History's Greatest Hits By totallypopular4 6500 BCE Mesopotamia Begins Period: 2589 BCE to 2566 BCE Construction of the Giza Pyramids Period: 1341 BCE to 1323 BCE King Tut Lifespan 48 BCE Burning of the Library of Alexandria 44 BCE Caesar Assassination 64 Nero's Flaming Garden Party 79 Pompeii 476 Fall of the Roman Empire Jun 8, 793 Lindisfarne Raid Period: 1162 to 1227 Genghis Khan Lifespan Period: 1300 to 1600 The Renaissance Period: 1347 to 1351 The Black Death Period: Apr 15, 1452 to May 2, 1519 Leonardo DaVinci Lifespan Period: Feb 19, 1473 to May 24, 1543 Nicolaus Copernicus Lifespan Period: 1509 to 1547 Henry VIII's Eight Wives Period: Dec 31, 1514 to Oct 15, 1564 Andreas Vesalius Lifespan Period: 1519 to Aug 13, 1521 Hernan Cortes VS The Aztecs Period: 1543 to 1687 The Scientific Revolution Period: Jan 22, 1561 to Apr 9, 1626 Francis Bacon Lifespan Period: 1564 to Apr 23, 1616 Shakespeare Lifespan Period: Feb 15, 1564 to Jan 8, 1642 Galileo Galilei Lifespan Period: Dec 27, 1571 to Nov 15, 1630 Johannes Kepler Period: Apr 1, 1578 to Jun 3, 1657 William Harvey Lifespan Period: Mar 31, 1596 to Feb 11, 1650 Rene Descartes Lifespan Period: Jan 25, 1627 to Dec 31, 1691 Robert Boyle Lifespan Period: Jan 4, 1643 to Mar 31, 1727 Isaac Newton Lifespan Period: 1680 to Nov 22, 1718 Blackbeard Lifespan Period: 1692 to 1693 The Salem Witch Trials Period: Dec 17, 1770 to Mar 26, 1827 Beethoven Lifespan Period: Apr 19, 1775 to Sep 2, 1783 The American Revolution Aug 2, 1776 Signing of the Declaration of Independence Sep 17, 1787 Signing of the United States Constitution Period: 1791 to 1794 The Whiskey Rebellion 1803 The Louisiana Purchase Period: Jun 18, 1812 to Feb 17, 1815 The War of 1812 Jan 8, 1815 Battle of New Orleans Period: Feb 23, 1836 to Mar 6, 1836 The Alamo Period: Apr 25, 1846 to Feb 2, 1848 The Mexican-American War Period: Sep 13, 1857 to Oct 13, 1945 Milton S. Hershey Lifespan Period: Apr 12, 1861 to Apr 9, 1865 The American Civil War Jan 1, 1863 Lincoln Frees the Slaves Period: Jul 1, 1863 to Jul 3, 1863 Battle of Gettysburg Apr 15, 1865 Lincoln Assassination Period: Oct 8, 1871 to Oct 10, 1871 The Great Chicago Fire Period: 1877 to 1965 Jim Crow Era Period: Mar 14, 1879 to Apr 18, 1955 Albert Einstein Lifespan Oct 22, 1879 Invention of the Lightbulb Sep 19, 1881 Garfield Assassination Mar 31, 1889 Completion of Eiffel Tower Construction Period: Apr 16, 1889 to Dec 25, 1977 Charlie Chaplin Lifespan Period: Apr 21, 1898 to Dec 10, 1898 The Spanish-American War Sep 14, 1901 McKinley Assassination Dec 17, 1903 The Wright Brother's First Fight Apr 18, 1906 The San Francisco Earthquakes Apr 14, 1912 Sinking of the Titanic Period: Jul 28, 1914 to Nov 11, 1918 World War 1 Period: 1917 to 1922 The Russian Revolution Jan 15, 1919 The Great Molasses Flood Jul 27, 1921 The Discovery of Insulin Period: Apr 21, 1926 to Sep 8, 2022 Queen Elizabeth II Lifespan 1929 The Great Depression Period: Sep 24, 1936 to May 16, 1990 Jim Henson Lifespan May 6, 1937 The Hindenburg Disaster Period: Oct 2, 1937 to Oct 8, 1937 The Trujillo Massacre Period: Sep 1, 1939 to Sep 2, 1945 World War 2 Dec 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor Period: Feb 19, 1942 to Jun 30, 1946 Japanese Internment Camps Period: 1944 to Aug 14, 1945 The Ghost Army of World War 2 Jul 16, 1945 The Trinity Test Period: Aug 6, 1945 to Aug 9, 1945 Hiroshima & Nagasaki Jul 22, 1946 The King David Hotel Bombing Period: Mar 12, 1947 to Dec 26, 1991 The American Cold War Period: Jun 25, 1950 to Jul 27, 1953 The Korean War Mar 1, 1954 Castle Bravo Period: Nov 1, 1955 to Apr 30, 1975 The Vietnam War Sep 29, 1957 The Kyshtym Accident Oct 10, 1957 The Windscale Accident Apr 10, 1961 Sinking of the MV Dara Aug 28, 1963 Martin Luther King JR's "I Have a Dream" Nov 22, 1963 JFK Assassination Apr 4, 1968 Assassination of Martin Luther King JR Jul 20, 1969 The Moon Landing Oct 6, 1976 Cubana de Aviacion Flight 455 Bombing Aug 19, 1978 Burning of the Cinema Rex Mar 28, 1979 3 Mile Island Accident Jul 16, 1979 The Church Rock Incident May 18, 1980 Eruption of Mount St. Helens Aug 2, 1980 The Bologna Massacre Oct 23, 1983 Beirut Barracks Bombings Jun 23, 1985 Air India Flight 182 Bombing Apr 26, 1986 Chernobyl Dec 21, 1988 Pan Am Flight 103 Bombing Nov 9, 1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall Period: Aug 2, 1990 to Feb 28, 1991 The Gulf War Feb 26, 1993 World Trade Center Bombing Apr 19, 1995 Oklahoma City Bombing Sep 11, 2001 9/11: United Airlines Flight 93 Sep 11, 2001 9/11: The Twin Towers Sep 11, 2001 9/11: The Pentagon Nov 4, 2008 The Election of President Obama Mar 11, 2011 The Fukushima Disaster Jan 20, 2017 The First Election of Donald Trump 2018 The California Wildfires Period: 2020 to 2023 COVID-19 Epidemic Nov 7, 2020 The Election of President Biden Jan 20, 2025 The Second Election of Donald Trump
