World History

"History may not repeat itself, but it does rhyme."

- Mark Twain

Age of God-Kings

Ancient China -+- Ancient Egypt -+- Ancient Greece -+- Ancient India -+- Ancient Israel -+- Ancient Korea -+- Ancient Rome -+- Ancient Sumeria

Age of Monarchs

American Empire -+- Assyrian Empire -+- Austro-Hungarian Empire -+- Aztec Empire -+- Babylonian Empire -+- British Empire -+- Byzantine Empire -+- Chinese Empire -+- Frankish Empire -+- Holy Roman Empire -+- Inca Empire -+- Japanese Empire -+- Mauryan Empire -+- Maya Empire -+- Mongol Empire -+- Mughal Empire -+- Napoleonic Empire -+- Ottoman Empire -+- Parthian Empire -+- Persian Empire -+- Roman Empire -+- Russian Empire -+- Sassanid Empire -+- Spanish Empire -+- Timurid Empire -+- Yamato Empire

Age of Nation-States

American History -+- Brazilian History -+- British History -+- Bulgarian History -+- Danish History -+- Canadian History -+- Chinese History -+- Finnish History -+- French History -+- German History -+- Indian History -+- Irish History -+- Japanese History -+- Korean History -+- Russian History -+- Scottish History -+- South African History -+- Spanish History -+- Vietnamese History -+- Welsh History

Military History

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• 49 BC - Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, signalling the beginning of the end of the Roman Rebublic.
• 4 BC - Jesus Christ is born.

• 29 - Jesus Christ is killed.
• 79 - An eruption of Mount Vesuvius destroys the Roman towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum.

• 413-426 - Saint Augustine writes The City of God.

• 712 - The Kojiki is the earliest known example of written Japanese.

• 1066 - The Norman Conquest of England.

• 1167 - Oxford University is established.

• 1348-1350 - The Black Death kills one-third of Europe.

• 1421 - Chinese eunuch Zheng He leads a Treasure Fleet as far as Zanzibar on the west coast of Africa.
• 1455 - Johann Gutenberg prints the Bible using a movable type printing press.
• 1492 - Christopher Columbus "discovers" the Americas. Ferdinand and Isabella complete the reconquest of Spain by driving the last Moors out of Granada, and also expell the Jews from Spain.

• 1517 - Martin Luther nails his 95 Theses to the door of the castle church in Wittenberg, initiating the Protestant Reformation.
• 1582 - The Roman Catholic world adopts the Gregorian Calendar.
• 1588 - The Spanish Armada attempts to invade England.
• 1592-1593 - Toyotomi Hideyoshi's first invasion of Korea.
• 1597-1598 - Toyotomi Hideyoshi's second invasion of Korea.

• 1600 - Tokugawa Ieyasu secures his control of Japan by defeating Ishida Mitsunari at the Battle of Sekigahara.
• 1605 - In the Gunpowder Plot, Guy Fawkes and co-conspirators are thwarted in their attempt to blow up English king James I.
• 1607 - English colonists found Jamestown, Virginia, the first permanent English settlement in the New World.
• 1615 - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra completes his novel Don Quixote.
• 1618 - The Thirty Years' War begins.
• 1636 - Harvard University is founded.
• 1692 - Salem Witch Trials.

• 1769 - James Watt invents the modern steam engine.
• 1776 - The Declaration of Independence is signed by the Continental Congress.
• 1789 - The French Revolution begins.
• 1793 - Eli Whitney invents the cotton gin, which accelerates the growth of a cotton-centric slave economy in the American South.

• 1839-1842 - The Opium War fatally weakens the Qing Dynasty, although it will linger for another 70 years.
• 1850-1865 - The Taiping Rebellion of disaffected Chinese peasants costs 20 million lives.
• 1854 - The arrival of US commodore Matthew Perry's "black ships" forces The Opening of Japan.
• 1861-1865 - American Civil War
• 1868 - Meiji Restoration - disaffected samurai topple the Tokugawa shogunate and set Japan on a new course of modernization and westernization.

• 1903 - The Wright Brothers make the first successful flight of an airplane on the beach at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
• 1912 - The luxury liner Titanic strikes an iceberg in the north Atlantic and sinks.
• 1914-1918 - World War I wracks Europe, taking over 8 million lives.
• 1917 - The Russian Revolution sets Russia on a path toward Bolshevism.
• 1918 - An influenza epidemic sweeps the globe, killing 25 million.
• 1923 - The Great Tokyo Earthquake kills 100,000 people.
• 1928 - Alexander Flemming discovers penicillin.
• 1929-1939 - The Great Depression devastates the worldwide economy.
• 1937 - The German zeppelin Hindenburg explodes and crashes at Lakehurst, New Jersey, ending the age of the great rigid airships.
• 1939-1945 - World War II kills more than 50 million people.
  • 1939 - Germany invades Poland.
  • 1940 - Germany invades France and attcks Great Britain.
  • 1941 - Germany invades the Soviet Union. Japan attacks Pearl Harbor.
  • 1942 - The Japanese advance is checked at the Battle of Midway.
  • 1943 - The Allies invade Italy.
  • 1944 - In the D-Day operation, Allied forces land in Normandy.
  • 1945 - Germany surrenders. America drops Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Japan surrenders, ending World War II.
• 1949 - Mao Zedong declares the People's Republic of China.
• 1957 - The Soviet Union successfully launches Sputnik, the world's first artificial satellite, setting off the Space Race.
• 1958-1960 - In the Great Leap Forward, Mao Zedong attempts to jumpstart China's industrialization at the expense of agriculture. Instead, 30 million starve to death.
• 1962 - The Cuban Missile Crisis brings the United States and the Soviet Union to the brink of war.
• 1969 - American astronaut Neil Armstrong becomes the first human to walk on the Moon.
• 1966-1976 - In the Cultural Revolution, Mao Zedong and the "Gang of Four" unleash the Red Guards to "purify" Chinese communism. A killing spree ensues, halted only by Mao's death in 1976.
• 1999 - Everything2.

• 2001 - The 9/11 terrorist attack on the United States leads to dramatic changes in US foreign and domestic policies.
• 2004 - A tsunami in the Indian Ocean kills 300,000 people.
• 2008-2009 - A massive housing bubble in the United States collapses, precipitating the Great Recession.