Do You Know History's Most Important Dates?

1066

William the Conqueror wins the Battle of Hastings

The Magna Carta is written.

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476

The Fall of Rome.

Constantinople is founded.

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1914

The U.S. declares war on Vietnam.

World War I begins.

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1492

Colombus sets sail for the New World.

Ferdinand Magellan circumnavigates the earth.

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1620

William Shakespeare is born.

The Mayflower sets sail from England for Cape Cod.

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1861

The Republican party is founded.

The American Civil War begins.

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1940

Winston Churchill takes office as Prime Minister of Britain

World War I ends.

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1917

Vladmir Lenin starts the Bolshevik Revolution.

Mao Zedong becomes leader of China.

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1789

American declares independence from Britain.

The US. Constitution is created.

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1517

John Huss is burned at the stake for heresy.

Martin Luther pens his 95 thesis, sparking the Protestant Reformation.

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1865

Abraham Lincoln is elected president of the United States.

Slavery is abolished in the United States.

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1945

The Great Depression begins.

World War II ends.

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August 18, 1920

Workhouses are formally abolished in the United States.

Women win the right to vote in the United States.

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1903

The first steam-powered engine is invented.

The Wright Brothers invent the airplane.

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1990

Apple releases the first laptop.

The world wide web is invented.

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November 22, 1963

John F. Kennedy is assassinated.

The Vietnam War ends.

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1916

Newton publishes his theory of gravity.

Einstein publishes his theory of relativity.

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1859

Sigmund Freud begins his practice.

Charles Darwin publishes his "On the Origin of Species"

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1440

Gutenberg invents his movable-type printing press.

King James I creates his translation of the Bible.

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1879

Thomas Edison invents the electric light bulb.

The first gas-powered automobile is invented.

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1934

Hitler becomes leader of Germany.

The Nazi party is founded.

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1815

Napoleon is defeated at Waterloo.

The French Revolution begins.

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490 BC

Greece defeats Persia at the Battle of Marathon.

The Roman Empire is founded.

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776 BC

The Minoan civilization is founded on Crete.

The first Olympic games are held in Olympia, Greece.

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1929

Wall Street crashes, launching the United States into the Great Depression.

Hitler invades Poland.

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1833

King George III becomes ruler of England.

Slavery is abolished throughout the British Empire.

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44 BC

Julius Caesar is assassinated.

Nero burns Rome.

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1939

Hitler invades Poland, starting World War II.

The Soviet Union dissolves.

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1948

Israel becomes a sovereign nation.

Communism ends in Europe.

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7500 BC

Humans first arrive in the Americas.

The first cities are founded in Mesopotamia.

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1964

The Civil Rights Act abolishes discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.

Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated.

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1994

The Apartheid ends in South Africa.

The Iran-Iraq war begins.

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1947

India gains independence from Britain.

Mahatma Gandhi is born.

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1954

Brown v. Board of Education declares segregation in American schools unconstitutional.

Neil Armstrong becomes the first man to walk on the moon.

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1957

The Hindenburg Disaster strikes.

Sputnik 1 becomes the world's first satellite.

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1989

The Berlin Wall is torn down.

China becomes a communist state.

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April 15, 1912

The Titanic sinks.

Nikola Tesla invents his Tesla Coil.

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1215

The Magna Carta is drafted as the first constitution in history.

The Republic of Ireland is founded.

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1225

The Great Wall of China is completed.

Genghis Khan creates the world's largest land-based Empire.

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1686

King Henry VIII forms the Church of England.

Isaac Newton publishes his book, "Principia".

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1945

Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes president of the United States.

The first atom bomb is successfully tested.

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3200 BC

Writing is invented.

Athens becomes the first democracy.

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1666

The Great Fire of London.

The Great Fire of Rome.

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1961

Martin Luther King Jr. gives his "I Have a Dream" speech.

Birth control becomes available on the NHS for the first time.

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1949

The Korean War begins.

Mao Zedong declares himself head of the People's Republic of China.

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570

The Taj Mahal is built.

The Birth of Muhammad.

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1961

The first silicon chip is invented.

The telephone is invented.

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356 BC

Homer writes "The Illiad".

Alexander the Great is born.

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3500 BC

Humans learn to farm.

The wheel is invented.

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1564

Chaucer writes his "Canterbury Tales".

William Shakespeare is born.

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1876

The Trans-continental Railroad is finished.

Invention of the telephone.

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3000 BC

Work on the Great Wall of China begins.

The Great Pyramid is completed.

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5 BC - 3 AD

The Birth of Christ.

Plato founds his School of Thought.

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6000 BC

Humans create the first tools.

Humans discover fire.

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1980

The Gulf War ends.

The Iran-Iraq War begins.

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1999

The World Trade Center is attacked by terrorists.

ISIL is founded.

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1821

Napoleon invades Russia.

Mexico declares independence from Spain.

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313

Socrates commits suicide at the command of the Athenian council.

Emperor Constantine legalizes the practice of Christianity.

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1760

The Industrial Revolution begins.

Coffee is first brought to Europe.

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1519

Leonardo da Vinci paints the "Mona Lisa".

Ferdinand Magellan circumnavigates the Earth.

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1989.

The first cell phones are invented.

Apple releases the first portable computer.

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1346-1353

The Black Death sweeps through Europe.

The Protestant Reformation begins.

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1271

Oda Nobunaga unites Japan.

Marco Polo makes his first journey to China.

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1510

Martin Luther is excommunicated from the Catholic Church.

Copernicus develops his heliocentric model of the Universe.

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1928

Alexander Fleming creates the first antibiotics.

Niels Bohr receives the Nobel Prize for his Atomic Theory.

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