordian Knot
Battle of Issus
Capture of Tyre
Surrender of Egypt
Battle of Guagamela
Darius assassinated, Alexander succeeds as Persian Emperor
To the strongest - Wars of the Diadochi
Pyrrhus defeated by Rome
1st Punic War
Archimedes takes a bath
China united by the First Emperor of Qin
Han Dynasty succeeds Quin
2nd Punic War
3rd Punic War
Unsuccessful land reform attempted in Rome
Marius foremost Roman strongman
Sulla foremost Roman strongman
1st Triumvirate: Caesar-Pompey-Crassus
Caesar defeats Pompey
Caesar assassinated
2nd Triumvirate: Octavian (later ka Augustus)-Antony-Lepidus
Battle Actium- Octavian wins control of Rome
Roman Empire founded
Vergil composes Aeneid
Vesuvius buries Pompeii under ash
Roman defeat Teutonberg Forest; permanent loss of Germany
Jesus born
Tiberius succeeds Augustus
Caligula succeeds Tiberius
Caligula assassinated, Claudius succeeds
Roman conquest of Britain
Nero starts persecution of Christians
Nero deposed, four generals vie for power
Vespasian wins power struggle, becomes Emperor
Jewish revolt defeated, Temple of Jerusalem destroyed
Titus succeeds Vespasian
Domitian succeeds Titus
Domitian assassinated, Nerva chosen Emperor by Senate
Trajan Emperor, Tacitus writes Annals
Hadrian succeeds Trajan, builds wall
Antoninus Pius succeeds Hadrain
Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus corulers, then Marcus alone.
Marcus writes Meditations; campaign vs Macromanni
Commodus succeeds Marcus Aurelius
Commodus assassinated, Pertinax chosen Emperor by Senate
Pertinax assassinated by Praetorian Guard
Han dynasty collapses
Diocletian reforms the Roman Empire
Constantine founds Constantinople
Christianity becomes the state religion of Roman Empire
St. Augustine composes City of God
Fall of Roman Empire in the West
Emperor Justinian attempts to reclaim the lost provinces
Muhammed born
Islamic conquest of the Middle East, Iran and North Africa
Tang dynasty founded
Battle of tours- Muslim advance into Europe reversed
Paper invented
First writings about tea making
Carolingian renaissance in the West
Viking attacks begin
Holy Roman Empire created
Poland converts to Christianity
Russia converts to Christianity
Great Schism between Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches
Lief Erikson discovers America
Crab Supernova
Norman conquest of England
Good King Wenceslas looks out on the Feast of Steven
The Crusades
Magna Carta signed
Genghis Khan conquers most of Eurasia
Invention of gunpowder
Teutonic Order settled in Prussia
Kublai Khan’s two expeditions vs Japan fail
Hundreds’ Year War between France and England
English victories at Crecy, Poitiers
Peasants’ Revolt in England
Wycliffe questions Papal supremacy
Ming dynasty replaces Yuan/Mongol dynasty
A rat, no cat, an epidemic–the Black Death
Chaucer writes Canterbury Tales
Henry V wins at Agincourt on St. Crispin’s Day
Wars of the Roses begin
Gutenbery invents movable type
Joan of Arc in action
Byzantium falls to Ottomans
Discovery & colonization of the Americas
Michaelangelo paints Sistene Chapel ceiling
Erasmus calls for reform of RC church corruption
Thomas More writes Utopia
Martin Luther vandalizes a Church door
Henry VIII takes England out of Roman Catholic church
Calvin in Geneva
Scandinavian countries leave the RC church
Copernican model of the Solar System
Netherlands revolt against Spain begins
Queen Elizabeth I takes the throne
Shakespeare gets a pen for his birthday
Spanish Armada
Lost Colony of Roanoke
Kepler’s Laws of planetary motion
The Maunder Minimum
The Gunpowder Plot
Trial of Galileo
Cromwell becomes Lord Protector of England
Restoration of British monarchy
Isaac Newton creates modern physics and mathematics
Leibniz invents modern calculus notation
Chin/Manchu dynasty replaces Ming
Ottoman Empire expansion stopped at Vienna
Haley explains the motion of comets
James II of Great Britain deposed
Peter the Great founds St. Petersburg
Battle of Blenheim
War of the Austrian Succession begins
Catherine the Great succeeds murderd husband Peter
George Washington, as Virginia militia officer, first comes under enemy fire
French and Indian War ends
Ben Franklin begins “Poor Richard’s Almanack”
Stamp Act imposed in America
First Continental Congress meets
British troops fire on Minutemen at Lexington and Concord
Bunker Hill
7/4/1776
Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense” published
Washington wins at Trenton, Princeton
Ludwig van Beethoven begins piano lessons
Saratoga
U.S., France form alliance
Articles of Confederation adopted
Yorktown
United States adopts its Constitution
George Washington becomes first U.S. President
U.S. adopts Bill of Rights
Whiskey Rebellion
Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” published
Washington’s Farewell Address
Bastille stormed
Metric system first introduced
Reign of Terror in France
3rd Partition of Poland-Lithuania
Napolean’s Egyptian fiasco; Battle of the Nile
Napoleon takes power
Battle of Austerlitz
President John Adams signs Alien & Sedition Acts
John Marshall named Chief Justice
Battle of Trafalgar - death of Nelson
Louisiana Purchease
Napoleon invades Russia
USS Constitution wins naval glory as “Old Ironsides”
Washington, D.C. burned by British troops
Battle of Lake Erie - Perry: “We have met the enemy…”
Treaty of Ghent
Battle of New Orleans
Napoleon deposed, exiled, returns
Waterloo
Congress of Vienna
Steam engines developed
France invades Algeria
Belgium becomes independent
Queen Victoria takes British throne
Major electoral reform in Great Britain
Spring of Nations threatens established order in Europe
Darwin discovers Theory of Evolution
Electricity discovered
Invention of the telegraph
Germ theory of disease
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” published
Abraham Lincoln is elected President
Lincoln lets his whiskers grow
Confederate States of America founded
Confederates fire on Ft. Sumter
USS Monitor and CSS Virginia in first ironclad duel
Monitor-Merrimack 1st ironclad warship battle
Battle of Antietam
Emancipation Proclamation
Battle of Gettysburg
Battle of Chancellorsville
Gettysburg Address
USS Kearsarge defeats CSS Alabama off Cherbourg, France
Lee surrenders at Appomattox
President Andrew Johnson impeached by House but not convicted by Senate
A man, a plan, a canal–Suez
Maxwell’s laws of electromagnetism
Battle of Little Big Horn
Election of 1876 - Hayes “defeats” Tilden
End of Reconstruction
Gladstone and Disraeli alternate as British prime minister
Radio invented
Michelson-Morley experiment
McKinley elected 1st term
Spanish-American War
Theodore Roosevelt and Rough Riders charge up San Juan Hill
Quantum theory discovered
X-Rays described
McKinley assassinated; Roosevelt becomes U.S. President
A man, a plan, a canal–Panama
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. appointed to U.S. Supreme Court
Russian-Japanese War, Japanese victory shocks the World.
Automobile invented
RMS Titanic sinks
Woodrow Wilson elected President
Einstein’s miracle year
Sarajevo
World War I breaks out
General Relativity discovered
Battle of Jutland
Russian Revolution
Tsar and his family murdered
Versailles Peace Treaty
League of Nations established
Prohibition in USA
Sherwood Anderson’s “Winesburg, Ohio” published
Henry Ford introduces the assembly line and mass production
James Joyce publishes “Ulysses”
Lenin dies
Stalin rises to power in USSR
Hitler writes “Mein Kampf”
Scopes Monkey Trial
Sinclair Lewis’s “The Jungle” published
Quantum Mechanics discovered
Cosmological Red Shift discovered
Great Depression begins
Antimatter discovered
FDR elected for first time
Television invented
WA- (“Onion” headline continued on page 2)
Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany
Reichstag Fire
FDR 1st Inaugural
Night of the Long Knives
Kirov assassinated, Stalin’s Purges begin
Baldwin chosen UK PM
Edward VIII Abdication Crisis
Germany reoccupies Rhineland
FDR reelected
Italy invades Ethiopia
Spanish Civil War starts
Japan invades China proper
Anschluss
Chamberlain UK PM
Munich Crisis
Germany occupies Czechoslovakia
Germany invades Poland, triggering WWII
Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact
Finland vs USSR Winter War
Germany invades Denmark and Norway
Churchill becomes British PM
Germany invades Netherlands, Belgium, Luxemboug, France
Dunkirk
Battle of Britain
Germany invades Yugoslavia, Greece
Germany invades USSR
German victory Battle of Kiev
Seige of Leningrad begins
USSR Moscow area counterattack = 1st German retreat of the war
Japan bombs Pearl Harbor
Wannsee Conference
Singapore falls
Battle of the Coral Sea
Corregidor falls
Battle of Midway
Guadalcanal campaign begins
El Alamein
Operation Torch = US N. African campaign begins
German army defeated at Stalingrad
US/UK Sicilian invasion
Battle of Kursk
D-Day landings, Normandy
Battle of Leyte
Battle of the Bulge
FDR dies; Truman becomes U.S. President
Nazi Germany surrenders
First nuclear weapon (tested)
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
USSR declares war on Japan
Japan surrenders
Lamb shift discovered
Quantum ElectroDynamics developed
Transistor invented
Cosmic Microwave Background radiation hypothesized
George Orwell’s “1984” published
Truman defeats Dewey
Communists win Chinese Civil War
Truman approves development of H-bomb
Korean War begins
Queen Elizabeth II takes British throne
Isaac Asimov’s “Foundation Trilogy” published
Checkers speech
Eisenhower beats Stevenson the first time
USS Nautilus sails to the North Pole
J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings” is published
DNA described by Watson and Crick
Suez Canal Crisis
Eisenhower defeats Stevenson again
First nuclear power station on-line
Maser (precursor to laser) invented
Arthur C. Clarke’s “Childhood’s End” published
A man, a plan, a rocket–Sputnik
Harper Lee’s “To Kill A Mockingbird” published
Year of Africa, many European colonies granted independence
U-2 spyplane shootdown sours U.S.-Soviet relations
John F. Kennedy becomes U.S. President
Kennedy, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev meet in Vienna
Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring” published
John Lennon meets Paul McCartney
Peace Corps established
Kennedy sets goal of landing on Moon
Descent to bottom of the Marianas Trench
Integration of Ole Miss
Cuban Missile Crisis
MLK “I have a dream” speech
Kennedy signs Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
Kennedy assassinated in Dallas
Beatles come to USA
Star Trek premieres
Cosmic Microwave Background radiation discovered
Humans walk on another world
Apollo 13 crew returns safely
Nixon resigns over Watergate scandal
Ford pardons Nixon
Word processors begin to supplant typewriters
U.S. Bicentennial
Carter defeats Ford for U.S. Presidency
Iranian Revolution
Seizure of U.S. Embassy in Tehran
Three Mile Island meltdown
Mount Saint Helens blows off its top.
Ronald Reagan elected U.S. President
Sandra Day O’Connor appointed to U.S. Supreme Court
Wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer
IBM PC introduced
Chernobyl melt down
Internet is invented
First GMO (a recombinant bacteria)
Cold War ends
Fall of Berlin Wall
Gulf War I
Collapse of Soviet Union
Maastricht Treaty signed, European Community becomes European Union
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
Online porn fuels critical Internet commercialization
Human genome sequenced
Supreme Court rules in Bush v. Gore
9-11 terrorist attacks
U.S. invades Afghanistan
EURO introduced as a common European currency
U.S. and allies invade Iraq
Facebook invented
Ten new countries join European Union
President George W. Bush reelected
Hurricane Katrina
Romania and Bulgaria join European Union
First life form with completely synthetic genetic material
Barack Obama becomes 44th U.S. President
U.S. Federal stimulus package passes
Australia fire storms. Rescue worker giving Koala water is hero.
Christchurch New Zealand earthquake.
Christchurch New Zealand earthquake again.
Japan earthquake
Fukushima melt down
Christchurch New Zealand earthquake once again.
U.S. healthcare reform bill passes
Pentagon policy of “Don’t ask, don’t tell” repealed
S&P downgrades US Debt from AAA to AA+
British youth rioting
Voyager probes pass the heliopause
Sun becomes a red giant
Heat death of the Universe