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The Dead Sea Scrolls, which contained most of the books in the Hebrew Bible date back to 408.
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Attila the Hun who was the leader of the Huns, which are said to have numbered up to as many as a half million men, was defeated in the Battle of Chalons in 451.
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Muslims beleive that the Quran was verbally given to God to Muhammad through the Angle Gabriel over a twenty three year period starting in 623.
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In 1066 an army of French soldiers conquered England.
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The Great European Famine was the worst famine to ever strike Europe. The famine started in 1314 and affected all of Northern Europe.
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The Black Death spread throughout Europe from 1347 - 1353, causing the worst disaster in European history, killing between 19-35 million people.
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In 1440 Johannes Gutenberg invented the first printing press.
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The War of the Roses began in 1455 and was between the English noble houses of Lancaster and York.
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The "Canterbury Tales" were written in 1392, but didn't actually get published until 1475.
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Columbus discovered North America in 1492.
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Leonardo Da Vinci painted the "Last Supper" in 1498. This famous mural depicts the last meal of Jesus before being captured and killed.
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The publication of Shakespeare's First Folio was completed in 1623.
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The American Revolution started in 1765 and lasted until 1783.
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On June 11, 1776 the Declaration of Independence was written.
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Historians feel that "Beowulf" was first written in 1815.
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After the stock market crash of 1929 America entered into the Great Depression.
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The "Harry Potter" books are said to be the third most read books in the world, following the Bible and "Quotations of Works of Mao Tse-tung". The "Harry Potter" books have sold over 400 million copies worldwide.
