Guess the year these world events happened

You have to guess the year (after BC) when these world events happened, good luck! (Hint: every event is written from oldest to newest)

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EVENT	Answer
Birth of Jesus Christ, founder of Christianity.	1
Southern Britain annexed by Rome	48
Christianity becomes the official religion of the Roman Empire	380
Fall of Rome	476
China is unified by the Sui Dynasty	581
Last Roman-Persian War begins	602
Islamic Conquest of modern Spain (Started)	711
Gunpowder is discovered	808
Holy Roman Empire established	962
William the Conqueror conquers all of England	1066
The Oxford University begins functioning	1096
Mongol Conquest of the Kievan Rus and European raids (Started)	1237
Siege of Bagdad	1258
Ottoman Empire established by Osman I	1299
Black Death (Started)	1347
Fall of Constantinople	1453
End of the Mongol rule. Grand Duchy of Muscow established as a sovereign state	1480
The Spanish Conquest of America begin	1511
The Gregorian Calendar (our current one) is created after adjusting the Julian Calendar	1582
British Glorious Revolution	1688
The Kingdom of Prussia is established	1701
Union of England and Scotland	1707
Russian Empire established	1721
Steam Power developed in Britain	1763
The French Revolution begins	1789
First vaccine tested	1796
Napoleonic Wars (Started)	1803
Invention of Photography	1826
British annexation of Southern Arabia. The new Era of Colonialism begins	1872
First incandescent light bulb	1879

EVENT	Answer
The first modern car	1886
Albert Einstein creates the basis for atomic energy (E=mc²)	1905
FIRST WORLD WAR (Started)	1914
Treaty of Versailles	1919
The Great Depression begins	1929
SECOND WORLD WAR (Started)	1939
First Atomic bombs tested in warfare	1945
Cold War (Started)	1947
Nato created	1949
Space Race begins	1955
Landing of the Moon	1969
Chernobyl Disaster	1986
Fall of the Berlin Wall	1989
Birth of the Internet	1990
Disintegration of the Soviet Union	1991
European Union founded	1993
Euro Coin created	1999
September 11 attacks (9/11 Twin towers incident)	2001
Second Liberian Civil War	2003
Angela Merkel assumes office as the first female Chancellor of Germany	2005
The Union of South American Nations, an intergovernmental organization between states in South America, is founded.	2008
The tallest man-made structure to date, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, is officially opened	2010
Canada officially cuts diplomatic ties with Iran by closing its embassy in Tehran	2012
Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine	2014
London Bridge attack	2017
The ...... North Korea–United States summit is held in Singapore. It is the first summit between a sitting United States President and a North Korean leader	2018
COVID-19 (Started)	2019
Tigray War	2021
Russian invasion of Ukraine	2022
Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran and the United Arab Emirates become BRICS members	2024

2 Comments

Level 77

May 16, 2024

Actually, COVID-19 started in 2019 (hence the name!), just that we didn't realise it at the time. The evidence is overwhelming. Please correct.

Level 23

May 17, 2024

Thanks for report, I fixed it :)

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