100 Most Significant Events in Last 1000 Years
The 100 Most Significant Events of the Last Thousand Years
1. 1066—Norman Conquest of Britain
2. 1095—Pope Urban II calls for the Crusades
3. 1100s—Angkor Wat is built
4. 1206—Genghis Khan begins creation of largest land empire in history
5. 1215—Magna Carta signed
6. 1260—Chartres Cathedral consecrated
7. 1271—Marco Polo begins travels to Asia
8. 1273—Thomas Aquinas's Summa theological
9. 1300s—Renaissance begins in Italy
10. 1347—Bubonic plague (Black Death) spreads in Europe
11. 1387—Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
12. 1399—Tamerlane begins last great conquest
13. 1438—Incan Empire formed in Peru
14. 1455—Gutenberg's movable-type printing press produces the Bible
15. 1492—Columbus reaches the New World
16. 1509—Michelangelo begins painting Sistine Chapel
17. 1513—Machiavelli's The Prince
18. 1517—Martin Luther initiates Reformation
19. 1519—Aztec Empire at height as Spanish arrive
20. 1520—Suleiman I “the Magnificent” presides over the Ottoman Empire's greatest period
21. 1522—Magellan's expedition circumnavigates the globe
22. 1543—Copernicus postulates a heliocentric universe
23. 1582—Pope Gregory XIII reforms calendar
24. 1603—Shakespeare's Hamlet
25. 1605—Cervantes's Don Quixote, first modern novel
26. 1609—Galileo makes first astronomical observations with a telescope
27. 1637—Descartes publishes Discours de la méthode
28. 1643—Taj Mahal completed
29. 1664—Newton's theory of universal gravitation
30. 1667—Milton's Paradise Lost
31. 1684—Leibniz's calculus published
32. 1690—Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding
33. 1721—Bach completes the Brandenburg Concertos
34. 1755—Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language
35. 1760—Industrial Revolution begins in England
36. 1762—Rousseau's The Social Contract
37. 1764—Mozart (aged eight) writes first symphony
38. 1769—Watt patents first practical steam engine
39. 1776—U.S. Declaration of Independence;
40. 1776—Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations
41. 1787—U.S. Constitution signed
42. 1789—French Revolution begins
43. 1792—Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman
44. 1796—Jenner discovers smallpox vaccine
45. 1808—Beethoven's Fifth Symphony
46. 1815—Battle of Waterloo crushes Napoleon
47. 1819—Bolívar defeats Spanish forces at Boyacá
48. 1826—Niepce takes first photograph
49. 1833—Slavery abolished in British Empire
50. 1842—Long uses first anesthetic (ether)
51. 1859—Darwin's On the Origin of Species;
52. 1859—Lenoir builds first practical internal-combustion engine
53. 1862—Pasteur's experiments lead to germ theory;
54. 1862—Salon des Refusés introduces impressionism
55. 1867—Japan ends 675-year shogun rule
56. 1876—Bell patents the telephone
57. 1879—Edison invents electric light
58. 1880s—Europe colonizes African continent
59. 1885—World's first skyscraper built in Chicago
60. 1893—New Zealand becomes first country in the world to grant women the vote
61. 1895—Lumiére brothers introduce motion pictures;
62.1895— Marconi sends first radio signals
63. 1897—Herzl launches Zionist movement
64. 1900—Freud's Interpretation of Dreams
65. 1903—Wright brothers fly first motorized airplane
66. 1905—Einstein announces theory of relativity
67. 1907—Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon introduces cubism
68. 1911—Rutherford discovers structure of atom
69. 1913—Ford develops first moving assembly line
70. 1914—World War I begins
71. 1916—Sanger founds international birth control movement
72. 1917—Lenin leads the Bolshevik Revolution
73. 1918—Global “Spanish flu” epidemic
74. 1922—Joyce's Ulysses published
75. 1927—Farnsworth demonstrates working model of a television;
76. 1927—Lemaitre proposes big bang theory
77. 1928—Fleming discovers penicillin
78. 1929—Hubble proposes theory of expanding universe;
79. 1929—U.S. stock market crash precipitates global depression
80. 1936—Keynes's The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money
81. 1939—Hitler invades Poland; World War II begins
82. 1942—Nazi leaders at Wannsee Conference coordinate “final solution to the Jewish question”
83. 1945—Atomic bombs are dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki;
84.1945—first electronic computer, ENIAC, is built;
85. 1945— Arab League launches modern pan-Arabism
86. 1946—First meeting of U.N. General Assembly;
87. 1946— Churchill's “Iron Curtain” speech marks beginning of cold war
88. 1947—Gandhi's civil disobedience movement leads to an independent India
89. 1949—Communist victory in China under Mao Zedong
90. 1950s—Abstract expressionism introduced
91. 1953—Watson, Crick, and Franklin discover DNA's structure
92. 1954—Brown v. Board of Education begins unraveling of U.S. racial segregation
93. 1957—Russia launches first satellite, Sputnik I
94. 1959—Mary and Louis Leakey uncover hominid fossils
95. 1969—Armstrong and Aldrin walk on the Moon;
96.1969— Internet (ARPA) goes online
97. 1980—Smallpox eradicated
98. 1981—Scientists identify AIDS
99. 1989—Fall of Communism in Eastern Europe
100. 1991—Breakup of Soviet Union; apartheid ends in South Africa
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