Most important events in World History By othisi 3500 BCE Invention of writing 500 BCE Golden Age of Athens 356 BCE Alexander the Great 4 Jesus 27 Pax Romana 1300 Renaissance 1436 Gutenberg’s Printing Press 1492 Christopher Colombus reached the Americas 1914 World War I 1939 World War II 1959 First Moon Landing 1960 Invention of the Internet