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Scholars created of a dictionary of 10,000 Chinese characters.
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313
Emperor Constantine introduced a policy of official toleration
Constantine introduced a policy of official toleration by the Edict of Milan. -
451
Rumes first written law code was carved onto 12 stone tablets
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477
Delian League met for the first time
The Delian League was formed to guard againest possible future Persian attacks. -
551
Confucius was born
Confucius was a Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn period of Chinese history. -
Aug 17, 622
The first of the Muslim calendar
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Jan 1, 700
The development of Sanskrit
The Aryans created a written language called the Sanskrit, and the knowledge of it belonged mostly to priests, who used the language to record sacred texts. -
Aug 14, 732
Muslim forces were spilling into France
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Aug 14, 1000
Scholars from Bologna traveled to Constantinople to bring back manuscripts of Roman Law
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Aug 14, 1096
The first official crusade crossed from Constantinople into Asia Minor
This is important because they took Jerusalem, and set up four feudal states in Palestine and Syria: Edessa, Antioch, Tripoli, and Jerusalem. -
Aug 17, 1152
Frederick I became Holy Roman emperor
This is important because he was determined to rule both Italy and Germany, so he spent many years fighting win control, and he made his son marry the king of Sicily's daughter which secured him southern Italy. -
Aug 17, 1204
Merchants from Venice bribed crusaders to attack Constantinople
The reason why the attempted to bribe was because they were longtime trade rival. -
Jun 15, 1215
The Magna Carta was signed by King John of England
This is important because the Magna Carta was a written guarentee of their traditional rights and privileges. -
Aug 12, 1250
Achaens began to come together to attack Troy
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Aug 11, 1280
The first written treaty was created.
The first written treaty ended the costly struggle between the Hittites and the Egyptians. I chose this because often in history, we form more treaties with other coutries in order to make peace. -
Aug 17, 1398
Mongols from Central Asia overan northern India
THis is important because their leader, Tamerlane, was an ambitious general who was determined to conquer the world. -
Aug 17, 1455
Johann Gutenburg used a metal to create a complete edition of the Bible
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Aug 3, 1492
Three small ships carrying 90 sailers left Palos, Spain.
Christopher Columbus argued with Queen Isabella to get her to sponser his trip, which was successful. They headed out to Asia because he believe that by sailing westward, a ship could reach Asia within two months. -
Jun 7, 1494
The Treaty of Tordesillas was signed by Spain and Portugal
The treaty drew a Line of Demarcation that ran north and south about 1,100 miles west of the Azores Islands in the Atlantic. -
Aug 17, 1508
Pope Julius II asked Michelangelo to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican
This is important becasue the painting is still there today, and it is beautoful. It attracts lots of tourists to go look and see what he had painted. -
Aug 18, 1543
Andreas Vesalius made accurate drawings of the human anatomy that corrected some of Galen's errors.
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Aug 18, 1581
The seven northern provinces of the Netherlands declared their independence from Spain.
This is important because this is evolve and change history over time. It will become what it is today. -
The ruler of Morocco in northern Africa sent an army across the Sahara to seize the gold mining regions of Songhai
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The Shang Dynasty began
The Shang Dynasty began when powerful kings established control over northern China. It was the first in China, and lasted till 1122 B.C.. -
Europeans tried to win trading rights from the MIng emperor
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Kepler announced that planets move in another kind of orbit, called an ellipse
This is important today because it helps us learn more about the planets in our solar system as well as beyond this galaxy. -
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Thirty Years' War
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The King, Charles I, and Parliament raised tehir own armies, and civil war began
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Paliament passed the Test Act.
The Test Act required any person holding public office to belong to the Angelican Church. It also excluded Catholics and Protestant dissenters from the army, the navy, and universities. -
The first of three partitions of Poland took place
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The meaning of Egyptian hieroglyphics was deciphered by Jean Champollian.
Jean Champollian had deciphered the Rosetta Stone, and managed to find the meaning of the Egyptian hieroglphics, which was lost until he found them. I chose this because without them, we still wouldn't be able to analyze them. -
A rally turned deadly in Manchester
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Samuel F.B. invented the telegraph
The telegraph sends messages through electrical impulses. What used to took days to recieve, took only minutes and seconds to get messages. This is a major influence on the creation of the telephone. -
Francois Guizot cancelled a huge public banquet in Paris
He canceled because he feared it would lead to demonstrations and disorder. This is caused warkers to pour into the streets, and to restore order, Louis Philippe dismissed his chief minister. Demonstrations continued over the next few days which resulted made troops open fire and killing some demonstrators. -
The National Assembly abolished the national workshops
This caused Paris workers to immediantly revolt. -
Charles Darwin published his ideas of evolution
This caused people to storm him with protest. -
Abraham Lincoln was elected as the U.S.'s 16th president
This is important because Abraham Lincoln delivered the Emancipation Proclamation which was a speech that abolished slavery in the U.S. -
Two locomotives touched.
This meant that a railroad now spanned the United States from coast to coast. -
The Education Act was passed
The Education Act stated that local school boards had to require attendence. What is important about this act is that some children ignored it and kept skipping school to work in factories and mines just to afford food to eat for the entire family. This is called child labor, and we, Earth, need to acknowledge that it is still happening in todays world. -
William I was proclaimed emperor of Germany
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lAlexander Graham Bell invented the telephone
This is a major influence on the world today because everyone has a cell phone and some people are scared without one. -
Wilhelm Roentgen discovered X-rays
He discovered energy waves that could penetrate solid matter, and called them X-rays. This is a major influence on the field of medicine today because we use in order to know what is wrong with the victim. For example, if we cant find a broken bone in the body, we use x-rays to see where the damaged bone is so we can help and fix their problem. -
Bloody Sunday occured, killing more than 1000 workers
A crowd full of workers had peacefully paraded towards the czar's palace in St. Petersburg, carrying a petition asking him for better working conditions, greater personal liberties, and an elected national legislature. Nicholas saw the parade as a threat to his power and ordered the soldiers to open fire to the crowd. About 1000 workers were killed, and that day became known as Bloody SUnday -
The king of the Franks gave part of northern France to some Viking raiders.
This is important because the region aquired its name, Normandy, from the French word "Norman," meaning "men from the north." -
Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire
Christianity started to spread across the Greco-Roman world, and started off as one of the many religions practiced till it became the main religion. This is important because Christianity is still being used as a religion today. -
The spread of the use of alphabets
Phoenicians created the alphabet which contained 22 symbols, and then the Greeks adopted it and added symbols for vowel sounds. This is iumportant because this is the first of the alphabet that we use today and everyday. -
The Romans established a Republic
The Romans had overthrown the Etruscan king and established a Republic. This is important because it is a key figure into the shaping of Romes government. -
The first African civilizations were taking shape in Egypt and in Nubia and Kush to the south
This is important because this will evolve in the the African civilizatiion we have today. -
The development of writing
The Egyptians started to develop writing skills because they needed to write accurate records. I chose this because without them, we would not know how to write.
