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The Silk Roads emerge coming from the Han Dynasty in China where they were trading their vast amount of goods to everyone they could.
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Alaric, the leader of the Visigoths moved his men and sacked roam.
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The First Crusade was an event where the Pope ordered the European powers to reclaim the Holy Lands from the Muslim Empire,
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Three Ships arrived in a port in Messina. The crew members were either all dead or very close to it. The port ordered them to leave right away but it was already too late.
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The Mongol conqueror Tameralne invades Syria after having devastated Georgia and Russia.
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Was invented by a man named Gutenberg from Germany. This allowed people to have less need of town criers.
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The Europeans started using the African people as workers because they did not die nearly as much from disease as other people did.
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Sultan Mehmed II was the Ottoman Turks leader who conquered over Constantinople.
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Christopher Columbus discovers America as he led his three ships, the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria.
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The official beggining of the Revolutionary War was at the Battle of Concord where the British sent soldiers to destroy weapons and supplies the the Patriots had been storing.
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Eli Whitney was the first person to create the cotton gin but his designs were copied and sold before he was aloud to sell his invention.
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On this date the French government was officially overthrown by a military coup.
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The United States buys land from the French that doubles the size of the young republic.
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John Wilkes Booth, a famous actor and Confederate sympathizer, shot Abraham Lincoln in the Ford Theatre in Washington, D.C.
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Thomas Edison is the man who invents the light bulb. There were two different men that came before him that worked on the light bulb.
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The dedication of the date was on the day above, when the French sent it over to America.
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The Eiffel Tower was built for the World Exhibition in celebration of the French Revolution in 1789.
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On this day, the Austro- Hungarians began their invasion of Serbia. The heir to the throne of the Austro- Hungarian Empire was assassinated on this day.
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World War I was started because Germany and Austro- Hungary were angry over the lands they had. They believed certain lands were suppose to belong to them.
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Dic and Mac McDonald open up the first McDonalds in California as a Bar-B-Q.
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Nathuram Godse murdered Mohatma Ghandi on this date firing three shots at him. Ghandi was seventy- eight years old.
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This speech was a pivitol point in the civil right movement. Martin Luther had a speech written out for him on that day, but changed it as he spoke, while adding in the words "I have a dream" at all of his strong points.
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President John F. Kennedy was riding in a motorcade through Dealy Plaza in Downtown Dallas, Texas. He was preparing for his second presidential campaign, but was assassinated.
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Neil Armstrong was the first person to step onto the Moon, putting the United States ahead of the Soviet Union in the space race.
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Two separate planes were over taken while in the air and were flew into the World Trade Center Buildings.
