Event
|
Answer
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Big Bang
|
-13700000000
|
Creation of the Solar System
|
-4600000000
|
Creation of the Earth
|
-4500000000
|
Start of the Paleolithic period (i.e. start of the use of tools)
|
-3000000
|
End of the last glacial period
|
-10000
|
Birth of agriculture
|
-9000
|
Start of neolithic period (i.e. start of voluntary agriculture)
|
-9000
|
Discovery of beer in Sumer, modern Irak
|
-4000
|
Invention of writing (and thus, start of history period)
|
-3500
|
Invention of Tea (China)
|
-2700
|
Construction of the Kheops pyramid (circa)
|
-2560
|
Birth of Judaism
|
-2000
|
Homer's Illiad
|
-800
|
Invention of chess
|
-600
|
Alexander the Great defeats the Persian army
|
-330
|
Parthian army takes back Mesopotamia, taking out the Seleucids
|
-140
|
Julius Caesar assassinated
|
-44
|
Start of the western roman Empire
|
-27
|
Start of golden age in India
|
300
|
Christianity is legal in Europe by Constantine 1
|
313
|
Attila starts to run the Hun empire
|
434
|
End of the Wwestern Roman Empire
|
476
|
Birth of Islam
|
600
|
Creation of the oldest business running (Hoshi Hostel)
|
718
|
First Viking settlement in North America
|
1000
|
Birth of catholicism (branch of christianity)
|
1000
|
Birth of Marco Polo
|
1254
|
Start of the black plague (killing almost half of Europe)
|
1347
|
Invention of printing press (circa)
|
1450
|
End of the Eastern Roman Empire (conquest of Constantinople)
|
1453
|
First trip of Cristobal Colon in America
|
1492
|
Shakespeare's MacBeth
|
1627
|
Birth of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
|
1756
|
Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations
|
1776
|
US declaration of independance
|
1776
|
Start of the French revolution (Storming of the Bastille)
|
1789
|
Napoleon takes power in France
|
1804
|
Napoleon tries to invade Russia
|
1812
|
Karl Marx's manifesto
|
1848
|
Charles Darwin's On the origin of species
|
1859
|
Start of the 4 year's american civil war
|
1861
|
End of Slavery in the USA
|
1865
|
Independance of Canada from the United Kingdom
|
1867
|
Start of the construction of Barcelona's Sagrada familia
|
1882
|
End of the Ottoman empire
|
1918
|
Joseph Stalin takes power in USSR
|
1924
|
Adolf Hitler takes power in Germany
|
1933
|
Start of the Vietnam War
|
1955
|
John F. Kennedy is elected in USA
|
1960
|
Formation of Led Zeppelin
|
1968
|
First man (Armstrong) on the moon
|
1969
|
Following the Watergate, Richard Nixon resigns his presidency
|
1974
|
Independance of Quebec rejected by 59,5% in a referendum
|
1980
|
Michael Jackson's Thriller
|
1982
|
Destruction of the Berlin Wall
|
1989
|
Independance of Quebec rejected by 50,5% in a referendum
|
1995
|
September 11 attacks, 2996 deaths
|
2001
|
USA elects Donald Trump
|
2016
|