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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