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776 BCFirst known Ancient Olympics Games
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753 BCFoundation of Rome
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July 356 BCBirth of Alexander the Great
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15 March 44 BCJulius Caesar's Assassination
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476 ADFall of the Western Roman Empire
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25 December 800 ADCrowning of Charlemagne
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14 October 1066Battle of Hastings
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15 June 1215Signing of the Magna Carta
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Mansa Musa begins his hajj
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1440Invention of the Printing Press by Gutenberg
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12 October 1492Discovery of the Americas by Columbus
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1492Columbian Exchange Begins
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31 October 1517Start of the Protestant Reformation
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1633Galileo's Defence of the Heliocentric Theory
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1688The Glorious Revolution in England
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1775American Revolution Begins
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4 July 1776American Declaration of Independence
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1789French Revolution
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1789French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
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1791The Haitian Revolution Begins
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1803Louisiana Purchase finalized
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1804Napoleon Declares himself Emperor
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1815Battle of New Orleans
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1819Gran Colombia is declared
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1837Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine Invented
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September 9, 1850California becomes a state
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October 8, 1856Second Opium War Begins
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1859John Brown's Raid at Harper's Ferry
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1864War of the Triple Alliance begins
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1865Abolition of Slavery in the US
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1869First US Transcontinental Railroad completed
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1876Invention of the Telephone by Alexander Graham Bell
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1890Massacre at Wounded Knee
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1897Start of the German-British Naval Arms Race
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1897Anglo-Zulu War
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February 15, 1898Sinking of the USS Maine
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1899The Boxer Rebellion Begins
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The Boxer Rebellion Ends
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September 6, 1901President William McKinley is Assassinated
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1903Panama formally gains independence from Colombia
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1903Wright Brothers' First Powered Flight
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1904Invention of the Vacuum Tube
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1912German-British Naval Arms Race ends
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28 July 1914Start of World War I
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1916First Mechanized Tank Deployed on the Battlefield
during World War I
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1920Women's Suffrage in the United States (19th Amendment)
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1929Stock Market Crash Black Thursday
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March 1939Nazi Germany occupied Czechoslovakia
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1 September 1939Start of World War II
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1945Formation of the United Nations
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30 January 1948Mahatma Gandhi Dies
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1954The original Godzilla film debuts
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1954The Lord of the Rings is published
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1964Civil Rights Act in the United States
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20 July 1969First Man on the Moon
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30 January 1972Bloody Sunday
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1982Canada becomes fully independent (The Canada Act)
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9 November 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall
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1991Fall of the Soviet Union
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10 May 1994Nelson Mandela becomes President of South Africa
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11 September 20019/11 Terrorist Attacks
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2003Human Genome Project Completed
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2007Invention of the iPhone
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4 November 2008Election of the First African American US President
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2015Paris Agreement on Climate Change
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11 March 2020COVID-19 Pandemic Declared by WHO