Historical Events

  • 30,000 BCE

    prehistory 3.000.000 B.C

    prehistory 3.000.000  B.C
    Prehistory is the period that begins with the appearance of the human being, about five million years ago, and finishes with the invention of writing, about 6,000 years ago.
  • 30,000 BCE

    prehistory 3.000.000 de años B.C

    prehistory 3.000.000 de años B.C
    It is a long period divided into three stages: the Palaeolithic Age, the NeolithicAge and the Metal Age.
  • 30,000 BCE

    PALEOLITHIC 300000-10000 B.C

    PALEOLITHIC 300000-10000  B.C
    • The Palaeolithic Age began with our first ancestors and finished about 10,000 years ago. During that period, human beings used tools made of stone and lived on hunting and gathering.
  • 10,000 BCE

    NEOLITHIC

    NEOLITHIC
    In the Neolithic Age, which began about 10,000 years ago, human beings lived in villages. Human communities cultivated the land and raised cattle. Agriculture and cattle raising gave rise to aproductive economy
  • 7000 BCE

    METAL AGE

    METAL AGE
    We call the the Metal Age to the period beginning about 7000 years ago, when human beings started to make objects out of metals.
  • 5000 BCE

    The Mesopotamians

    The Mesopotamians
    In the region of Asia between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates
  • 4300 BCE

    Copper Age

    Copper Age
    The Copper Age in Central Asia and the rest of the Aryan lands is currently said to begin in the late 5th millennium BCE and lasted for about a millennium (4,300-3,200 BCE) leading in to the Early Bronze Age.
  • 4000 BCE

    The Egyptians

    The Egyptians
    Egyptian civilization began some 4,000 years before Christ, in the northeast corner of Africa, in the valley of the Nile,
    The Egyptians invented the solar calendar, and achieved remarkable knowledge of astronomy and mathematics
  • 3000 BCE

    ANCIENT AGE

    ANCIENT AGE
    Fall of Western Roman Empire 476
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  • 1200 BCE

    Greece

    Greece
    Philosophical thinking began as we understand it today
  • 476

    MEDIEVAL AGE

    MEDIEVAL AGE
    POSTCLASSICAL AGE 476 AC to 1492 AC is the period of time that immediately followed ancient history and preceded modern history.
    Columbus Discovered America in 1942 AC
  • 610

    The Muslim religion

    The Muslim religion
    The birth of the Muslim religion or Islam, in Arabia, preached by Mahoma
  • 711

    The Mohammedans

    The Mohammedans
    The invasion of Spain by the Mohammedans, (of which they were totally expelled in 1609 by the Catholic Monarchs, Fernando and Isabel);
  • 800

    The Empire of Charlemagne

    The Empire of Charlemagne
    It was a large empire in western and central Europe during the early Middle Ages. It was ruled by the Carolingian dynasty,
  • 1000

    Feudalism

    Feudalism
    It was a combination of legal and military customs in medieval Europe that flourished between the 9th and 15th centuries. Broadly defined, it was a way of structuring society around relationships derived from the holding of land in exchange for service or labour.
  • 1095

    The Crusades

    The Crusades
    they were a series of religious wars sanctioned by the Latin Church in the medieval period. The most commonly known Crusades are the campaigns in the Eastern Mediterranean aimed at recovering the Holy Land from Islamic rule
  • 1453

    The Ottomans:

    The Ottomans:
    After ten centuries of wars, defeats, and victories, the Byzantine Empire came to an end when Constantinople fell to the Ottoman Turks in May 1453
  • 1455

    The Gutenberg Bible

    The Gutenberg Bible
    also known as the 42-line Bible, the Mazarin Bible or the B42) was the first major book printed using mass-produced movable metal type in Europe. It marked the start of the "Gutenberg Revolution"
  • 1492

    MODERN AGE

    MODERN AGE
    MODERN AGE 1492 AC to 1789 AC,.
    French Revolution 1789 AC, It is the third period of universal history and marks the study of the events since 1789, when the French Revolution broke out.
  • 1502

    African slaves

    African slaves
    The first shipment of African slaves to the Spanish haciendas in Cuba gives rise to the triangular slave trade between Europe, West Africa and America
  • 1508

    Miguel Angel

    Miguel Angel
    Paints the Sistine Chapel
  • 1510

    Apogee of the Italian Renaissance.

    Apogee of the Italian Renaissance.
    It´s the period denoting the apogee of the visual arts in the Italian Renaissance. The High Renaissance period is traditionally taken to begin in the 1490s, with Leonardo's fresco of the Last Supper
  • 1543

    The Copernican Revolution

    The Copernican Revolution
    It was the paradigm shift from the Ptolemaic model of the heavens, which described the cosmos as having Earth stationary at the center of the universe, to the heliocentric model with the Sun at the center of the Solar System.
  • The Mayflower

    The Mayflower
    The Mayflower sets sail from England with the Pilgrim Fathers; a year later it arrives at Plymouth (North America), and the following year celebrates the first day of Thanksgiving with the native Americans
  • Peace of Westphalia

    Peace of Westphalia
    ) was a series of peace treaties signed between May and October 1648 in the Westphalian cities of Osnabrück and Münster, effectively ending the European wars of religion. These treaties ended the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648) in the Holy Roman Empire,
  • Treaty of Utrecht

    Treaty of Utrecht
    Which established the Peace of Utrecht, is a series of individual peace treaties, rather than a single document, signed by the belligerents in the War of the Spanish Succession, in the Dutch city of Utrecht in March and April 1713
  • The American colonies defeat the British

    The American colonies defeat the British
    The American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), also known as the American War of Independence,[43] was a global war that began as a conflict between Great Britain and her Thirteen Colonies, which declared independence as the United States of America.
  • CONTEMPORARY AGE

    CONTEMPORARY AGE
    CONTEMPORARY AGE.1789 AC to the present. Economic Transformation called the industrial revolution, the first and Second World War broke out
  • Declaration of the Rights of Man

    Declaration of the Rights of Man
    It´s an important document of the French Revolution and in the history of human and civil rights.
  • The Communist Manifesto

    The Communist Manifesto
    The Communist Manifesto (originally Manifesto of the Communist Party) is an 1848 political pamphlet by German philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Commissioned by the Communist League and originally published in London (in German as Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei) just as the revolutions of 1848 began to erupt, the Manifesto was later recognised as one of the world's most influential political documents.
  • First Modern Olympics

    First Modern Olympics
    Promoted by Pierre de Coubertin only 14 countries participated in the original tournament and there were only 43 events, but over the next century it grew in prestige to the international sporting festival it is today
  • World War I

    World War I
    World War I begins with the assassination of the archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary.
  • Stock market crisis.

    Stock market crisis.
    The stock market crash of 1929 is a four-day collapse of stock prices that began on October 24, 1929. It was the worst decline in U.S. history. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 25 percent. It lost $30 billion in market value
  • Japan attacks the United States

    President Franklin Roosevelt called December 7, 1941, "a date which will live in infamy." On that day, Japanese planes attacked the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory. The bombing killed more than 2,300 Americans
  • End of World War II in Europe

    End of World War II in Europe
    The final battles of the European Theatre of World War II as well as the German surrender to the Soviet Union and the Western Allies took place in late April and early May 1945.
  • Partition of India

    Partition of India
    The Indian territory under British colonial rule was divided into two States: Indian, Indian majority, and Pakistan, Muslim majority. Both still have hostile relationships
  • Murder of Gandhi

    Murder of Gandhi
    Indian Mahatma Gandhi is considered a world leader in the culture of non-violence. His contributions come from his life itself,
    Gandhi's adherents were convinced that his death was a political plot by Hindu extremists who refused to understand the Hindu-Muslim friendship of which Gandhi was sympathetic.
  • Hydrogen bomb.

    Hydrogen bomb.
    The scientific community split over the issue of building a hydrogen bomb. Edward Teller and Stanislaw Ulam, who developed it in 1951, who had explored the idea of a 'super' during the Manhattan Project, supported its development.
  • The Vietnam Ends

    The Vietnam Ends
    The Vietnam War (Vietnamese: Chiến tranh Việt Nam), also known as the Second Indochina War,[59] and known in Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America (Vietnamese: Kháng chiến chống Mỹ) or simply the American War, was a war that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955[A 1] to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975
  • Destruction of the Berlin Wall

    Destruction of the Berlin Wall
    The fall of the wall was motivated by the opening of borders between Austria and Hungary in May 1989, as more and more Germans traveled to Hungary to seek asylum in the various embassies of the Federal Republic of Germany. This led to huge demonstrations at Alexanderplatz which led to the government of the GDR saying on 9 November 1989 that the passage to the west was permitted.
  • Persian Gulf War

    Persian Gulf War
    international conflict that was triggered by Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait on August 2, 1990. Iraq’s leader, Saddam Hussein
  • End of Apartheid

    End of Apartheid
    The law classifying South Africans was abolished depending on whether they were white, mestizo, Indian or black. Since then it was established that "newborns will not be classified by race". South Africa, a country whose 68 percent of its population was black in the 1950s, was historically dominated by racism and discriminatory policies by whites, who accounted for 21 percent.
  • Destruction of the twin towers

    Destruction of the twin towers
    A group of Islamic terrorists abducted Flight 11 from American Airlines and crashed it against the north facade of the North Tower, at 8:46:40; the plane crashed between floors 93 and 99.
    The horror unleashed in New York and Washington by the attacks of September 11, 2001, which left more than 3,000 dead, traumatized the public and unleashed a "war on terror" that tested the legal system of the United States.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xclHpyJl3U
  • Indian Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami

    Indian Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami
    an enormous tsunami of up to 600 kilometers of speed that affected a total of fourteen countries, mainly South and Southeast Asia, but also the African coast of the Indian Ocean. The result was about 230,000 dead, 170,000 of them alone in the Indonesian province of Aceh, the closest to the epicenter, and nearly 2.5 million people affected-
  • The financial crisis of 2008

    The financial crisis of 2008
    The financial crisis of 2008 was directly triggered by the collapse of the housing bubble in the United States in 2006, which triggered the so-called subprime mortgage crisis in October 2007
  • The leak of wikileaks documents

    The leak of wikileaks documents
    The leak through WikiLeaks of 391,000 documents on the Iraq war reveals the death of 109,032 people between 2003 and 2009, of which 66,081 were civilians, 60%
  • Terrorism in Paris

    Terrorism in Paris
    ISIS assumed responsibility in an online statement. The statement said that eight ISIS militants wearing explosive belts ..
    explosive belts and armed with machine guns attacked precisely chosen targets in the French capital.
  • The plebiscite for peace agreements with the FARC

    The plebiscite for peace agreements with the FARC
    In a surprise result, Colombian voters rejected on Sunday the agreement reached by the government with the guerrilla of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), adding in the uncertainty the peace process with the insurgents.
  • The symbol of Civil Resistance

    The symbol of Civil Resistance
    It is a Burmese policy. On March 30, 2016, he took over the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Energy, Education and the Office of the President. He was not able to assume the presidency of the government although the party that leads, National League for the Democracy (LND), won the elections celebrated in November of 2015.
  • Increase in coca cultivation

    Increase in coca cultivation
    The highest growth occurs in border areas, especially in Nariño, Putumayo and Norte de Santander, the same territories with the highest number of hectares reported in the 2015 report.
    In relation to the potential production of cocaine, an increase of 34% is estimated. It went from 646 tons in 2015 to 866 in 2016.
  • Economic Crisis in Venezuela

    Economic Crisis in Venezuela
    Between September (39.1%, according to data from Ecoanalítica) and the 20 days from October, inflation has taken such a big leap in Venezuela that it liquefied the little that remained of the purchasing power of Venezuelan workers' salaries, and also of their employers.