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More2380 BCE Urukagina, author of one of the first

codes of laws, reigns in Lagash

1760 BCE Hammurabi's code is published

17th century BCE Zarathustra, the founder ofZoroastrianism, lives

1812 BCE Abraham, the father of Judaism,Christianity, and Islam, is born

1235 BCE Sundiata Kieta becomes the King of Mali

1200 BCE Vyasa writes the Hindu Vedas

900-800 BCE Homer writes the Iliad and the Odyssey

594 BCE Solon is entrusted with writing a newAthenian constitution

563 BCE Siddhartha (Buddha) is born

554 BCE Confucius is born

550 BCE Lao-Tze, founder of Taoism, is born

550 BCE Cyrus overcomes the Medians in thePersians' first victory

434 BCE Peloponnesian War begins with Periclesas a leading Athenian statesman

360 BCE Plato publishes The Republic

335 BCE Aristotle builds his school of philosophyin Athens

329 BCE Alexander the Great defeats theAchaemenid Persian Empire

320 BCE Chandragupta found the Maurya Empire

273 BCE Reign of Ashoka begins in India

210 BCE Shi Huangdi, 1st emperor of China,founds the Qin dynasty

206 BCE-195 BCE Liu Bang, the first emperor of the Handynasty, reigns

63 BCE Cicero is elected Consul

49 BCE Julius Caesar becomes sole leader ofRome and dissolves the Roman Republic

27 BCE Octavian becomes the first Romanemperor

5 BCE Jesus is born

36 AD Paul's conversion to Christianity

272 AD Constantine, who would go on to beRoman emperor

496 AD Clovis, King of the Franks, converts toChristianity

570 AD Justinian becomes the ByzantineEmperor

604 AD Prince Shotoku publishes the SeventeenArticle Constitution in Japan

622 AD Muhammad leads the Hegira

732 AD Charles Martel leads the Franks to defeatthe Moors at the Battle of Tours

800 AD Charlemagne is crowned the first HolyRoman Emperor

1066 AD William the Conqueror begins his reignin England

1095 AD Pope Urban II calls for crusades to takeback the holy land

1187 AD Saladin takes back Jerusalem for theMuslims during the Crusades

1206 AD At the age of 42, Temujin takes the titleGenghis Khan, which means "UniversalRuler"

1270 AD Marco Polo departs on his voyage toChina

1324 AD Mansa Musa sets out of his famouspilgrimage to Mecca

1368 AD Hongwu founds the Ming Dynasty

1405 AD First voyage of Chinese explorer ZhengHe

1420 AD Portuguese explorers begin lookingaround

1431 AD Joan of Arc is burned at the stake at age19

1438 AD Pachacuti, the founder of the IncanEmpire, is born

1439 AD Johann Gutenberg invents the printingpress

1448 AD Moctezuma I becomes the fifth Aztecemperor

1492 AD Christopher Columbus "discovers" the"new world"

1497 AD John Cabot becomes the first explorer to"discover" North America

1503 AD Leonardo da Vinci is commissioned topaint the Mona Lisa

1509 AD Henry VIII becomes King of England

1519 AD Martin Luther posts the 95 Theses

1520 AD Suleyman the Magnificent becomesSultan

1534 AD Cartier lands in Canada

1536 AD John Calvin publishes the Institutes ofChristian Religion

1542 AD Akbar the Great, who would become anIndian ruler, was born

1558 AD Queen Elizabeth I becomes Queen ofEngland

1603 AD The reunification of Japan underTokugawa Ieyasu

1616 AD Galileo begins having difficulties withthe church

1637 AD Rene Descartes, the father of modernphilosophy, publishes his first works

1648 AD Taj Mahal is completed in India underthe direction of Shah Jahan

1652 AD Jan van Riebeck and other Dutch settlersfound Capetown

1653 AD Oliver Cromwell becomes the leader ofEngland after the English Civil War

1654 AD Louis XIV is crowned King of France

1682 AD Peter the Great becomes Czar of Russia

1687 AD Newton publishes the Principia

1689 AD John Locke publishes the Two Treatisesof Government

1762 AD Catherine the Great becomes ruler ofRussia

1764 AD Hargreaves invents the spinning jennyand kicks off the Industrial Revolution

1782 AD Mary Wollstonecraft wrote AVindication of Women's Rights

1793 AD Marie Antoinette is guillotined during theFrench Revolution

1804 AD Napoleon crowns himself emperor ofFrance

1812 AD Shaka Zulu creates the Zulu Empire

1819 AD Simon Bolivar founds Gran Colombiaafter liberating South America fromSpain

1842 AD King Leopold I tries and fails to pass achild labor law in Belgium

1848 AD Karl Marx and Fredrich Engels publishThe Communist Manifesto

1859 AD Charles Darwin publishes The Origin ofSpecies

1861 AD Victor Emmanuel II becomes the firstking of a united Italy

1871 AD Otto van Bismarck oversees thereunification of Germany

1876 AD Leo Tolstoy writes Anna Karenina

1877 AD Thomas Edison invents the phonograph

1889 AD Cecil Rhodes gets a license from theBritish government to rule southernAfrica

1907 AD Rachel Carson, author of Silent Spring, isborn

1914 AD Francis Ferdinand is assassinated,starting World War I

1917 AD V.I. Lenin seizes control of Russiaduring the Russian Revolution

1921 AD Albert Einstein receives the Nobel Prizefor physics

1922 AD Joseph Stalin becomes the leader of theUSSR after Lenin's death

1930 AD Gandhi leads the Salt March in India

1932 AD Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor ofGermany

1946 AD Ho Chi Minh becomes primeminister/president of North Vietnam

1946 AD Jawarhal Nehru is elected the firstpresident of post-colonial India

1949 AD Mao Tse-tung becomes the chairman ofthe People's Republic of China

1953 AD Nikita Kruschev comes to power in theSoviet Union

1959 AD Fidel Castro becomes leader of Cuba

1963 AD Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers the "IHave a Dream" speech during the marchto Washington

1990 AD Mikhail Gorbachev wins the Nobel PeacePrize for his work in ending the ColdWar

1994 AD Former prisoner Nelson Mandela iselected president of South Africa