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Start of agriculture, pastoralism, specialization of labor, towns and cities, governments, and religion.
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Neolithic communities in eastern Anatolia make implements of hammered copper- the first tentative step out of the Stone Age innovation
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Squash and chili are the first plants to be cultivated in America, in the Tehuácan valley in modern Mexico
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Used for heavy work as of pulling the plough, which was previously done by men's innovations.
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Large circle of standing stones in England at Avebury and no one knows how men really got them up. One guess is by innovations to bring them over there and standing them up.
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The Abbasids massacre the Umayyads in Damascus and establish a new caliphate
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After a long siege Jerusalem is taken by Nebuchadnezzar and the city, including Solomon’s Temple.
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Hanging Gardensis in Babylon and it was created by Nebuchadnezzar to comfort a homesick wife.
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The Greeks develop the Babylonian theme of the zodiac, naming it the the zodiakos kyclos or circle of animals.
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Conflict between Greece and Persia which involved two invasions. Several of the most famous and significant battles in history were fought during the Wars.
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Alexander begins two years moving with his army through his vast new territories establishing Greek settlements.
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To stop invasions from northern invaders the Qin emperor joins up earlier fortifications to create the Great Wall.
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The combined forces of Caesar and Cleopatra defeat Ptolemy XIII in a battle fought in the Nile delta
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Arriving with the trade along the Silk Road from India, puts down form roots in China
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It was cultivated in the Peruvian Andes.
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The Jews of the Diaspora have by now spread through much of the Roman Empire, where they were tested with tolerance.
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The abandonment of Maya cities in the southern Maya lowlands of Mesoamerica between the 8th and 9th centuries
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The magnetic compass was first invented as a device for divination as early as the Chinese Han Dynasty
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Only 17 years old des off from Venice on his journey to the east.
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Marco Polo, in prison in Genoa , is persuaded by a fellow prisoner to narrate his adventures
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This is called the bubonic plague and it devastated Europe. It later became known as the Black Death.
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Making its way through Europe, is described in vivid detail by Boccaccio who sees its devasting effect in person.
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A poll tax imposed in England provokes widespread unrest, which flares up in the Peasants’ Rev
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A sailing ship developed in the Mediterranean and used spent the west coast of Africa.
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Together with the brothers Martin and Vicente Pinzón, sails west from Palos in Spain.
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Colonists establish the first lasting British settlement in the new world, at Jamestown
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Galileo, with his new powerful telescope , observed the moon of Jupiter and spots moving on the surface of the sun.
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Pocahontas is a baptized Christian and marries John Rolfe, one of Jamestown colonists
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The Thirty Years' War was a war fought primarily in Central Europe between 1618 and 1648.
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The pilgrims on the Mayflower select a place for their settlement , and give it the name of Plymouth.
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Qing victories ultimately led to the incorporation of Outer Mongolia, Tibet and Xinjiang into the Qing Empire that was to last until the fall of the dynasty in 1911–1912
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The Seven Years' War was a global conflict fought between 1756 and 1763. It involved every European great power of the time and spanned five continents, affecting Europe, the Americas, West Africa, India, and the Philippines.
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The American Revolution was a colonial revolt that took place between 1765 and 1783.
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The spinning jenny is a multi-spindle spinning frame, and was one of the key developments in the industrialization of weaving during the early Industrial Revolution.
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In Common Sense, an anonymous pamphlet English immigrant Thomas Paine is the first to argue that the American colonies should be independent
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Unanimously elected first president of the United States and is inagurated on Wall Street, New York
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The first political parties , Hamilton’s Federalists and Jefferson’s Republicans, emerge in the USA
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The Louisiana Purchase was the acquisition of the Louisiana territory by the United States from France in 1803.
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The independence of Haiti from France is proclaimed by a new native ruler calling himself the emperor Jacques
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Self-declared Khedive of Egypt and Sudan with the Ottomans' temporary approval.
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Bolivar defeats the Spanish forces in Venezuela and is welcomed in Caracasas the Liberator
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The industrial growth that began in the United States in the early 1800's continued steadily up to and through the American Civil War.
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World War I, also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918
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The Russian Revolution was a pair of revolutions in Russia in 1917 which dismantled the Tsarist autocracy and led to the rise of the Soviet Union.
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The right for women to vote
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A global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although related conflicts began earlier.
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September 11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington D.C
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The founder of the islamist group Al-Qaeda was killed in Pakistan on May 2, 2011
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Marked the commencement of the second term of Barack Obama’s presidency.
