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Period: 4000 BCE to 450
Age of Ancient Empires
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3500 BCE
Mesopotamia and Sumer
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3100 BCE
Egyptians
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3000 BCE
Indus river valley civilization
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2800 BCE
Minoans and Mycenaeans
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2550 BCE
Seven Wonders of the ancient world
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2166 BCE
Patriarchs of Israel
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2000 BCE
Hittites and Canaanites
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2000 BCE
Kush
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1900 BCE
Assyrians
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1900 BCE
Babylonians
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1766 BCE
China's shang dynasty
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1500 BCE
Hinduism in India
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1500 BCE
Phonecians and the alphabet
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1500 BCE
Olmecs of Mesoamerica
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1446 BCE
Israelite Exodus and desert wandering
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1406 BCE
Israelite conquest and judges
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1100 BCE
Greek dark ages
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1051 BCE
Israel's united kingdom
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1000 BCE
Early Native Americans
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931 BCE
Israel divides into 2 kingdoms
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800 BCE
Homer and Hesiod
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753 BCE
Rome founded by Romulus and Remus
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722 BCE
Israel falls to assyria
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612 BCE
Assyria falls to babylon
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604 BCE
Lao tzu, Confucius, Buddha
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597 BCE
Judah fall to Babylon Temple destroyed
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539 BCE
Babylon falls to Persia
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538 BCE
Jews return and rebuild the temple
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509 BCE
Roman republic
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479 BCE
golden age of Greece
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Period: 450 BCE to 380 BCE
Hippocrates
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431 BCE
Peloponnesian Wars
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Period: 384 BCE to 322 BCE
Aristotle
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331 BCE
Persia falls to Alexander the great
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321 BCE
India's mauryan empire
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300 BCE
Mayans of mesoamerica
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Period: 287 BCE to 212 BCE
Archimedes
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264 BCE
Punic wars
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Period: 190 BCE to 120 BCE
Hipparchus
Determined distance from sun and moon to earth. He made a trig table. -
146 BCE
Rome conquers Greece
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100 BCE
Roman dictator Julius Caesar
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27 BCE
Caesar Augustus and the pax Romana
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5 BCE
John the Baptist
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4 BCE
Jesus the Messiah
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30
Pentecost and the early church
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64
Persecution spreads the gospel
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70
Herod's Temple destroyed by Titus
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Period: 100 to 170
Ptolemy
Wrote Almagest and Quadripatium -
Period: 129 to 216
Galen
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286
Diocletian divides Roman Empire
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313
Constantine legalized Christianity
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320
India's Gupta dynasty
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325
council of nicea
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354
Augustine of Hippo
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Period: 379 to 395
Emperor Theodosius I reigned
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405
Jerome completes the Vulgate
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410
Visigoths sack Rome
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Period: 450 to 1500
the middle ages
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451
council of chalcedon
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476
Western Roman empire falls to barbarians
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527
Byzantine emperor Justinian
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529
Benedict and monasticism
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Period: 610 to 641
Emperor Heraclius reigned
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622
Muhammad founds Islam
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700
Zanj and early Ghana in Africa
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726
Emperor Leo III banned icons
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732
Franks defeat Muslims at the battle of tours
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750
golden age of Islam
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793
Vikings raid and trade
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794
Japan's heian period
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800
Charlemagne crowned emperor of Europe
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871
Alfred the great of England
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900
Erik the Red and Leif Erikson, Norse explorers
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958
Vladimir I of Kiev
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976
Byzantine emperor basil II
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1066
Norman conquest and feudalism in Europe
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1095
The Crusades
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1100
Zimbabwe and early Mali in Africa
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1100
Aztecs of mesoamerica
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Period: 1175 to 1236
Belinghiero Berlinghieri
The artist who painted Madonna and Child. -
1181
Francis of Assisi and Thomas Aquinas
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1192
Japan Shoguns
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1200
Incas of South America
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1204
Rome sacked
During the 4th crusade -
1206
Genghis Khan rules the mongols
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1215
England's Magna Carta
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1227
Genghis Khan died
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1250
Ottoman Empire
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1250
The seventh crusade
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1271
Marco Polo's journey to China
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1337
The Hundred Years War and Black Death
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Feb 28, 1347
Bubonic Plague
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1350
The Renaissance
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1368
China's Ming Dynasty
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Period: 1390 to 1441
Jan Van Eyck
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Period: 1400 to
Age of exploration
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1415
Prince Henry Navigator's expedition to Africa
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1419
Prince Henry founds school of navigation
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1429
Joan of Arc led French Royal Army into battle
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Jan 1, 1429
Siege of Orleans
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1432
The Ghent Altarpiece
Painted by Van Eyck and His Brother -
1440
Slave trade in Africa
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1450
Gutenburg's printing press
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1450
Printing of the Bible
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1451
Cristoforo Colombo born
AKA Christopher Columbus -
Period: 1452 to 1519
Leonardo da Vinci
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Period: Apr 15, 1452 to May 2, 1519
Leonardo da Vinci
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1453
Rome fell to the Turks
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1460
Songhai in Africa
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1462
Sir Ivan the Great of Russia
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Period: Feb 19, 1473 to 1543
Nicolaus Copernicus
Heliocentric Model -
Period: Mar 6, 1475 to Feb 18, 1564
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti
Italian sculptor, architect, artist, and poet. Famous artworks include the Sistine Chapel ceiling and Pieta -
1478
The Spanish Inquisition
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Period: 1483 to 1520
Raphael
Renaissance artist -
1492
Colombo received funding
From Queen Isabella of Castile and King Ferdinand. -
1492
Columbus sailed to the Caribbean
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1498
Michelangelo commissioned to make the "Pieta"
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Period: 1500 to
Age of absolute monarchs
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1501
Colombo's Apologia
Written on his reflections of his journies. -
May 20, 1506
Cristoforo Colombo died
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1508
Sistine Chapel Ceiling Started
Famous artwork by Michelangelo
Finished in 1512 -
1513
Michelangelo finishes "David"
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1517
Protestant Reformation
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1519
Spanish conquistadors in the americas
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1536
Calvin's Institutes of the Christian religion
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1545
Council of Trent
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1555
The peace of Augsburg
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Period: 1564 to
Galileo Galilei
Built a better telescope -
1570
The first modern atlas is published
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Period: Dec 27, 1571 to
Kepler
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Janssens invent compound microscope
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Period: to
Pocahontas
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Baroque period of the arts
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Japan's Isolation
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Jamestown founded
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Separatists flee to Holland
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Mayflower arrived in New Plymouth
New Plymouth aka Massachusetts near cape cod. -
Plymouth Colony founded
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Period: to
Blaise Pascal
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Period: to
Giovanni Cassini
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Period: to
Robert Boyle
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Period: to
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
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Period: to
Robert Hooke
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Period: to
Isaac Newton Jr. (Sir Isaac Newton)
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Period: to
Age of enlightenment
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Robert Hooke observes cork "cells"
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Period: to
Daniel Defoe
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Micrographia published
Considered to be the first microscopy book. -
Hudson's bay company
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Antoine van Leeuwenhoek observes protoza
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Van Leeuwenhoek observes bacteria
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Period: to
Daniel Bernoulli
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Period: to
Benjamin Franklin
Invented: bifocals, the rocking chair, lightning rod, and lending library. -
Period: to
Carl Linnaeus
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Publication of Robinson Crusoe
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Period: to
George Washington
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First great Awakening
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Period: to
Daniel boone
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Period: to
Paul Revere
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Period: to
Patrick Henry
Successful Lawyer -
Period: to
Patrick Henry
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Classical period of the arts
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Period: to
James Madison
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French and Indian War
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Period: to
Molly Pitcher
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Period: to
Alexander Hamilton
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Period: to
Captain Nathan Hale
A patriot in the Revolutionary War, hanged by the British, Famous last words ' I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.' -
Period: to
The 7 years' war
The French were building in British territory when told to stop, a war started. -
Period: to
Age of Industry
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Treaty Of Paris
French ceded most of North America to britian. -
Patrick Henry elected into Virginia house of Burgesses
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Period: to
Eli Whitney
Invented cotton gin -
Period: to
Dolly Madison
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James Cook Sails to Australia and Antarctica
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Boston Massacre
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Boston Tea Party
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Patrick Henry represents Virginia at 1st continental congress
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American Revolution and General George Washington
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Liberty or Death speech
By Patrick Henry -
First shots fired at Lexington and Concord.
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Declaration of independence written
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Declaration of independence adopted by congress
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Congress agreed to Articles of Confederation
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Articles of Confederation
The first U.S. Constitution -
Treaty Of Paris
Ended Revolutionary war -
Madison's Constitution and the Bill of Rights
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Period: to
Federalist papers written
Written by Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay -
Federalist paper: number 30
By Hamilton. -
Articles of Confederation Replaced by the U.S. constitution
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Period: to
Sacajawea
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Federalist paper: Number 47
Written by James Madison. -
U.s. Constitution Ratified
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French Revolution
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Second Great Awakening
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Period: to
Michael Faraday
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Period: to
Sam Houston
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Louisiana purchase
Jefferson finalized the payment. Fifteen Million dollars for Louisiana. -
Napoleon crowned emperor of France
Fun Fact: He took the crown and placed it on his own head instead of letting the officiator do his job. -
Lewis and Clark Expedition
The lewis and Clark expedition started by Bismark, in the Missouri River. -
Period: to
Robert E. Lee
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Liberation of south America
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Madison elected as president
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Period: to
Abraham Lincoln
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Period: to
Charles Darwin
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Period: to
William Makepeace Thakeray
Born in India; Moved to England at age 5; author of Pocahontas -
The war of 1812
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The Missouri Compromise
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Immigrants Flock to America
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Period: to
Susan B. Anthony
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Period: to
Fanny Crosby
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Period: to
Harriet Tubman
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Period: to
Clara Barton
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Birth of Gregor Mendel
AKA Johaan Mendel
Founder of modern genetics
Monk in Augustinian order -
Period: to
Gregor Mendel
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Period: to
Louis Pateur
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Period: to
Thomas Buchanan Read
Born in Pennsylvania. Author of 'Valley Forge', an excerpt from his poetry piece ' Headquarters '. -
The Monroe Doctrine
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Period: to
Stonewall Jackson
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Romantic Period of the Arts
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Period: to
Joseph Lister
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Period: to
Francis Miles Finch
Born in new york, Became a judge, went to college at yale. Author of 'Nathan Hale' -
Period: to
James Clerk Maxwell
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Robert Brown discovers nucleus in plant cells
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Period: to
Dmitri Mendeleev
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Matthias Schleiden proposed plants are composed of cells
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Cherokee Trail of Tears
3 of the 5 Indian groups who did not cooperate with the Indian Removal Act were Marched off their land escorted by U.S. soldiers. Many died of starvation, exposure, and a lack of being able to keep in good health. -
Theodor Schwann proposed animal tissue is made of cells
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Period: to
Hezekiah Butterworth
A poet who was born in Rhode Island; a prolific speaker; and the writer of "Five kernels of Corn". -
U.S. Westward expansion
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William M.T. began serialization of Vanity Fair
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Period: to
Thomas Edison
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Marx publishes the Communist Manifesto
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California gold rush began
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The compromise of 1850
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William M.T's 1st lecture in the U.S.
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U.S. Restores Trade with Japan
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William M.T's 2nd lecture in the U.S.
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California gold rush ended
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Rudolf Virchow proposed cells come from existing cells
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The Dred Scott Decision
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British Queen Victoria's Rule over India
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Period: to
Theodore Roosevelt
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Period: to
Max Planck
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Darwin Publishes The Origin of Species
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Lincoln's War Between the States
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Period: to
Henry Ford
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Period: to
George Washington Carver
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Reconstruction of the Southern States
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Dominion of Canada
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Period: to
Marie Curie
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Johann Friedrich Miescher discovered DNA
Called it nuclein; believed it was part of the nucleus. -
Otto von Bismark Unifies Germany
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Period: to
Stephen Crane
Author of Red Badge of Courage. Died of tuberculosis. -
Period: to
Albert Einstein
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Period: to
Helen Keller
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Period: to
Douglas MacArthur
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Boer Wars in Africa
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Albrecht Kossel discovered composition of DNA
Discovered the nucleotides -
Period: to
Niels Bohr
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Hezekiah Butterworth published "Five Kernels of Corn"
Based off the pilgrims' difficulty living in 1620. -
The Spanish-American War
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The progressive era
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Australia Becomes a Commonwealth
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Mexican Revolution
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Period: to
Ronald Regan
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WW1 and President Wilson
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Period: to
Francis Crick
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Lenin and the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia
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U.S. Evangelist Billy Graham
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Modern Period of the Arts
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James Watson born
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The Great Depression and the New Deal
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Period: to
Martin Luther King Jr.
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First transmission electron microscope
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WW2 and President Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Stalin of the USSR and Katyn Massacre
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The United Nations Formed
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The Cold War
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Gandhi and India's Independence
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Jewish State Established
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Mao and Communist Victory in China
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization
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The Korean War
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MLK Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement
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Erwin Chargaff discovered 1:1 ratio of nitrogenous bases
A+T and C+G -
Watson and Crick built DNA molecule model
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Jim and Elisabeth Elliot, Missionaries to Equador
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The Antarctic Treaty
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Berlin Wall Built
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The Vietnam War
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First scanning electron microscope
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U.S. Astronauts Walk on the Moon
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Period: to
Age of Information and Globalization
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Watergate, President Nixon Resigns
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Fall of Communism in Eastern Europe
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Berlin Wall Demolished
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European Union Formed
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Apartheid Abolished in South Africa
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Twin towers and World Trade Center attacked
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Rising tide of Freedom
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Announcement of successful completion of the human genome project
Project done by National human genome research institute and International human genome sequencing consortium
