Time | Event |
29 CE | Jesus Christ crucified |
70 CE | The armies of Titus destructed Jerusalem |
78 CE | Origin of Saka Era in India |
79 CE | Mount Vesuvius erupted and destructed Pompeii and other towns (in Italy) |
220 CE | After the fall of Han Dynasty, three Kingdoms period begins in China |
378 CE | The Germanic tribes defeated Roman army in the battle of Adrianople |
570 CE | Prophet Mohammed (the founder of Muslim religion) born |
581 CE | Sui Dynasty came in China |
613 CE | Muhammad had commenced preaching publicly in his hometown, Mecca |
622 CE | Muhammad Migrated from Mecca to Medina |
623 CE | Muhammad abandoned Saturday as the Sabbath and made Friday as special day of the week |
632 CE | Muhammad died |
660 CE | The Quran, the holy book, was published for the first time |
793 CE | 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 |
800 CE | Gunpowder was invented |
1050 CE | An ancient tool of navigation namely The astrolabe” was first used in Europe |
1077 CE | Construction of the London Tower began |
1117 CE | The University of Oxford is established |
1150 CE | The University of Paris is established |
1199 CE | Europeans first used compasses |
1209 CE | The University of Cambridge is established |
1215 CE | John of England sealed the “Magna Carta” |
1298 CE | Marco Polo published his itinerary of China, along with Rustichello da Pisa. |
1299 CE | Osman I established the Ottoman Empire |
1347 CE | 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. |
1389 CE | Battle of Kosovo (in Serbia) |
1397 CE | The Medici bank was established in Florence |
1461 CE | King Loius XI of France started postal service |
1492 CE | Christopher Columbus discovered a route going to the New World (i.e. Caribbean Islands and America) |
1498 CE | Vasco da Gama arrived India |
1503 CE | Leonardo da Vinci started making the painting of Mona Lisa; however, completed after three years |
1506 CE | Christopher Columbus died in Valladolid, Spain |
1632 CE | The city of Boston is founded |
1636 CE | Harvard University is established in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA |
1652 CE | Dutch East India Company founded the city Cape Town in South Africa |
1666 CE | The Great Fire of London |
1683 CE | China conquered the Kingdom of Tungning and annexes Taiwan |
1687 CE | Isaac Newton published “Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica” |
1694 CE | The Bank of England is established |
1697 CE | The earliest known first-class cricket match had taken place in Sussex |
1710 CE | The world’s first copyright legislation, Britain’s Statute of Anne (also known as Copyright Act 1709), took effect |
1724 CE | Japan began successful forest management reform and subsequently timber cutting was reduced |
1765 CE | In France, a twenty-eight volume of encyclopedia was completed |
1776 CE | In USA, second Continental Congress meeting and declaration of independence July 4) |
1781 CE | The Spanish settlers founded the city of Los Angeles |
1783 CE | In USA, King George declared the thirteen colonies as “free and independent” |
1783 CE | In USA, based on the state’s 1780 constitution, the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts ruled slavery illegal |
1785 CE | Napoleon Bonaparte became a lieutenant in the French artillery |
1787 CE | The United States Constitution is written in Philadelphia and submitted to the states for ratification |
1787 CE | The slaves freed from London established Freetown (West Africa) i.e. present-day Sierra Leone |
1795 CE | The first graphite pencils were used |
1789–1799 CE | French Revolution |
1797 CE | Napoleon’s invasion and partition of the Republic of Venice ended over 1,000 years of independence of the Serene Republic |
1801 CE | Napoleon (of France) defeated Austria |
1804 CE | Haiti attained its independence from France and became the first black republic |
1805 CE | In Milan (Italy), Napoleon was crowned as the King of Italy |
1805 CE | In the Battle of Austerlitz, Napoleon decisively defeated an Austrian-Russian army |
1814 CE | Napoleon abdicated and was exiled to Elba. |
1815 CE | Napoleon escaped; however, he was finally defeated at the Battle of Waterloo (in June) and exiled to Saint Helena Island |
1820 CE | Discovery of Antarctica |
1821 CE | Napoleon Bonaparte died (at Saint Helena Island, where he was exiled) |
1823 CE | Monroe Doctrine was declared by US President James Monroe |
1825 CE | The two railway station at Stockton and Darlington (the first public railway in the world) was opened |
1833 CE | Slavery Abolition Act banned slavery throughout the British Empire |
1835 CE | Vaccination became mandatory in Britain |
1838 CE | Charles Darwin developed the theory of evolutionary selection and specialization |
1840 CE | New Zealand is established, as the Treaty of Waitangi is signed between the Māori and British |
1841 CE | Richard Owen, first time, used the word “dinosaur” |
1842 CE | First time Anaesthesia was used |
1845-49 CE | The Irish Potato Famine that lead to the Irish diaspora |
1848-58 CE | California Gold Rush |
1848 CE | Karl Marx wrote Communist Manifesto |
1849 CE | Roman Republic’s constitutional law became the first to abolish capital punishment |
1854 CE | Crimean War (fought between Russia and Turkey) |
1856 CE | World’s first oil refinery founded in Romania |
1859-69 CE | Suez Canal constructed |
1859 CE | The first successful oil well was drilled in northern Pennsylvania (USA) |
1859 CE | John Tyndall, the British scientist, described the concept that the carbon dioxide (CO2) and water vapor trapping heat in the atmosphere. |
1861 CE | Russia abolished serfdom |
1861-65 CE | American Civil War, took place between the Union and seceding Confederacy |
1862 CE | The first paper money was issued in the United States |
1865 CE | President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln was assassinated |
1868 CE | Michael Barrett was the last person to be publicly hanged in England |
1869 CE | Dmitri Mendeleev created Periodic table |
1869 CE | The Suez Canal route opened that linking the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea |
1871 CE | Royal Albert Hall opened in London |
1872 CE | The first National Park i.e. Yellowstone National Park, is established |
1886 CE | Burma was presented to Queen Victoria as a birthday gift |
1886 CE | Karl Benz sold the first commercial automobile |
1887 CE | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle published his first Sherlock Holmes story, ‘A Study in Scarlet’ |
1889 CE | Eiffel Tower is inaugurated in Paris |
1891 CE | The German government initiated the first public old-age pension scheme |
1892 CE | For the first time, Fingerprinting was officially adopted. |
1893 CE | New Zealand became the first country to enact women’s suffrage |
1894 CE | First commercial film was released by Jean Aimé Le Roy |
1896 CE | Olympic Games revived in Athens, Greece |
1898 CE | Britain obtained a 99-year lease of Hong Kong from China |
1900 CE | Hawaii became an official USA territory |
1901 CE | In Stockholm (Sweden), the first Nobel Prize ceremony was held |
1901 CE | Theodore Roosevelt become the youngest President of the United States |
1904 CE | Russian Japanese War |
1905 CE | Albert Einstein’s formulation of relativity |
1908 CE | First commercial radio transmissions |
1911 CE | Xinhai Revolution in China overthrows the Qing Dynasty |
1912 CE | End of the Chinese Empire and Republic of China established |
1912 CE | First Balkan War began |
1912 CE | Woodrow Wilson elected as the 28th President of the United States |
1913 CE | Second Balkan War and Treaty of Bucharest too place |
1914 CE | Gavrilo Princip assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria in Sarajevo that triggered the World War I |
1914 CE | Panama Canal opened |
1915 CE | First use of poison gas at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle and Second Battle of Ypres |
1916 CE | The implementation of daylight saving time system |
1917 CE | Russian Revolution ended the Russian Empire |
1917 CE | The United States joined the Allies (countries) for the last 17 months of World War I |
1918 CE | End of World War I |
1918 CE | Poland, Ukraine, and Belarus declared their independence from Russia. |
1919 CE | Treaty of Versailles redrew European borders. |
1919 CE | League of Nations founded in Paris. |
1920 CE | Greece restores its monarchy after a referendum. |
1920 CE | International Court of Justice founded at Hague in the Netherlands. |
1921 CE | Adolf Hitler became Führer (guide, leader) of the Nazi Party. |
1922 CE | The Turkish Grand National Assembly abolished Ottoman Sultanate. |
1923 CE | Time Magazine was published first time |
1923 CE | Turkish War of Independence ended and Kemal Atatürk became the first President of the newly established Republic of Turkey. Capital was moved from Istanbul to Ankara |
1924 CE | Death of Vladimir Lenin (of Russia); rise of Stalin. |
1924 CE | The Caliphate was abolished by Kemal Atatürk. |
1924 CE | The US Federal Bureau of Investigation established under J Edgar Hoover. |
1925 CE | Benito Mussolini gains dictatorial powers in Italy and adopted the title of ‘Duce’. |
1925 CE | Mein Kampf (an autobiography of the National Socialist leader Adolf Hitler) was published. |
1927 CE | Joseph Stalin became leader of the Soviet Union. |
1927 CE | The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland officially became the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. |
1927 CE | The BBC was granted a Royal Charter in the United Kingdom. |
1928 CE | Mickey Mouse was created at the Walt Disney Studio. |
1929 CE | Wall Street crash of 1929 and the beginning of the Great Depression |
1929 CE | Vatican City has given the status of a sovereign State. |
1929 CE | Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre. |
1930 CE | First FIFA World Cup hosted |
1931 CE | Construction of the Empire State Building |
1931 CE | Statute of Westminster created the British Commonwealth of Nations |
1931 CE | Japan invaded Manchuria (China) and occupied it until the end of World War II |
1932 CE | Franklin D Roosevelt is elected President of the United States |
1932 CE | The Nazi party became the largest single party in the German parliament |
1933 CE | Adolf Hitler became the Chancellor of Germany |
1935 CE | Persia became Iran |
1937 CE | Japanese invaded China |
1937 CE | The Irish Republican Army attempted to assassinate King George VI of the UK |
1938 CE | Munich agreement that handed over Czechoslovakia to Nazi Germany |
1939 CE | Nazi invasion of Poland that triggered the beginning of World War II |
1940 CE | Nazis invaded France, the Netherlands, Denmark and Norway |
1940 CE | Soviet Union annexes the Baltic states |
1940 CE | Winston Churchill became the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom |
1941 CE | Attack on Pearl Harbor that forced the USA to join World War II |
1941 CE | Hitler invaded the Soviet Union |
1943 CE | Battle of Stalingrad ended with over two million casualties and the retreat of the German Army |
1943 CE | Tehran Conference participated by Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin; all agreed to launch Operation Overlord. |
1943 CE | Green Revolution began. |
1944 CE | Chechen insurgency ended with deportation of the entire Chechen population. |
1944 CE | First operational electronic computer Colossus was introduced |
1944 CE | D Day (Military terms associated with Invasion of Normandy) |
1945 CE | Battle of Berlin |
1945 CE | Yalta Conference |
1945 CE | Atomic bombing on Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Japan) |
1945 CE | End of World War II in Europe. The Holocaust ends after (about) 12 million deaths |
1945 CE | Death of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Adolf Hitler, and Benito Mussolini |
1945 CE | Potsdam Conference (World War II) divided Europe into Western and Soviet blocs |
1945 CE | United Nations founded |
1946 CE | First images had been taken of the Earth from space |
1948 CE | Beginning of apartheid in South Africa |
1948 CE | Division of North and South Korea |
1949 CE | Creation of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) |
1949 CE | Germany partitioned as the Soviet socialist German Democratic Republic and the NATO-backed Federal Republic of Germany |
1949 CE | Establishment of the People’s Republic of China under the leadership of Mao Zedong |
1951 CE | Treaty of San Francisco terminated the Occupation of Japan and formally concluded hostilities between Japan and the US |
1952 CE | Egyptian Revolution under Gamal Abdel Nasser overthrew King Farouk and terminated British occupation |
1953 CE | Stalin died |
1954 CE | First time, the Soviet Union generated the electricity by nuclear power |
1955 CE | Warsaw Pact signed |
1957 CE | Beginning of the Space Age with the launch of Sputnik I |
1958 CE | NASA, the US Federal Aviation Authority and Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) established |
1959 CE | Cuban Revolution |
1962 CE | Cuban missile crisis |
1962 CE | Sino-Indian War |
1963 CE | Assassination of John F Kennedy |
1965 CE | Deaths of Winston Churchill |
1968 CE | Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy assassinated while the Poor People’s Campaign |
1969 CE | Muammar Gaddafi overthrew King Idris of Libya in a Coup d’état and established the Libyan Arab Republic |
1973 CE | First space station, Skylab, was launched |
1975 CE | First Cricket World Cup hosted |
1976 CE | First outbreak of the Ebola virus |
1978 CE | Birth of the first test-tube baby |
1979 CE | Margaret Thatcher became the Prime Minister of the UK |
1985 CE | Mikhail Gorbachev became Premier of the Soviet Union |
1985 CE | First use of DNA fingerprinting |
1986 CE | Chernobyl disasters |
1989 CE | Fall of the Berlin Wall |
1990 CE | Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web (WWW) |
1990 CE | Gulf War began |
1990 CE | After 27 years of imprisonment, Nelson Mandela released |
1991 CE | Gulf War ended after US withdrawal and failed uprising |
1991 CE | Dissolution of the Soviet Union and subsequent independence of 15 former Soviet republics |
1991 CE | Boris Yeltsin became the first President of the Russian Federation |
1991 CE | The first Website has been put online and made available to the public |
1992 CE | Maastricht Treaty created the European Union |
1993 CE | Velvet divorce between Czech Republic and Slovakia |
1994 CE | End of apartheid in South Africa and subsequent election of Nelson Mandela the great leader |
1994 CE | Opening of the Channel Tunnel |
1995 CE | Establishment of the World Trade Organization |
1997 CE | Transfer of sovereignty of Hong Kong from UK to China |
1997 CE | Diana, Princess of Wales, was killed in a car accident in Paris, France |
1998 CE | Google is founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin |
1999 CE | Euro is introduced |
2001 CE | Terrorists destroyed the World Trade Center in New York City and damaged the Pentagon in Washington, DC |
2001 CE | Wikipedia founded. |
2003 CE | Iraq War began that triggered worldwide protests. |
2003 CE | The space shuttle, Columbia, collapsed (while landing) nearby Texas (USA). |
2005 CE | Angela Merkel became Germany’s first woman Chancellor. |
2006 CE | Ellen Johnson Sirleaf became the President of Liberia. She was the first elected female head of state in Africa. |
2006 CE | Execution of Saddam Hussein. |
2008 CE | Stock market’s plunge across the world. |
2008 CE | Monarchy system terminated in Nepal. |
2009 CE | The world’s tallest skyscraper, Burj Khalifa (in Dubai), has been built. |
2010 | The largest oil spill in US history occurred in the Gulf of Mexico. |
2011 CE | Osama bin Laden, Muammar Gaddafi, and Kim Jong-Il were killed. |
2011 CE | Iraq War ended. |
2013 CE | Deaths of Hugo Chavez, Nelson Mandela, and Margaret Thatcher. |
2015 CE | United States and Cuba resumed diplomatic relations. |