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

 

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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