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World History (all years CE unless otherwise noted)
50 BCE - Mayans create heiroglyphs
330 - Rome splits the Empire
395 - Christianity becomes the official religion of Rome
476 - Roman Empire Falls
486 - Clovis rules the Franks
500 - St Benedict of Narsia
532 - Nike Revolt in Constantinople
552 - Buddhism introduced to Japan
593 - Prince Shotuku becomes Emporer
610 - Muhammad called to be the Prophet of God
610 - Chinese invent the segmented arch bridge
645 - Taika Reforms
794 - Japans Heian period begins
800 - Charlemagne crowned Holy Roman Emporer
850 - Ghana becomes a rich Empire
850 - Chinese invent gunpowder
1050 - Chinese invent movable type print
1054 - Great Schizm
1066 - Battle of Hastings
1071 - Battle of Manzikert
1096 - First Crusade
1164 - Henry II's Legal Reforms
1192 - Third Crusade
1192 - First Shogun appointed
1194 - Construction begins on Chartres Cathedral
1209 - St Francis of Assisi
1215 - Magna Carta
1295 - King Edward I's Model Parliament
1324 - Mansa Musa travels to Makkah
1325 - Aztecs build Tenochtitlan
1337 - Hundred Years War
1341 - Francesco Petrarch
1347 - Bubonic Plague hits Europe
1400 - Reconquista
1418 - Prince Henry the Navigator
1429 - Joan of Arc
1436 - Duomo di Santa Maria del Fiore completed
1450 - Gutenbergs printing press
1475 - Michaelangelo
1492 - Christopher Columbus
1498 - Vasco de Gama
1517 - Martin Luthor nails his 95 Thesis on the church door
1519 - Aztecs conquered by Hernan Cortez
1519 - Ferdinand Magellan
1525 - Tyndale translates the Bible into English
1530 - John Calvin
1532 - Incas conquered by Francisco Pizarro
1534 - Anglican church founded
1542 - Leonardo da Vinci
1545 - Council of Trent
1564 - William Shakespeare
1609 - Henry Hudson
1632 - Galileo
1687 - Sir Isaac Newton
1690 - John Locke
1748 - Baron de Montesquieu
U.S. History
1607 - Jamestown founded
1620 - Plymouth Plantation founded
1630 - Massachusets founded
1636 - Harvard College established
1675 - King Philips War
1730 - Great Awakening
1754 - French and Indian War begins
1773 - Boston Tea Party
1774 - First Continental Congress
1775 - Second Continental Congress
1776 - Revolutionary War begins
1776 - Declaration of Independence signed
1783 - Treaty of Paris
1787 - Northwest Ordinance
1789 - US Constitution is ratified
1791 - Bill of Rights
1793 - Eli Whitney invents the Cotton Gin
1797 - XYZ Affair
1800 - Capitol moved to Washington DC
1803 - Louisiana Purchase
1804 - Lewis and Clark
1806 - Zebulon Pike
1808 - Slave Trade Abolished
1812 - War of 1812
1819 - Florida ceded to US
1820 - Missouri Compromise
1823 - Monroe Doctrine
1830 - Trail of Tears
1832 - Black Hawk War
1832 - The Nullification Crisis
1835 - Texas Revolution
1846 - Oregon Treaty
1846 - Mexican War
1848 - Mexican Cession
1849 - Gold Rush
1849 - Oregon Treaty
1849 - 2nd Great Awakening
1860 - Pony Express
1860 - Southern States Secede
1861 - Civil War begins
1863 - Gettysburg Address
1863 - Emancipation Proclamation
1865 - Abraham Lincoln assassinated
1867 - Alaska purchased
1869 - Transcontinental Railroad
1871 - Chicago Fire
1874 - J Glidden invents barbed wire
1876 - Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone
1876 - Battle of the Little Big Horn
1879 - Thomas Edison invents the Light Bulb
1881 - Booker T Washington founds the Tuskeegee Institute
1881 - Clara Barton founds the American Red Cross
1886 - France donates the Statue of Liberty
1889 - Oklahoma land rush
1890 - Sherman Anti-Trust Act
1899 - Open Door Policy in China
1900 - Hawaii becomes US territory
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