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With the creation of the compass it has been told that the compass was first made in China during the Qin dynasty (221-206 B.C.)
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The Late Middle ages began with the collapse of the Western Roman Empire. It held many events like the great famine and black death.
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Geoffrey chaucher was a philospher, author, alchemist, astronemer and a famous poet in the middle ages. He is famous for his works like the book of duchess and the house of fame.
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Johannes was a German blacksmith, goldsmith, printer, and publisher who made the print press and introduced printing to Europe
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Firearms were invented sometime in the 14th century in China and then it spread to the middle east and Europe for battle offensive purposes.
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The Renaissance started in Italy and quickly spread throughout europe. It was the time paper and metal came in use.
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Ferdinand Magellan was a Portuguese explorer. He was in the first expedition to sail from the Atlantic Ocean into the Pacific Ocean.
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Martin was a German monk, former Catholic priest, professor of theology and impotant figure of a reform movement in sixteenth century Christianity known as the Protestant Reformation.
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The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer at the end of the 14th century.
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John Knox was a Scottish clergyman and a leader of the Protestant Reformation who brought reformation to the church in Scotland. One of his famous works was The First Blast of The Trumpet.
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. Ferdinand Magellan (1480-1521) a Portuguese explorer was the first man to take a trip around the world. His journey around the globe started in 1519 to 1522. His expedition was also the first to sail from the Atlantic Ocean into the Pacific Ocean.
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Francis Raleigh was an English aristocrat, writer, poet, soldier, courtier, spy, and explorer. He is well known for popularising tobacco in England.
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The time Queen Elizabeth the first ruled Enland.
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Francis Bacon was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and author. one of his works is Andrew Brighton.
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Galileo was an Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher who played a major role in the Scientific Revolution. He is also known for making a huge impovement on the telescope.
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Christophe Marlow an English playwright, poet and translator of the Elizabethan era. Well known for making interesting protagonists.
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Willaim shakespeare is a famous english poet and play wright. He is regarded the greatest wrighter in the english language. His most famous plays include Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet and many more
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The Reformation was the time of protestanism a religion of the branch of christianity which was led by Martin Luther.
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was an English poet, satirist, lawyer and a cleric in the Church of England. One of his most famous works is No Man Is An Island.
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George Herbet was a english poet, orator and an Anglican Priest. Some of his religious poems are Heaven, Aaran and the call.
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Doctor Faustus is a play published in 1604 by Christopher Marlow however it was first performed in 1592.
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Macbeth is a play written by William Shakespeare. It was believed to be written at some time in 1606.
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John was an english poet, polemicist, and a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England, best known for his poem Paradise Lost.
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Let me not to the marriage of true minds was one of Shakespeare’s many sonnets published some time in 1609.
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Andrew Marvell was an English metaphysical poet and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1659 and 1678.
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A valedictation: forbidding mourning, a poem was first published in 1633 by John Donne.
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To his Coy Mistress is a poem Andrew marvel had written in the sometime around the early 1650.
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Sometime in 1687 Isaac Newton proved that the earth revolves around the sun with his law of gravitation.
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The time everyone started to believe in jesus and god.
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William was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Poems include “A dream”, “A little boy lost”, “A little girl lost” and many more.
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The American War of Independence involved several countries, with France and Britain on opposing sides, and North America was one of its many theatres of operations.
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Jane Austen was an English author who wrote books in the romantic genre. She is famous for her book Pride and Prejudice.
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The French Revolution war started because people wanted Liberty, Equality & Fraternity. The three most significant people of the French revolution are Napoleon Bonaparte, Edmund Burke and Louis XVI of France.
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In 1778 Arthur Phillip arrived on botany bay along with the first fleet on the 18th of January. Botany bay was unsuitable for settlement so they went up the coast and arrived at Sydney on the 25th of January now known as Australia day.
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Songs of Innocence is a collection of poems published by William Blake.
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Songs of Experience was written by William Blake and it was published some time in 1793.
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Tyger Tyger or The Tyger was written by william blake some time in 1794.
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The time religion and the belief of the Bible was introduced.
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Romanticisim was the age of arts, music, literature and scientific rationalisation of nature
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Alexandre Dumas a French novelist known for writing books full of adventure like The Three Musketeers.
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The time The first queen Victoria ruled.
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William Makepeace Thackeray was an English author who was famous for his satirical works like particularly Vanity Fair.
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Charles Dickens was an English writer and social critic. He is very famous for his book “bleak house” that was published in 1853.
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Pride and Prejudice is the most famous book written by Jane Austin that was first published some time in 1813.
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Charlotte Bronte was an English novelist and poet famous for the book she wrote called Jane Eyre. She also was the sister of Emily Bronte an author.
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Emily Bronte, the sister of charlotte bronte was an author and a poet. She is famous for her book Wuthering heights.
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Mary Anne Evans was author, journalist and a translator. Some of her books include “Adam Bede”, The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner (1861), Middlemarch and Daniel Deronda. on her books the author appeared to be George Eliot because female writers werent taken seriously.
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Frankenstein is a novel written by Mary Shelley.
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Leo Tolstoy was a Russian writer of novels, plays and essays. His most famous works include “Anna Karenina” and “War and Peace”.
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Louisa May Alcott was an American Author well known for her book Little Women and its sequels Little Men and Jo's Boys.
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In England various Factory Acts were passed In 1833 to improve conditions for children working in factories. The rules were no children below the age 9 were to work, 9-13 years old work for 9 hours a day and 13 to 18 years old work for 13 hours a day.
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Samuel Langhorne Clemens is an author of comedy and serious fiction. His fame came after releasing “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” and the sequel “Adventures of huckleberry fin.
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Thomas hardy was an English novelist and poet. He gained fame from many of his books. One of his well known book is “Far from the Madding crowd”.
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The Count of Monte Cristo is a book written my Alexandre Dumas. It was published some between march and june in 1884.
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The Three Musketeers is one of many books written by Alexandre Dumas. It was published in 1844 along with the Count of Monte Cristo.
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Jane Eyre is a novel written by English writer Charlotte Bronte AKA Currer Bell.
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Wuthering Heights was written by Emily Bronte which was published sometime in december in 1847
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David Copperfield written by English Charles dickens was a book published in 1850.
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Robert was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
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Oscar Wilde was an Irish writer and poet. Some of his famous works include “Salome”, “The Selfish Giant and “An ideal husband”.
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All british men got to vote in 1856 however aboriginal men/women only got to vote in 1967 27th of may.
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In America Caucasian men got the vote in 1856 however people that were not white only got the vote in 1870.
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George Bernard Shaw was a Irish play writer who Co-founded the London school of economics. His very popular plays are “man and superman” and “saint Joan”.
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was a Scottish physician and crime fiction writer who was most popular for his book series Sherlock Holmes.
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The Mill on the Floss is a novel by George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), first published in three volumes some time in 1860.
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The American Civil War started in 1861 and ended in 1865. The southern parts of America (slaves/confederacy) led by Lincoln fought against the North of America (union) for freedom.
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Little Women is a novel by Louisa May Alcott. It was published in two volumes. one in 1868 and the other 1869 however the date is unclear.
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War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy was published around1869
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LM Montgomery was a Canadian author best known for a series of novels beginning with Anne of Green Gables, published in 1908.
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All men could vote regardless of their ethnic background.
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James Joyce was an Irish novelist and poet that is best known for his book Ulysses.
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Fin is the sequel to the book The Adventures of Tom by Sawyer Mark Twain. It was published in 1884 for England and 1885 for the USA how every the month and date for its publishment is unkown
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Although its unclear when Carl Benz (America) made the automobile people have found it was made In 1885 or 1856.
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Kidnapped is a novel written by Robert Louis Stevenson. It was published in a magazine from May to June in 1886.
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TS Eliot was a publisher, playwright, literary and social critic and "arguably the most important English-language poet of the 20th century.
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Tess of the D’Urbervilles is a novel by Thomas Hardy, first published sometime in 1891.
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All mauri and non mauri women got to vote.
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Culture dramticaly changing in relation to modern art.
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The Hound of the Baskervilles is a book by Arthur Conan Doyle. It was put throughout a magazine from April 1901 and August 1902.
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All women could vote in the year 1902 however the indigenous people had to wait till the 27th of may 1967.
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Austria-Hungary initiated World War I by declaring war on Serbia in July 1914 because of the assassination of the Austrian-Hungarian Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand by the Black Hand Gang (freedom fighters).
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The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock is a poem by Thomas stearns Elliott that was published in 1915 between July and August.
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In 1918 The United Kingdom gives a full vote to women of age 30 and older.
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American women from all backgrounds get to vote.
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The Sniper is a short story written by Irish writer Liam O'Flaherty. It was published in the 12th of January 1923.
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The Time painters, photographers, printers, film makers and movies were a big part of life.
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World War Two began in September 1939 when Britain and France declared war on Germany for the invasion of Poland.
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Terry is an English author of fantasy novels, especially comical works. One of his famous books is The Colour of Magic.
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The United States feared that Vietnam would be taken over by communists, so they sent troops there to fight Viet-Kong to stop the spread of communism.
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the time culture, literature, art, philosophy, economics, architecture, fiction, and literary criticism was big. It was also the time of finding out why people had nervous breakdowns.
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On July 20, 1969 Neil Armstrong became the first man to land on the moon. He went to the moon on the spaceship Apollo 11 along with Buzz Aldrin.
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The first hand-held mobile phone was created and demonstrated by John F. Mitchell and Dr Martin Cooper of Motorola in 1973.
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The 1st Gulf War started when Iraq’s invaded of Kuwait for their oil.
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Prashant Sharma is an Australian citizen that lives in a small town in NSW called Wagga Wagga. He is an average school student that hasnt written or invent anything known... yet.
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The 2nd Gulf war started when the Americans got angry because of Iraq invading Kuwait for their oil. The Americans joined in and help fight off the Iranians and defend Kuwait.
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The Chinese had invented gunpowder in the 9th century before firearms for decorative purposes like fireworks.