English Lesson 2

By kathleen-plassman@outlook.com
  • Pyramids of Egypt built
    2600 BCE

    Pyramids of Egypt built

    (Great Pyramid of Giza constructed during Egypt’s Old Kingdom)
  • Trojan War
    1200 BCE

    Trojan War

    *( Possible War between Troy and the Greeks)
  • Writing of The Odyssey
    700 BCE

    Writing of The Odyssey

    (Homer, who wrote the Iliad and Odyssey)
  • Julius Caesar rules Rome
    49 BCE

    Julius Caesar rules Rome

    (Declared dictator for life before his assassination)
  • Crucifixion of Jesus
    30

    Crucifixion of Jesus

    *(The death of the son of god)
  • Fall of the Roman Empire (Western)
    476

    Fall of the Roman Empire (Western)

    (Deposition of the last Western Roman Emperor, Romulus Augustulus)
  • Viking Invasions begin
    793

    Viking Invasions begin

    (Marked by the raid on Lindisfarne monastery in England)
  • Black Death (Bubonic Plague)
    1347

    Black Death (Bubonic Plague)

    (Devastated Europe, killing roughly 1/3 of the population)
  • Christopher Columbus finds America
    1492

    Christopher Columbus finds America

    (Landed in the Bahamas while seeking a western sea route to Asia)
  • Salem Witch Trials

    Salem Witch Trials

    (Mass hysteria and trials in colonial Massachusetts)
  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party

    (Colonial protest against British taxation, start to the American Revolution)
  • Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

    Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

    (Shot by John Wilkes Booth shortly after the end of the Civil War)