| BC | |
| 10,000 |
The dog is domesticated in Mesopotamia.
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| 8000 |
Europeans move north into Scandinavia as ice retreats.
|
| 5000 |
Horse is domesticated by the Kurgans of southern Russia.
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| 4500 |
Bronze age begins in the Eurasian steppe; Kurgans invent chariot; invasion of Old Europe begins. |
| 4000 |
Agriculture in Britain. |
| 3000 |
Troy founded. |
| 2600 |
Epic of Gilgamesh. |
| 2250 |
Pharaoh Cheops (a.k.a. Khufu) builds the Great Pyramid in Giza (now Cairo) for his tomb. |
| 1900 |
Abram leaves Ur; Ishmael & Isaac born. |
| 1700 |
Joseph sold into slavery in Egypt; becomes Visier of Egypt; Israelites move to Egypt. |
| 1600 |
Mycenaeans arrive in the Aegean; Greek Bronze Age begins
|
| 1450 |
Exodus of Israel from Egypt under Moses; Ten Commandments; Minoans leave Crete and dissappear; Mycenaens settle in Crete. |
| 1350 |
Hyksos invade Nile delta; "Shephard King" dynasties rule for 100 years. |
| 1260 |
Jason and the Argonauts; Temple of Apollo at Delphi; Theseus frees Athens from King Minos of Crete.
|
| 1194-1184 |
Trojan War between Mycenae and Troy; Troy falls in 1184. |
| 1100 |
End of Mycenaean (Greek) Bronze Age; Greek Dark Ages begin
|
| 1000 |
Celtic Iron Age begins; Celts arrive in Britain. Leif Ericsson, son of Eric the Red, establishes Vinland in North America. |
| 900 |
Lycurgus - Semimythical Greek legislator; traditional author of laws and institution of Sparta. |
| 800 |
Greek alphabet invented; Greek Dark Ages over; Homeric epics are written down. |
| 753 |
Rome founded by Romulus & Remus; among first inhabitants are descendants of refugees from Troy. |
| 650 |
King Assurbanipal's famous library.
|
| 593 |
Solon's law reforms in Athens.
|
| 510 |
Last Etruscan King, Tarquin, expelled from Rome; "Horatius at the Bridge"
[ref]
; Roman Republic established. |
| 490 |
Greeks win Battle of Marathon.
|
| 431 - 404 |
Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta; Aristophanes, Socrates, Hippocrates, Thucydides. |
| 413 |
Defeat of the Athenians at Syracuse |
| 336 - 323 |
Reign of Alexander the Great of Macedonia. |
| 290, 280 |
6th & 7th Wonders of the Ancient World: bronze Colossus of Rhodes, and Pharos Lighthouse of Alexandria, 550 feet high.
|
| 218 |
Hannibal crosses Alps and arrives in northern Italy. Second Punic War (218-201) begins.
|
| 146 |
Rome destroys Carthage in the Third Punic War. Rome conquers Corinth and makes Greece a Roman province.
|
| 106 - 43 |
Marcus Tullius Cicero, orator, lawyer, politician, and philosopher, whose life coincided with the decline and fall of the Roman Republic.
|
| 48 |
Caesar defeats Pompey at Battle of Pharsalia.
|
| 45 - 44 |
Gaius Julius Caesar elected Emperor for Life; assassinated on March 15 (the Ides of March) the following year ("Et tu, Brute?").
|
| AD | |
| 1 |
Jesus of Bethlehem born; Age of Aries over, Age of Pisces begins.
|
| 43 |
Britain becomes a Roman province.
|
| 70 |
Jews revolt; Romans destroy Jerusalem and the Jewish Temple.
|
| 122 |
Hadrian's wall constructed on north side of Britannia.
|
| 178 |
First Christian missionaries preach in Britain.
|
| 255 |
Romans defeated by Ostrogoths; barbarian invasions on all sides.
|
| 312 |
Emperor Constantine converts to Christianity. Edict of Milan in 313.
|
| 372-410 |
Huns invade Black Sea area, Germanic Visigoth and Ostrogoth kingdoms end; Migrations begin; Roman Empire begins to collapse. |
| 400-732 |
Early Middle Ages, a.k.a., Dark Ages. |
| 410 |
Visigoths sack Rome |
| 476 |
German general Odovacar deposes the "last Roman Emperor," a boy named Romulus Augustulus, ending the Roman Empire.
|
| 632, 636 |
Muhammad dies; Byzantines defeated at Yarmuk.
|
| 732 |
Charles Martel, King of the Franks, "Charles the Hammer," is victorious over Islam in the Battle of Tours.
|
| 780-900 |
Vikings raid Europe and British Isles.
|
| 800 |
Charlemagne crowned Emperor of the new Western Empire.
|
| 911 |
The Frankish king grants land to Rollo the Viking which becomes Normandy. |
| 1000-1330 |
High Middle Ages
|
| 1054 |
The Church splits into two geographical and denominational halves.
|
| 1066 |
William, Duke of Normandy, defeats Harold II in the Battle of Hastings and takes the English throne.
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| 1206 |
Genghis Khan begins conquest of Asia.
|
| 1215 |
Magna Carta
|
| 1282 |
The last native prince of Wales, Llywelyn ap Gruffydd, is killed.
Edward I, a.k.a. Longshanks, imposes his son as 'Prince of Wales' and Wales loses independence.
|
| 1347-1351 |
Black Death, a.k.a. Black Plague spreads over Europe and Asia, wiping out 1/3 to 2/3 of Europe.
|
| 1330-1600 |
The Renaissance, begun in Florence, Italy, spreads over Europe and Great Britain.
|
| 1453 |
Fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks.
|
| 1456 |
Johann Gutenberg published the first mass-produced edition of the Bible in Mainz, Germany.
|
| 1492 |
King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella free Spain from Muslims (Moors) and Jews; Columbus discovers America
|
| 1517 |
Martin Luther posts his 95 theses on the practice of indulgences to the door of Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany;
Protestant Reformation begins.
|
| 1519-1520 |
Ferdinand Magellan sails around the world in 18 months; South American southern passage named Straight of Magellan.
|
| 1564 |
William Shakespeare born.
|
| 1602 |
Jamestown, Virginia settlement.
|
| 1649 |
King Charles I of England, Ireland, and Scotland beheaded. Dictator Oliver Cromwell leads change to "English Commonwealth," soon brings Jews back to England.
|
| 1670 |
Herbert Pritchard born in NC.
|
| 1683 |
Battle of Vienna. Poles, Austrians, and Germans defeat the Ottoman Imperial Army; the invading Turks begin retreating from Europe.
|
| 1776 |
Declaration of Independence.
|
| 1787 |
United States Constitution.
|
| 1789-1799 |
French Revolution.
|
| 1804 |
Napoleon becomes Emperor.
|
| 1815 |
Napoleon defeated at the battle of Waterloo.
|
| 1845-1849 |
Ireland potatoe famine. Millions die or migrate to America, Australia, New Zealand, and England.
|
| 1861-1865 |
American Civil War, a.k.a. War Between the States, a.k.a. War of Northern Aggression.
|
| 1879 |
Thomas Alva Edison invents first practical light bulb.
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|
| 1885 |
Karl Benz develops first gasoline-powered car.
|
| 1903 |
Orville & Wilbur Wright make the first heavier-than-air flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
|
| 1914-1918 |
America in World War I, a.k.a. the Great War.
|
| 1917-1919 |
Bolshevik Revolution. Jews murder Czar and royal family
[ref], take over Russia and deliberately create a famine in the Ukraine that kills several million people.
[ref]
|
| 1920's |
Television invented.
|
| 1921 |
Battle of Blair Mountain, an uprising of 10,000 West Virginia coal miners.
|
| 1929 |
Black Thursday and Black Tuesday, October 24th and 29th, The Great Stock Market Crash. Great Depression lasts until America enters WWII.
|
| 1932 |
Karl Benz develops first gasoline-powered car.
|
| 1933 |
President Franklin D. Roosevelt confiscates all American gold.
|
| 1941-1945 |
America enters World War II after Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941.
|
| 1950-1953 |
Korean war.
|
| 1959-1975 |
War in Vietnam, and the 1960's Marxist cultural revolution in all Western countries.
|
| 1961 |
Yuri Gagarin is the first man to complete an orbit around the Earth.
|
| 1962 |
Vatican II Council begins.
|
| 1963 |
President John F. Kennedy is assassinated. Marxist cultural revolution in the West, led by American and European Jews, accelerates.
|
| 1967 |
Israeli attack on the USS Liberty.
|
| 1969 |
American Apollo astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong are first men to land on the moon.
|
| 1971 |
U.S. withdraws from Bretton Woods agreement.
[ref]
|
| 1989 |
Fall of the Berlin wall. "Cold War" over. German reunification and breakup of Soviet Union begins.
|
| April 19, 1993 |
The American Government, under the leadership of President Bill Clinton and Attorney General Janet Reno,
murder 86 innocent men, women, and children in Waco, Texas, by poisoning them with gas and then burning them alive.
[ref]
|
| April 19, 1995 |
Middle-Eastern terrorists, with help of US government operatives, blow up Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.
[ref]
|
| 2001 |
"9/11," destruction of World Trade Center in New York City. "War on Terror" begins.
|
| 2007 |
Jews become the most powerful people in the World
[ref].
Government leaders of North America attempt to merge Canada, United States, Mexico into one regional government, a.k.a., "The North American Union."
[ref].
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