World History Timeline Project By jwag12 Jan 1, 1428 the triple alliance is formed Mar 6, 1521 Cortez conquers the Aztecs Mar 6, 1588 Spanish Armada is defeated by the British Mar 6, 1598 The Edict of Nantes is decreed Mar 6, 1603 TOkugawa Ieyasu becomes ruler of Japan Mar 6, 1605 DOn Quixote "de la Mancha" is published Mar 6, 1651 Thomas Hobbes publishes Leviathan Mar 6, 1687 Newton publishes "Treatise on the Law of Gravity" Mar 6, 1748 Montesquieu publishes "On the Spirit of Laws" Mar 6, 1776 Adam Smith publishes "The Wealth of Nations" Mar 6, 1792 french king louis XVI is executed Mar 6, 1793 Robespierre initiates the Reign of Terror Mar 6, 1802 British Parliament passes the factory act Mar 6, 1804 Napoleon crowns himself emperor Mar 6, 1804 Haiti wins freedom from France Mar 6, 1815 Napoleon is defeated in the Battle of Waterloo Mar 6, 1848 James Watt builds first steam engine Mar 6, 1848 Karl Marx publishes the "Communist Manifesto" Mar 6, 1852 Tukolor Kingdom arises in West africa Mar 6, 1854 The Crimean War begins Mar 6, 1857 The Sepoy Mutiny Begins Mar 6, 1858 The British government establish the Raj in India Mar 6, 1861 Russia frees the serfs Mar 6, 1868 Meiji era begins a period of modernization to Japan Mar 6, 1869 The Suez Canal is Completed Mar 6, 1881 Mustafa Kemal makes Turkey a republic Mar 6, 1881 Peter the Great becomes Russian Czar Mar 6, 1884 The Maxim gun is invented Mar 6, 1885 Berlin Conference divides Africa among European nations Mar 6, 1887 The Zulu Nation falls to British Control Mar 6, 1893 Queen Liliuokalani is removed as Hawaiian monarch Mar 6, 1899 Boer War begins in South Africa Mar 6, 1907 The triple Entente is finalized Mar 6, 1914 Archduke Franz Ferdinand is assassinated Mar 6, 1916 Battle of Verdun begins Mar 6, 1917 CZAR Nicholas II abdicates the throne in Russia Mar 6, 1917 Communists seize power during the Russian Revolution Mar 6, 1918 Outbreak of the SPanish FLu Mar 6, 1919 Treaty of Versailles is signed Mar 6, 1922 Mussolini takes controlnof Italy Mar 6, 1922 Russia and several self-governing republics become the USSR Mar 6, 1929 The Great Depression begins Mar 6, 1930 Gandhi organizes the Salt March Mar 6, 1933 Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany Jan 1, 1934 Mao begins the long March Mar 6, 1934 Stalin launches the Great Ourge Mar 6, 1937 The Rape of Nanking Mar 6, 1939 Germany invades Poland beginning World War II Mar 6, 1941 Germany Invades USSA Jun 6, 1944 D-Day Invasion Mar 6, 1945 Japan Surrenders to US ending WWII Mar 6, 1947 India Gains independence From Britain Mar 6, 1948 South Africa establishes the apartheid system Dec 6, 1948 Israel beomes a State Mar 6, 1950 Korean War begins Mar 6, 1956 Pakistan becomes a nation Mar 6, 1959 Castro becomes communist dictator of Cuba Mar 6, 1963 Mobuto seizes power in Zaire Mar 6, 1968 Yasir Arafrat becomes chairman of the PLO Mar 6, 1975 Vietnam War ends Mar 6, 1979 The Taliban takes control of Afghanistan Mar 6, 1979 Islamic Revolutionaries seize tje U.S. embassy in Iran Mar 6, 1983 U.S. expels Iraq from Kuwait in the Persian Gulf Wat Mar 6, 1987 The Intifada begins Mar 6, 1989 China orders crackdown of student protestors in Tiananmen Square Mar 6, 1991 The Soviet Union collapsed Mar 6, 1999 NATO begins bombing campaign against Yugoslavia