Birth of Jesus Christ

Middle East people domesticated goats and dogs

In China, Chou dynasty began

First Chinese domination of Vitnam as the Nanyue Kingdom

Chinas Imperial University was established

Water clock is invented in Egypt

End of Indus Valley Civilization

Alphabetic writing appeared

Paper is invented in China

Iron Age

After the death of Qin Shi Huang, Han Dynasty established in China

The Qin Dynasty began the construction of the Great Wall of China

Qin Shi Huang unified China and the beginning of Imperial rule (in China)

Great Pyramid of Giza

Indus Valley civilization

The Great Pyramid of Cholula constructed

Early writing

First dynasty of Egypt

Death of Alexander at Babylon

In the Battle of the Hydaspes River, Alexander the Great defeated Indian king Porus

In the Battle of Gaugamela, Alexander the Great defeated Darius III of Persia

Philip II was assassinated and Alexander became king

Philip II had created a strong and unified nation in Macedonia. He hired Aristotle (the Philosopher) to tutor his son, Alexander

In the Battle of Chaeronea, the king Philip II, defeated the combined forces of the Greek city-states Athens and Thebes

Bronze was discovered in Egypt

Battle of Marathon

Greco-Persian Wars

Pingala learned the uses of zero and binary numeral system

Panini standardized the Sanskrit grammar and its morphology in the text Ashtadhyayi

Sumerian civilization evolved between the rivers Euphrates and Tigris. Later it became popular as Mesopotamia (present day Iraq)

First calendar of 365 days, 12 months, and 30 days invented

Democracy introduced at Athens

Founding of Roman Republic after exclusion of the last Roman King

Pythagoras (Greek scholar) studied the movements of celestial bodies and mathematics

The First Temple in Jerusalem (Solomons Temple) was destroyed by the Babylonians

Sixteen Maha Janapadas emerged in India

Copper was discovered

Rise of Persian Empire

City of Rome was established by Romulus

Olympic Games first recorded

Homer had written the epic Iliad and Odyssey

Settled farming began

An ancient tool of navigation namely The astrolabe was first used in Europe

Construction of the London Tower began

The University of Oxford is established

The University of Paris is established

Europeans first used compasses

The University of Cambridge is established

John of England sealed the Magna Carta

Marco Polo published his itinerary of China, along with Rustichello da Pisa

Osman I established the Ottoman Empire

The Black Death withered Europe for the first (of many times), In the first year, an estimated 20 to 40% of the population was thought to have perished

Battle of Kosovo (in Serbia)

The Medici bank was established in Florence

King Loius XI of France started postal service

Christopher Columbus discovered a route going to the New World (i.e. Caribbean Islands and America)

Vasco da Gama arrived India

Leonardo da Vinci started making the painting of Mona Lisa; however, completed after three years

Christopher Columbus died in Valladolid, Spain

The city of Boston is founded

Harvard University is established in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Dutch East India Company founded the city Cape Town in South Africa

The Great Fire of London

China conquered the Kingdom of Tungning and annexes Taiwan

Isaac Newton published Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica

The Bank of England is established

The earliest known first-class cricket match had taken place in Sussex

The worlds first copyright legislation, Britains Statute of Anne (also known as Copyright Act 1709), took effect

Japan began successful forest management reform and subsequently timber cutting was reduced

In France, a twenty-eight volume of encyclopedia was completed

In USA, second Continental Congress meeting and declaration of independence July 4)

The Spanish settlers founded the city of Los Angeles

In USA, based on the states 1780 constitution, the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts ruled slavery illegal

In USA, King George declared the thirteen colonies as "free and independent

Napoleon Bonaparte became a lieutenant in the French artillery

The slaves freed from London established Freetown (West Africa) i.e. present-day Sierra Leone

The United States Constitution is written in Philadelphia and submitted to the states for ratification

French Revolution

The first graphite pencils were used

Napoleons invasion and partition of the Republic of Venice ended over 1,000 years of independence of the Serene Republic

Napoleon (of France) defeated Austria

Haiti attained its independence from France and became the first black republic

In Milan (Italy), Napoleon was crowned as the King of Italy

In the Battle of Austerlitz, Napoleon decisively defeated an Austrian-Russian army

Napoleon abdicated and was exiled to Elba

Napoleon escaped; however, he was finally defeated at the Battle of Waterloo (in June) and exiled to Saint Helena Island

Discovery of Antarctica

Napoleon Bonaparte died (at Saint Helena Island, where he was exiled)

Monroe Doctrine was declared by US President James Monroe

The two railway station at Stockton and Darlington (the first public railway in the world) was opened

Slavery Abolition Act banned slavery throughout the British Empire

Vaccination became mandatory in Britain

Charles Darwin developed the theory of evolutionary selection and specialization

New Zealand is established, as the Treaty of Waitangi is signed between the Mori and British

Richard Owen, first time, used the word dinosaur

First time Anaesthesia was used

The Irish Potato Famine that lead to the Irish diaspora

Karl Marx wrote Communist Manifesto

California Gold Rush

Roman Republics constitutional law became the first to abolish capital punishment

Crimean War (fought between Russia and Turkey)

Worlds first oil refinery founded in Romania

John Tyndall, the British scientist, described the concept that the carbon dioxide (CO2) and water vapor trapping heat in the atmosphere

The first successful oil well was drilled in northern Pennsylvania (USA)

Suez Canal constructed

Russia abolished serfdom

American Civil War, took place between the Union and seceding Confederacy

The first paper money was issued in the United States

President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln was assassinated

Michael Barrett was the last person to be publicly hanged in England

Dmitri Mendeleev created Periodic table

The Suez Canal route opened that linking the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea

Royal Albert Hall opened in London

The first National Park i.e. Yellowstone National Park, is established

Karl Benz sold the first commercial automobile

Burma was presented to Queen Victoria as a birthday gift

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle published his first Sherlock Holmes story, A Study in Scarlet

Eiffel Tower is inaugurated in Paris

The German government initiated the first public old-age pension scheme

For the first time, Fingerprinting was officially adopted

New Zealand became the first country to enact womens suffrage

First commercial film was released by Jean Aim Le Roy

Olympic Games revived in Athens, Greece

Britain obtained a 99-year lease of Hong Kong from China

Hawaii became an official USA territory

Theodore Roosevelt become the youngest President of the United States

In Stockholm (Sweden), the first Nobel Prize ceremony was held

Russian Japanese War

Albert Einsteins formulation of relativity

First commercial radio transmissions

Xinhai Revolution in China overthrows the Qing Dynasty

Woodrow Wilson elected as the 28th President of the United States

End of the Chinese Empire and Republic of China established

First Balkan War began

Second Balkan War and Treaty of Bucharest too place

Panama Canal opened

Gavrilo Princip assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria in Sarajevo that triggered the World War I

First use of poison gas at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle and Second Battle of Ypres

The implementation of daylight saving time system

The United States joined the Allies (countries) for the last 17 months of World War I

Russian Revolution ended the Russian Empire

End of World War I

Poland, Ukraine, and Belarus declared their independence from Russia

Treaty of Versailles redrew European borders

League of Nations founded in Paris

Greece restores its monarchy after a referendum

International Court of Justice founded at Hague in the Netherlands

Adolf Hitler became Fhrer (guide, leader) of the Nazi Party

The Turkish Grand National Assembly abolished Ottoman Sultanate

Time Magazine was published first time

The Caliphate was abolished by Kemal Atatrk

Death of Vladimir Lenin (of Russia); rise of Stalin

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation established under J Edgar Hoover

Mein Kampf (an autobiography of the National Socialist leader Adolf Hitler) was published

Benito Mussolini gains dictatorial powers in Italy and adopted the title of Duce

The BBC was granted a Royal Charter in the United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland officially became the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Joseph Stalin became leader of the Soviet Union

Mickey Mouse was created at the Walt Disney Studio

Vatican City has given the status of a sovereign State

Saint Valentines Day Massacre

Wall Street crash of 1929 and the beginning of the Great Depression

First FIFA World Cup hosted

Japan invaded Manchuria (China) and occupied it until the end of World War II

Statute of Westminster created the British Commonwealth of Nations

Construction of the Empire State Building

The Nazi party became the largest single party in the German parliament

Franklin D Roosevelt is elected President of the United States

Adolf Hitler became the Chancellor of Germany

Persia became Iran

The Irish Republican Army attempted to assassinate King George VI of the UK

Japanese invaded China

Munich agreement that handed over Czechoslovakia to Nazi Germany

Nazi invasion of Poland that triggered the beginning of World War II

Winston Churchill became the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Soviet Union annexes the Baltic states

Nazis invaded France, the Netherlands, Denmark and Norway

Attack on Pearl Harbor that forced the USA to join World War II

Hitler invaded the Soviet Union

Tehran Conference participated by Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin; all agreed to launch Operation Overlord

Battle of Stalingrad ended with over two million casualties and the retreat of the German Army

Green Revolution began

First operational electronic computer, Colossus, introduced

Chechen insurgency ended with deportation of the entire Chechen population

D Day (Military terms associated with Invasion of Normandy)

Death of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Adolf Hitler, and Benito Mussolini

Potsdam Conference (World War II) divided Europe into Western and Soviet blocs

End of World War II in Europe. The Holocaust ends after (about) 12 million deaths

United Nations founded

Yalta Conference

Battle of Berlin

Atomic bombing on Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Japan)

First images had been taken of the Earth from space

Division of North and South Korea

Beginning of apartheid in South Africa

Establishment of the Peoples Republic of China under the leadership of Mao Zedong

Germany partitioned as the Soviet socialist German Democratic Republic and the NATO-backed Federal Republic of Germany

Creation of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)

Treaty of San Francisco terminated the Occupation of Japan and formally concluded hostilities between Japan and the US

Egyptian Revolution under Gamal Abdel Nasser overthrew King Farouk and terminated British occupation

Stalin died

First time, the Soviet Union generated the electricity by nuclear power

Warsaw Pact signed

Beginning of the Space Age with the launch of Sputnik I

NASA, the US Federal Aviation Authority and Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) established

Cuban Revolution

Cuban missile crisis

Sino-Indian War

Assassination of John F Kennedy

Deaths of Winston Churchill

Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy assassinated while the Poor Peoples Campaign

Muammar Gaddafi overthrew King Idris of Libya in a Coup dtat and established the Libyan Arab Republic

First space station, Skylab, was launched

First Cricket World Cup hosted

First outbreak of the Ebola virus

Birth of the first test-tube baby

Margaret Thatcher became the Prime Minister of the UK

Mikhail Gorbachev became Premier of the Soviet Union

First use of DNA fingerprinting

Chernobyl disasters

Fall of the Berlin Wall

Gulf War began

After 27 years of imprisonment, Nelson Mandela released

Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web (WWW)

Dissolution of the Soviet Union and subsequent independence of 15 former Soviet republics

Gulf War ended after US withdrawal and failed uprising

Boris Yeltsin became the first President of the Russian Federation

The first Website has been put online and made available to the public

Maastricht Treaty created the European Union

Velvet divorce between Czech Republic and Slovakia

End of apartheid in South Africa and subsequent election of Nelson Mandela the great leader

Opening of the Channel Tunnel

Establishment of the World Trade Organization

Diana, Princess of Wales, was killed in a car accident in Paris, France

Transfer of sovereignty of Hong Kong from UK to China

Google is founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin

Euro is introduced

Wikipedia founded

Iraq War began that triggered worldwide protests

The space shuttle, Columbia, collapsed (while landing) nearby Texas (USA); all the seven astronauts (including Indian astronaut Kalpana Chawla) died in the accident

Angela Merkel became Germanys first woman Chancellor

Execution of Saddam Hussein

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf became the President of Liberia. She was the first elected female head of state in Africa

Monarchy system terminated in Nepal

Stock markets plunge across the world

The worlds tallest skyscraper, Burj Khalifa (in Dubai), has been built

The largest oil spill in US history occurred in the Gulf of Mexico

Iraq War ended

Osama bin Laden, Muammar Gaddafi, and Kim Jong-Il were killed

Deaths of Hugo Chvez, Nelson Mandela, and Margaret Thatcher

United States and Cuba resumed diplomatic relations

After the fall of Han Dynasty, three Kingdoms period begins in China

Jesus Christ crucified

The Germanic tribes defeated Roman army in the battle of Adrianople

Prophet Mohammed (the founder of Muslim religion) born

Sui Dynasty came in China

Muhammad had commenced preaching publicly in his hometown, Mecca

Muhammad Migrated from Mecca to Medina

Muhammad abandoned Saturday as the Sabbath and made Friday as special day of the week

Muhammad died

The Quran, the holy book, was published for the first time

The armies of Titus destructed Jerusalem

Origin of Saka Era in India

Mount Vesuvius erupted and destructed Pompeii and other towns (in Italy)

Scandinavians approached the island of Lindisfarne, Scotland by boat and they attacked monks and robbed their monastery. It is the first recorded raid by the Vikings

Gunpowder was invented

Terrorists destroyed the World Trade Center in New York City and damaged the Pentagon in Washington, DC