Can you name the 50 Most Important Dates in World History According to the Times Online (UK)? by kangaroo714

Can you name the 50 Most Important Dates in World History According to the Times Online (UK)?

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These dates represent important inventions, births, battles, beginning/end of conflicts, publication of literary works. Accepted answers include people, places, things invented, battles, wars, etc.
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Year	Event
3500 BC
3200 BC
3000 BC
1600 BC
1600 BC
753 BC
670 BC
551 BC
490 BC
486 BC
327 BC
202 BC
27 BC
5 BC
105
280
312
476
570
730
800
1054
1088
1206
1215

Year	Event
1453
1455
1492
1509
1517
1519
1564
1651
1687
1776
1789
1815
1825
1859
1885
1893
1905
1917
1918
1939
1945
1949
1959
1960
1989-1990

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	kangaroo714:	Dec 5th, 2009 at 03:41 GMT		7 points
	I tried my best to include as many possible answers as I could for each date... please let me know if you would like others answers to be accepted

	itisofmyopinion:	Dec 5th, 2009 at 05:05 GMT		5 points
	First of all, I like it and appreciate all the possible answers for each one. Perhaps for 1206 you could accept just "Genghis Khan." I tried that, since most were rather lenient with names, and assumed he just wasn't on the list.

	XCivilWarGhost5X:	Dec 5th, 2009 at 05:07 GMT		6 points
	Perhaps Punic Wars for 'Hannibal defeated by Rome'?

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	jmarshallg:	Dec 5th, 2009 at 06:58 GMT		9 points
	Accept end of cold war for fall of communism? Or fall of USSR/Soviet Union?

	massmic8:	Dec 5th, 2009 at 07:14 GMT		2 points
	I'd say the Treaty of Westphalia creating the modern definition of a state should be up there.

	Timothy:	Dec 5th, 2009 at 09:31 GMT		36 points
	2007: Sporcle founded

	MathijsP:	Dec 5th, 2009 at 10:09 GMT		3 points
	(Universal) Suffrage for the 1893 one.

	hartfan:	Dec 5th, 2009 at 10:14 GMT		20 points
	I'm surprised things such as the invention of the light bulb, the invention of the airplane and the moon landing aren't included. Those are pretty significant events in human history I think.

	chirayu:	Dec 5th, 2009 at 11:09 GMT		-2 points
	I think contraceptive pill does not deserve to be on the list.

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	Massagraf:	Dec 5th, 2009 at 11:42 GMT		9 points
	I never knew Jesus was born in 5 BC...

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	bmo1616:	Dec 5th, 2009 at 12:20 GMT		8 points
	No moon landing?/

	campervana:	Dec 5th, 2009 at 12:55 GMT		9 points
	there are many different spellings of mohammad, i tried at least 4 until i got the one you wanted Muhammed, Muhammad, Mohammed etc

	expat:	Dec 5th, 2009 at 13:09 GMT		7 points
	got deflated and quit when exact wording for many was the only acceptable answer. Very interesting quiz just need some flexibility in the answers IMHO.

	cranberry_sauce:	Dec 5th, 2009 at 14:20 GMT		4 points
	cool idea, but i think it would be better the other way (i mean u give an event and ones supposed to give a date). now its bit hard to guess a particular phrase.

	kehoe66:	Dec 5th, 2009 at 14:31 GMT		3 points
	Darwin's book is "On the Origin of Species," not "The Origin of the Species."

	emn8:	Dec 5th, 2009 at 14:37 GMT		11 points
	Good quiz, but whoever made the list has an interesting idea of what's important and what's not.

	dudemanbearpig:	Dec 5th, 2009 at 15:05 GMT		4 points
	27 BC should go before 5 BC.

	NCBerge:	Dec 5th, 2009 at 15:28 GMT		15 points
	Take "American Declaration of Independence" as well. Also, I think that the most glaring omission is "The first year of the Plague". Aside from killing a lot of people, it almost single handedly brougt on the renaissance, and changed religious thought forever.

	JayHankEdLyon:	Dec 5th, 2009 at 15:30 GMT		6 points
	Contraception revolutionized feminism, fundamentally changing sex roles and allowing for more sexual freedom than ever before, drastically changing the social constructs. Adverb. In any case, the moon landing was a wondrous achievement of science and all that, but how did it really affect us besides being cool? I mean, It crystallized the space race in the same way that the first human in space did, but yeah. In any case, the quiz seems to be getting more and more lenient (which is a good thing) but may I suggest accepting "khan" for Gengis Khan? I mean, "gengis" is already accepted, so why not?

	Danni:	Dec 5th, 2009 at 15:37 GMT		0 points
	1337 - Start of the Hundred Year War 1453 - End of the Hundred Year War

	Strattosphere:	Dec 5th, 2009 at 15:40 GMT		5 points
	What about the Plague? I think thats way more important than the first contraceptive pill

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	Laura :	Dec 5th, 2009 at 16:16 GMT		2 points
	I don't think this really works for Sporcle. I liked the idea someone else gave of mentioning the event and we give the date. I think you should accept Invasion of Poland for 1939. I also agree that contraception shouldn't be on there. It's important but not when compared to the other items. I was surprised it stopped at 89, missing Persian Gulf War and 9/11.

	cardfan:	Dec 5th, 2009 at 16:19 GMT		3 points
	I certainly think the Peace of Westphalia should be on the list. It's the origin of the international law system and the concept of sovereignty that exists today.

	mungar:	Dec 5th, 2009 at 17:25 GMT		6 points
	@JC3: You honestly consider 9/11 one of the 50 most important dates in world history? Maybe 50 most important of this decade, but in world history? Be realistic.

	JohnJF:	Dec 5th, 2009 at 17:34 GMT		8 points
	9/11 had a massive impact on the US but it was a much smaller effect on the rest of the world. If this was top US moments, for sure in the top 50, but in terms of US events, it doesn't have nearly the ripple effect of the Declaration of Independence.

	adamnvillani:	Dec 5th, 2009 at 17:43 GMT		17 points
	I think it's odd how they took the dates of birth for the religious figures on the list. Wouldn't the Buddha's enlightenment, Muhammad's prophecies, and Jesus's crucifixion have made more sense? Anyway, not a problem with the quiz-maker, just the original list-maker.

	pottedstu:	Dec 5th, 2009 at 17:45 GMT		-2 points
	I think it would be interesting to guess the dates (without clues) so you just had to type in your favourite years. Although some of the dates are rather approximate so maybe that wouldn't work.

	greebles:	Dec 5th, 2009 at 18:27 GMT		3 points
	I can imagine this took ages to make, well done! Good quiz!

	NinedenLtD:	Dec 5th, 2009 at 18:32 GMT		0 points
	Well done. I would suggest that maybe there should be an inclusion of some date relating to the Transatlantic slave trade. Either 1514, the year of the voyage of the first slave ship across the Atlantic, or 1808, the year the UK outlawed the slave trade. The justification is pretty simple, it is the greatest migration in the history of the world and has an on-going impact on North and South America as well as West and Central Africa.

	BeatNavy:	Dec 5th, 2009 at 19:18 GMT		2 points
	good quiz, you obviously worked hard on it.

	DonnyB:	Dec 5th, 2009 at 19:24 GMT		3 points
	"birth of Christ" should be accepted. Interesting quiz.

	adzaho31:	Dec 5th, 2009 at 19:26 GMT		2 points
	great quiz, but can you accept "95 theses?"

	Stewart:	Dec 5th, 2009 at 19:31 GMT		2 points
	I tried typing 'birth of christ' but either it's not an accepted variant or I mistyped. I also tried 'founding of greece' and 'founding of athens' which one could argue are not quite the same as the 'beginning of greek civilization', I suppose. Great idea but tricky in execution.

	brianmcp:	Dec 5th, 2009 at 19:32 GMT		2 points
	Some of the other answers were lenient so how about "American revolution" for the declaration of independence.

	joewhitey:	Dec 5th, 2009 at 19:39 GMT		1 point
	Very well done. These are hard quizes b/c of so many alternative answers, but you did this better than most. How about steam engine for "First Steam Locomotive Built"