Sense of Time By lizzie...campbell 3400 BCE Writing 2550 BCE The Great Pyramid 323 BCE Death of Alexander the Great 9 BCE Gunpowder 5 BCE Birth of Christ 476 Fall of the Roman Empire 610 Islam Founded 957 Sputnik Launched 1436 Printing Press (Gutenberg) 1620 Pilgrims Land Plymouth Rock 1776 American Independence 1804 Steam Locomotive 1827 Phonograph 1865 U.S. Civil War Ends 1868 Typewriter 1876 Telephone 1880 Light Bulb 1886 Coca-Cola 1898 Diesel Engine 1903 Wright Bros. Fly 1914 World War I 1915 Motion Pictures: Birth of a Nation debuts 1919 Transatlantic Flight 1920 First Radio Station 1927 Television (Philo F.) 1939 World War II Begins 1945 A-Bombs dropped on Japan 1955 Polio Vaccine (Salk) 1955 McDonald’s 1971 Betamax 1972 Pong Debuts 1976 VHS 1982 PC wins Time Magazine “Man of the Year” 1982 CD 1984 Motorola DynaTec Cell Phone 1989 World Wide Web 1996 Cloning of Dolly 1997 Netflix Streaming 2001 iPod debuts (hard drive) 2007 iPhone debuts 2023 today
