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3200 BCE
Civilization begins at Sumer
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2560 BCE
Building of the Great Pyramid of Cheops at Giza
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2200 BCE
"Priest King"
2200-1900 BC, artist unknown, Mohenjo-Daro -
1900 BCE
Minoan period begins, Crete
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1450 BCE
Bull Leaping Fresco, Minoan civilization
1450 BCE, artist unknown, Heraklion Archeological Museum -
1350 BCE
Akhenaten, Nefertiti and Three Daughters, Ancient Egypt
c.1350 BCE, artist unknown, Ägyptisches Museum, Berlin -
1200 BCE
Fall of Troy
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780 BCE
Ancient Greece began, sent settlers to create colonies in Asia Minor
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776 BCE
Start of the ancient Olympics
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753 BCE
Legendary founding of Rome
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530 BCE
Dionysos Kylix, Ancient Greece
c. 530 B.C.E., Exekias, Antikensammlungen, Munich -
509 BCE
Traditional date for the founding of the Roman Republic
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508 BCE
Athenian Democracy established by Cleisthenes
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490 BCE
Battle of Marathon
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483 BCE
Gautama Buddha dies
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480 BCE
Battle at Thermopylae
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215 BCE
Start of the Macedonian Wars, leading to Rome's control of Greece
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44 BCE
Ides of March - Caesar assassinated
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31 BCE
Augustus becomes first Roman emperor, Pax Romana begins
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3 BCE
Jesus was born
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70
Lararium from the House of the Vettii, Pompeii
c. 70 AD, artist unknown, House of the Vettii, Pompeii -
79
Eruption of Mount Vesuvius, Pompeii and Herculaneum covered
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122
Hadrian's wall was beginning to be built
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324
Constantine established his capital at Byzantium
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476
Western Roman Empire ended
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476
Middle Ages, Dark Ages start
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800
The Book of Kells
circa 800, artist unknown, Trinity College Library, Dublin -
1290
The Madonna and Child
ca. 1290–1300, Duccio di Boninsegna, The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
1300
Renaissance begins
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1450
Printing Press is Invented
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1453
Fall of Constantinople, Middle Ages end
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1495
The Last Supper
1495 - 1498, Leonardo da Vinci, Santa Maria delle Grazie -
1498
The Pieta, Italy
1498-1499, Michelangelo, St. Peter's Basilica, The Vatican -
1512
The Annunciation
c. 1512 , Jan de Beer, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid -
1512
The Creation of Adam, Italy
1512, Michelangelo, The Sistine Chapel -
1517
Protestant Reformation begins
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1519
Magellan sails around the world, proving the earth is round
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1534
England breaks away from Catholic church, and become a protestant country under King Henry VIII
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Scientific Revolution begins
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Lao-Tau Riding an Ox
c. 1600, Chen Hongshou, current location unknown -
Ecstasy of Saint Teresa
1647 - 1652, Bernini, Santa Maria della Vittoria -
Holy Family on the Steps
c.1648 - Nicolas Poussin, Cleveland Museum of Art -
The Allegory of Faith
1670 - 1672, Vermeer, Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Industrial revolution begins in England
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United States colonies compose Declaration of Independence
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United States Constitution is signed
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French Revolution begins
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Mask for the Okuyi Society
Late 19th Century, Punu Culture, from Gabon -
First steam railway is built in England
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American Civil War
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Christs' Entry in Brussels in 1889
1888, James Ensor, The Getty Museum -
The Yellow Christ
1889, Paul Gauguin, Albright–Knox Art Gallery -
Rouen Cathedral, Full Sunlight (series)
1894, Claude Monet, Musee d'Orsay, Paris -
World War I
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The Descent from the Cross
1917, Max Beckmann, The Museum of Modern Art -
Christ the Redeemer
1922, Paul Landowski, Heitor de da Silva Costa, Gheorghe Leonida, Albert Caquot, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil -
Great Depression
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World War II
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Attack on Pearl Harbor
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Cold War
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Christ of Saint John of the Cross
1951, Salvador Dali, Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum -
The Sacrament of the Last Supper
1955, Salvador Dali, The National Gallery of Art -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
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Tian Tan Buddha Statue
1990, artist unknown, Ngong Ping, Lantau Island
