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100 dates in world history
A date on one side, what happened on the other - the shape most revision takes once it stops being a language.
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| c. 10000 BCE | Agricultural Revolution begins |
| c. 3000 BCE | Unification of Upper & Lower Egypt |
| c. 2560 BCE | Great Pyramid of Giza completed |
| c. 1754 BCE | Code of Hammurabi enacted |
| c. 1500 BCE | Vedic period begins in India |
| c. 1200 BCE | Bronze Age Collapse |
| 776 BCE | First recorded Olympic Games |
| 753 BCE | Traditional founding of Rome |
| 508 BCE | Cleisthenes institutes democracy |
| 490 BCE | Battle of Marathon |
| c. 480 BCE | Birth of Siddhartha Gautama |
| 323 BCE | Death of Alexander the Great |
| 221 BCE | Qin Shi Huang unifies China |
| March 27, 196 BCE | Rosetta Stone decree issued |
| March 15, 44 BCE | Assassination of Julius Caesar |
| September 2, 31 BCE | Battle of Actium |
| c. 30 | Crucifixion of Jesus |
| 105 | Invention of paper in China |
| 325 | First Council of Nicaea |
| September 4, 476 | Fall of Western Roman Empire |
| 622 | Muhammad's Hijrah to Medina |
| November 27, 1095 | Council of Clermont (First Crusade) |
| 1206 | Genghis Khan founds Mongol Empire |
| June 15, 1215 | Magna Carta signed |
| 1324 | Mansa Musa's pilgrimage to Mecca |
| 1347 | Black Death arrives in Europe |
| c. 1440 | Gutenberg invents printing press |
| May 29, 1453 | Fall of Constantinople |
| October 12, 1492 | Columbus reaches the Americas |
| May 20, 1498 | Vasco da Gama reaches India |
| October 31, 1517 | Martin Luther's 95 Theses |
| August 13, 1521 | Fall of Tenochtitlan |
| September 6, 1522 | Magellan's crew circumnavigates |
| 1543 | Copernicus publishes heliocentrism |
| October 15, 1582 | Gregorian calendar introduced |
| October 24, 1648 | Peace of Westphalia |
| July 5, 1687 | Newton publishes Principia |
| 1760 | Industrial Revolution begins |
| July 4, 1776 | US Declaration of Independence |
| September 3, 1783 | Treaty of Paris signed |
| July 14, 1789 | Storming of the Bastille |
| August 26, 1789 | Decl. of Rights of Man |
| October 21, 1805 | Battle of Trafalgar |
| June 18, 1815 | Battle of Waterloo |
| 1833 | Slavery Abolition Act (UK) |
| February 21, 1848 | Communist Manifesto published |
| November 24, 1859 | Darwin publishes Origin of Species |
| April 12, 1861 | American Civil War begins |
| 1868 | Meiji Restoration in Japan |
| May 10, 1869 | First Transcontinental Railroad |
| March 10, 1876 | First telephone call |
| 1884 | Berlin Conference partitions Africa |
| 1893 | New Zealand grants women's suffrage |
| December 17, 1903 | Wright brothers' first flight |
| July 28, 1914 | World War I begins |
| April 6, 1917 | US enters World War I |
| November 7, 1917 | Bolshevik Revolution |
| November 11, 1918 | Armistice ends World War I |
| June 28, 1919 | Treaty of Versailles signed |
| January 10, 1920 | League of Nations founded |
| October 29, 1929 | Wall Street Crash (Black Tuesday) |
| September 1, 1939 | Germany invades Poland (WWII begins) |
| December 7, 1941 | Attack on Pearl Harbor |
| June 6, 1944 | D-Day (Normandy landings) |
| May 8, 1945 | VE Day (End of WWII in Europe) |
| August 6, 1945 | Atomic bombing of Hiroshima |
| September 2, 1945 | Japan surrenders (End of WWII) |
| October 24, 1945 | United Nations established |
| August 15, 1947 | Independence of India |
| May 14, 1948 | State of Israel established |
| December 10, 1948 | Human Rights Declaration |
| October 1, 1949 | People's Republic of China founded |
| June 25, 1950 | Korean War begins |
| 1953 | Discovery of DNA double helix |
| January 1, 1959 | Cuban Revolution succeeds |
| April 12, 1961 | Yuri Gagarin first human in space |
| October 28, 1962 | Cuban Missile Crisis ends |
| August 28, 1963 | MLK Jr. 'I Have a Dream' speech |
| November 22, 1963 | Assassination of JFK |
| April 4, 1968 | Assassination of MLK Jr. |
| July 20, 1969 | Apollo 11 Moon landing |
| November 24, 1974 | Discovery of Lucy fossil |
| April 30, 1975 | Fall of Saigon |
| July 25, 1978 | First IVF baby born |
| January 1, 1983 | Invention of the Internet (TCP/IP) |
| April 26, 1986 | Chernobyl disaster |
| November 9, 1989 | Fall of the Berlin Wall |
| February 11, 1990 | Nelson Mandela released |
| December 26, 1991 | Dissolution of the Soviet Union |
| July 5, 1996 | Dolly the sheep cloned |
| December 31, 1999 | Transfer of Panama Canal |
| September 11, 2001 | September 11 attacks |
| January 1, 2002 | Euro currency introduced |
| March 20, 2003 | US invasion of Iraq begins |
| February 4, 2004 | Facebook is launched |
| July 4, 2012 | Discovery of Higgs boson |
| December 12, 2015 | Paris Agreement on climate adopted |
| June 23, 2016 | UK Brexit referendum |
| January 30, 2020 | COVID-19 declared a PHEIC by WHO |
| February 24, 2022 | Russia invades Ukraine |
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