World history

Cultural Literacy Timeline

  • Magna Carta
    Jun 15, 1215

    Magna Carta

  • Mehmed 2 takes Constantinople
    Jan 1, 1453

    Mehmed 2 takes Constantinople

  • Columbus discover the Americans
    Jan 1, 1492

    Columbus discover the Americans

  • Laning of the Mayflower

    Laning of the Mayflower

  • English bill of rights is signed

  • Declaration of independence for the United States is signed

    Declaration of independence for the United States is signed

  • ratification of the US COnstitution

    ratification of the US COnstitution

  • Start of French Revolution

    Start of French Revolution

  • Napleon Declared Emperor

    Napleon Declared Emperor

  • Battle of Waterloo

    Battle of Waterloo

  • Start of the US civil war

    Start of the US civil war

  • End of the Civil War

    End of the Civil War

  • Man's first powered flight

    Man's first powered flight

  • Car is invented

    Car is invented

  • China: Republican Revolution

  • Assassination of Archdicle Franz

    Assassination of Archdicle Franz

  • US enters World War 1

  • Bolshevik Revolution

    Bolshevik Revolution

  • Armistice

  • Germany invades poland

    Germany invades poland

  • Pearl Harbor

    Pearl Harbor

  • Germany surrenders

    Germany surrenders

  • first bombs are dropped

    first bombs are dropped

  • Japan surrenders

    Japan surrenders

  • Churchill delivers :iron Curain" speech

    Churchill delivers :iron Curain" speech

  • Berlin arilift

    Berlin arilift

  • communist take over China

  • korean war starts

    korean war starts

  • Korean war ends

    Korean war ends

  • Vietnam war starts

    Vietnam war starts

  • Berlin Wall constructed

    Berlin Wall constructed

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

  • Kennedy assassinated

    Kennedy assassinated

  • the Tet offensive

    the Tet offensive

  • man first walks on the moon

    man first walks on the moon

  • Woodstock

  • watergate scandal

    watergate scandal

  • Last American leaves Vietnam

    Last American leaves Vietnam

  • USSR ends

  • Tiananmen square protest

    Tiananmen square protest

  • Re-unification of Germany

    Re-unification of Germany

  • End of Apartheid and Neson Mandela's RElease

    End of Apartheid and Neson Mandela's RElease

  • September 11th terrorist attack

    September 11th terrorist attack