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Miscellaneous Stuff
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Historic and Prehistoric Timeline
2010 |
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2008 |
Barack Obama elected (first black president) |
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2005 |
Human Genome Mapped (92%) |
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2001 |
World Trade Center attack puts Al Queda on the map |
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2000 |
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1990 |
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1989 |
Fall of Berlin Wall and Tiananmen Square Protests mark the Collapse of Communism World Wide Web started by Tim Berners-Lee |
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1984 |
Macintosh computer introduced |
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1981 |
AIDS identified |
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1974 |
Nixon resigns |
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1973 |
OPEC oil embargo |
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1972 |
Normalization of relatations between U.S. and China begins, following Nixon's visit to China, and U.S. acceptance of Taiwan as part of China |
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1970 |
AD | EPA was created |
1969 |
First man on the moon, Neil Armstrong |
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1968 |
MLK assassinated |
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1960 |
Birth-control pill approved by FDA |
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1957 |
First satellite, Sputnik 1 |
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1955 |
Rosa Parks arrested for refusing to relinquish her bus seat to a white man. |
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1947 |
Transistor invented |
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1945 |
First atomic bomb explosion |
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1941 |
FCC approves NTSC TV standard |
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1929 |
Stock Market Crash (Start of the Great Depression) |
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1928 |
Penicillin discovered |
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1920 |
19th ammendment - Women's right to vote |
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1913 |
Henry Ford uses assembly line to manufacture the Model T |
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1905 |
Albert Einstein published Special Theory of Relativity |
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1903 |
First Flight, Wilbur and Orville Wright |
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1900 |
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1865 |
13th Amendment - Slavery Abolished |
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1859 |
Darwin's Origin of the Species published |
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1837 |
Samuel Morse patents telegraph (early practical use of electricity) |
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1776 |
Declaration of Independence |
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1704 |
Calculus explained in papers by Newton |
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1701 |
Smallpox vaccine developed in Turkey |
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1700 |
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1687 |
Laws of Motion Published by Newton |
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1620 |
Mayflower lands at Plymouth rock |
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1572 |
End of Inca empire |
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1521 |
End of Aztec empire |
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1492 |
Columbus discovers America |
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1342 |
Black Plague (bubonic - kills 1/3 of Europe) |
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1248 |
Start of Aztec empire |
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1200 |
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1195 |
Start of Inca empire |
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1150 |
End of Chaco Canyon |
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900 |
End of Mayan Civilization / Start of Chaco Canyon |
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610 |
Muhammad, founder of Islam receives revelation |
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325 |
Council of Nicea - start of Catholic Church |
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250 |
Start of Mayan Civilization |
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28 |
AD | Jesus begins Ministry (continued for about 2 years) |
0 |
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211 |
BC | Start of Qin Dynasty, 1st unification of China (Chinese terra cotta warriors) |
338 |
End of Egypt's 31st Dynasty |
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508 |
People of Athens uprise to choose their leader (birth of democracy), lasts until 404bc |
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528 |
Buddha finds enlightenment |
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1700 |
Abraham believes God's promise and becomes the father of Judaism |
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2000 |
Start of 1st Chinese Dynasty |
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3000 |
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3100 |
Begin of Egypt's 1st dynasty |
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10,000 |
BC | End of Last Ice Age (Terminal Pleistocene) |
10,500 |
Oldest known human artifacts in the Americas - Monte Verde, Peru |
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30,000 |
BC | Neanderthal man disappears |
30,000 |
French cave paintings |
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40,000 |
Modern Humans appear |
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50,000 |
Beginning of Last Ice Age (Terminal Pleistocene) |
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100,000 |
BC | Neanderthal man appears |
300,000 |
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1 M |
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2 M |
Andromeda galaxy, nearest galaxy to ours, emitted light we see today |
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3 M |
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4 M |
Oldest known "human", Ardipithecus Ramidus (found in Ethiopia) |
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10 M |
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30 M |
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65 M |
Meteor causes mass extinction of dinosaurs |
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66 M |
End of Mesazoic Era / Beginning of Cenozoic Era (age of mammals) |
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100 M |
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245 M |
End of Paleozoic Era / Beginning of Mesazoic Era (age of reptiles) |
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300 M |
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570 M |
Beginning of Paleozoic Era (age of fishes) |
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1 B |
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3 B |
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3.5 B |
Oldest known life on earth (prokaryotic fossils) |
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5 B |
Earth Formed |
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10 B |
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15 B |
Big Bang |