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World of History

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The Great Megafauna Extinction (10000 BCE) The Dawn of Farming (10000 BCE) The First Monument (12000 BCE) The First Domesticated Animal (15000 BCE) Humans Reach the Americas (16000 BCE) The Last Ice Age Peak (20000 BCE) The Oldest Sculpture (32000 BCE) The Dawn of Art and Symbols (40000 BCE) The Great Cave Paintings (40000 BCE) The 'Hobbit' Humans (40000 BCE) Humans Reach Europe (45000 BCE) The Great Leap Forward (50000 BCE) The First Sea Crossing to Australia (65000 BCE) Out of Africa (70000 BCE) The Earliest Known Drawing (77000 BCE) Humans Begin to Wear Clothing (170000 BCE) The Denisovans (200000 BCE) Homo sapiens Appears (300000 BCE) Advanced Stone Toolkits (300000 BCE) The Neanderthals (400000 BCE) The First Spears (500000 BCE) Homo heidelbergensis (700000 BCE) The Taming of Fire (800000 BCE) The Hand Axe (1760000 BCE) Homo erectus Spreads (1900000 BCE) Homo ergaster (1900000 BCE) Homo habilis — The Handy One (2300000 BCE) The Ice Ages Begin (2580000 BCE) The First Stone Tools (2600000 BCE) The Age of Giant Mammals (2600000 BCE) Lucy Walks Upright (3200000 BCE) Tools Before Our Genus (3300000 BCE) The Australopithecines (3500000 BCE) Ardipithecus (6000000 BCE) The Mediterranean Dries and Refills (6000000 BCE) The First Hominins (7000000 BCE) Forests Give Way to Grasslands (7000000 BCE) One of the Earliest Human Ancestors (7000000 BCE) Antarctica Freezes Over (34000000 BCE) Grasslands Spread (34000000 BCE) Mammals Return to the Sea (55000000 BCE) The Rise of Mammals (60000000 BCE) The Asteroid and the Dinosaurs (66000000 BCE) The First Primates (66000000 BCE) The Rise of Social Insects (100000000 BCE) Flowers Bloom (130000000 BCE) The First Birds (150000000 BCE) Pangaea Breaks Apart (175000000 BCE) A Future Galactic Collision Looms (200000000 BCE) Extinction Clears the Way for Dinosaurs (201000000 BCE) The First Mammals (220000000 BCE) The Age of Dinosaurs Begins (230000000 BCE) Reptiles Rule the Sky (230000000 BCE) The Great Dying (252000000 BCE) The Ancestors of Mammals (252000000 BCE) Insects Take to the Air (300000000 BCE) The First Reptiles (312000000 BCE) Life Breaks Free of Water (320000000 BCE) The Supercontinent Pangaea (335000000 BCE) The First Amphibians (360000000 BCE) Life Crawls Ashore (375000000 BCE) The Late Devonian Extinction (375000000 BCE) The First Forests (385000000 BCE) Sharks Appear (420000000 BCE) Animals Conquer the Land (430000000 BCE) The First Mass Extinction (450000000 BCE) Plants Colonize Land (470000000 BCE) The First Reefs (500000000 BCE) The First Fish (530000000 BCE) The Cambrian Explosion (538000000 BCE) The Ozone Shield Forms (540000000 BCE) The Ediacaran Garden (575000000 BCE) Life Becomes Multicellular (600000000 BCE) Snowball Earth (720000000 BCE) The First Fungi (1000000000 BCE) The Supercontinent Rodinia (1100000000 BCE) The Origin of Sex (1200000000 BCE) The First Plankton (1500000000 BCE) The First Complex Cells (2100000000 BCE) The Great Oxidation (2400000000 BCE) The First Great Ice Age (2400000000 BCE) Microbes Begin Making Oxygen (2700000000 BCE) The First Continents (3000000000 BCE) The Age of Microbes (3000000000 BCE) First Photosynthesis (3500000000 BCE) The Oldest Living Structures (3500000000 BCE) The Last Universal Ancestor (3700000000 BCE) The Origin of Life (3800000000 BCE) The RNA World (3800000000 BCE) Earth's Oceans Form (4000000000 BCE) Earth's First Atmosphere (4000000000 BCE) Plate Tectonics Begins (4000000000 BCE) The Great Bombardment (4100000000 BCE) Comets Deliver Water (4100000000 BCE) The Hadean Earth (4400000000 BCE) The Gas Giants Form (4500000000 BCE) The Asteroid Belt Forms (4500000000 BCE) The Distant Kuiper Belt (4500000000 BCE) The Moon is Born (4510000000 BCE) The Earth Forms (4540000000 BCE) Planets Begin to Grow (4550000000 BCE) The Planet-Forming Disk (4560000000 BCE) The Sun Ignites (4600000000 BCE) The Solar Nebula (4600000000 BCE) The Cosmos Grows Rich in Elements (5000000000 BCE) Dark Energy Takes Over (6000000000 BCE) Exploding Stars Seed the Cosmos (9000000000 BCE) The Local Group Forms (10000000000 BCE) The Peak of Star Formation (11000000000 BCE) Spiral Galaxies Take Shape (12000000000 BCE) Supermassive Black Holes (13000000000 BCE) The Oldest Star Clusters (13000000000 BCE) The Second Generation of Stars (13400000000 BCE) The First Quasars (13500000000 BCE) The First Stars (13600000000 BCE) The Cosmic Dawn (13600000000 BCE) The First Galaxies (13610000000 BCE) The Milky Way Forms (13610000000 BCE) The First Neutron Stars (13700000000 BCE) The First Light (13770000000 BCE) The Cosmic Dark Ages (13790000000 BCE) The First Atomic Nuclei (13799999997 BCE) The Quark Epoch (13799999998 BCE) Cosmic Inflation (13799999999 BCE) The Big Bang (13800000000 BCE) AlphaFold Maps Nearly All Proteins (2024 CE) Error-Corrected Qubits (2023 CE) GLP-1 Drugs Transform Treatment (2023 CE) Bell Inequalities Conclusively Violated (2022 CE) Nobel for Quantum Entanglement (2022 CE) First Malaria Vaccine Approved (2021 CE) mRNA Vaccines Reach the Public (2020 CE) COVID-19 Pandemic Declared (2020 CE) Click Chemistry Transforms Synthesis (2020 CE) Google Achieves Quantum Supremacy (2019 CE) First Image of a Black Hole (2019 CE) Tardigrades Survive Space (2016 CE) Gravitational Waves from Black Holes (2016 CE) Quantum Satellite Launched (2016 CE) Gravitational Waves Detected (2015 CE) CAR-T Cell Therapy Works (2015 CE) Gene Therapy Comes of Age (2013 CE) Higgs Boson Discovered (2012 CE) CRISPR Gene Editing (2012 CE) Time Crystals Proposed (2012 CE) First Synthetic Cell (2010 CE) Lithium-Ion Battery Matures (2010 CE) Topological States of Matter (2008 CE) Quantum Cryptography Deployed (2007 CE) Induced Stem Cells Created (2006 CE) HPV Vaccine Approved (2006 CE) Graphene Isolated (2004 CE) Human Genome Project Completed (2003 CE) SARS Outbreak (2003 CE) Mapping How Neurons Work (2003 CE) Fast Primality Testing (2003 CE) Poincaré Conjecture Solved (2002 CE) Superconducting Qubit Built (1999 CE) Human Stem Cells Cultured (1998 CE) The Universe's Expansion is Accelerating (1998 CE) Quantum Teleportation Demonstrated (1997 CE) Dolly the Sheep Cloned (1996 CE) Superheavy Elements Created (1996 CE) HIV Becomes Treatable (1996 CE) Hox Genes and the Body Plan (1995 CE) A New State of Matter (1995 CE) Quantum Dots Engineered (1995 CE) Fermat's Last Theorem Proved (1994 CE) BRCA1 Gene Discovered (1994 CE) Shor's Algorithm Threatens Encryption (1994 CE) Mitochondrial Eve Identified (1987 CE) Buckyballs Discovered (1985 CE) Keyhole Surgery (1985 CE) PCR Invented (1984 CE) HIV Identified (1983 CE) Conductive Plastics (1983 CE) Prions Discovered (1982 CE) Entanglement Confirmed (1982 CE) Ulcers Caused by Bacteria (1982 CE) Feynman Proposes Quantum Computing (1981 CE) Smallpox Eradicated (1980 CE) Asteroid Killed the Dinosaurs (1980 CE) The Quantum Hall Effect (1979 CE) First IVF Baby Born (1978 CE) DNA Sequencing Invented (1977 CE) Public-Key Cryptography (1977 CE) Four Color Theorem Proved (1976 CE) Fractals Discovered (1975 CE) Black Holes Radiate (1974 CE) Genetic Engineering Begins (1973 CE) Punctuated Equilibrium (1972 CE) MRI Imaging Developed (1972 CE) CT Scanner Invented (1971 CE) Restriction Enzymes Discovered (1970 CE) Modern Chemical Analysis (1970 CE) Quantum Decoherence Explained (1970 CE) First Heart Transplant (1967 CE) Endosymbiotic Theory Proposed (1967 CE) Toward the Standard Model (1965 CE) Fuzzy Logic (1965 CE) Quarks Proposed (1964 CE) Bell's Theorem on Entanglement (1964 CE) Echo of the Big Bang (1964 CE) Chaos Theory (1963 CE) Noble Gas Compounds Created (1962 CE) The Thalidomide Tragedy (1962 CE) The Genetic Code Cracked (1961 CE) The Contraceptive Pill Approved (1960 CE) The Laser Invented (1960 CE) Radiocarbon Dating (1960 CE) Central Dogma of Biology (1958 CE) BCS Theory Explains Superconductivity (1957 CE) The Neutrino Detected (1956 CE) Nature Distinguishes Left from Right (1956 CE) Polio Vaccine Introduced (1955 CE) Insulin Structure Decoded (1955 CE) Maser Invented (1954 CE) First Successful Organ Transplant (1954 CE) DNA's Double Helix Described (1953 CE) Watson & Crick Decode DNA (1953 CE) Heart-Lung Machine Invented (1953 CE) Miller–Urey Experiment (1953 CE) DNA Confirmed as the Genetic Carrier (1952 CE) Photosynthesis Chemistry Mapped (1951 CE) Shannon Founds Information Theory (1948 CE) Quantum Electrodynamics Formulated (1948 CE) The Big Bang Theory (1948 CE) Feynman Diagrams (1948 CE) Structure of Penicillin Solved (1945 CE) DNA Identified as Genetic Material (1944 CE) Game Theory Born (1944 CE) Avery Identifies DNA's Role (1944 CE) Kidney Dialysis Invented (1943 CE) First Nuclear Chain Reaction (1942 CE) Nuclear Fission Discovered (1938 CE) How Stars Shine (1938 CE) The Krebs Cycle Mapped (1937 CE) First Synthetic Element (1937 CE) The First Antibiotics (1937 CE) Turing Invents Theoretical Computing (1936 CE) Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Paradox (1935 CE) Schrödinger's Cat (1935 CE) Probability Made Rigorous (1933 CE) The Neutron Discovered (1932 CE) Antimatter Discovered (1932 CE) Quantum Field Theory Begins (1932 CE) Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems (1931 CE) The Universe is Expanding (1929 CE) Dirac Equation Unifies Quantum and Relativity (1928 CE) Fleming Discovers Penicillin (1928 CE) Hilbert's Decision Problem (1928 CE) Penicillin Discovered (1928 CE) Copenhagen Interpretation (1927 CE) Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle (1927 CE) Schrödinger's Wave Equation (1926 CE) Quantum Mechanics Formalized (1925 CE) Electron Spin Discovered (1925 CE) de Broglie's Wave-Particle Duality (1923 CE) Modern Acid–Base Theory (1923 CE) Stern–Gerlach Experiment (1922 CE) Insulin Discovered (1921 CE) Einstein's Relativity Confirmed (1919 CE) The Chemical Bond Explained (1916 CE) General Relativity Published (1915 CE) Bohr Model of the Atom (1913 CE) Bohr's Quantum Atom (1913 CE) Reading Light from Atoms (1913 CE) Rutherford Discovers the Nucleus (1911 CE) Superconductivity Discovered (1911 CE) Cosmic Rays Discovered (1911 CE) Principia Mathematica (Russell & Whitehead) (1910 CE) Haber-Bosch Process Invented (1909 CE) Measuring the Electron's Charge (1909 CE) Einstein's Special Relativity (1905 CE) Einstein Explains the Photoelectric Effect (1905 CE) Chromatography Invented (1901 CE) Planck's Quantum Theory Born (1900 CE) Blood Types Discovered (1900 CE) Hilbert's 23 Problems (1900 CE) Foundations of Set Theory (1900 CE) The Ultraviolet Catastrophe (1900 CE) Marie Curie Discovers Radioactivity (1898 CE) Aspirin Synthesized (1897 CE) Thomson Discovers the Electron (1897 CE) X-Rays Discovered (1895 CE) Topology Founded (1895 CE) Michelson-Morley Disproves the Ether (1887 CE) Le Chatelier's Principle (1884 CE) Koch Proves Germ Theory (1882 CE) Cantor Discovers Infinite Sets (1874 CE) Crookes Tube Explores Electricity (1873 CE) Mendeleev's Periodic Table (1869 CE) The Periodic Law (1869 CE) Riemann Geometry Published (1867 CE) Mendel Discovers Heredity Laws (1866 CE) Benzene Ring Structure Solved (1865 CE) Lister Introduces Antiseptic Surgery (1865 CE) The Nucleus and Cell Function (1865 CE) Maxwell's Equations Unify Electromagnetism (1864 CE) Pasteur Disproves Spontaneous Generation (1862 CE) Darwin Publishes Natural Selection (1859 CE) The Möbius Strip (1858 CE) Matrix Algebra Developed (1858 CE) First Synthetic Dye Created (1856 CE) Boolean Algebra Created (1854 CE) The Birth of Epidemiology (1854 CE) The Second Law of Thermodynamics (1850 CE) Handwashing Saves Lives (1847 CE) Conservation of Energy Established (1847 CE) Hamilton Invents Quaternions (1843 CE) General Anesthesia Discovered (1842 CE) Cell Theory Established (1838 CE) Theory of Functional Groups (1832 CE) Faraday Discovers Induction (1831 CE) Organic Chemistry Born (1828 CE) Ohm's Law (1827 CE) Non-Euclidean Geometry Discovered (1824 CE) Fourier Analysis (1822 CE) Electricity and Magnetism Linked (1820 CE) Avogadro's Law (1811 CE) Dalton's Atomic Theory (1808 CE) Dalton's Law of Multiple Proportions (1803 CE) Light Behaves as a Wave (1801 CE) Volta Invents the Battery (1800 CE) Fundamental Theorem of Algebra (1799 CE) Weighing the Earth (1798 CE) Jenner Invents Vaccination (1796 CE) Jenner Develops Vaccination (1796 CE) The Laws of Chemical Proportion (1791 CE) Lavoisier's Law of Conservation (1789 CE) Modern Number Theory (1781 CE) Oxygen Discovered (1774 CE) Hydrogen Discovered (1766 CE) Carbon Dioxide Isolated (1754 CE) Franklin Proves Lightning is Electricity (1752 CE) Graph Theory Founded (1736 CE) Linnaeus Creates Taxonomy (1735 CE) Newton & Leibniz Invent Calculus (1687 CE) Newton's Laws of Motion (1687 CE) Universal Gravitation (1687 CE) Leeuwenhoek Discovers Microorganisms (1676 CE) Newton's Annus Mirabilis (1666 CE) Hooke Discovers the Cell (1665 CE) The Infinitesimal (1665 CE) Boyle's Sceptical Chymist (1661 CE) Probability Theory Born (1654 CE) Galileo Proves Objects Fall Equally (1638 CE) The Principle of Inertia (1638 CE) Descartes Invents Coordinate Geometry (1637 CE) Harvey Discovers Blood Circulation (1628 CE) Circulation of the Blood (1628 CE) Logarithms Invented (1614 CE) Galileo and the Telescope (1609 CE) Gilbert Founds Magnetism Science (1600 CE) Complex Numbers Invented (1545 CE) Vesalius Maps Human Anatomy (1543 CE) Vesalius Revolutionizes Anatomy (1543 CE) Fibonacci Introduces Hindu-Arabic Numerals (1202 CE) Avicenna's Canon of Medicine (1025 CE) Al-Khwarizmi Invents Algebra (820 CE) Jabir ibn Hayyan Founds Chemistry (800 CE) Zero as a Number (628 CE) Euclid's Elements (300 CE) Archimedes Calculates Pi (250 BCE) Archimedes Discovers Buoyancy (250 BCE) Birth of Alchemy (300 BCE) Euclid Proves Infinite Primes (300 BCE) Aristotle Classifies Living Things (350 BCE) Democritus Proposes the Atom (400 BCE) Hippocrates Founds Medicine (400 BCE) Pythagoras and His Theorem (570 BCE) First Medical Texts (1550 BCE) First African-Hosted G20 Summit (2025 CE) Israel–Iran Direct Conflict (2025 CE) Trump Wins Non-Consecutive Second Term (2024 CE) Russia Invades Ukraine (2022 CE) The GameStop Short Squeeze (2021 CE) Brexit Referendum (2016 CE) The Paris Climate Agreement (2016 CE) Marriage Equality Spreads (2015 CE) The AI Era (2012 CE) Global Protest Movements (2011 CE) The Arab Spring (2010 CE) The Flash Crash (2010 CE) Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency (2009 CE) Global Financial Crisis (2008 CE) First Black U.S. President Elected (2008 CE) The Smartphone & Social Media Era (2007 CE) ETFs Transform Investing (2004 CE) The War on Terror (2001 CE) The Dot-Com Bubble (2000 CE) The Euro Introduced (1999 CE) International Criminal Court Founded (1998 CE) World Trade Organization (1995 CE) End of Apartheid (1994 CE) European Union Established (1993 CE) Dissolution of the Soviet Union (1991 CE) The Post-Cold War Era (1991 CE) Soviet Union Dissolves (1991 CE) Apartheid Laws Repealed (1991 CE) The Yugoslav Wars (1991 CE) Gulf War (1990–1991) (1990 CE) German Reunification (1990 CE) Fall of the Berlin Wall (1989 CE) The Revolutions of 1989 (1989 CE) Rights of the Child (1989 CE) Black Monday (1987 CE) The Free-Market Turn (1979 CE) The First Index Fund (1976 CE) The Oil Shock (1973 CE) The Black–Scholes Model (1973 CE) End of the Gold Standard (1971 CE) Rise of Multinationals (1971 CE) NASDAQ — The First Electronic Market (1971 CE) The Information Age (1969 CE) Miranda Rights Established (1966 CE) Second Vatican Council (1962 CE) The Cuban Missile Crisis (1962 CE) The Year of Africa (1960 CE) European Common Market (1958 CE) The Space Age (1957 CE) Vietnam War (1955–1975) (1955 CE) The Civil Rights Movement (1955 CE) The Warsaw Pact (1955 CE) Korean War (1950–1953) (1950 CE) People's Republic of China Founded (1949 CE) NATO Founded (1949 CE) Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948 CE) State of Israel Founded (1948 CE) Genocide Convention (1948 CE) Apartheid Established (1948 CE) Gandhi and Nonviolent Resistance (1948 CE) The Marshall Plan (1948 CE) The Genocide Convention (1948 CE) The Cold War Era (1947 CE) India and Pakistan Independence (1947 CE) The Age of Decolonization (1947 CE) Partition of India (1947 CE) United Nations Founded (1945 CE) The Atomic Age (1945 CE) The Nuremberg Trials (1945 CE) Bretton Woods System (1944 CE) The IMF Founded (1944 CE) The World Bank Founded (1944 CE) World War II (1939–1945) (1939 CE) Keynesian Economics (1936 CE) The Spanish Civil War (1936 CE) Markets Get Regulated (1934 CE) Hitler Seizes Power (1933 CE) The New Deal (1933 CE) The Great Depression Begins (1929 CE) Women Win the Vote (1920 CE) The Russian Revolution (1917 CE) The World Wars Era (1914 CE) World War I (1914–1918) (1914 CE) Rise of Pentecostalism (1906 CE) The Dow Jones Index (1896 CE) Parliament of the World's Religions (1893 CE) Eastern Religions Reach the West (1893 CE) German Empire Founded (1871 CE) The Unification of Germany (1871 CE) The Second Industrial Revolution (1870 CE) Meiji Japan — Asia's First Modern Empire (1868 CE) Marx Publishes Das Kapital (1867 CE) The Stock Ticker (1867 CE) Abolition of Slavery (1865 CE) The Emancipation Proclamation (1863 CE) American Civil War (1861–1865) (1861 CE) The Taiping Rebellion (1861 CE) The Unification of Italy (1861 CE) The Crimean War (1853 CE) The Revolutions of 1848 (1848 CE) The Bahá'í Faith (1841 CE) The Free Trade Movement (1834 CE) Rise of New Religious Movements (1830 CE) Theory of Free Trade (1817 CE) The Zulu Kingdom (1816 CE) Napoleon's Invasion of Russia (1812 CE) Napoleon's French Empire (1804 CE) The Napoleonic Code (1804 CE) The Haitian Revolution (1804 CE) The New York Stock Exchange (1792 CE) Declaration of Rights of Man (1789 CE) The French Revolution (1789 CE) The Napoleonic Wars (1789 CE) Rights of Man Proclaimed (1789 CE) First U.S. President (1789 CE) The U.S. Bill of Rights (1789 CE) The U.S. Constitution Is Signed (1787 CE) Adam Smith Founds Economics (1776 CE) United States Founded (1776 CE) American Declaration of Independence (1776 CE) American Revolutionary War (1775–1783) (1775 CE) The Industrial Revolution (1760 CE) The Maratha Empire (1721 CE) The South Sea Bubble (1720 CE) First Central Bank (1694 CE) English Bill of Rights (1689 CE) The Age of Enlightenment (1685 CE) Russian Empire (1682 CE) Habeas Corpus (1679 CE) Peace of Westphalia (1648 CE) Tulip Mania — First Bubble (1637 CE) The Mayflower Compact (1620 CE) Thirty Years' War (1618–1648) (1618 CE) Qing Dynasty — Last Chinese Empire (1618 CE) King James Bible Published (1611 CE) First Stock Company Founded (1602 CE) First Stock Exchange (1602 CE) The First Bonds (1602 CE) The Invention of the Share (1602 CE) British Empire — Largest in History (1600 CE) The Dutch Revolt (1568 CE) Mughal Empire — India's Glory (1526 CE) The Protestant Reformation (1517 CE) The Age of Discovery (1500 CE) Founding of Sikhism (1469 CE) The Songhai Empire (1464 CE) Gutenberg Bible — First Printed Book (1455 CE) The Wars of the Roses (1455 CE) Inca Empire — Largest in the Americas (1438 CE) Aztec Empire — Mesoamerica (1428 CE) Ming Dynasty — The Great Wall Completed (1368 CE) Rise of Modern Banking (1340 CE) Hundred Years' War (1337–1453) (1337 CE) The Renaissance (1300 CE) Ottoman Empire (1299 CE) Fall of Acre — End of the Crusades (1291 CE) Ninth Crusade (1271–1272) (1271 CE) Eighth Crusade (1270) (1270 CE) Seventh Crusade (1248–1254) (1248 CE) The Mali Empire (1235 CE) Sixth Crusade (1228–1229) (1228 CE) Fifth Crusade (1217–1221) (1217 CE) Magna Carta Signed (1215 CE) Birth of Parliament (1215 CE) Children's Crusade (1212) (1212 CE) Mongol Empire — Largest Land Empire (1206 CE) Delhi Sultanate — Islam Reaches India (1206 CE) Fourth Crusade (1202–1204) (1202 CE) Third Crusade (1189–1192) (1189 CE) Second Crusade (1147–1149) (1147 CE) Northern Crusades (1147–1290) (1147 CE) The Crusades (1095–1291) (1095 CE) First Crusade (1095–1099) (1095 CE) The Khmer Empire (1095 CE) The Norman Conquest (1066 CE) The Feudal System (1066 CE) The Great Schism — East vs West (1054 CE) Song Dynasty — Commercial Revolution (960 CE) Carolingian Empire — Charlemagne (800 CE) The Viking Age (793 CE) Islamic Caliphates — Arab Empire (632 CE) The Hijra — Muhammad's Migration (622 CE) Tang Dynasty — China's Cultural Golden Age (618 CE) Muhammad Receives First Revelation (610 CE) Birth of Muhammad (570 CE) Justinian's Code (529 CE) Byzantine Empire — Eastern Rome (527 CE) The Middle Ages (500 CE) Rise of Mahayana Buddhism (500 CE) Fall of the Western Roman Empire (476 CE) Jerome Translates the Bible into Latin (382 CE) Council of Nicaea (325 CE) The Biblical Canon Established (325 CE) Gupta Empire — India's Golden Age (320 CE) The Maya Golden Age (250 CE) Book of Revelation Written (95 CE) Destruction of the Second Temple (70 CE) Paul's Missionary Journeys (48 CE) Crucifixion & Resurrection of Jesus (33 CE) Resurrection of Jesus (33 CE) Pentecost — Birth of the Church (33 CE) The Last Supper (30 CE) Sermon on the Mount (28 CE) Baptism of Jesus & Beginning of Ministry (27 CE) Birth of Jesus of Nazareth (4 BCE) Roman Empire at Its Height (27 BCE) Assassination of Julius Caesar (44 BCE) Caesar's Gallic Wars (58 BCE) The Silk Road Opens (130 BCE) Han Dynasty — China's Golden Age (206 BCE) Qin Dynasty — China United (221 BCE) China Unified Under the First Emperor (221 BCE) Parthian / Sasanian Persian Empire (247 BCE) Roman Republic — Rise to Power (264 BCE) The Punic Wars (264 BCE) Emperor Ashoka Spreads Buddhism (273 BCE) Maurya Empire — Indian Subcontinent United (300 BCE) Alexander the Great's Empire (323 BCE) Alexander's Conquests (334 BCE) Peloponnesian War (431–404 BCE) (431 BCE) The Twelve Tables (450 BCE) The Greco-Persian Wars (490 BCE) Classical Greece — Golden Age (500 BCE) Confucius Teaches (500 BCE) Athenian Democracy Born (508 BCE) Second Temple Built (515 BCE) Persian Empire — Achaemenid Dynasty (550 BCE) Birth of the Buddha (563 BCE) Babylonian Captivity (586 BCE) Mahavira and Jainism (599 BCE) Zoroaster Founds Zoroastrianism (600 BCE) First Coined Money (600 BCE) Draconian Law (621 BCE) The Neo-Babylonian Empire (625 BCE) Classical Antiquity (800 BCE) The Assyrian Empire (911 BCE) Solomon Builds the First Temple (970 BCE) The Torah Written (1000 BCE) King David Unites Israel (1010 BCE) The Iron Age (1200 BCE) The Olmec — Mesoamerica's Mother Culture (1200 BCE) Moses Receives the Ten Commandments (1406 BCE) The Exodus — Moses Leads Israel (1446 BCE) The Vedas Composed (1500 BCE) Hittite Empire (1500 BCE) Origins of Hinduism (1500 BCE) Shang Dynasty — Chinese Civilization (1600 BCE) Code of Hammurabi (1754 BCE) Babylonian Empire (1894 BCE) Joseph in Egypt (1900 BCE) Abraham — Father of Monotheism (2000 BCE) Origins of Judaism (2000 BCE) Akkadian Empire — First Empire (2334 BCE) Indus Valley Civilization (2700 BCE) First Trade Networks (3000 BCE) Noah's Ark & The Great Flood (3000 BCE) The Invention of Debt (3000 BCE) The First Trade Routes (3000 BCE) Ancient Egypt Founded (3100 BCE) The Bronze Age (3300 BCE) Norte Chico — Oldest in the Americas (3300 BCE) Sumer — The First Cities (3500 BCE) Adam & Eve — Creation of Humanity (4000 BCE) The Stone Age (3300000 BCE) Artemis Returns Toward the Moon (2026 CE) The Race Toward Advanced AI (2026 CE) Crew Dragon 'Grace' First Flight (2025 CE) AI Agents Go Mainstream (2025 CE) Humanoid Robots Enter Factories (2025 CE) AI Agents Take Action (2025 CE) First Private Spacewalk (2024 CE) Starship Booster Caught at Launch Tower (2024 CE) Spatial Computing Arrives (2024 CE) Starship's First Orbital Test (2023 CE) The Generative AI Boom (2023 CE) ChatGPT Released (2022 CE) First Asteroid Deflection (2022 CE) James Webb Space Telescope Launched (2021 CE) First Flight on Another Planet (2021 CE) The Age of Large Language Models (2021 CE) Crew Dragon Carries Astronauts to ISS (2020 CE) Touching an Asteroid (2020 CE) Renewables Become the Cheapest Power (2020 CE) First Landing on the Moon's Far Side (2019 CE) Diving the Five Oceans' Deepest Points (2019 CE) Touching the Sun (2018 CE) Our Species is Older Than Thought (2017 CE) The Transformer Architecture (2017 CE) TikTok (2016 CE) ByteDance (2016 CE) AI Masters the Game of Go (2016 CE) A New Human Ancestor Found (2015 CE) The Gotthard Base Tunnel (2015 CE) Flyby of Pluto (2015 CE) Landing on a Comet (2014 CE) Voice Assistants in the Home (2014 CE) Zoom (2013 CE) Mobile Internet Usage Surpasses Desktop (2012 CE) Curiosity Rover Lands on Mars (2012 CE) Shopify (2012 CE) Ant Group (2012 CE) Solo Dive to the Mariana Trench (2012 CE) The Deep Learning Revolution (2012 CE) The Shard (2012 CE) The Higgs Boson Found (2012 CE) Snap Inc (2011 CE) Spotify (2011 CE) The Internet of Things (2011 CE) Solar Costs Begin Sharp Decline (2010 CE) Burj Khalifa Opens (2010 CE) Instagram (2010 CE) Slack (2010 CE) 3D Printing Goes Mainstream (2010 CE) The Three Gorges Dam (2010 CE) The Tablet Era (2010 CE) Gene Editing Tools Mature (2010 CE) Uber (2009 CE) Valve Corporation (2009 CE) The Blockchain (2009 CE) SpaceX Falcon 1 Reaches Orbit (2008 CE) Shale Gas Boom Accelerates (2008 CE) 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