Historical Event | Year |
Columbus reaches the Americas | |
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Joan of Arc lifts the siege of Orléans or 500 years before Wall Street crash, beginning Great Depression | |
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Sophocles's 'Oedipus the King' premiered or 2 years before Council of Ephesus | |
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End of the Greco-Persian Wars (B.C.) or 80 years after death of Cyrus the Great (B.C.) | |
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Julius Caesar murdered by Brutus, et al. (B.C.) or a two-digit multiple of 11 | |
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End of the Peloponnesian War (B.C.) or 1400 years before Napoleon crowns himself Emperor of France | |
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Emperors Leo I and Leo II die or 1400 years before Impressionists' first public exhibition in Paris | |
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Odoacer deposes the last Roman Emperor or 1300 years before Adam Smith publishes The Wealth of Nations | |
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First Arab siege of Constantinople begins or a millennium before The Treaty of Westminster | |
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Treaty of Westminster or 18 years before Salem witch trials in Massachusetts | |
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Siege of Leiden ends or 42 years after Pizarro lands at Peru (Battle of Cajamarca) | |
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Siege of Haarlem ends or 9 years before Gregorian Calendar issued by Pope Gregory XIII | |
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Matthew-Tyndale Bible published or 27 years before Galileo Galilei born | |
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Handel's Ariodante and Alcina premiered or 5 years before start of War of the Austrian Succession | |
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Persia becomes Iran or 22 years before Launch of Sputnik 1 | |
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Good King Wenceslas (Vaclav) murdered or 27 years before Otto I crowned Holy Roman Emperor | |
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Babylonian Empire fell to Cyrus the Great (B.C.) or DXXXIX | |
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Hernando de Soto lands at Florida or 6 years after Elizabeth Tudor born & Anne Boleyn becomes Queen of England | |
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Unions of Arras and Utrecht or 9 years after Ivan the Terrible orders massacre of inhabitants of Novgorod | |
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Anglo-Zulu War in South Africa or 10 years before Vincent van Gogh paints Starry Night | |
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Thomas Edison invents the phonograph or 5 years after Yellowstone National Park established | |
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James Cook reaches Hawaiian Islands or 9 years before US Constitution written | |
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Battle of Roncevaux Pass or 22 years before Charlemagne crowned Holy Roman Emperor | |
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First recorded Olympic Games (B.C.) or 23 years before founding of Rome (B.C., trad.) | |
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Independence of USA | |
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