Page 6 - 100 Events That Made History

Contents

6 Social 36 Battles and
firsts brawls

8 The first farmers 38 Egypt vs. Hittites
10 First tools 40 Caesar takes Rome

11 First art 42 The Battle of Hastings
12 Ur founded 44 Jerusalem falls
13 Pipe dream 45 Mongols united

14 First powerful woman 46 The 95 Theses
16 Laws are written down 48 Aztecs and Incas defeated
18 World religions founded 50 The siege of Vienna
Hinduism 52 The American Revolution
Buddhism
54 The French Revolution
Judasim
56 Revolutions in South America
Christianity
58 Gettysburg Address
Islam
20 The teachings of Confucius 59 Battle of Little Bighorn
60 Assassinations
22 First Olympic Games
Julius Caesar
23 Dawn of democracy
Abraham Lincoln
24 Black Death
Mohandas “Mahatma” Gandhi
26 Striking silver John F. Kennedy
27 Pilgrims set sail Martin Luther King, Jr.

28 Agricultural revolution 62 Franz Ferdinand assassinated
29 Industrial Revolution 64 Atomic bombs dropped
30 Slavery abolished 66 Cuban Missile Crisis

31 Women get the vote 68 The Fall of the Wall
32 March to Montgomery 70 Troubling times
34 Abolishing apartheid The Northern Irish Troubles
Palestinian Intifada
9/11
Global banking crisis
Arab Spring

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