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World War II

Adolf Hitler

Leonardo da Vinci

The Pyramids of Giza

World War I

Albert Einstein

Moon Landing 1969

The Moon Landing (1969)

The September 11 Attacks

The Great Wall of China

Ancient Egyptian Civilization

Moon Landing (1969)

Julius Caesar

Alexander the Great

Napoleon Bonaparte

The Moon Landing 1969

The Roman Empire

Isaac Newton

William Shakespeare

Shakespeare

Thomas Edison

The Colosseum

The British Empire

The Dissolution of the Soviet Union

Ancient Greek Civilization

Nelson Mandela

The Holocaust

Cleopatra

The Cold War

The French Revolution

Joseph Stalin

Moon Landing

John F. Kennedy

Karl Marx

Aristotle

Mahatma Gandhi

The Moon Landing

First Moon Landing

Mozart

Yuri Gagarin

Apollo 11 Moon Landing

Plato

Winston Churchill

Abraham Lincoln

9/11 terrorist attacks

Holocaust

Socrates

First human spaceflight 1961

D-Day (Normandy Invasion)

Christopher Columbus

The Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima

Confucius

Marie Antoinette

Neil Armstrong

George Washington

Homer

Fall of the Berlin Wall

The Cuban Missile Crisis

The Discovery of Fire by Early Humans

The Declaration of Independence

Benjamin Franklin

Genghis Khan

The Industrial Revolution

Pompeii

The Renaissance

Martin Luther King Jr.

The Great Depression

The Fall of the Berlin Wall

Stonehenge

The Chernobyl Disaster

Marie Curie

The Battle of Stalingrad

The Space Race

Galileo Galilei

The Mongol Empire

Barack Obama

September 11 attacks

Construction of the Great Wall of China

Invention of the internet

COVID-19 pandemic

Industrial Revolution

Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings

French Revolution

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Tutankhamun

First powered aircraft flight

Mikhail Gorbachev

The Invention of the Printing Press

Ferdinand Magellan

Orville Wright

The Building of the Great Wall of China

First Flight by Wright Brothers

Charles Darwin

Wilbur Wright

The Construction of the Great Wall of China

Construction of the Pyramids

Fall of Roman Empire

Black Death pandemic

The Trojan War

Printing press invention

American Revolution

Discovery of penicillin

D-Day Normandy invasion

Berlin Wall fall

Cuban Missile Crisis

Titanic sinking

Civil Rights Movement

Archimedes

Fidel Castro

Thomas Jefferson

First flight by Wright Brothers

Mao Zedong

Fall of Berlin Wall

American War of Independence

Yuri Gagarin spaceflight

Berlin Wall fall 1989

Gutenberg printing press

Abolition of slavery USA

Great Depression 1929

The American Revolution

Joan of Arc

The Black Death

Queen Victoria

The American Civil War

The Russian Revolution

The Ottoman Empire

Apartheid

The Enlightenment

The Manhattan Project

Elizabeth I

The Printing Press

The Vietnam War

The Library of Alexandria

King Henry VIII

The Fall of Rome

Ramesses II

The Tiananmen Square Protests

The Battle of Waterloo

The Nuremberg Trials

The Scientific Revolution

The Civil Rights Movement

Theodore Roosevelt

The Abolition of Slavery

Louis XIV of France

The Watergate Scandal

The Berlin Wall Construction

Otto von Bismarck

Amelia Earhart

The First Flight of the Wright Brothers

Troy (Ancient City)

The Mesopotamian Civilization

Roman Empire founding

The Crusades

Eleanor Roosevelt

Alexander's conquests

Building of the Great Wall

The Discovery of Penicillin

Theory of Evolution publication

Tim Berners-Lee

Qin Shi Huang

Discovery of Tutankhamun's Tomb

Invention of the telephone

First nuclear bomb test

Ancient Rome (Republic)

The Rosetta Stone

American Civil War

Bill Clinton

The United Nations Founding

Cyrus the Great

Global Financial Crisis 2008

The Fall of Constantinople

Charlemagne

Sputnik launch 1957

The Launch of Sputnik

Chernobyl disaster

Malala Yousafzai

Harriet Tubman

Great Depression

Vasco da Gama

Discovery of the Titanic Wreck

The Battle of Thermopylae

Building of the Great Wall of China

The Korean War

The Rwandan Genocide

Titanic maiden voyage

Gutenberg

The Persian Empire

The Treaty of Versailles

The 1918 Influenza Pandemic

Eruption of Mount Vesuvius (Pompeii)

The Suffragette Movement

The Protestant Reformation

Transatlantic slave trade

Invention of the Printing Press

The First Olympics

Marco Polo

Emperor Hirohito

The Transatlantic Slave Trade

DNA structure discovery

Deng Xiaoping

End of apartheid in South Africa

Cold War

The Silk Road

Sun Tzu

Augustus Caesar

Indian independence 1947

American Constitution signing

Berlin Wall construction

The Mayan Civilization

The Spanish Empire

The Storming of the Bastille

The Battle of Hastings

Attila the Hun

The Spanish Armada

Rosa Parks

The Mongol Invasions

Ivan the Terrible

Ashoka the Great

Women's suffrage movement

Kemal Ataturk

Pompeii destruction

Invention of the internet protocols

European colonization of Americas

The Iranian Revolution

The Arab Spring

United Nations founding

Ayatollah Khomeini

The Age of Exploration

Scientific Revolution

Age of Enlightenment

Spanish Flu pandemic

Dante Alighieri

Iraq War 2003

Indira Gandhi

Challenger disaster

James Cook

The Silk Road establishment

The First Successful Heart Transplant

Adam Smith

The Spartan City-State

Battle of Stalingrad

James Watt

The Aztec Empire

Magna Carta signing

Vietnam War

Ho Chi Minh

2004 Indian Ocean tsunami

Treaty of Versailles

Martin Luther

The Nanking Massacre

First telephone call

Dissolution of Soviet Union

Russian Revolution 1917

René Descartes

Simon Bolívar

The Boston Tea Party

The Great Fire of London

The Building of the Panama Canal

Buzz Aldrin

Kristallnacht

Immanuel Kant

Susan B. Anthony

Hannibal Barca

Saladin

Florence Nightingale

The Exploration of the Titanic Wreck

Hatshepsut

Frida Kahlo

The Signing of the Magna Carta

First Woman in Space (Valentina Tereshkova)

Colonialism

The Athenian Democracy

The Dead Sea Scrolls

Nero

Spartacus

The Feminist Movement

The Gulf War

Charles de Gaulle

Peter the Great

The Punic Wars

Apollo 13 crisis

Leon Trotsky

Richard I (Richard the Lionheart)

Suleiman the Magnificent

The Great Famine of Ireland

The Mughal Empire

Simón Bolívar

The Inca Empire

The Six-Day War

The Viking Age

The Battle of Gettysburg

Che Guevara

Catherine the Great

The Black Tuesday (Wall Street Crash)

Jawaharlal Nehru

Atomic bomb testing Trinity

Malcolm X

Voltaire

The Reign of Terror

The Discovery of Tutankhamun's Tomb

The Bay of Pigs Invasion

The Magna Carta

The Emancipation Proclamation

Friedrich Nietzsche

The Battle of the Somme

Oil crisis 1973

Operation Barbarossa

French declaration of human rights

Jean-Paul Sartre

James Madison

Women's right to vote USA

William the Conqueror

Desmond Tutu

Smallpox eradication

Digital Revolution

Space Race

Civil Rights Act 1964

Marcus Aurelius

Amerigo Vespucci

Mongol Empire expansion

The First Transatlantic Flight

Completion of the Panama Canal

First Successful Heart Transplant

The Battle of Midway

John Locke

The Battle of Marathon

Construction of the Great Wall of China (major phases)

The Suez Canal Construction

Discovery of Penicillin

Battle of Britain

2008 Financial Crisis

Great Fire of London

Zheng He

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Hernán Cortés

Wu Zetian

Partition of India

Creation of United Nations

Hurricane Katrina

The Armenian Genocide

Brown v Board of Education

Polio vaccine development

Battle of Waterloo

Battle of the Somme

The Great Leap Forward

Space Shuttle Columbia disaster

Soviet invasion of Afghanistan

Brexit referendum

The McCarthy Era

Georg Hegel

David Hume

Albert Camus

Gulf War 1991

Rwandan genocide

The Wars of the Roses

The Khmer Rouge

The Crimean War

Maximilien Robespierre

The Gallipoli Campaign

The Spanish Inquisition

The Partition of India

The Marshall Plan

The Hundred Years' War

Giuseppe Garibaldi

The Scramble for Africa

Frederick Douglass

The Suez Crisis

The Thirty Years' War

First Olympic Games (Ancient)

The Peloponnesian War

The Macedonian Empire

The Chinese Cultural Revolution

The Achaemenid Persian Empire

The Holy Roman Empire

First Olympic Games (Ancient Greece)

The New Deal

The Han Dynasty

The Gold Rush (California)

The Panama Canal Construction

Vlad the Impaler

Anne Boleyn

Caligula

Eruption of Mount Vesuvius (79 AD)

Alexander Graham Bell

The First Olympic Games

Signing of the Magna Carta

Discovery of DNA Structure

First Olympic Games

First television broadcast

First Transatlantic Flight (Lindbergh)

The Munich Agreement

The Harlem Renaissance

2010 Haiti earthquake

The Yalta Conference

The Abbasid Caliphate

Ronald Reagan

The Taiping Rebellion

Alexander Hamilton

Battle of Gettysburg

The Seven Years' War

The Yom Kippur War

Frederick the Great

The Umayyad Caliphate

Tiananmen Square protests

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Eleanor of Aquitaine

Agricultural Revolution

First antibiotic treatment

Francis Drake

The Indian Rebellion of 1857

Space Shuttle program

Alan Shepard

Francisco Pizarro

French Revolution Reign of Terror

The Berlin Blockade

First Successful Vaccine (Smallpox)

The Glorious Revolution

The Battle of Agincourt

Voting Rights Act 1965

Roe v Wade

The Falklands War

The Opium Wars

Mary Queen of Scots

First heart transplant

The Meiji Restoration

Henry V of England

Sojourner Truth

Hubble Space Telescope launch

The Ming Dynasty

George W. Bush

The Byzantine Empire

Emmeline Pankhurst

Pol Pot

Human Genome Project completion

Václav Havel

Ellis Island

Pericles

First spacewalk 1965

Opening of Panama Canal

Opening of Suez Canal

The Trail of Tears

Liberation of Paris

The Eruption of Mount Vesuvius (79 AD)

Jane Goodall

Congress of Vienna

Treaty of Westphalia

The Stonewall Riots

The Russo-Japanese War

The Long March

Rwandan Genocide

The Reconquista

Andrew Jackson

Ulysses S. Grant

Napoleonic Wars

Thomas Hobbes

Gold Rush California

John Stuart Mill

Valentina Tereshkova

Nefertiti

Battle of Midway

The Gutenberg Bible

Ernest Shackleton

W.E.B. Du Bois

Irish Potato Famine

The Prague Spring

Shaka Zulu

Korean War

Krakatoa eruption

The Tet Offensive

The Boxer Rebellion

The Congress of Vienna

Kublai Khan

Hammurabi

Simone de Beauvoir

The Labor Movement

The Tang Dynasty

The Qing Dynasty

The Indus Valley Civilization

Louis XIV

The Bosnian War

Oliver Cromwell

The Easter Rising

Boudicca

Chinese Revolution 1949

Søren Kierkegaard

1906 San Francisco earthquake

The Voyage of the Mayflower

Fukushima disaster

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Richard the Lionheart

The First Transcontinental Railroad

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Robert Falcon Scott

Constantine the Great

The Song Dynasty

Decolonization of Africa

Asian financial crisis 1997

Harry S. Truman

The Irish Troubles

Discovery of fire

Great Plague of London

McCarthyism

The Hungarian Revolution of 1956

Henry Hudson

First test-tube baby

Completion of Transcontinental Railroad

Gulf War

Ibn Sina

The Louisiana Purchase

First Transcontinental Railroad (US)

The League of Nations

Battle of Verdun

Geronimo

Toussaint Louverture

Chandragupta Maurya

Voyager 1 launch

Battle of Trafalgar

Khmer Rouge genocide

Baruch Spinoza

Battle of Hastings

Thomas Paine

International Space Station

The Truman Doctrine

Sun Yat-sen

George H.W. Bush

Chinese Cultural Revolution

Dot-com bubble burst

Sitting Bull

José de San Martín

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The Italian Unification

San Francisco earthquake 1906

Human genome sequencing

Montezuma II

Founding of the United Nations (1945)

1883 Krakatoa eruption

Tamerlane

The Greek War of Independence

The Trans-Siberian Railway

Tokugawa Ieyasu

Nikola Tesla

The Algerian War of Independence

Haitian Revolution

Formation of NATO

1923 Great Kanto earthquake

Darius the Great

Leonidas I

Cicero

Woodrow Wilson

William Wallace

Battle of Marathon

Battle of Agincourt

Battle of Iwo Jima

Iranian Revolution 1979

Isabella I of Castile

Paris Agreement

Battle of Gallipoli

Battle of the Bulge

Cuban Revolution

Louis IX of France

Frederick II Holy Roman Emperor

Nebuchadnezzar II

The Phoenician Civilization

Mars Viking lander 1976

Al-Khwarizmi

Euro crisis

Robin Hood

James Monroe

Arthur Schopenhauer

Pompey

Battle of Cannae

The Haitian Revolution

Enron scandal

The Dreyfus Affair

Arab Spring

Pachacuti

Mars Rover Curiosity

The Carthaginian Empire

CRISPR technology development

Voyage of the Mayflower

The Anglo-Boer War

Lisbon earthquake 1755

Dust Bowl drought

Deepwater Horizon oil spill

Hundred Years War

Spanish Civil War

Chinese Civil War

Srebrenica massacre

Booker T. Washington

Marcus Garvey

Marshall Plan

Leif Erikson

First nuclear reactor

SpaceX Falcon 9 reusability

Richard Nixon

Siege of Constantinople

Green Revolution

Xerxes I

John Calvin

Tulip mania

Mark Antony

Roaring Twenties

Mehmed II

Mexican Revolution

Queen Nzinga

Akbar the Great

First Successful Climb of Mount Everest (1953)

1815 Tambora eruption

Exxon Valdez oil spill

The Oregon Trail

Great Famine of China

Ignatius of Loyola

Montreal Protocol

Sargon of Akkad

Louis XVI

South Sea Bubble

Thomas More

Patrice Lumumba

David Attenborough

Seven Years War

Heron of Alexandria

Oslo Accords

Thirty Years War

Prague Spring

Hadrian

Justinian I

Timur

Battle of Salamis

Bartolomeu Dias

Robespierre

Post-war baby boom

Themistocles

Philip IV of France

Euro currency launch

Falklands War

Shah Jahan

Pompey the Great

Erasmus of Rotterdam

1930 Dust Bowl

Empress Theodora

Louis Pasteur

Fall of Constantinople (1453)

William Tyndale

Władysław II Jagiełło

Alfonso X of Castile

Edward the Black Prince

Bronze Age

Zenobia

Solidarity movement

Velvet Revolution

Glorious Revolution

Battle of Lepanto

Iron Age

Solidarity movement Poland

Second Battle of Ypres

Battle of Actium

Battle of Gaugamela

Jimmy Carter

Lyndon B. Johnson

Babur

Bubonic Plague of Justinian

Cholera pandemic 19th century

John Cabot

William of Orange

Crimean War

Russo-Japanese War

Iran-Iraq War

Vercingetorix

Frederick Barbarossa

Battle of Zama

Diocletian

Boer War

Aurangzeb

Tiberius

World Trade Organization founding

Sulla

Thomas Sankara

Alcibiades

Battle of Crécy

John Wycliffe

Epaminondas

Woodstock

Hernando de Soto

Sir Edmund Hillary

Romanian Revolution 1989

Herbert Hoover

Danton

Jan Hus

Mapping of human brain

Marcus Crassus

Battle of Thermopylae

John Knox

Demosthenes

Cato the Elder

Stefan the Great

Marat

Orange Revolution Ukraine

Heraclius

Ada Lovelace

Tiberius Gracchus

Roald Amundsen

The Sinking of the Titanic

Gaius Gracchus

Nicolaus Copernicus

The First Modern Olympic Games (1896)

The First Modern Olympic Games

Alan Turing

First Transatlantic Telegraph Cable

Mary Anning

The Discovery of Machu Picchu

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Hedy Lamarr

George Washington Carver

Ibn Battuta

The Discovery of the Rosetta Stone

Hypatia of Alexandria

The First Olympic Games (776 BC)

The Opening of the Sydney Opera House

The Battle of the Alamo

The Sinking of the RMS Lusitania

The First Successful Climb of Mount Everest

The Eruption of Krakatoa

The Fall of Constantinople (1453)

The Discovery of Insulin

Alfred the Great

The First Successful Blood Transfusion

The Founding of the Samurai Code

Sacagawea

Caroline Herschel

Steve Biko

Eratosthenes

Ibn al-Haytham

The Creation of the Suez Canal

Zhang Heng

Fridtjof Nansen

Émilie du Châtelet

John Muir

The First Transatlantic Flight (Alcock and Brown)

Lise Meitner

Mansa Musa

The Opening of the Erie Canal

Vitus Bering

David Livingstone

Shen Kuo

Hypatia

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