Jeff's History of Everything By MrJJSparks 970 Leif Erickson Born 1000 Beowulf Written 1020 Leif Erickson Dies 1066 Battle of Hastings Jun 15, 1215 Magna Carta Signed 1445 Gutenberg Bible 1503 Mona Lisa Finished 1516 Reinheitsgebot Bavarian Beer Law 1754 French and Indian War Begins 1763 French and Indian War Ends 1789 French Revolution Begins 1917 Lenin Leads Russia/Soviet Union Jan 1, 1920 Prohibition Starts 18th Amendment 1924 Joseph Stalin Leads USSR Dec 5, 1933 Prohibition Ends Ratification of the 21st Amendment repeals the 18th Amendment Oct 1, 1949 Mao Zedong Comes to Power Chinese Communist Revolution 1953 Nikita Khrushchev Leads USSR Jul 17, 1955 Disneyland Opens 1964 Brezhnev Leads USSR