Constantine and Licinius issue the Edict of Milan decriminalizing Christian worship
Justinian I Becomes Byzantine Emperor
Muhammad Leaves Mecca
Coronation of Charlemagne
Norman Invasion of England
Pope Urban II Calls for the First Crusade
Magna Carta is Signed
Marco Polo Begins Travels to Asia
Bubonic Plague (Black Death) Starts to Spread in Europe
Johannes Gutenberg Invents Printing Press
Columbus Reaches the New World
Martin Luther Initiates Reformation
Magellan’s Expedition Circumnavigates the Globe
Copernicus Postulates a Heliocentric Universe
Pope Gregory XIII Reforms Calendar
Thirty Years’ War Breaks Out
Newton Publishes His Theory of Universal Gravitation
James Hargreaves builds first model of the Spinning Jenny, a key early advance during the 'Industrial Revolution'
Watt Patents First Practical Steam Engine
U.S. Declaration of Independence & Adam Smith Publishes “Wealth of Nations”
The French Revolution Begins
Simon Bolívar Defeats Spanish Forces at Boyacá
Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton found the National Woman Suffrage Association
Alexander Graham Bell Patents the Telephone
Thomas Edison Invents Electric Light
New Zealand Becomes First Country to Grant Women the Vote
The Wright Brothers Fly First Motorized Airplane
Einstein Announces His Theory of Relativity
World War I Begins
Lenin Leads the Bolshevik Revolution
Alexander Fleming Discovers Penicillin
Stock Market Crash Precipitates Great Depression
Mohandas Gandhi Begins a Defiant March to the Sea in Protest of the British Monopoly on Salt
Hitler's forces invade Poland
Churchill’s “Iron Curtain” Speech Marks the Beginning of the Cold War
Communist Victory in China under Mao Zedong
Rosa Parks stands up by sitting down in a bus in Montgomery, Alabama
First Satellite, Sputnik I, Launched
Apollo 11 Lands on the Moon
Apple II is introduced, helping to bring home computing to public awareness
Fall of the Berlin Wall
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