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

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