First Stone Tools in Tanzania
2600000 BCE • africa
Discovery of Fire
400000 BCE • africa
Cave Paintings at Lascaux
15000 BCE • europe
Agricultural Revolution
10000 BCE • middle_east
Invention of the Wheel
3500 BCE • middle_east
Construction of the Great Pyramid
2560 BCE • africa
Code of Hammurabi
1754 BCE • middle_east
Trojan War
1194 BCE • europe
Founding of Rome
753 BCE • europe
Founding of Rome
753 BCE • europe
Buddha's Enlightenment
528 BCE • asia
Battle of Marathon
490 BCE • europe
Golden Age of Athens
461 BCE • europe
Alexander's Conquests
334 BCE • asia
Roman Republic Unifies Italy
272 BCE • europe
First Punic War — Sicily Taken
241 BCE • europe
Qin Dynasty Unifies China
221 BCE • asia
Scipio Defeats Hannibal at Zama
202 BCE • africa
Conquest of Greece
146 BCE • europe
Caesar Conquers Gaul
52 BCE • europe
Julius Caesar Crosses the Rubicon
49 BCE • europe
Conquest of Egypt
30 BCE • africa
Augustus Founds the Roman Empire
27 BCE • europe
Birth of Jesus Christ
1 CE • middle_east
Claudius Conquers Britain
43 CE • europe
Trajan Conquers Dacia
106 CE • europe
Roman Empire at Greatest Extent
117 CE • europe
Fall of the Western Roman Empire
476 CE • europe
Muhammad's Flight to Medina
622 CE • middle_east
Charlemagne Crowned Emperor
800 CE • europe
Norman Conquest of England
1066 CE • europe
First Crusade
1096 CE • middle_east
Mongol Conquests
1206 CE • asia
Magna Carta Signed
1215 CE • europe
Bursa — First Ottoman Capital
1326 CE • middle_east
Hundred Years' War
1337 CE • europe
Black Death Pandemic
1347 CE • europe
Gallipoli — Ottomans Cross into Europe
1354 CE • europe
Edirne (Adrianople) Becomes Capital
1369 CE • europe
Battle of Kosovo
1389 CE • europe
Florence: Cradle of the Renaissance
1400 CE • europe
Prince Henry the Navigator Sponsors Exploration
1419 CE • europe
Gutenberg's Printing Press
1440 CE • europe
Venice: Republic of Arts and Trade
1450 CE • europe
Fall of Constantinople
1453 CE • europe
Fall of Constantinople
1453 CE • europe
Milan: Leonardo's Workshop
1482 CE • europe
Bartolomeu Dias Rounds Cape of Good Hope
1488 CE • africa
Columbus Reaches the Caribbean
1492 CE • americas
Columbus Reaches Americas
1492 CE • americas
Treaty of Tordesillas Divides the World
1494 CE • europe
Vasco da Gama Reaches India
1498 CE • asia
Columbus's Third Voyage — South American Mainland
1498 CE • americas
Amerigo Vespucci Names the New World
1502 CE • americas
Rome: St. Peter's Basilica Construction
1506 CE • europe
Erasmus and the Northern Renaissance
1509 CE • europe
Portuguese Establish Trade Posts in India and Southeast Asia
1510 CE • asia
Michelangelo Paints Sistine Chapel
1512 CE • europe
Protestant Reformation
1517 CE • europe
Conquest of Egypt — Selim I
1517 CE • africa
French Renaissance: Château de Chambord
1519 CE • europe
Magellan-Elcano Circumnavigation Begins
1519 CE • europe
Cortés Conquers the Aztec Empire
1521 CE • americas
Atlantic Slave Trade Begins
1526 CE • africa
Battle of Mohács — Hungary Falls
1526 CE • europe
Siege of Vienna — Westernmost Advance
1529 CE • europe
Pizarro Conquers the Inca Empire
1532 CE • americas
Copernicus: Heliocentric Revolution
1543 CE • europe
Suleiman the Magnificent — Golden Age
1550 CE • middle_east
Spanish Armada Defeated
1588 CE • europe
Shakespeare's Globe Theatre
1599 CE • europe
English Civil War
1642 CE • europe
Peace of Westphalia
1648 CE • europe
Second Siege of Vienna — Peak and Turning Point
1683 CE • europe
Glorious Revolution
1688 CE • europe
Industrial Revolution
1760 CE • europe
American Revolution Begins
1776 CE • americas
French Revolution
1789 CE • europe
Napoleon's Coronation
1804 CE • europe
Latin American Independence
1810 CE • americas
Congress of Vienna
1815 CE • europe
American Civil War
1861 CE • americas
Unification of Italy
1861 CE • europe
Meiji Restoration
1868 CE • asia
German Unification
1871 CE • europe
Scramble for Africa
1884 CE • africa
Wright Brothers' First Flight
1903 CE • americas
World War I Begins
1914 CE • europe
Russian Revolution
1917 CE • europe
Treaty of Versailles
1919 CE • europe
Great Depression Begins
1929 CE • americas
World War II Begins
1939 CE • europe
Pearl Harbor Attack
1941 CE • americas
D-Day Invasion
1944 CE • europe
Atomic Bombs Dropped
1945 CE • asia
United Nations Founded
1945 CE • americas
Cold War Begins
1947 CE • europe
Indian Independence
1947 CE • asia
Berlin Airlift
1948 CE • europe
Chinese Communist Revolution
1949 CE • asia
Korean War
1950 CE • asia
Cuban Missile Crisis
1962 CE • americas
Vietnam War Escalates
1965 CE • asia
Moon Landing
1969 CE • americas
Fall of Saigon
1975 CE • asia
Berlin Wall Falls
1989 CE • europe
Soviet Union Dissolves
1991 CE • europe
September 11 Attacks
2001 CE • americas
Iraq War Begins
2003 CE • middle_east
Arab Spring
2011 CE • middle_east
Syrian Civil War
2011 CE • middle_east
Brexit Vote
2016 CE • europe
COVID-19 Pandemic
2020 CE • asia
Russian Invasion of Ukraine
2022 CE • europe
October 7th Attack and Gaza War
2023 CE • middle_east
Discovery of Lost Mega-Cities in the Amazon
2024 CE • americas