Already have an account? Log in!
GIF: "Graphics Intercharge Format" It really is a compressed image file format. GIF was origanly developed by CompuServe. If you go in to Photoshop you will see the term "CompuServe GIF".
Insert links to other pages or uploaded files.
Tip: To turn text into a link, highlight the text, then click on a page or file from the list above.
You don't have permission to comment on this page.
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
Comments (0)
You don't have permission to comment on this page.