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Sumerian cities appear	About 3500 BCE		world-history-key-dates
Egypt unified under the first pharaoh	About 3100 BCE		world-history-key-dates
Great Pyramid of Giza built	About 2560 BCE		world-history-key-dates
Code of Hammurabi	About 1754 BCE		world-history-key-dates
Tutankhamun rules Egypt	About 1332-1323 BCE		world-history-key-dates
First Olympic Games (traditional date)	776 BCE		world-history-key-dates
Rome founded (traditional date)	753 BCE		world-history-key-dates
Rome becomes a republic	509 BCE		world-history-key-dates
Athens develops democracy	About 508 BCE		world-history-key-dates
Battle of Marathon	490 BCE		world-history-key-dates
Parthenon built	447-432 BCE		world-history-key-dates
Alexander the Great's reign	336-323 BCE		world-history-key-dates
Qin unifies China	221 BCE		world-history-key-dates
Han Dynasty begins	206 BCE		world-history-key-dates
Julius Caesar assassinated	44 BCE		world-history-key-dates
Augustus becomes first Roman emperor	27 BCE		world-history-key-dates
Vesuvius buries Pompeii	79 CE		world-history-key-dates
Constantine legalizes Christianity	313 CE		world-history-key-dates
Western Roman Empire ends	476 CE		world-history-key-dates
Muhammad's migration to Medina (Hijra)	622 CE		world-history-key-dates
Charlemagne crowned emperor	800 CE		world-history-key-dates
Norman conquest of England	1066		world-history-key-dates
First Crusade begins	1096		world-history-key-dates
Magna Carta	1215		world-history-key-dates
Genghis Khan unites the Mongols	1206		world-history-key-dates
Mansa Musa's pilgrimage	1324		world-history-key-dates
Black Death in Europe	1347-1351		world-history-key-dates
Joan of Arc at Orleans	1429		world-history-key-dates
Printing press in Europe	About 1450		world-history-key-dates
Fall of Constantinople	1453		world-history-key-dates
Columbus reaches the Americas	1492		world-history-key-dates
Vasco da Gama reaches India	1498		world-history-key-dates
Luther's 95 Theses	1517		world-history-key-dates
Cortes conquers the Aztec	1521		world-history-key-dates
Magellan's fleet circles the globe	1519-1522		world-history-key-dates
Spanish Armada defeated	1588		world-history-key-dates
Shakespeare's life	1564-1616		world-history-key-dates
Taj Mahal begun	1632		world-history-key-dates
Newton's Principia	1687		world-history-key-dates
Glorious Revolution	1688		world-history-key-dates
American Revolution	1775-1783		world-history-key-dates
French Revolution begins	1789		world-history-key-dates
Haiti becomes independent	1804		world-history-key-dates
Napoleon defeated at Waterloo	1815		world-history-key-dates
Latin American independence wars	1810s-1820s		world-history-key-dates
Revolutions of 1848	1848		world-history-key-dates
Meiji Restoration in Japan	1868		world-history-key-dates
Unification of Germany	1871		world-history-key-dates
Scramble for Africa begins	1880s		world-history-key-dates
World War I	1914-1918		world-history-key-dates
Russian Revolution	1917		world-history-key-dates
Great Depression begins	1929		world-history-key-dates
World War II	1939-1945		world-history-key-dates
Indian independence	1947		world-history-key-dates
People's Republic of China founded	1949		world-history-key-dates
Sputnik launched	1957		world-history-key-dates
Most African countries gain independence	1950s-1960s		world-history-key-dates
Berlin Wall built	1961		world-history-key-dates
Berlin Wall falls	1989		world-history-key-dates
Soviet Union ends	1991		world-history-key-dates
End of apartheid and Mandela elected	1994		world-history-key-dates
Euro introduced	1999 (coins and notes in 2002)		world-history-key-dates
First iPhone released	2007		world-history-key-dates
Roman Republic ends	27 BCE		world-history-key-dates
Inca Empire falls to Spain	1532-1533		world-history-key-dates
Mongol Empire reaches China	1271 (Yuan Dynasty)		world-history-key-dates
Ming Dynasty founded	1368		world-history-key-dates
Mughal Empire founded	1526		world-history-key-dates
Ottoman Empire founded	About 1299		world-history-key-dates