🌍 World History Timeline

50 key events in world history with dates, from ancient to modern (English)

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When did Sumerian (Mesopotamian) civilization begin?c. 3500 BC
When was cuneiform, the first writing system, first used?c. 3200 BC
When was the Great Pyramid of Giza built?c. 2560 BC
When was the Code of Hammurabi written?c. 1750 BC
When was the Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama) born?c. 563 BC
When did Confucius live?551–479 BC
When was the Battle of Marathon?490 BC
When did Alexander the Great begin his eastern campaign?334 BC
When did the Hellenistic era begin (after Alexander's death)?323 BC
When did Qin Shi Huang unify China?221 BC
When did Rome become an empire (Augustus)?27 BC
When was the Roman Empire split into East and West?AD 395
When did the Western Roman Empire fall?AD 476
When was Islam founded (Muhammad's Hijra)?AD 622
When was Charlemagne crowned emperor?AD 800
When did the First Crusade begin?1096
When did Genghis Khan found the Mongol Empire?1206
When was England's Magna Carta signed?1215
When did the Black Death sweep Europe?1347–1351
When did Gutenberg invent movable-type printing?c. 1450
When did Columbus reach the Americas?1492
When did Vasco da Gama open the sea route to India?1498
When did Luther start the Protestant Reformation?1517
When did Newton publish the Principia (gravity)?1687
When did the British Industrial Revolution take off?from the 1760s
When did the United States declare independence?1776
When did the French Revolution begin?1789
When did Napoleon crown himself emperor?1804
When was Napoleon defeated at Waterloo?1815
When did Darwin publish On the Origin of Species?1859
When was the American Civil War?1861–1865
When did Lincoln issue the Emancipation Proclamation?1863
When did the Wright brothers make the first powered flight?1903
When did Einstein publish special relativity?1905
When was World War I?1914–1918
When was the Russian Revolution?1917
When did the Great Depression begin?1929
When was World War II?1939–1945
When were atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?1945
When was the United Nations founded?1945
When was the State of Israel established?1948
When was the first satellite, Sputnik, launched?1957
When did humans first land on the Moon (Apollo 11)?1969
When did the Berlin Wall fall?1989
When did the Soviet Union dissolve?1991
When was the World Wide Web released to the public?1991
When was the European Union established?1993
When did the 9/11 attacks occur?2001
When was the first iPhone released?2007
When did the WHO declare the COVID-19 pandemic?2020

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