Midterm Number 1

By MK78
  • 130

    Cleopatra Commits Suicide

    This should be in 30 BC
  • 476

    Western Roman Empire Falls

    They fall to Odoacer, a German barbarian.
  • Sep 20, 622

    Prophet Mohammed Arrives in Medina

    He expected the Jews in Medina to welcome him. They didn't.
  • Aug 28, 1189

    Third Crusade: The Crusaders begin the Siege of Acre

    The deadliest battle of the Crusades.
  • Sep 9, 1492

    Columbus's fleet set's sail west.

    He reaches America the 12th of October.
  • Sep 6, 1522

    Magellan's Expidetion Circumnavigates the Globe

    He didn't finish, but his crew did.

  • US Constitustion Signed

    Signed by 38 of 41 delegates there.

  • Napoleon Enters Moscow

    Napolean entered Moscow to find it completley deserted.

  • US nicknamed Uncle Sam

    Named after Samuel Wilson, a meat-packer in New York

  • First Carpet Sweeper Patented

    Made by Melville Bissell of Grand Rapids.

  • First Speeding Ticket

    This was in Dayton, Ohio.

  • Lascaux cave paintings discovered.

    Lascaux is in France.

  • Mao Zedong outlines the new Chinese government

    This is when China officially becomes communist.

  • Central High School Integrated

    Many people disagreed with this event.

  • Castro arrives in New York

    He came to talk to the UN.

  • Israeli athletes killed at Munich Olympics

    They were killed by the Palestinian group Black September.

  • Israel-Palestine Peace accord signed

    There is little peace anymore.

  • Attack on America

    Most devastating terrorist attack in US history.

  • Huricane Katrina hits land.

    Deadliest Atlantic Huricane ever.