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15 Key Dates in World
HistoryThat you need to know to be a
functioning member of this planet.
Visigoths move west and sack Rome
-- first in a series of invasions by Germanic tribes-- beginning of the end of Roman Empire
406 AD
Battle of Hastings
-- Norman conquest of England-- William the Conqueror becomes first Norman King of England
1066
Signing of the Magna Carta
-- King John of England signs -- first real limits of the power of monarchy-- influences the New England settlers in the 1600s
1215
Christopher Columbus first of four trips to the Americas
-- Italian; sails for Spain after securing funding-- looking for an westward passage to Asia-- calls where he lands San Salvador (The Bahamas & Hispaniola)
1492
American colonies declare independence from Britain
-- Fighting starts at Lexington & Concord in April, 1775-- Declaration signed in Philadelphia-- “If we don’t hang together, we will surely hang separately.” -- Ben Franklin
1776
French Revolution – Storming of the Bastille
-- Overthrowing Louis XVI-- Ten year reign of violence-- Rise of Napoleon
1789
End of the American Civil
War
750,000 soldiers dead 10% of all Northern males 20-
45 30% of all Southern white
males 18-40 Can American democracy
survive?
1865
Bolshevik
Revolution
Vladimir Lenin leads Communist revolution
Beginning of Soviet Union (lasts into early 90s)
Begins the international paradigm for the next 70 years.
1917
Germany invades
Poland Start of WW II Effort by Nazi
Germany to establish European hegemony
1939
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
Japanese forces attack US Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
Next day, US enters WW II for allies http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sv1niwxQgoY
1941
US drops Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima, Japan
End of WW II Ushers in the “nuclear age” Was this just? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NF4LQaWJRDg
1945
Mao Zedong takes control of China
Communist China established Great Leap Forward; Cultural Revolution http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUCEeC4f6ts
1949
America lands a man on the moon
Neil Armstrong & Buzz Aldrin Goal laid out by JFK in 1961 Space Race vs. Soviets http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMINSD7MmT4
1969
Fall of the Berlin Wall
Ending of the Cold War Cold War: Decades long
struggle between USSR v. USA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snsdDb7KDkg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9HjvHZfCUI
1989
Terrorist Attacks on US on
Sept. 11
Largest attack on US soil War on Terror begins US invades Afghanistan and Iraq
2001