Years by Wikipedia Descriptions

The Berlin Wall fell and finally the Eastern Bloc collapsed

The statue's completion was marked by New York's first ticker-tape parade and a dedication ceremony presided over by President Grover Cleveland.

William, Duke of Normandy and his army set sail from the mouth of the River Somme

The president "was fatally shot from the nearby Texas School Book Depository"

The Penny Black was the world's first adhesive postage stamp

The Crimean War was one of the first conflicts in which military forces used modern technologies such as explosive naval shells, railways and telegraphs. (please give the year the war started)

She was interred beside Prince Albert in the Royal Mausoleum at Frogmore at Windsor Great Park

By the time of his (Muhammad's) death, most of the Arabian Peninsula had converted to Islam

The fire started in a bakery in Pudding Lane shortly after midnight on Sunday 2 September, and spread rapidly

On the 14th (of July), many of these soldiers joined the mob in attacking the Bastille

On July 4 .... it was adopted unanimously by the 56 delegates to the Second Continental Congress

Following a 13-day siege, Mexican troops under President General Antonio López de Santa Anna reclaimed the Alamo Mission near San Antonio

Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, were assassinated on 28 June.... by Bosnian Serb student Gavrilo Princip.

Organised by a seven-man Military Council of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, the Rising began on Easter Monday

The United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) dropped the atomic bomb "Little Boy" on the city (Hiroshima).

The Russian Revolution was inaugurated with the February Revolution

Like the Duke of Wellington in 1852 and William Gladstone in 1898, Churchill was given a state funeral

A team led by British Egyptologist Howard Carter in the Valley of the Kings excavated Tutankhamun's tomb

By jumping 8.90 m (29 ft 2+1⁄4 in), (Bob Beamon) broke the existing r(long jump) record by a margin of 55 cm (21 and 3/4 in) and his world record stood (for over 20 years) until it was broken in 1991 by Mike Powell.

The win gave Brazil its third World Cup title, which allowed them to permanently keep the Jules Rimet Trophy