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Revision as of 00:58, 20 December 2003
(1st millennium AD - 2nd millennium AD - 3rd millennium AD - other millennia)
Events:
- The Renaissance
- The Protestant Reformation
- The start of the Industrial revolution
- The rise of nationalism and the modern nation state
- European discovery of the Americas (and colonization thereof), Africa, and elsewhere
- Two World Wars (I and II)
- Creation of the United Nations
Significant persons:
- Thomas Aquinas, theologian
- Genghis Khan, Mongolian conqueror
- Christopher Columbus, explorer
- Martin Luther, religious reformer
- René Descartes, philosopher and mathematician
- Nicholas Copernicus, astronomer and mathematician
- Galileo Galilei, scientist
- Isaac Newton, scientist
- Charles Darwin, natural scientist
- Benjamin Franklin, American founding father and scientist
- Thomas Jefferson, American founding father and president
- Napoleon Bonaparte, French conqueror and emperor
- Abraham Lincoln, American president
- Otto von Bismarck, German chancellor
- Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher
- Karl Marx, political philosopher
- Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin, Soviet leaders
- Franklin D. Roosevelt, American president
- Adolf Hitler, German dictator
- Winston Churchill, British prime minister
- Albert Einstein, physicist
Inventions, Discoveries, Introductions:
- The Printing press
- Gunpowder
- The Internet
- The Steam engine
- The discovery of the Scientific method
- Theory of Evolution
- The discovery of genetics and DNA
- Calculus
- Human Flight
- Nuclear Power
- Space travel and mankind's first flight to the moon
- The internal combustion engine
- Capitalism and socialism
- The Computer
- Women's suffrage
Centuries and Decades