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160 events across 3 years of classical history
| Event | Date | Period |
|---|---|---|
| Creation and the Fall | Beginning | Ancient |
| The Flood and the Tower of Babel | c. 2348 BC | Ancient |
| Mesopotamia and Sumer | c. 3500 BC | Ancient |
| Egyptians | c. 3100 BC | Ancient |
| Indus River Valley Civilization | c. 2600 BC | Ancient |
| Minoans and Mycenaeans | c. 2000-1200 BC | Ancient |
| Seven Wonders of the Ancient World | c. 2560 BC-280 BC | Ancient |
| Patriarchs of Israel | c. 2166-1805 BC | Ancient |
| Hittites and Canaanites | c. 1600-1178 BC | Ancient |
| Kush | c. 1070 BC-350 | Ancient |
| Assyrians | c. 2500-609 BC | Ancient |
| Babylonians | c. 1894-539 BC | Ancient |
| China's Shang Dynasty | c. 1600-1046 BC | Ancient |
| Hinduism in India | c. 1500 BC | Ancient |
| Phoenicians and the Alphabet | c. 1500-300 BC | Ancient |
| Olmecs of Mesoamerica | c. 1500-400 BC | Ancient |
| Israelite Exodus and Desert Wandering | c. 1446 BC | Ancient |
| Israelite Conquest and Judges | c. 1406-1050 BC | Ancient |
| Greek Dark Ages | c. 1200-800 BC | Ancient |
| Israel's United Kingdom | c. 1050-930 BC | Ancient |
| Early Native Americans | c. 1000 BC | Ancient |
| Israel Divides into Two Kingdoms | c. 930 BC | Ancient |
| Homer and Hesiod | c. 850-700 BC | Ancient |
| Rome Founded by Romulus and Remus | 753 BC | Ancient |
| Israel Falls to Assyria | 722 BC | Ancient |
| Assyria Falls to Babylon | 612 BC | Ancient |
| Lao-Tzu, Confucius, Buddha | c. 600-500 BC | Ancient |
| Judah Falls to Babylon, Temple Destroyed | 586 BC | Ancient |
| Babylon Falls to Persia | 539 BC | Ancient |
| Jews Return and Rebuild the Temple | 539-516 BC | Ancient |
| Roman Republic | 509 BC | Classical |
| Golden Age of Greece | c. 500-300 BC | Classical |
| Peloponnesian Wars | 431-404 BC | Classical |
| Persia Falls to Alexander the Great | 334-330 BC | Classical |
| India's Mauryan Empire | c. 322-185 BC | Classical |
| Mayans of Mesoamerica | c. 2000 BC-1500 | Ancient |
| Punic Wars | 264-146 BC | Classical |
| Rome Conquers Greece | 146 BC | Classical |
| Roman Dictator Julius Caesar | 100-44 BC | Classical |
| Caesar Augustus and the Pax Romana | 27 BC-180 | Classical |
| John the Baptist | c. 6 BC-30 | Classical |
| Jesus the Messiah | c. 4 BC-30 | Classical |
| Pentecost and the Early Church | c. 30 | Classical |
| Persecution Spreads the Gospel | c. 30-313 | Classical |
| Herod's Temple Destroyed by Titus | 70 | Classical |
| Diocletian Divides the Roman Empire | 285 | Classical |
| Constantine Legalizes Christianity | 313 | Classical |
| India's Gupta Dynasty | c. 320-550 | Classical |
| First Council of Nicaea (Divinity of Christ) | 325 | Classical |
| Augustine of Hippo | 354-430 | Classical |
| Jerome Completes the Vulgate | c. 405 | Classical |
| Visigoths Sack Rome | 410 | Classical |
| The Middle Ages | c. 500-1500 | Medieval |
| Council of Chalcedon (Two Natures of Christ) | 451 | Classical |
| Western Roman Empire Falls to Barbarians | 476 | Classical |
| Byzantine Emperor Justinian | 527-565 | Medieval |
| Event | Date | Period |
|---|---|---|
| Benedict and Monasticism | c. 529 | Medieval |
| Muhammad Founds Islam | c. 610 | Medieval |
| Zanj and Early Ghana in Africa | c. 700-1200 | Medieval |
| Franks Defeat Muslims at the Battle of Tours | 732 | Medieval |
| Golden Age of Islam | c. 750-1258 | Medieval |
| Vikings Raid and Trade | c. 793-1066 | Medieval |
| Japan's Heian Period | 794-1185 | Medieval |
| Charlemagne Crowned Emperor of Europe | 800 | Medieval |
| Alfred the Great of England | 871-899 | Medieval |
| Erik the Red and Leif Eriksson, Norse Explorers | c. 985-1000 | Medieval |
| Vladimir I of Kiev | c. 980-1015 | Medieval |
| Byzantine Emperor Basil II | 976-1025 | Medieval |
| East-West Schism of the Church | 1054 | Medieval |
| Norman Conquest and Feudalism in Europe | 1066 | Medieval |
| The Crusades | 1096-1291 | Medieval |
| Zimbabwe and Early Mali in Africa | c. 1100-1400 | Medieval |
| Aztecs of Mesoamerica | c. 1300-1521 | Medieval |
| Francis of Assisi and Thomas Aquinas | c. 1200-1274 | Medieval |
| Japan's Shoguns | 1185-1868 | Medieval |
| Incas of South America | c. 1200-1533 | Medieval |
| Genghis Khan Rules the Mongols | c. 1206-1227 | Medieval |
| England's Magna Carta | 1215 | Medieval |
| Ottoman Empire | c. 1299-1922 | Medieval |
| Marco Polo's Journey to China | 1271-1295 | Medieval |
| The Hundred Years' War and Black Death | 1337-1453 | Medieval |
| The Renaissance | c. 1400-1600 | Renaissance |
| China's Ming Dynasty | 1368-1644 | Renaissance |
| Age of Exploration | c. 1400-1600 | Exploration |
| Prince Henry Founds School of Navigation | c. 1418 | Exploration |
| Slave Trade in Africa | c. 1440-1870 | Exploration |
| Gutenberg's Printing Press | c. 1440 | Renaissance |
| Songhai in Africa | c. 1464-1591 | Renaissance |
| Czar Ivan the Great of Russia | 1462-1505 | Renaissance |
| The Spanish Inquisition | 1478 | Renaissance |
| Columbus Sails to the Caribbean | 1492 | Exploration |
| Age of Absolute Monarchs | c. 1500-1700 | Reformation |
| Protestant Reformation | 1517 | Reformation |
| Spanish Conquistadors in the Americas | c. 1519-1540 | Exploration |
| Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion | 1536 | Reformation |
| Council of Trent (Counter-Reformation) | 1545-1563 | Reformation |
| Baroque Period of the Arts | c. 1600-1750 | Baroque |
| Japan's Isolation | 1639-1853 | Colonial |
| Event | Date | Period |
|---|---|---|
| Jamestown and Plymouth Colony Founded | 1607-1620 | Colonial |
| Age of Enlightenment | c. 1685-1815 | Colonial |
| Hudson's Bay Company | 1670 | Colonial |
| First Great Awakening | c. 1730-1740 | Colonial |
| Classical Period of the Arts | c. 1750-1820 | Colonial |
| The Seven Years' War | 1756-1763 | Colonial |
| Age of Industry | c. 1760-1840 | Industrial |
| James Cook Sails to Australia and Antarctica | 1768-1779 | Exploration |
| American Revolution and General George Washington | 1775-1783 | Revolutionary |
| Madison's Constitution and the Bill of Rights | 1787-1791 | Revolutionary |
| French Revolution | 1789-1799 | Revolutionary |
| Second Great Awakening | c. 1790-1840 | Early Modern |
| Louisiana Purchase and Lewis and Clark Expedition | 1803-1806 | Early Modern |
| Napoleon Crowned Emperor of France | 1804 | Early Modern |
| Liberation of South America | c. 1810-1825 | Early Modern |
| The War of 1812 | 1812-1815 | Early Modern |
| The Missouri Compromise | 1820 | Early Modern |
| Immigrants Flock to America | c. 1820s+ | Early Modern |
| The Monroe Doctrine | 1823 | Early Modern |
| Romantic Period of the Arts | c. 1800-1850 | Early Modern |
| Cherokee Trail of Tears | 1838 | Early Modern |
| US Westward Expansion | c. 1840s | Early Modern |
| Marx Publishes The Communist Manifesto | 1848 | Early Modern |
| The Compromise of 1850 and the Dred Scott Decision | 1850-1857 | Early Modern |
| US Restores Trade with Japan | 1853 | Early Modern |
| British Queen Victoria's Rule Over India | 1858-1947 | Early Modern |
| Darwin Publishes The Origin of Species | 1859 | Early Modern |
| Lincoln's War Between the States | 1861-1865 | Early Modern |
| Reconstruction of the Southern States | 1865-1877 | Early Modern |
| Dominion of Canada | 1867 | Early Modern |
| Otto von Bismarck Unifies Germany | 1871 | Industrial |
| Boer Wars in Africa | 1880-1902 | Industrial |
| The Spanish-American War | 1898 | Industrial |
| The Progressive Era | c. 1890-1920 | Modern |
| Australia Becomes a Commonwealth | 1901 | Modern |
| Mexican Revolution | 1910-1920 | Modern |
| World War I and President Wilson | 1914-1918 | Modern |
| Lenin and the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia | 1917 | Modern |
| US Evangelist Billy Graham | 1918-2018 | Modern |
| Modern Period of the Arts | c. 1900-present | Modern |
| The Great Depression and the New Deal | 1929-1939 | Modern |
| World War II and President Franklin D. Roosevelt | 1939-1945 | Modern |
| Stalin of the USSR and the Katyn Massacre | 1940 | Modern |
| The United Nations Formed | 1945 | Modern |
| The Cold War | 1947-1991 | Modern |
| Gandhi and India's Independence | 1947 | Modern |
| Jewish State Established | 1948 | Modern |
| Mao and the Communist Victory in China | 1949 | Modern |
| North Atlantic Treaty Organization | 1949 | Modern |
| The Korean War | 1950-1953 | Modern |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement | c. 1954-1968 | Contemporary |
| Jim and Elisabeth Elliot, Missionaries to Ecuador | 1956 | Contemporary |
| The Antarctic Treaty | 1959 | Contemporary |
| The Vietnam War | 1955-1975 | Contemporary |
| US Astronauts Walk on the Moon | 1969 | Contemporary |
| Age of Information and Globalization | c. 1970s-present | Contemporary |
| Watergate, President Nixon Resigns | 1974 | Contemporary |
| Fall of Communism in Eastern Europe | 1989 | Contemporary |
| European Union Formed | 1993 | Contemporary |
| Apartheid Abolished in South Africa | 1994 | Contemporary |
| September 11, 2001 | 2001 | Contemporary |
| Rising Tide of Freedom | 21st century | Contemporary |