| Event | Year |
| Beginning of the Norman Conquest. | |
| Signing of the Magna Carta. | |
| Fall of Constantinople. | |
| Christopher Columbus lands in the Bahamas. | |
| Beginning of the Protestant Reformation. | |
| Fall of the Aztec Empire. | |
| Signing of the U.S. Declaration of Independence. | |
| Beginning of the French Revolution. | |
| Napoleon crowned Emperor of France. | |
| Congress of Vienna. | |
| | Event | Year |
| Slavery is abolished in most of the British Empire. | |
| Sinking of the Titanic. | |
| World War I begins. | |
| The Bolshevik Revolution | |
| The Hindenburg explosion. | |
| World War II begins. | |
| United Nations is formed. | |
| First man on the moon. | |
| Chernobyl nuclear disaster. | |
| Fall of the Berlin Wall. | |
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