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2600 BCE
Pyramids of Egypt built
(Great Pyramid of Giza constructed during Egypt’s Old Kingdom) -
1200 BCE
Trojan War
*( Possible War between Troy and the Greeks) -
700 BCE
Writing of The Odyssey
(Homer, who wrote the Iliad and Odyssey) -
49 BCE
Julius Caesar rules Rome
(Declared dictator for life before his assassination) -
30
Crucifixion of Jesus
*(The death of the son of god) -
476
Fall of the Roman Empire (Western)
(Deposition of the last Western Roman Emperor, Romulus Augustulus) -
793
Viking Invasions begin
(Marked by the raid on Lindisfarne monastery in England) -
1347
Black Death (Bubonic Plague)
(Devastated Europe, killing roughly 1/3 of the population) -
1492
Christopher Columbus finds America
(Landed in the Bahamas while seeking a western sea route to Asia) -
Salem Witch Trials
(Mass hysteria and trials in colonial Massachusetts) -
Boston Tea Party
(Colonial protest against British taxation, start to the American Revolution) -
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
(Shot by John Wilkes Booth shortly after the end of the Civil War)