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Index
Cover
Title
Contents
Introduction
2800 BC I Ching
1754 BC Code of Hammurabi
c. 750 BC Homer’s The Iliad and The Odyssey
512 BC The Art of War
408 BC–AD 318 Dead Sea Scrolls
c. 400 BC Mahabharata
400 BC–AD 200 Kama Sutra
c. 380 BC Plato’s Republic
AD 50 Gandharan Buddhist Texts
AD 609–632 The Quran
1215 Magna Carta
1252 Ad Extirpanda
1265–74 Summa Theologica
1280–1300 Hereford Mappa Mundi
1450s Gutenberg Bible
1478–1519 Leonardo da Vinci’s Notebooks
1492 Alhambra Decree
1493 Christopher Columbus’s Letter
1501 Petrucci’s Harmonice Musices Odhecaton A
1517 Martin Luther’s 95 Theses
1521 Edict of Worms
1522–25 Journal of Magellan’s Voyage
1542 Destruction of the Indies
1582 Gregorian Calendar
1611 King James Bible
1620 Mayflower Compact
1623 Shakespeare’s First Folio
1632 Galileo’s Dialogue
1649 Execution Warrant of Charles I
1660–69 Samuel Pepys’s Diary
1660s–1727 Isaac Newton Papers
1665 First Printed Newspaper in English
1689 English Bill of Rights
1755 Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary
1776 Declaration of Independence
1776 The Wealth of Nations
1787 Constitution of the United States
1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
1791 Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen
1803 Louisiana Purchase
1803 Meriwether Lewis’s List of Expenses
1804 Napoléonic Code
1822 Deciphering the Rosetta Stone
1826 First Photograph
1833 Slavery Abolition Act
1837–59 Charles Darwin on Natural Selection
1844 First Telegram
1848 The Communist Manifesto
1852 Roget’s Thesaurus
1854 John Snow’s Cholera Map
1854–63 First Underground Train System
1861 Fort Sumter Telegram
1863 Emancipation Proclamation
1868 Alaska Purchase Cheque
1869 War and Peace
1878 Phonograph
1899 The Interpretation of Dreams
1912 Sinking of the Titanic
1916 Sykes–Picot Agreement
1917 Balfour Declaration
1917 The Zimmermann Telegram
1918 Wilson’s 14 Points
1919 19th Amendment
1919 Treaty of Versailles
1920 Hitler’s 25-Point Programme
1922 Uncovering Tutankhamun’s Tomb
1929–31 Empire State Building
1936 Edward VIII’s Instrument of Abdication
1936 Television Listings
1938 Munich Agreement
1939 The Hitler–Stalin Non-Aggression Pact
1941 Declaration of War Against Japan
1942 Manhattan Project Notebook
1942 Wannsee Protocol
1942–44 Anne Frank’s Diary
1945 Germany’s Instrument of Surrender
1945 United Nations Charter
1946–49 George Orwell’s 1984
1947 Marshall Plan
1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights
1949 Geneva Convention
1950 Population Registration Act
1953 Dna
1957 Treaty of Rome
1961 John F. Kennedy’s Inaugural Address
1962 Beatles’ Recording Contract with EMI
1963 Martin Luther King, Jr.,“I Have a Dream”
1964 Quotations fromChairman Mao Tse-tung
1964 Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
1969 Apollo 11 Flight Plan
1976 Apple Computer Company
1981 Internet Protocol
1990 Two Plus Four Treaty
1991 First Website
2001 “Bin Laden Determined toStrike in US”
2002 Iraq War Resolution
2006 First Tweet
2007 WikiLeaks
2011 3D Map of the Universe
2013 Edward Snowden Files
Acknowledgements
Index
Copyright
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