Event | Year |
The Iranian Revolution ended and Ayatollah Khomeini assumed power | |
Northern Han fell to Song Dynasty forces, which helped to unify China | |
Mount Vesuvius erupted, and buried the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum | |
Agrippina the Younger was murdered on the orders of her son Nero | |
Claudius, the Emperor of the Roman Empire, died | |
The Great Schism split the Catholic and Orthodox Churches into East and West | |
The Supernova Crab nebula was last seen by the naked eye | |
The Normans invaded the British Isles and won the Battle of Hastings | |
The Great Fire of London ravaged the city and destroyed 80% of London | |
King Charles II affirmed the charter of the Royal African Company | |
The Emancipation Proclamation was issued by Abraham Lincoln and freed slaves in the US | |
Robert Bunsen and Gustav Kirchhoff discovered the element cesium | |
Samuel Morse patented his electrical telegraph | |
Winston Churchill first became the prime minister of the United Kingdom | |
The first version of The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank was published in the Netherlands | |
The first satellite Sputnik was launched into space | |
Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary completed the first official ascent of Everest | |
Species Plantarum by Carolus Linnaeus was published, which detailed plant taxonomy | |
George Frideric Handel was buried in Westminster Abbey, London | |
The French Revolution began with the storming of the Bastille | |
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