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World History: Key Dates
When major events happened around the world, from ancient times to today.
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- Sumerian cities appearEventAbout 3500 BCE
- Egypt unified under the first pharaohEventAbout 3100 BCE
- Great Pyramid of Giza builtEventAbout 2560 BCE
- Code of HammurabiEventAbout 1754 BCE
- Tutankhamun rules EgyptEventAbout 1332-1323 BCE
- First Olympic Games (traditional date)Event776 BCE
- Rome founded (traditional date)Event753 BCE
- Rome becomes a republicEvent509 BCE
- Athens develops democracyEventAbout 508 BCE
- Battle of MarathonEvent490 BCE
- Parthenon builtEvent447-432 BCE
- Alexander the Great's reignEvent336-323 BCE
- Qin unifies ChinaEvent221 BCE
- Han Dynasty beginsEvent206 BCE
- Julius Caesar assassinatedEvent44 BCE
- Augustus becomes first Roman emperorEvent27 BCE
- Vesuvius buries PompeiiEvent79 CE
- Constantine legalizes ChristianityEvent313 CE
- Western Roman Empire endsEvent476 CE
- Muhammad's migration to Medina (Hijra)Event622 CE
- Charlemagne crowned emperorEvent800 CE
- Norman conquest of EnglandEvent1066
- First Crusade beginsEvent1096
- Magna CartaEvent1215
- Genghis Khan unites the MongolsEvent1206
- Mansa Musa's pilgrimageEvent1324
- Black Death in EuropeEvent1347-1351
- Joan of Arc at OrleansEvent1429
- Printing press in EuropeEventAbout 1450
- Fall of ConstantinopleEvent1453
- Columbus reaches the AmericasEvent1492
- Vasco da Gama reaches IndiaEvent1498
- Luther's 95 ThesesEvent1517
- Cortes conquers the AztecEvent1521
- Magellan's fleet circles the globeEvent1519-1522
- Spanish Armada defeatedEvent1588
- Shakespeare's lifeEvent1564-1616
- Taj Mahal begunEvent1632
- Newton's PrincipiaEvent1687
- Glorious RevolutionEvent1688
- American RevolutionEvent1775-1783
- French Revolution beginsEvent1789
- Haiti becomes independentEvent1804
- Napoleon defeated at WaterlooEvent1815
- Latin American independence warsEvent1810s-1820s
- Revolutions of 1848Event1848
- Meiji Restoration in JapanEvent1868
- Unification of GermanyEvent1871
- Scramble for Africa beginsEvent1880s
- World War IEvent1914-1918
- Russian RevolutionEvent1917
- Great Depression beginsEvent1929
- World War IIEvent1939-1945
- Indian independenceEvent1947
- People's Republic of China foundedEvent1949
- Sputnik launchedEvent1957
- Most African countries gain independenceEvent1950s-1960s
- Berlin Wall builtEvent1961
- Berlin Wall fallsEvent1989
- Soviet Union endsEvent1991
- End of apartheid and Mandela electedEvent1994
- Euro introducedEvent1999 (coins and notes in 2002)
- First iPhone releasedEvent2007
- Roman Republic endsEvent27 BCE
- Inca Empire falls to SpainEvent1532-1533
- Mongol Empire reaches ChinaEvent1271 (Yuan Dynasty)
- Ming Dynasty foundedEvent1368
- Mughal Empire foundedEvent1526
- Ottoman Empire foundedEventAbout 1299
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