Sense of Time By maiteagerrits 3400 BCE Writing 2490 BCE The Great Pyramid 1492 BCE Columbus Sails to W. Indies 476 BCE Fall of the Roman Empire 323 BCE Death of Alexander the Great 4 BCE Birth of Christ 9 Gunpowder 610 Islam is found 1436 Printing Press Dec 16, 1602 Pilgrim land on Plymouth Rock Jul 4, 1776 American Independence Feb 21, 1801 Steam Locomotive Apr 9, 1865 U.S. Civil War ends 1868 Typewriter 1876 Telephone 1877 Phonograph 1879 Light bulb 1892 Coca- Cola Jan 1, 1897 Diesel Engine Dec 17, 1903 Wright brothers fly 1908 Fords model T released Aug 28, 1914 World War l Feb 8, 1915 Motion Pictures: Birth of a Nation debuts Jun 14, 1919 Transatlantic Flight 1920 First radio station Sep 7, 1927 Television Sep 1, 1939 World War ll Begins Aug 6, 1945 A-Bombs dropped on Japan Apr 12, 1955 Polio Vaccine Apr 15, 1955 McDonald's opens Oct 4, 1957 Sputnik Launched Jul 16, 1969 Moon landing Oct 29, 1972 Pong debuts 1975 Betamax 1977 VHS 1982 PC wins Time Magazine “Man of the Year” 1982 CD 1984 Motorola DynaTec Cell Phone 1989 World wide Web 1991 Nanotubes Aug 5, 1996 Cloning of Dolly Oct 23, 2001 ipod debut 2007 Netflix streaming Jul 29, 2007 iPhone debut Jan 20, 2023 Today
