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9999 BCE
Hercules the 'god'
He is fake but this is the myth. Heracles had a 'god' as one of his parents, being the son of the supreme god, Zeus and a normal woman. Zeus's queen Hera was jealous of Heracles, and when he was still a baby she sent two snakes to kill him in his crib. Heracles was found strangling a snake in each hand. -
7000 BCE
The Indus Valley
The people of the Indus Valley were very artsy. They loved making all sorts of things including: Jewelry, dolls and toys, cities, boats, dishes, beads made of soapstone, shells, agate, ceramic and a bunch of other thing like clay and and ceramic pots and things -
7000 BCE
The Indus Valley
The Indus Valley was founded in 7000 BC and they made cities and the entire population was probably about 5 million people! The Indus Valley is conquered by the Persians in 530 BC.
The people who lived in the Indus River Valley did not really have a good balance between rich people and poor people. A rich person would be considered one of the highest people. But a poor person would be looked down on and mistreated. -
776 BCE
The First Year of the Olympic games
The games were every four years in Olympia in honor of the 'god' Zeus. Some of the sports include; wrestling, jumping, chariot racing.
A crown of olive branches is given to the winner of the games. -
753 BCE
The Founding of Rome
On April 21, 753 B.C., Supposedly, Romulus and his twin brother, Remus, found Rome where they were raised by a wolf as orphaned infants. -
1085
The Domesday Book
The Domesday Book is a huge overview of land and events in the Medieval Times written by William I and it provides a large prospective of important events around then. -
Period: 1096 to 1212
Crusades in the Medieval Times
In 1095, Arabs took Jerusalem and they would not let Jews or Christians in the city. The Pope did not like this so he rallied over 30,000 knights to take back the city.
They traveled there, traveling there took two years, and they fought for three months until they won and took Jerusalem back.
After that there were a total of eight more crusades, ending in the Children's Crusade. (See The Children's Crusade) -
Period: 1159 to 1171
Genghis Khan
Genghis Khan grew up on the harsh plains of Mongolia. His real name was Temujin, which meant "finest steel". His father was the leader or the Khan of his tribe. He liked hunting and he rode horses at young age.
At the age of nine, he was sent to live with his future wife, Borte, at her tribes camp. A few years later, he found his father had been poisoned so he returned to take up the role as the Khan. -
1206
The Mongols
The Mongol Empire was founded by Temujin (Also known as Genghis Khan meaning, ruler of all) Today they are known as Mongolians. -
1212
The Children's Crusade
The Children's Crusade was the final of the crusades.
It started because a boy named Nicholas believed that only children could retake Jerusalem from the Arabs. So he led 50,000 children over the Alps and into Italy to take a boat to Palestine. Only about 2000 or 3000 children went sailing to Palestine.
Many of the kids died on the way to the harbor and while they were at the harbor many of them were sold into slavery.
Most of the kids didn't even get to see their homes again. -
Period: 1234 to 1234
Genghis Khan continued
When he returned home, he found that his family had been betrayed. One of the warriors from his tribe took the role as Khan and kicked Temujin and his family out of the tribe -
1300
The Aztecs
The Aztecs appeared in Mesoamerican the early 1300's. They came just after, or maybe helped bring the fall of the previously dominant Mesoamerican peoples, the Toltecs. -
1300
The Ottomans
The Ottoman Empire began at the very end of the 13th century with multiple raids from Turkic warriors led by Osman I, a prince whose father had established a power base in Söğüt (near Bursa, Turkey). -
Period: 1340 to 1550
The Italian Renaissance
The Italian Renaissance was a period in Italian history covering the 15th and 16th centuries. The period is known for the initial development of the broader Renaissance culture that spread across Europe and marked the transition from the Middle Ages to modernity. -
Period: 1346 to 1353
The Black Death
The Black Death was one of worst viruses in the history of viruses.
In the course of four years, the disease killed off twenty-five million people. -
1436
Johann Gutenberg's printing press
Johann Gutenberg's invention of portable printing quickened the spread of knowledge and discoveries in Renaissance Europe. The printing revolution also contributed a lot to the Protestant Reformation that split the Catholic Church. -
1454
The Italian Wars
There was no major issue. The countries involved did not fight to gain more territories or land but simply to satisfy a thirst for war and gain influence. There was a tradition which had held over
from the Dark Ages, that there should always be war, and if there was peace, war should be created to keep the people occupied. -
Period: Mar 22, 1455 to Jun 16, 1487
The War of the Roses
Waged between 1455 and 1485, the Wars of the Roses got its name because the white rose was the badge of the Yorks, and the red rose was the badge of the Lancastrians. After 30 years of violence and brief periods of peace, the wars ended and a new royal line emerged. -
Feb 19, 1473
Nicolaus Copernicus
Notable contribution: Heliocentric theory of the universe
The Polish astronomer revolutionized astronomy by challenging what people had commonly thought since ancient times. Copernicus brought up a new model of the universe, one where the planets revolved around the Sun instead of everything revolving around Earth. But his heliocentric model of the universe wasn't really correct—his planets had circular orbits—and was slow to catch on, it later became an accepted thought -
1517
The Reformation
The Reformation was a religious event of the Renaissance period. In fact it was because of the pressure in the renaissance period. In the middle ages the church important, and without it life was not worth living for. The pope, who was supposedly the spiritual descendant of Peter, held spirituality of entire nations and their rulers in the palm of his hand. -
Period: 1552 to
Sir Walter Raleigh
Sir Walter Raleigh was born in 1552 and was raised in a farmhouse near the village of East Budleigh in Devon, England. Raleigh studied at Oxford before serving in the Huguenot army in France. He was one of the most famous explorers of Elizabeth I's reign. His courage made him a favorite of the Queen's. She rewarded him handsomely. Raleigh was also a scholar and a poet, but he is usually remembered for introducing the essential potato, and the addictive tobacco. -
Feb 15, 1564
Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de' Galilei
While Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei is often incorrectly named the inventor of the telescope, he did improve the design of the telescope a lot. This had major consequences, it allowed Galileo to discover Saturn's rings and Jupiter's four largest moons. In addition, he recorded the phases of Venus and was the first person to see the craters on the Moon. -
Dec 27, 1571
Johannes Kepler
Kepler's First Law said that planets move in elliptical paths around the Sun. He also discovered that planets move proportionally faster in their orbits when they are closer to the Sun; this became Kepler's Second Law. -
The Salem Witch Trials
Women were tortured and tested to see if they were a witch or they were participating in any witchcraft. -
The Mayflower
Mayflower was an English ship that transported a group of English families, known today as the Pilgrims, from England to the New World in 1620. -
Christiaan Huygens
Astronomer, Christiaan Huygens, studied the rings of Saturn and discovered its largest moon, Titan. As an engineer and inventor, he improved the design of telescopes and invented the pendulum clock, the most accurate timekeeper for almost 300 years. -
Sir Isaac Newton
More than just discovering the laws of gravity, Sir Isaac Newton was also responsible for working out many of the principles of visible light and the laws of motion -
Edmond Halley
Halley discovered the nature of comets' orbits and calculated the distance from Earth to the Sun and predicted the return of one comet, later known as Halley's Comet. This calculation used to determine the size of the solar system. -
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Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin was an American polymath who was active as a writer, scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat, printer, publisher, and political philosopher. -
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James Cook
James Cook, (born October 27, 1728, Yorkshire, England—died February 14, 1779, Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii), British naval captain, navigator, and explorer who sailed the seaways and coasts of Canada (1759, 1763–67) and went on three expeditions to the Pacific Ocean (1768–71, 1772–75, 1776–79) -
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Daniel Boone
Daniel Boone was an American pioneer and frontiersman whose exploits made him one of the first folk heroes of the United States. Boone became famous for his exploration and settlement of what is now Kentucky, which was then beyond the western borders of the Thirteen Colonies. -
Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel
German astronomer, William Herschel, built his first telescope in the late 18th century and spent nine years doing extensive observations of the sky with his sister Caroline Herschel. Along the way, he published two catalogs of nebulae with 7,500 objects and discovered the planet Uranus, making him the first astronomer since antiquity to find a planet. He also realized that the solar system moved through space and even discovered infrared radiation while using filters to look at sunspots. -
Causes of the French and Indian War
Although struggles for supremacy had been going on for many decades between France and England in the New World, hostilities intensified in the early 1750's as both English and French settlers had attempted to colonize land in the Ohio River Valley, near present day Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. -
Causes of the French and Indian War
The English settlers, who had moved northwest from Virginia, and French settlers, who had moved east from the Great Lakes, or south from Canada, each thought they owned the rights to the land. In 1754, English forces under George Washington had begun their march to Fort Duquesne for the purposes of ousting the French from the region by force. On the way, they encountered a French scouting party near present-day Uniontown, Pennsylvania. -
The French and Indian War
Washington's men massacred the party in what came to be known as The Battle of Jumonville Glen. Washington soon took camp at Great Meadows, a large natural clearing, and ordered the construction of Fort Necessity in anticipation of a French response. The French did respond, as 600 soldiers forced Washington to surrender the fort. The French and Indian War had begun. -
Pontiac's War
Pontiac's War was launched in 1763 by a loose confederation of Native Americans unsatisfied with the British rule in the Great Lakes region following the French and Indian War. Warriors from a couple different nations joined in an effort to drive British soldiers and settlers out of the region. -
The Proclamation Line of 1763
The Proclamation Line of 1763 was a British-made boundary in the Appalachian Mountains at the Eastern Continental Divide. Announced on October 7, 1763, the Proclamation Line stopped British-American colonists from settling on lands gotten from the French following the French and Indian War. -
The Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest that occurred on December 16, 1773, at Griffin's Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts. American colonists, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Company into the harbor. -
Battle of Trenton
For the most part, and with the exception of the publication of the Declaration of Independence, 1776 had been a brutal year for Patriot morale. The Continental Army had been routed in and around New York City, suffering tremendous casualties. Morale was low and the ragtag Continental army was forced to retreat through New Jersey to the west side of the Delaware River into Pennsylvania. On the other side of the river, in Trenton, NJ, were three regiments of German soldiers numbering about 1,400. -
The most important American Right
The First Amendment, perhaps the broadest and most famous of the Bill of Rights, establishes a range of political and civil rights including those of free speech, assembly, press, and religion. -
The US
The US was colonized on July 4, 1776 and still lives to this day in 2022 which means America has been standing for 246 years or 89,773 days. -
Saratoga, New York
News of the momentous British defeat spread quickly through the colonies and fueled speculation that the French government would now seriously consider entering the conflict on the American side. For months, rumors have suggested that Louis XVI needed solid proof of the strength of the revolution before he would officially commit French military aid to the cause. The British defeat at Saratoga could very well buy that help. -
The U.S Constitution
The Constitution of the United States is the foundation of our Federal Government. It is often called the supreme or highest law of the land; no law may be passed that contradicts its principles. At the same time, it is flexible and allows for changes in the Government. The Constitution is known as a “living” document because it can be amended, although in over 200 years there have only been 27 amendments. -
YORKTOWN, VIRGINIA
Charles Lord Cornwallis today signed orders surrendering his British Army to a combined French and American force outside the Virginia tobacco port of Yorktown. Cornwallis' second-in-command, Charles O'Hara, attempted to deliver Cornwallis's sword to French general, Comte de Rochambeau. But Rochambeau directed O'Hara to American General George Washington, who coolly steered the British officer to Washington's own second in command, Major General Benjamin Lincoln. -
The Louisiana Purchase
The Louisiana Purchase is considered the greatest real estate deal in history. The United States purchased the Louisiana Territory from France at a price of $15 million, or approximately four cents an acre. The Louisiana Purchase Treaty was signed in Paris on April 30, 1803. The ratification of the treaty by the Senate on October 20, 1803, doubled the size of the United States and opened up the continent to its westward expansion. -
Lewis and Clark
The Lewis and Clark Expedition, also known as the Corps of Discovery Expedition, was the United States expedition to cross the newly acquired western portion of the country after the Louisiana Purchase. -
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was born in a log cabin in Kentucky on February 12, 1809, to parents who could neither read nor write. He went to school on and off for a total of about a year, but he educated himself by reading borrowed books. When Lincoln was nine years old, his mother died of milk sickness -
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Trail of Tears
The Trail of Tears was an ethnic cleansing and forced displacement of approximately 60,000 people of the "Five Civilized Tribes" between 1830 and 1850 by the United States government. -
The Oregon Trail
Free land in Oregon and the possibility of finding gold in California lured the emigrants westward. At the same time, eastern churches wanted to teach American Indians of the Oregon Country their European ideas of "civilization." Many simply hoped for a chance to start a new life. -
The Gold Rush
The California Gold Rush was a gold rush that began on January 24, 1848, when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California. The news of gold brought approximately 300,000 people to California from the rest of the United States -
The Civil War
One hundred and 50 years ago, the United States began its most difficult test. On April 12, 1861, Confederate soldiers attacked a U.S. military fort near Charleston, S.C., and a war began that tore the nation and many families apart. -
The Emancipation Proclamation
President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." -
Abraham Lincoln Presidency
As President, he built the Republican Party into a strong national organization. Further, he rallied most of the northern Democrats to the Union cause. On January 1, 1863, he issued the Emancipation Proclamation that declared forever free those slaves within the Confederacy. -
Henrietta Swan Leavitt
While working at the Harvard College Observatory along with Annie Jump Cannon, Henrietta Swan Leavitt made a discovery that would change astronomy. She discovered the correlation between Period and Luminosity. This knowledge allowed astronomers to use these stars as a distance marker, and therefore, measure the distance from Earth to faraway galaxies. -
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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi aka Gandhi
Indian lawyer, politician, social activist, and writer who became the leader of the group or movement against the British rule of India -
Africa
There are 54 countries in Africa which include:
Algeria
Angola
Benin
Botswana
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cameroon
Cape Verde
Central African Republic
Chad
Camoros
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Republic of the Congo
Djibouti
Egypt
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Gabon
Gambia
Ghana
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Ivory Coast
Kenya
Lesotho
Liberia
Libya
more that I can't name cuz it won't let me -
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity changed science forever. His theory replaced much of Isaac Newton's theory of mechanics. Einstein's theory of general relativity became central to astronomy, helping describe black holes, neutron stars and other things. And he confirmed that the universe is expanding, with parts of it moving faster than the speed of light. -
Edwin Powell Hubble
When it was thought that the Milky Way was the only galaxy in existence, Edwin Hubble proved otherwise. When working at the Mount Wilson Observatory in California, he discovered the Andromeda and Triangulum Galaxies. He also organized galaxies into three classes still used today—spiral, elliptical, and lenticular. -
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The life of Max Ernst
Max Ernst was born April 2 in Brühl, Germany. and he died on April 1 1976 -
UK
The United Kingdom, made up of England, Scotland, Wales and multiple other places is the birthplace of Shakespeare and The Beatles and is home to the capital, London. -
Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol was an American artist, film director, and producer who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art -
Communism
By vigorously pursuing this policy, the United States might be able to contain communism within its current borders. The policy became known as the Truman Doctrine, as the President outlined these intentions with his want for monetary aid for Greece and Turkey. -
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The Battle of Britain
The Battle Of Britain was a famous battle where the Germans tried to destroy England's Air Force. The Germans bombed the British ships in the English Channel. They bombed factories where the planes were built, and bombed harbors where their fleets were kept. there were 500 pilots killed and 800 planes destroyed. After several months of attacks the battle ended with the British striking back and giving the Germans severe damage then the Germans switched to bombing cities instead of the machines. -
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The Blitz
On the 7th September, 1940 the German air force changed its strategy of bombing the British air force (Battle of Britain) and began to concentrate on bombing London. Nearly 2,000 people were killed or wounded in London's first night of the Blitz. . Night after night, from September 1940 until May 1941, German bombers attacked British cities, ports and industrial areas. London was bombed ever day and night, bar one, for 11 weeks. One third of London was destroyed. -
The Attack On Pearl Harbor
Japanese planes attacked the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory. The bombing killed more than 2,300 Americans. It completely destroyed the American battleship U.S.S. The Japanese surprise attack on US military installations at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, happened 77 years ago today in 1941. The attack, which killed more than 2,300 US service members and 68 civilians, ushered in the US's involvement in World War II. -
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D-Day
On D-Day, 6 June 1944, Allied forces launched a combined naval, air and land assault on Nazi-occupied France. The 'D' in D-Day stands simply for 'day' and the term was used to describe the first day of any large military operation. The assault phase of Operation Overlord was known as Operation Neptune. Operation Neptune began on D-Day and ended on 30 June 1944. By this time, the Allies had established a firm foothold in Normandy. -
The death of FDR
Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972) was the 33rd president of the United States from 1945 to 1953, succeeding upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt after serving as vice president. Franklin Dalano Roosevelt was 63 when he died, and once he died Truman took over as president. -
Harry S. Trumans Marshall Plan
President Truman created the Marshall Plan to stop the US from being an isolationist country and to get more involved with the affairs of the world. On April 3, 1948, President Truman signed the Economic Recovery Act of 1948. It became known as the Marshall Plan, named for Secretary of State George Marshall. -
Mccarthyism
McCarthyism is the practice of making accusations of treason without proper evidence. The term refers to U.S. senator Joseph McCarthy and has its origins in the period in the United States known as the Second Red Scare, lasting from the late 1940s through the 1950s -
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The Vietnam War
The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, and in Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America or simply the American War, was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. -
The Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. Construction of the Wall started by the German Democratic Republic on 13 August 1961. The Wall cut off West Berlin from surrounding East Germany, including East Berlin. -
The March on Washington
The March on Washington Movement, 1941–1946, organized by activists A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin as a tool to produce a mass march on Washington, D.C., was designed to pressure the U.S. government into desegregating the armed forces and providing fair working opportunities for African Americans. -
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Richard Nixon
Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 until 1974. The nation's 36th vice president from 1953 to 1961, he came to national prominence as a representative and senator from California. -
Gerald Ford
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. was an American politician who served as the 38th president of the United States from August 1974 to January 1977. Before his accession to the presidency, Ford served as the 40th vice president of the United States from December 1973 to August 1974. -
Jimmy Carter
James Earl Carter Jr. is an American politician, philanthropist, and former farmer who served as the 39th president of the United States from 1977 to 1981. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as a Georgia State Senator from 1963 to 1967 and as the 76th governor of Georgia from 1971 to 1975. -
Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan was an American politician who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989 and became a highly powerful voice of modern conservatism. before his presidency, he was a Hollywood actor and union leader before serving as the 33rd governor of California from 1967 to 1975. -
George H.W. Bush
George Bush was an American politician and businessman who served as the 41st president of the United States from 1989 to 1993. -
The Fall of the Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. Construction of the Wall was commenced by the German Democratic Republic on 13 August 1961. The Wall cut off West Berlin from surrounding East Germany, including East Berlin. The Berlin Wall fell on November 9 1989 -
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Before his presidency, he served as governor of Arkansas and as attorney general of Arkansas. -
Europe
Europe is a continent made up of Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece, The Netherlands, Austria, Ireland, and lots more -
George W. Bush
George W. Bush is an American politician and businessman who served as the 43rd president of the United States from 2001 to 2009. A member of the Republican Party, he had previously served as the 46th governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000. -
The War on Terror
The War on Terror, also known as the Global War on Terrorism, is an international military campaign launched by the United States government after the September 11 attacks. -
Barack Obama
Barack Obama is an American politician and attorney who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Barack Obama was the first African-American president of the United States. -
Human Impact
Habitat destruction, fragmentation, and modification caused by human-led activities have taken an extreme toll on threatened and endangered wildlife populations at an alarming rate. Humans impact the physical environment in many ways: overpopulation, pollution, burning fossil fuels, and deforestation. Changes like these have triggered climate change, soil erosion, poor air quality, and undrinkable water. -
Acid Rain
Acid rain, or acid deposition, is a broad term that includes any form of precipitation with acidic components, such as sulfuric or nitric acid that fall to the ground from the atmosphere in wet or dry forms. This can include rain, snow, fog, hail or even dust that is acidic.
