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World War II

World War I

Albert Einstein

Julius Caesar

Alexander the Great

The Moon Landing (1969)

The Moon Landing 1969

Ancient Egyptian Civilization

Napoleon Bonaparte

The Roman Empire

Moon Landing (1969)

Leonardo da Vinci

Moon Landing 1969

Isaac Newton

William Shakespeare

First Moon Landing

Cleopatra

Mahatma Gandhi

The Holocaust

The French Revolution

Moon Landing

The Cold War

Thomas Edison

Ancient Greek Civilization

Mozart

The Moon Landing

Nelson Mandela

Shakespeare

Aristotle

Winston Churchill

Socrates

9/11 terrorist attacks

First human spaceflight 1961

Yuri Gagarin

Plato

Apollo 11 Moon Landing

Abraham Lincoln

Holocaust

Neil Armstrong

The Industrial Revolution

Fall of the Berlin Wall

Barack Obama

Industrial Revolution

Martin Luther King Jr.

September 11 attacks

The Renaissance

Genghis Khan

Marie Curie

Confucius

Homer

Construction of the Great Wall of China

French Revolution

Benjamin Franklin

COVID-19 pandemic

The Fall of the Berlin Wall

The Discovery of Fire by Early Humans

Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings

Invention of the internet

Printing press invention

American Revolution

Discovery of penicillin

D-Day Normandy invasion

Berlin Wall fall

Cuban Missile Crisis

The Invention of the Printing Press

Ferdinand Magellan

The Russian Revolution

The American Civil War

Orville Wright

Galileo Galilei

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

Queen Victoria

Harriet Tubman

The Black Death

Joan of Arc

The American Revolution

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Great Depression 1929

First powered aircraft flight

Abolition of slavery USA

Gutenberg printing press

Berlin Wall fall 1989

Yuri Gagarin spaceflight

Mikhail Gorbachev

American War of Independence

Construction of the Pyramids

Fall of Berlin Wall

Mao Zedong

First flight by Wright Brothers

George Washington

Fall of Roman Empire

Black Death pandemic

Archimedes

Civil Rights Movement

Titanic sinking

Titanic maiden voyage

John F. Kennedy

The Crusades

The First Olympics

Chernobyl disaster

Malala Yousafzai

Global Financial Crisis 2008

Eruption of Mount Vesuvius (Pompeii)

American Constitution signing

Alexander's conquests

Discovery of the Titanic Wreck

Christopher Columbus

Sputnik launch 1957

Great Depression

Berlin Wall construction

DNA structure discovery

Tutankhamun

The Discovery of Penicillin

Gutenberg

Transatlantic slave trade

The Transatlantic Slave Trade

Theory of Evolution publication

Tim Berners-Lee

Invention of the Printing Press

American Civil War

Frederick Douglass

The Silk Road

Building of the Great Wall of China

Roman Empire founding

Sun Tzu

Thomas Jefferson

Eleanor Roosevelt

Cold War

Indian independence 1947

The First Flight of the Wright Brothers

Vasco da Gama

Amelia Earhart

Discovery of Tutankhamun's Tomb

Invention of the telephone

First nuclear bomb test

The Launch of Sputnik

Building of the Great Wall

End of apartheid in South Africa

Bill Clinton

Battle of Stalingrad

Pompeii destruction

Adam Smith

Spanish Flu pandemic

Qin Shi Huang

The Aztec Empire

Ramesses II

Women's suffrage movement

Magna Carta signing

Challenger disaster

Invention of the internet protocols

The Trojan War

Scientific Revolution

Age of Enlightenment

European colonization of Americas

Iraq War 2003

The Silk Road establishment

United Nations founding

Vietnam War

2004 Indian Ocean tsunami

Treaty of Versailles

The First Successful Heart Transplant

Dante Alighieri

James Cook

The Age of Exploration

James Watt

Hannibal Barca

Augustus Caesar

Women's right to vote USA

Simon Bolívar

First Woman in Space (Valentina Tereshkova)

First telephone call

James Madison

Voltaire

Dissolution of Soviet Union

Susan B. Anthony

Russian Revolution 1917

French declaration of human rights

Jean-Paul Sartre

Friedrich Nietzsche

The Viking Age

The Discovery of Tutankhamun's Tomb

Martin Luther

The Exploration of the Titanic Wreck

Catherine the Great

René Descartes

Immanuel Kant

The Magna Carta

The Building of the Panama Canal

The Signing of the Magna Carta

Buzz Aldrin

Oil crisis 1973

Charlemagne

Frida Kahlo

Ashoka the Great

Smallpox eradication

Digital Revolution

Space Race

Desmond Tutu

Civil Rights Act 1964

Otto von Bismarck

Charles de Gaulle

Apollo 13 crisis

Karl Marx

Atomic bomb testing Trinity

Brown v Board of Education

Discovery of Penicillin

First Olympic Games (Ancient Greece)

First Olympic Games (Ancient)

Mongol Empire expansion

Signing of the Magna Carta

Alexander Graham Bell

Eruption of Mount Vesuvius (79 AD)

Marco Polo

The First Olympic Games

Discovery of DNA Structure

Attila the Hun

Florence Nightingale

First Olympic Games

Amerigo Vespucci

The First Transatlantic Flight

Completion of the Panama Canal

First Successful Heart Transplant

Saladin

John Locke

Construction of the Great Wall of China (major phases)

Battle of Britain

2008 Financial Crisis

Great Fire of London

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Partition of India

Creation of United Nations

Hurricane Katrina

Theodore Roosevelt

Peter the Great

Polio vaccine development

Battle of Waterloo

Battle of the Somme

Space Shuttle Columbia disaster

Soviet invasion of Afghanistan

Brexit referendum

Georg Hegel

David Hume

Albert Camus

Gulf War 1991

Rwandan genocide

The Spanish Inquisition

First antibiotic treatment

Alexander Hamilton

Battle of Gettysburg

Space Shuttle program

Agricultural Revolution

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Irish Potato Famine

Liberation of Paris

Korean War

Gold Rush California

Hammurabi

Hubble Space Telescope launch

Battle of Midway

Sojourner Truth

Krakatoa eruption

W.E.B. Du Bois

Che Guevara

Jawaharlal Nehru

Kublai Khan

Ernest Shackleton

Valentina Tereshkova

Pericles

Napoleonic Wars

The Byzantine Empire

Rwandan Genocide

Opening of Suez Canal

Opening of Panama Canal

First television broadcast

French Revolution Reign of Terror

The Ming Dynasty

Simone de Beauvoir

Tiananmen Square protests

John Stuart Mill

Nefertiti

Thomas Hobbes

Human Genome Project completion

George W. Bush

2010 Haiti earthquake

Ulysses S. Grant

Andrew Jackson

Treaty of Westphalia

Congress of Vienna

Marcus Aurelius

Jane Goodall

Francis Drake

First spacewalk 1965

First Successful Vaccine (Smallpox)

Václav Havel

Henry V of England

First heart transplant

Roe v Wade

The Eruption of Mount Vesuvius (79 AD)

Voting Rights Act 1965

Louis XIV

Alan Shepard

First Transatlantic Flight (Lindbergh)

Ronald Reagan

Fukushima disaster

The First Transcontinental Railroad

Chandragupta Maurya

Founding of the United Nations (1945)

Harry S. Truman

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Richard the Lionheart

Completion of Transcontinental Railroad

Asian financial crisis 1997

Voyager 1 launch

International Space Station

First Transcontinental Railroad (US)

Suleiman the Magnificent

Ibn Sina

Human genome sequencing

San Francisco earthquake 1906

Battle of Hastings

Gulf War

Chinese Cultural Revolution

Robert Falcon Scott

Marie Antoinette

Cyrus the Great

Baruch Spinoza

Constantine the Great

Dwight D. Eisenhower

1906 San Francisco earthquake

Fidel Castro

Discovery of fire

Dot-com bubble burst

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Thomas Paine

1883 Krakatoa eruption

Battle of Trafalgar

Henry Hudson

Battle of Verdun

Great Plague of London

First test-tube baby

Decolonization of Africa

McCarthyism

The Voyage of the Mayflower

Khmer Rouge genocide

Chinese Revolution 1949

Søren Kierkegaard

George H.W. Bush

Nikola Tesla

Toussaint Louverture

Booker T. Washington

Ho Chi Minh

Sun Yat-sen

Ivan the Terrible

Deepwater Horizon oil spill

Frederick the Great

Zheng He

Boudicca

Voyage of the Mayflower

Mars Rover Curiosity

Lisbon earthquake 1755

Mary Queen of Scots

Dust Bowl drought

Rosa Parks

Robin Hood

William the Conqueror

Hundred Years War

Mars Viking lander 1976

Tamerlane

Enron scandal

Battle of Cannae

Spanish Civil War

Chinese Civil War

Battle of the Bulge

Srebrenica massacre

Hernán Cortés

Pompey

Leonidas I

Woodrow Wilson

Cicero

Marshall Plan

Nebuchadnezzar II

Frederick II Holy Roman Emperor

CRISPR technology development

Louis IX of France

Battle of Gallipoli

First nuclear reactor

Arthur Schopenhauer

Haitian Revolution

Formation of NATO

1923 Great Kanto earthquake

Battle of Agincourt

Battle of Iwo Jima

Darius the Great

Iranian Revolution 1979

Paris Agreement

Battle of Marathon

Wu Zetian

Isabella I of Castile

Anne Boleyn

Vlad the Impaler

William Wallace

James Monroe

Leif Erikson

Al-Khwarizmi

Euro crisis

Cuban Revolution

José de San Martín

Arab Spring

Eleanor of Aquitaine

John Calvin

Marcus Garvey

Great Famine of China

Exxon Valdez oil spill

1815 Tambora eruption

First Successful Climb of Mount Everest (1953)

Mark Antony

Mehmed II

Akbar the Great

Xerxes I

Oliver Cromwell

Richard Nixon

Siege of Constantinople

Green Revolution

Mexican Revolution

Roaring Twenties

Tulip mania

SpaceX Falcon 9 reusability

Euro currency launch

Pompey the Great

Hadrian

Prague Spring

Oslo Accords

Philip IV of France

Patrice Lumumba

Battle of Salamis

Erasmus of Rotterdam

Shah Jahan

Thomas More

Francisco Pizarro

Sargon of Akkad

Louis XVI

Ignatius of Loyola

Themistocles

Robespierre

South Sea Bubble

Heron of Alexandria

Seven Years War

Falklands War

Empress Theodora

Bartolomeu Dias

Post-war baby boom

David Attenborough

Timur

Montreal Protocol

Thirty Years War

Justinian I

1930 Dust Bowl

Louis Pasteur

Iran-Iraq War

Iron Age

Second Battle of Ypres

Battle of Actium

Battle of Gaugamela

Battle of Lepanto

Jimmy Carter

Lyndon B. Johnson

Glorious Revolution

Velvet Revolution

Solidarity movement

Babur

Bronze Age

Zenobia

Edward the Black Prince

Alfonso X of Castile

Władysław II Jagiełło

William Tyndale

Frederick Barbarossa

John Cabot

William of Orange

Bubonic Plague of Justinian

Cholera pandemic 19th century

Crimean War

Solidarity movement Poland

Fall of Constantinople (1453)

Russo-Japanese War

Vercingetorix

Boer War

Tiberius

Battle of Crécy

Thomas Sankara

Aurangzeb

Battle of Zama

Diocletian

Sulla

World Trade Organization founding

Alcibiades

Sir Edmund Hillary

Romanian Revolution 1989

John Wycliffe

Marcus Crassus

Jan Hus

Woodstock

Hernando de Soto

Mapping of human brain

Cato the Elder

Demosthenes

Epaminondas

Battle of Thermopylae

Danton

Herbert Hoover

John Knox

Marat

Stefan the Great

Tiberius Gracchus

Ada Lovelace

Orange Revolution Ukraine

Heraclius

Roald Amundsen

Gaius Gracchus

Nicolaus Copernicus

The Sinking of the Titanic

The First Modern Olympic Games

Alan Turing

The First Modern Olympic Games (1896)

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

The Fall of Constantinople

George Washington Carver

The Great Fire of London

Mary Anning

First Transatlantic Telegraph Cable

The Discovery of Machu Picchu

Ibn Battuta

The Discovery of the Rosetta Stone

Hedy Lamarr

The Battle of the Alamo

The Opening of the Sydney Opera House

Simón Bolívar

The Eruption of Krakatoa

Emmeline Pankhurst

The Sinking of the RMS Lusitania

Hypatia of Alexandria

The Fall of Constantinople (1453)

The First Successful Climb of Mount Everest

The First Olympic Games (776 BC)

The Creation of the Suez Canal

Caroline Herschel

Eratosthenes

Steve Biko

The Discovery of Insulin

The Founding of the Samurai Code

The First Successful Blood Transfusion

Hatshepsut

Sacagawea

Alfred the Great

Zhang Heng

Ibn al-Haytham

Mansa Musa

The First Transatlantic Flight (Alcock and Brown)

Lise Meitner

John Muir

Fridtjof Nansen

The Opening of the Erie Canal

Émilie du Châtelet

David Livingstone

Vitus Bering

The Battle of Marathon

Shen Kuo

Hypatia

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