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780 BC - Greeks sent settlers to create colonies in Asia Minor
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588 BC - Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar captured Jerusalem.
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588 BC - Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar captured Jerusalem.
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496 BC - Persian Wars
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496 BC - Persian Wars
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9 AD - German tribes destroyed 3 Roman legions under P. Quinctilius Varnus
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79 AD - Mount Vesuvius Erupted covering Pompeii and Herculaneum.
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621 AD - Islam begins in Mecca
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711 AD - Moors (Muslims) reached Spain via Morocco
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1066 AD - Battle of Hastings
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1492 AD - Columbus found the “New World”
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1492 AD - Moors defeated by Ferdinand and Isabella
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1588 AD - Spanish Armada defeated by England
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1607 AD - English Settlement at Jamestown, VA.
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1619 AD - First slaves arrive in Virginia.
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1803 AD - Louisiana Purchase
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1803 AD - World population hits 1 billion
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1854 AD- John Snow maps the first cholera outbreak in London
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1860 AD - Civil War
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1860 AD - Industrial Revolution
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1869 AD - Transcontinental Railroad
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1898 AD - Spanish/American War
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1914 AD - WWI
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1920 AD - Women in America gain suffrage
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1947 AD - Cold War
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1939 AD - WWII
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1950 AD - Korean War
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1989 AD - Berlin Wall falls
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1991 AD - USSR splits
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2001 AD - 9/11 Attacks
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2008 AD - half of the world's population lives in an urban setting