| Events | Year |
|---|
| New Horizons visits Pluto; Justin Trudeau becomes Canadian PM | |
| Cnut the Great invades England; Vladimir the Great dies | |
| Creation of the Magna Carta; Gengis Khan captures Beijing | |
| Marco Polo returns from his travels to China; King Edward I summons the Model Parliament to Westminster | |
| 11th amendment to the US Constitution passes; 24-year-old Beethoven's first public performance in Vienna | |
| First French Republic proclaimed; Construction begins on the White House | |
| Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia dissolves; Mae Jemison becomes first African-American woman in space | |
| Oklahoma City bombing; Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin | |
| Einstein publishes the Theory of General Relativity; Babe Ruth hits first home-run for the Boston Red Sox | |
| Roald Amundsen reaches the South Pole; Marie Curie awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry | |
| Boxing's 'Fight of the Century': Frazier beats Ali; Idi Amin becomes President of Uganda | |
| Creation of the Paris Commune; Stanley finds Livingstone | |
| John Tyler sworn in as US President; Coronation of Pedro II of Brazil | |
| First electrical telegram ('What hath God wrought?') sent by Samuel Morse; Emily Brontë's 'A Death-Scene' published | |
| Normandy landings on D-Day; Casablanca wins Best Picture at the Academy Awards | |
| First underground line of the New York Subway opens; US begins work at Panama Canal | |
| Henry II crowned King of Italy; Erik the Red dies | |
| Facebook launches; 10 countries join the EU | |
| Russia annexes Crimea; Malala Yousafzai becomes the youngest-ever Nobel Prize laureate | |
| Rio de Janeiro Summer Olympics; Juno arrives at Jupiter | |
