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The Beginning: From the First Humans to the Year Zero
1) 200,000 B.C. - Appearance of the Homo Sapiens (East Africa)
2) 40,000 B.C. - The Cro-Magnon Appears (Europe)
3) 10,000 B.C. - Agriculture Begins (Various Regions throughout the World)
4) 3,500 BC - The Egyptian Calendar is Invented (Egypt)
5) 3,000 B.C. - Civilization Emerges in Mesopotamia (Modern-Day Iraq)
6) 800 B.C. - Greek City-States Arise (Greece)
7) 753 B.C. - Romans Establish a Republic (Italy)
8) 334 B.C. - Alexander the Great Begins to Build His Empire (Greece)
9) 44 B.C. - Julius Caesar is Assassinated (Rome)
A New Time: From the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ to the Invention of the Printing Press
10) 30 - 33 A.D. - Crucifixion of Jesus (Jerusalem)
11) 527 - Justinian I Becomes Byzantine Emperor (Constantinople)
12) 622 - Muhammad Leaves Mecca (Arabia)
13) 814 - Charlemagne Unites Europe (Western Europe)
The Second Millennium
14) 1066 - Norman Invasion of England
15) 1095 - Pope Urban II Calls for the First Crusade (France)
16) 1215 - Magna Carta is Signed (England)
17) 1271 - Marco Polo Begins Travels to Asia (Venice)
18) 1346 - Bubonic Plague (Black Death) Spreads in Europe
19) Around 1450 - Johannes Gutenberg Invents Printing Press (Germany)
The New World: From the Discovery of the Americas to the French Revolution
20) 1492 - Columbus Reaches the New World (Americas)
21) 1517 - Martin Luther Initiates Reformation (Germany)
22) 1522 - Magellan's Expedition Circumnavigates the Globe
23) 1543 - Copernicus Postulates a Heliocentric Universe (Germany)
24) 1582 - Pope Gregory XIII Reforms Calendar (Italy)
25) 1618 - Thirty Years' War Breaks Out (Central Europe)
26) 1664 - Newton Publishes His Theory of Universal Gravitation (England)
27) 1760 - The Industrial Revolution Begins (England)
28) 1769 - Watt Patents First Practical Steam Engine (Scotland)
29) 1776 - U.S. Declaration of Independence (USA) & Adam Smith Publishes “Wealth of Nations” (Scotland)
30) 1789 - The French Revolution Begins (France)
A Modern World: From the First Photograph to World War I
31) 1815 - Napoleon is Defeated at the Battle of Waterloo (Belgium)
32) 1819 - Simon Bolívar Defeats Spanish Forces at Boyacá (Colombia)
33) 1826 - Joseph Nicéphore Niépce Takes the First Photograph (France)
34) 1876 - Alexander Graham Bell Patents the Telephone (USA)
35) 1879 - Thomas Edison Invents Electric Light (USA)
36) 1893 - New Zealand Becomes First Country in the World to Grant Women the Vote
37) 1903 - The Wright Brothers Fly First Motorized Airplane (USA)
38) 1905 - Einstein Announces His Theory of Relativity (Switzerland)
39) 1914 - World War I Begins (Serbia)
The Future? From the Discovery of Penicillin to the Birth of the Internet
40) 1917 - Lenin Leads the Bolshevik Revolution (Russia)
41) 1928 - Alexander Fleming Discovers Penicillin (Great Britain)
42) 1929 - Stock Market Crash Precipitates Great Depression (First in the United States, then worldwide)
43) 1939 - Adolf Hitler Invades Poland
44) 1946 - Churchill's “Iron Curtain” Speech Marks the Beginning of the Cold War (USA)
45) 1947 - Gandhi's Civil Disobedience Movement Leads to an Independent India
46) 1949 - Communist Victory in China under Mao Zedong
47) 1957 - First Satellite, Sputnik I, Launched (Russia)
48) 1969 - Apollo 11 Lands on the Moon
49) 1969 - ARPANET Goes Online: The Internet is Born (USA)
50) 1989 - Fall of Communism (Eastern Europe)
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