SinfulKingMidas
12th June 2005, 11:33 AM
3 million BC - Australopithecus Human-like hominids.
2 million BC - Homo Habilis stone tools.
1.5 million BC - Homo Erectus first hunters. Follow land bridges.
500,000 BC - Homo Sapiens stone-tipped spears, fished, clothed in animal skins.
38,000 BC - Begining of the last Ice Age.
25,000 BC - Homo Sapien Modern bow and arrow, oil lamps, honey.
14000 BC - Carvings of the Saluki / Persian greyhound.
10000 BC - Hunters moved into the Peru area.
5000 BC - Biblical creation of the world.
3100 BC - Egypt enters Early Dynastic period.
2686 BC - Egypt enters The Old Kingdom.
2181 BC - Egypt enters The First Intermediate Period.
2050 BC - Egypt enters The Middle Kingdom.
2000 BC - Settlements in Peru became larger moving inland from the coast.
Chinese dynasty Xia begins.
1869 BC - First Assyrian Empire, Shamshi-Adad conquered Mari and Ekallutum.
1786 BC - Egypt enters The Second Intermediate Period.
1700 BC - Chinese dynasty Shang begins.
1567 BC - Egypt enters The New Kingdom.
1550 BC - Ahmose and his army defeat the Hyksos and he becomes Pharaoh of a united Egypt.
1525 BC - Egyptian Pharoh Ahmose dies. used horses in battle.
Amenhotep I continues the campaigns against Nubia and leads a military expedition to Kush.
1504 BC - Tuthmosis I marks his reign with a series of military campaigns.
1500 BC - Chinese dynasty Xia ends.
1492 BC - Tuthmosis II Despite poor health, leads successful military campaigns in Syria and Nubia.
1491 BC - Noah's ark touches down on Mt. Ararat.
1479 BC - Egyptian Queen Hatshepsut becomes Pharoh.
1458 BC - Egyptian female Pharoh Hatshepsut dies. 22 years as Pharoh, known for trading trip to the land of Punt.
Egyptian Pharoh Tuthmosis III takes power.
1425 BC - Egyptian Pharoh Tuthmosis III dies. the Pharaoh’s scribes recorded troop achievements. Started dead hand counting by army.
Egyptian Pharoh Amenhotep II takes power. makes sacrifices of Palestinians and Syrians.
1400 BC - Tuthmosis IV takes power, legitimacy to Egyptian throne unclear, conqueror of Syria.
1390 BC - Amenhotep III becomes Pharoh. Corresponds with other rulers through the Amarna letters.
1352 BC - Amenhotep III dies. Built two temples south in Nubia dedicated to himself and his wife Tiy. Worshipped as gods.
Akhenaten begins building new Egyptian capital city in the desert of Amarna.
1336 BC - Akhenaten son of Amenhotep III dies. known for Religious revolution, 1st change in 2000 years. 12th year of reign Queen Nefertiti vanished from history.
City Akhenaten had built in dedication to the god Aten was abandoned.
Tutenkamen becomes Pharoh at age 9.
1327 BC - Egyptian Pharoh Tutenkamen dies unexpectedly. son of Akhenaten.
After Tutankhamen’s death many images and references to Akhenaten and Nefertiti were destroyed.
With no relative to succeed the throne, court advisor Ay becomes pharaoh.
1322 BC - With no heir, the throne passes to Horemheb, Commander of the Army.
1293 BC - Horemheb dies with no heir and his army commander Ramesses, already in late middle age, becomes pharaoh.
1285 BC - Egyptian King Ramses II led armies into 16 year stalemate with the Hittite armies.
1225 BC - Assyrians capture Babylon.
1212 BC - Ramses II dies. with his multitude of minor wives, bore him more than 100 children.
1200 BC - Hittite Empire comes to an end.
1085 BC - Egypt enters The Late Period.
1027 BC - Chinese dynasty Shang ends.
900 BC - Chavin era begins in Peru.
800 BC - Paracas culture begins south coast, Peru.
570 BC - Eyuf dies, the mayor of Bahriyah in the 26th dynasty in the reign of Pharaoh Apris.
500 BC - Herodotus the Greek historian chronicler of the Egyptian Pyramid Age.
469 BC - Greek Socrates born.
427 BC - Greek Plato born.
399 BC - Greek Socrates dies.
347 BC - Greek Plato dies.
338 BC - Greece was conquered by the kingdom of Macedonia.
332 BC - Egypt under Greek rule.
264 BC - The first gladiatorial games were offered in Rome.
241 BC - Two War vessels destroyed off Sicily, Italy with cannabis onboard.
200 BC - Chavin era ends in Peru.
164 BC - Titus Flamininus offered 74 pairs in games in honor of his father lasted three days.
140 BC - Roman forces took control of Macedonia and Greece.
100 BC - Paracas culture ends. Famous for burying Brain surgery patients who survived surgery.
67 BC - Roman forces begin a campaign to rid the area of pirates.
51 BC - Ptolemy Auletes dies, daughter Cleopatra is 18.
50 BC - Julius Caesar completes the conquest of Gaul.
49 BC - Caesar crosses the Rubicon River. Civil War begins.
44 BC - Julius Caesar Assassinated.
42 BC - Defeat of Brutus and Cassius, Caesar's assassins, in Greece.
30 BC - Cleopatra dies by snake bite.
Egypt under Roman rule.
29 BC - Beginning of Pax Romana.
4 BC - Death of Herod the Great.
0 - Nazca culture begins south coast, Peru. trade, giant drawings in desert.
Moche culture begins north coast, Peru. prospered by agression, gold work.
8 - Ovid banished to Tomis.
14 - Death of Agustus Caesar.
37 - Death of Tiberius.
41 - Death of Caligula.
54 - Death of Claudius.
64 - Great fire of Rome.
68 - Death of Nero.
70 - Roman Titus destroys Jerusalem.
79 - Mt. Vesuvius erupts destroying Pompeii.
80 - Coloseum Inaugurated. Gladiator games begin in Rome.
81 - Death of Titus.
96 - Bible written.
98 - Trajan was declared Caesar.
105 - Rome captures Dacia.
106 - Rome captures Arabia Petraea.
114 - Rome captures Parthia.
117 - Emperor Hadrain took over the Roman Empire at its greatest size.
130 - Hadrians Wall built in Britain.
132 - Jewish revolt.
165 - Roman Plague outbreak 2000 die daily.
180 - Marcus Aurelius dies.
192 - Commodus Assassinated.
217 - Caracalla Assassinated.
235 - Serverus Assassinated.
238 - Maximus Assassinated.
244 - Gordian Assassinated.
272 - Rome loses Mesopotamia.
292 - Rise of Mayan culture in South America.
395 - Roman Empire divides East and West.
407 - Rome loses Britain.
410 - Alaric, the Visigoth sacks Rome.
435 - Rome loses Carthage.
450 - Attilla the Hun invades Gaul.
Dark Ages period begins.
455 - Rome sacked by vandals.
476 - Fall of Rome
500 - Horseshoes are becoming common.
593 - Mayan culture widespread. Multiple calendars, multiple gods needing human sacrifice.
768 - Charlemagne becomes ruler of the Frankish Kingdom.
793 - Norwegian Vikings began the Viking reign of terror attacking and looting the monastery of Lindisfarne on an island off the coast of England.
800 - Manorialism land system begins in Europe.
841 - City of Dublin established as a Viking base.
900 - Mayans abandon cities. cause unknown.
Toltec began imigrating south into South America.
1000 - Dark Ages period ends.
1040 - Macbeth murders Duncan, king of Scotland.
1066 - William the Conqueror invades England and becomes King.
1144 - Second Crusade begins.
1185 - First recorded Windmill.
1200 - Fourth Crusade lasts four years.
The city of Roven, France burns to the ground 6 times before 1225.
1217 - Fifth Crusade.
1228 - Sixth Crusade.
1248 - Seventh Crusade.
1270 - Eighth Crusade.
1271 - Marco Polo of Venice travels to China.
1300 - Later Samaurai period begins.
The city of Tenochtitlan is founded.
1324 - The first mention of cannon used in the siege of Metz.
1325 - The beginning of the Renaissance in Italy.
1347 - At least 25 million people die in Europe's Black Death (bubonic plague) untill 1351.
1368 - Ming Dynasty begins in China.
1400 - Rise of Aztec/Toltec culture in South America.
1428 - Joan of Arc leads French army against English.
1438 - Incas rule in Peru. Master architects.
1440 - Mocteuzma I
1457 - City of Tokyo Japan founded.
1469 - Aztec/Toltec Mocteuzma I (1440-1469) undertook wars of conquest through South America.
1477 - Marco Polo's Travels published.
1478 - The Spanish Inquisition lasted untill 1828 with 1000 people put to death.
1488 - Leonardo da Vinci's design for the flying machiene.
1492 - Christopher Columbus sets sail west.
1497 - Vasco da Gama sails around Africa and discovers sea route to India (1498).
1501 - First black slaves in America brought to Spanish colony of Santo Domingo.
1502 - Aztec Mocteuzma II takes power in South America.
1503 - Leonardo da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa.
1505 - Leonardo da Vinci's 2nd design for the flying machiene.
1512 - Michelangelo completed the celing of the Sistine Chapel.
1513 - Balboa becomes the first European to encounter the Pacific Ocean.
1515 - Leonardo da Vinci's drawing Anatomy of the Neck.
1519 - Cortez invades Aztec controlled South America.
Alonso Alvarez de Pineda is the first european to sight and map the Texas coast.
1521 - Herman Cortés conquered the Aztecs
1522 - The Spaniards under Cortez kidnap Mocteuzma II.
1524 - Spaniards kill Mocteuzma II.
Aztec culture ends. Famous for religious calendar that included ritual human sacrifice.
1525 - Teutonic Knight Albert of Hohenzollern changed the Order from religious to civil.
1531 - Pizarro invades the Incas in South America.
1532 - Pizarro marches from Panama into Inca controlled Peru.
1533 - Pizarro executes the Inca chieftain, Atahualpa, of Peru.
1542 - Portuguese arrive in Japan and the introduction of firearms.
1560 - Fall of Macchu Picchu, the last stronghold of Inca Civilization.
Spanish forces gain control of Inca Empire.
1564 - Shakespeare born.
1565 - Town of St. Augustine founded by the Spanish.
1580 - Francis Drake returns to England after circumnavigating the globe.
1587 - Roanoake, Virginia entire population vanishes.
Mary, Queen of Scots, executed for treason by order of Queen Elizabeth I.
1588 - Defeat of the Spanish Armada by English.
1600 - Giordano Bruno burned as a heretic.
1607 - Jamestown Virginia founded.
1609 - Samuel de Champlain establishes French colony of Quebec.
1610 - Galileo sees the moons of Jupiter through his telescope.
1614 - Dutch trading post set up on Manhattan Island.
1616 - Shakespeare dies.
1618 - Teutonic Knight Order's territory passed to the Hohenzollern Elector of Brandenburg.
Start of the Thirty Years' War.
1619 - A Dutch ship brings the first African slaves to British North America.
1620 - Pilgrims, after three-month voyage in Mayflower, land at Plymouth Rock.
1630 - Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1634 - First settlement in Maryland.
1636 - Harvard College founded.
1637 - The Pequot War, Mystic, Connecticut, burned alive between 600 and 700 Indians.
1641 - Massachusetts first to recognize slavery as a legal institution.
1642 - English Civil War.
1643 - Taj Mahal completed.
1664 - Dutch New Netherland colony becomes English New York.
1665 - Great Plague in London kills 75,000.
1666 - Great Fire of London.
1668 - Hope diamond Tavernier sold the diamond to King Louis XIV of France.
1671 - Famous buccaneer Henry Morgan +2000 sack Panama City, Panama.
1675 - King Philip's War begins, Wampanoag Indians attack on Swansea, Massachusetts.
1676 - King Philip's War ends. Wampanoag Indian king killed.
1680 - Capitain Greaves known as Red Legs imprisioned for piracy.
the Pueblo Indians revolt killing over 400 Spaniards.
1682 - Pennsylvania founded by William Penn.
1683 - War of European powers against the Turks begins.
1684 - Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz's calculus published.
1689 - French Indian war begins.
1690 - European Pirates begin plundering ships from any nation.
1692 - soldiers under Diego de Vargas easily reconquered the Pueblo indians.
Salem witch trials.
1695 - Pirate William Kidd takes command of Adventure Galley.
1703 - Massachusetts paid 12 pounds for an Indian scalp.
1704 - Deerfield (Mass.) Massacre of English colonists by French and Indians.
Bach's first cantata.
1706 - Benjamin Franklin born.
1707 - United Kingdom of Great Britain formed England, Wales, and Scotland by Act of Union.
1712 - New York slave riots.
1717 - Carolina and Virginia coasts terrorized by the pirate Blackbeard.
1718 - Pirate Stede Bonnet hanged. Commanded the Revenge.
1723 - The price had soared to 100 pounds for an Indian scalp.
1732 - Georgia founded.
1740 - Capt. Vitus Bering, Dane employed by Russia, discovers Alaska.
1741 - New York fires blamed on slaves.
1751 - Publication of the Encyclopédie begins in France.
1752 - Benjamin Franklin invents the lightning rod using a kite.
1753 - King George II appointed Benjamin Franklin to share postmasters general for the American colonies.
1754 - Benjamin Franklin dissmissed as postmaster by King George II because of Franklins revolutionary beliefs.
1759 - British capture Quebec from French.
1763 - Ottawa chief Pontiac seized every British post between the Straits of Mackinac and western New York except Detroit and Fort Pitt.
1765 - James Watt invents the steam engine.
1770 - The Boston Massacre.
1774 - Boston Tea Party.
First Continental Congress.
1775 - American Post Office established.
American Navy established.
Benjamin Franklin appointed 1st US postmaster general.
The American Revolution begins with battle of Lexington and Concord.
1776 - American declaration of independence
1778 - Capt. James Cook discovers Hawaii.
1781 - Slave Ship Zong throws 132 sick slaves overboard.
Battle of Yorktown.
1786 - The first Indian reservation established.
1787 - The Constitution of the United States signed.
1789 - George Washington elected president of the U.S.
1793 - Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette executed. Reign of Terror begins in France.
Eli Whitney invents the cotton gin.
1794 - French Army sent up soldiers in balloons to observe enemy troop movements.
Chippewa, and Potawatomi indians under Blue Jacket defeated by Major General "Mad Anthony" Wayne. Battle of Fallen Timbers.
1796 - Napoléon Bonaparte, French general, defeats Austrians.
In the U.S., Washington's Farewell Address.
1798 - Napoleon extends French conquests to Rome and Egypt.
U.S. Navy Department established.
1799 - Rosetta Stone discovered in Egypt.
1800 - Napoleon conquers Italy.
1803 - U.S. negotiates Louisiana Purchase from France.
1805 - Lord Nelson defeats the French-Spanish fleets in the Battle of Trafalgar.
1807 - Robert Fulton makes first successful steamboat trip on Clermont between New York and Albany.
1811 - William Henry Harrison defeats Shawnee indians in the Battle of Tippecanoe.
1812 - u.s. war against British.
Potawatomi indians attack and burn Fort Dearborn.
Vessel La Rodeur outbreak of Opthalmia 39 slaves overboard.
1814 - first design for the steam locomotive
French defeated by allies (Britain, Austria, Russia, Prussia, Sweden, and Portugal) abandon posts.
1817 - Jean Laffite occupied Galveston Island and used it for smuggling and privateering.
1820 - Missouri Compromise Missouri admitted as slave state but slavery barred in rest of Louisiana Purchase north of 36°30' N.
1825 - First passenger-carrying railroad in England.
1827 - matches invented
1830 - French forces capture the last pirate base in Algiers.
1831 - In U.S., Nat Turner leads unsuccessful slave rebellion.
1832 - The Blackhawk War. Sauk and Fox Indians unsuccessfuly try to save villages (now Rock Island, Illinois)
1833 - Lady of the Lake sunk. Struck iceberg.
Slavery abolished in British Empire.
1835 - wrench patented
1836 - Battle of the Alamo. Santa Anna's Army.
1837 - telegraph invented.
1838 - 1500 Cherokee Indians die during roundups.
1839 - bicycle invented.
First Opium War (to 1842) between Britain and China, over importation of drug into China.
3000 Cherokee Indians die on the trail of tears.
1840 - Lower and Upper Canada united.
1846 - U.S. declares war on Mexico.
1849 - California gold rush begins.
1850 - fugitive slave act passed allowing for extradition.
The Compromise of 1850 was a group of acts passed by Congress gave new territories the right to decide whether to permit slavery.
1851 - Herman Melville's Moby-Dick.
1853 - Crimean War begins as Turkey declares war on Russia.
1854 - Boston Slave riots.
Shipwreck City of Glasgow steamer 480 dead.
Shipwreck Arctic steamer 351 dead.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act created Kansas and Nebraska and gave the people the right to regulate slavery matters.
Founding of the Republican Party in the North.
1855 - Armed clashes in Kansas between pro- and anti-slavery forces.
1856 - Shipwreck Pacific steamer 286 dead.
Antislavery senator, Charles Sumner of Massachusetts, was beaten unconscious by Preston Brooks, a proslavery representative from South Carolina.
1857 - Supreme Court, in Dred Scott decision, rules that a slave is not a citizen.
Supreme Court, ruled that Congress could not prohibit slavery in the territories.
1858 - Pro-slavery constitution rejected in Kansas.
Shipwreck Austria steamer burns 471 dead.
1859 - the last land dispute ended between the u.s. and England giving the u.s. the shape it currently has.
Oil found
Charles Darwin's Origin of Species.
The raid at Harpers Ferry. Virginia slave revolt.
1860 - Abraham Lincoln elected president of the U.S.
South Carolina secedes from the Union.
1861 - six Southern states organized their own government in Montgomery, Alabama, in February South Carolina, Mississippi Florida Alabama Georgia Louisiana
u.s. civil war begins.
Richmond, Va., was chosen as the Confederate capital.
Northern troops retreated after the First Battle of Bull Run.
1862 - Dr. Richard Gatling patents the machine gun.
Both sides suffered heavy losses in the Battle of Shiloh, won by the Union.
Burnside's Union forces received a crushing blow in the Battle of Fredericksburg.
The ironclad ships Monitor and Merrimack (Virginia) battled to a draw.
Union victory at the bloody Battle of Antietam (Sharpsburg).
1863 - Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation freeing slaves.
Shipwreck AngloSaxon steamer 238 dead.
Lincoln begins using black soldiers.
The Battle of Gettysburg ended in a Southern defeat (turning point of war).
Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address.
1864 - Grant became general in chief of the North.
Northern troops captured Atlanta.
Union forces inflicted heavy losses in the Battle of Franklin.
The Union suffered heavy losses on the final day of the Battle of Cold Harbor.
Lincoln was reelected President.
1865 - Lee became general in chief of the South.
Confederate troops gave up Petersburg and Richmond.
u.s. civil war ends
Sultana Mississippi river steamboat sinks. Boiler explosion 1450 dead.
President Abraham Lincoln assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
1866 - dynamite invented
1867 - typewriter invented
1868 - Impeachment of President Andrew Johnson.
Ulysses S. Grant elected president.
1869 - eastern railroad meets west
Shipwreck Stonewall steamer burned 200 dead.
1870 - Shipwreck City of Boston 177 dead.
Shipwreck Cambria steamer 196 dead.
1871 - cement and concrete patent #119,413.
1872 - Carl Panzram aged 11 burns down his school causing 100,000.00 damages.
Brig Ship Mary Celeste found abandoned in Atlantic no survivors mystery.
1873 - Economic crisis in Europe. U.S. establishes gold standard.
Shipwreck Northfleet steamer 300 dead.
Shipwreck Atlantic steamer 585 dead.
Shipwreck Ville du Havre steamer 226 dead.
Woman's Crusade against the saloon and the liquor traffic.
1875 - Shipwreck Schiller steamer 312 dead.
Shipwreck Pacific steamer 236 dead.
1876 - telephone invented.
Sioux kill Gen. George A. Custer and 264 troopers at Little Big Horn River.
1878 - the first telephone switchboard goes into service.
Shipwreck Princess Alice steamer 700 dead.
Shipwreck Byzantin steamer 210 dead.
1879 - Thomas Edison invents the light bulb.
1880 - U.S.-China treaty allows U.S. to restrict immigration of Chinese labor.
1881 - Billy the Kid AKA William Bonney killed by Pat Garrett.
Shipwreck Victoria steamer 200 dead.
President Garfield fatally shot by assassin.1884 - mechanical cash register invented.
1882 - Terrorism in Ireland after land evictions.
Britain invades and conquers Egypt.
Germany, Austria, and Italy form Triple Alliance.
1883 - Shipwreck Cimbria steamer 389 dead.
1887 - Shipwreck Wah Yeung steamer burned 400 dead.
1888 - East London, Jack the Ripper never cought. 7 female prostitutes murdered.
1890 - Shipwreck Duburg steamer 400 dead.
Shipwreck Ertogrul frigate 540 dead.
1891 - Shipwreck Utopia steamer 562 dead.
1892 - internal combustion engine invented.
1893 - William Busby and others make first mining claim in Prince William Sound.
The Anti Saloon League founded.
1895 - The Anti Saloon League became a powerful national organization.
Shipwreck Elbe steamer 332 dead.
Shipwreck Reina Regenta cruiser 400 dead.
1896 - Plessey Vs Ferguson ruling set precedent 'seperate but equal' for slaves.
1897 - Copper, Gold deposits at Virginia Bay.
The Excelsior arrives in San Francisco with $400,000 in gold from Klondike.
On July 18th, the Portland docks in Seattle with $700,000 Klondike gold.
- U.S. battleship Maine destroyed in Havana harbor.
Spanish American War begins.
1898 - 3,000 to 4,000 gold rushers stampede across Valdez Glacier to the Copper River Area.
Shipwreck Maine battleship explosion 260 dead.
Shipwreck La Bourgogne steamer 549 dead.
Shipwreck Portland steamer 157 dead.
1899 - Al Capone born.
1900 - zeppelin invented.
1901 - first working radio receiver.
First wireless radio message.
President William McKinley assasinated in Buffalo.
Theodore Roosevelt becomes US president.
1902 - polygraph machine invented.
1903 - Crayons invented.
Ford Motor Co. starts
British archaeologist Howard Carter found name of Hatshepsut, mystery of the unknown pharaoh was solved.
1904 - the Wright brothers first flight.
teabags invented.
Excursion Steamer General Slocum burned in NY 1030 dead.
Shipwreck Norge steamer 620 dead.
Nefertari’s tomb discovered in the Valley of the Queens Egypt.
1905 - Albert Einstein comes up with E=mc².
1906 - sonar invented.
Shipwreck Sirio steamer 350 dead.
San Francisco earthquake 500,000 people homeless.
1907 - Bakelite plastic invented.
Color photography invented.
1908 - Football field sized meteor impact Siberia, 20 acre impact.
Shipwreck Matsu Maru steamer 300 dead.
1909 - First Model T. automobile produced by Henry Ford.
instant coffee invented.
Shipwreck Waratah steamer vanished 300 dead.
Robert Peary reached the North Pole.
1910 - Thomas Edison's first talking picture.
Shipwreck General Chanzy steamer 200 dead.
1911 - Triangle factory fire kills 146.
Shipwreck Liberte battleship exploded 285 dead.
1912 - first tank patent.
Spanish Steamer Principe de Asturias sinks. Struck rock 500 dead.
Titanic sinks. Struck iceberg 1503 dead.
Shipwreck Kichemaru steamer 1000 dead.
1913 - Mary Phelps Jacob invents the bra.
1914 - Panama Canal officially opened.
Gavrilo Princip assassinates Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria.
World War I begins.
Germany invaded Belgium and started fighting.
Allies stopped the Germans in France in the First Battle of the Marne.
Empress of Ireland sinks. Collision 1014 dead.
1915 - Liner Lusitania sunk by a German submarine 1198 dead.
Italy declared war on Austria.
Germany the first to use poison gas, in April, during the Second Battle of Ypres.
Excursion Steamer Eastland sinks. Overturned in Chicago River 812 dead.
1916 - Radio tuners invented.
Germany sinks passenger liner Sussex.
British fleet fought the German fleet in the Battle of Jutland.
Britannic sinks. Hits Mine in Aegean Sea.
Stainless steel invented.
Shipwreck Provence french steamer sinks in Mediterranean 3100 dead.
Shipwreck Principe de Asturias steamer 558 dead.
Shipwreck Hsin Yu steamer 1000 dead.
1917 - U.S. enters World War I. landing in France.
Russia signed an armistice with Germany, ending the fighting on the Eastern Front.
led by Vladimir Lenin the Bolsheviks took over the Russian government.
The Ohio Dry Federation.
Shipwreck Mont Blanc Collision 1600 dead.
1918 - Germany launched its final three offensives on the Western Front.
World War I. Ends.
Shipwreck Kiang Kwan steamer collision 500 dead.
Shipwreck Kawachi Battleship explosion in tokayama bay 500 dead.
Shipwreck Princess Sophia steamer off Alaskan coast 398 dead.
1919 - British John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown, made the first nonstop transatlantic flight.
Shipwreck Chaonia steamer 460 dead.
Shipwreck Valbanera steamer off florida coast 500 dead.
1920 - John Thompson invents the Tommy gun.
1921 - Tulsa Race Riot. Tulsa Tribune newspaper stories, Nab Negro for Attacking Girl in Elevator, To Lynch Negro Tonight, spark riots.
Shipwreck Hong Kong steamer in south china sea 1000 dead.
1922 - insulin invented.
Tutankhamen tomb in the Valley of the Kings discovered.
U.S.S.R. Soviet Union established in Russia under Joseph Stalin.
Shipwreck Niltaka cruiser in storm off ussr coast 300 dead.
1923 - traffic signal invented.
1924 - Two U.S. Army planes made the first round-the-world flight.
1925 - Tennessee law forbidding the teaching of evolution sparks The Scopes 'Monkey Trial'
The Weiss-Moran gang tried to assassinate Al Capone.
1926 - Americans Richard E. Byrd, Floyd Bennett first airplane flight over the North Pole.
The National Prohibition Law, Hearings, U.S. Senate, 69th Congress, 1st Session (1926): 666-67
1927 - Babe Ruth hits 60 home runs.
Shipwreck Principessa Mafalda steamer explosion 314 dead.
Charles Lindbergh, U.S. pilot, made the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight.
Andrew Kehoe bombs Bath Consolidated School, Bath, Michigan 38 children, 7 teachers died.
1928 - British Steamer Vestris sinks in storm 113 dead.
Bonnie and Clyde begin robbing.
1929 - Richard E. Byrd of the United States and crew first flight over the South Pole.
Stock Market crash.
US Great depression begins.
St. Valentine's Day Massacre Chicago.
1930 - Stalin Begins Collectivizing Agriculture in the U.S.S.R.
1931 - Two U.S. pilots, Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon, first nonstop flight across the Pacific.
Al Capone indictment for tax evasion totalling over 200,000 $
1932 - Scientists Split the Atom.
Amelia Earhart of the US. was the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean alone.
1933 - Wiley Post, a U.S. pilot, made the first solo round-the-world flight.
US Great depression ends.
Hitler comes to power in Germany.
1934 - Vessel Morro Castle sinks. Burns off the NJ coast 134 dead.
Bonnie and Clyde killed trying to escape police.
Al Capone sent to Alcaraz Federal Pinitentiary.
1935 - Alcoholics Anonymous Founded.
1936 - Sing Sing NY electrocuted Albert Fish who in 1928 ate a twelve year old girl.
Zepplin explodes over Lakehurst, NJ.
Olympic Games held in Nazi Germany, Berlin 1936.
1937 - The Hindenberg disaster. Burns at Lakehurst NJ 36 dead.
Japan Invades China.
1938 - The Night of Broken Glass (Kristallnacht).
Broadcast of "The War of the Worlds" Causes Panic.
1939 - World War II. Begins.
Submarine Squalus sinks. NH coast 26 dead.
Submarine Thetis sinks. Liverpool Bay, England 99 dead.
Helicopter Invented.
NY Worlds Fair.
1940 - Germany invades Norway.
1941 - Japan bombs Pearl Harbor.
U.S. enters World War II.
1942 - Dr. Enrico Fermi makes the first controlled nuclear chain reaction Chicago Pile 1.
Manhattan Project begins.
Shipwreck Curacao cruiser collision 338 dead.
Shipwreck Truxtun and Pollux destroyer off newfoundland 204 dead.
1943 - Germany surrenders armies at Stalingrad.
Hanford, Washington selected by manhattan project for plutonium production.
Lehnigk-Emden killed 15 unarmed women and children in Caiazzo near Naples Italy.
1944 - Franklin D. Roosevelt elected president.
Allied invasion of Normandy.
Shipwreck 3 us third fleet destroyers sink during typhoon in Philippine sea 790 dead.
B-24 bomber crash, Freckelton England 76 dead.
1945 - U.S. drops Atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
U.S. drops Atomic bomb on Nagasaki.
B-25 bomber crash, hit Empire state building NYC 14 dead.
World War II. Ends.
Cruise Ship Wilhelm Gustloff sinks. Torpedoed by Soviet Submarine.
1946 - The Atomic Energy Act of 1946 signed by President Harry S. Truman.
Manhattan Project officialy ends.
1947 - The National Security Act created The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Also established the Department of Defense (DOD)
And the National Security Council (NSC).
Atomic Energy Commission (AEC).
Shipwreck Himera steamer hits mine off Athens 392 dead.
Shipwreck Grandcamp fighter explodes off Texas city 510 dead.
DC-4 Eastern Air Lines crashes at Port Deposit MD 53 dead.
Hanford Nuclear site expands, two new reactors, H and DR, ancillary buildings were cunstructed.
1948 - Long block fire NY.
Shipwreck Chinease evacuation ship explodes off S. Manchuria 6000 dead.
Shipwreck Kiangya refugee ship 1100 dead.
1949 - Canadian Cruise Ship Noronic sinks. Burned in Toronto docks 130 dead.
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) founded.
Soviet Union's first atomic bomb.
1950 - Korean War begins.
Hanford Nuclear site expands, C reactor and support facilities built.
CIA engaged in a program of domestic human experimentation from the 1950s into the 1970s.
1951 - United Air Lines Douglas DC-6B N37543 crash kills 50.
United Air Lines Douglas DC-6B N37550 crash kills 50.
Classified Operation Buster/Jangle Nevada desert, multiple Atomic bomb tests.
1952 - Vessel Hobson sinks. Struck by the Aircraft Carrier Wasp Mid. Atlantic 176 dead.
Katmchatka Earthquake. magnitude 9.0Mw coordinates 52.75NX159.5E
C-124 Air Force plane Crash and Burned, Moses Lake Washington 87 dead.
1953 - Korean War ends.
British Ferry Princess Victoria sinks. Irish Sea 134 dead.
MKULTRA formally began for DOD human behavior research.
First Soviet hydrogen bomb detonated
Hanford Plutonium production site builds two jumbo reactors KE and KW.
The US ballistic missile development program was initiated.
Canadian Pacific Comet Jet Crash at Karachi Pakistan 11 dead.
C-124 Air Force plane Crash and Burned, near Tokyo 129 dead.
1954 - Ferry Toya Maru sinks. Tsugaru Strait, Japan 1172 dead.
1955 - Dr. Jonas Salk's polio vaccine.
DC-6B United Air Lines plane crash and explodes near Longmont Colorado 44 dead.
1956 - Italian Liner Andrea Doria sinks. Collision with Sweedish Liner Stockholm Mass Coast 51 dead.
The U.S.S.R. launched Sputnik 1, the first spacecraft to circle the earth.
Hanford Plutonium production site builds N reactor.
Venezuelan Super Constellation plane crashes in atlantic off NJ 74 dead.
TWA Super Const United DC-7 Plane collision and crash over Grand Canyon Arizona 128 dead.
1957 - U.S. declares war on Vietnam.
Shipwreck Eshghabad ran aground in Caspian sea 270 dead.
Andreanof Islands Earthquake magnitude 9.1Mw coordinates 1.3NX175.8W
First full scale nuclear powerplant in the U.S. Shippingport, Pennsylvania.
The Windscale plutonium reactor catches fire spreading radioactivity across Europe.
Little Rock Central High School, National Guard keeps the first nine black students from entering.
1958 - US Troops in Lebanon.
1959 - Karl Jager Nazi war criminal cought. Charged with the death of 20,000 jews in Kauen he commited scuicide.
1960 - John F. Kennedy elected president.
remains of a Viking settlement found at L'Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland.
Chile Earthquake. magnitude 9.5Mw coordinates 38.25X72.6W
Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann captured. Head of Jewish Affairs SS division.
United DC-8 plane collides and crashes over NYC 134 dead.
1961 - The SL-1 reactor, Idaho Falls becomes uncontrolible, emits 500rems per hour.
Yuri A. Gagarin, a Soviet air force officer, became the first person to orbit the earth.
Bay of Pigs invasion.
Shipwreck Save ran aground off Mozambique 259 dead.
1962 - British Liner Daria sinks. Exploded in Persian Gulf 236 dead.
Cuban Missile crisis Soviet Union builds secret missile bases in Cuba.
Marylyn Monroe found dead from scuicide.
Flying Tiger Super Constillation Plane vanishes in w Pacific 107 dead.
Air France Boeing 707 jet crashed on takeoff from Paris 130 dead.
Air France Boeing 707 jet crashed in storm Guadeloupe WI 113 dead.
1963 - John F. Kennedy assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald.
U.S. Atomic Submarine Thresher sinks. North Atlantic 129 dead.
Chartered Northwest Airlines DC-7 crashed in pacific off British Columbia 101 dead.
Trans Canada Airlines DC-8F crashed on takeoff Montreal 118 dead.
CIA General (IG) report.MKULTRA was a program with research and materials capable of employment in controling human behavior.
1964 - Prince of William Sound, Alaska. Earthquake magnitude 9.2 coordinates 61.1NX147.5W
Shipwreck Voyager destroyer collision off new south wales 82 dead.
1965 - The Sound of Music.
Shipwreck Yarmouth Castle burned off Nassau 90 dead.
Pakistani Boeing 720 B plane crashes at Cairo Egypt airport 121 dead.
Tank 105-A at Hanford Nuclear waste/plutonium production site in SE Washington explodes. Radioactive steam for 30+mins. went unreleased for 25 years.
1966 - Greek Passenger Vessel Herak Lion sinks. Heavy Seas, Coast of Crete.
Air India Boeing 707 jetliner crashes on Mont Blanc Italy 117 dead.
All Nippon Boeing 727 plane crashes into Tokyo Bay 133 dead.
BOAC Boeing 707 jetliner crashed on Mt Fuji Japan 124 dead.
Military chartered CL-44 plane crashed S Vietnam 129 dead.
1967 - Charles Manson begins killing.
Uss Forestal carrier burns off coast N vietnam 134 dead.
Swiss Britannia turboprop plane crash at Nicosia Cyprus 126 dead.
Piedmont Boeing 727 Cessna 310 collision in air Hendersonville NC 82 dead.
1968 - Richard Nixon elected president.
Israeli Submarine Dakar sinks. Eastern Mediterranean 69 dead.
U.S. Atomic Submarine Scorpion sinks. Atlantic Ocean 99 dead.
French Submarine Minerve vanishes in Medterranean 52 dead.
African Airways Boeing 707 Crashes on takeoff Windhoek S Africa 122 dead.
Braniff International Electra plane crash in storm Dawson Texas 85 dead.
Apollo 7 first manned Apollo mission 163 orbits of Earth.
Apollo 8 first manned launch of Saturn V rocket looped around the moon Christmass eve.
1969 - Apollo 9 first manned lunar module 151 orbits of Earth.
Apollo 11 Neil Armstrong is 1st man to step on the Moon.
Us Destroyer Evans cut in half by collision with carrier Melbourne in S china Sea 74 dead.
Venezuelan DC-9 plane crashes at takeoff Maracaibo Venezuela 155 dead.
Olympia Airways DC-6B plane crashes in storm Athens 93 dead.
1970 - Apollo 13 O2 explosion, used LEM as a life boat for orbit around the Moon. No casualties.
The Crawford Family Murders.
French Submarine Eurydice sinks in Mediterranean 57 dead.
South Korean ferry Namyong ho sinks in korea strait 308 dead.
Dominican DC-9 plane crashes into sea Santo Domingo 102 dead.
British Chartered jetliner plane crashes near Barcelona Spain 112 dead.
Air Canada DC-8 plane Crash toronto airport 108 dead.
Peruvian turbojet planecrash Cuzco Peru 101 dead.
Southern Airways DC-9 Plane crash in mountains Huntington w VA. 75 dead.
Violence at Kent State University.
1971 - San Fernando earthquake magnitude 6.6 at 34° 24.67' N, 118° 24.04'W kills 65.
All Nippon Boeing 727 Plane in air collision Morioka Japan 162 dead.
Alaska Airlines Boeing 727 plane crash into mountain Juneau Alaska 111 dead.
1972 - Richard Nixon re-elected president.
Watergate scandal.
The first Email program written.
German Iiyushin 62 plane crashes on takeoff 156 dead.
Aeroflot Iiyushin 62 plane crashes near Moscow 176 dead.
Spanish Charter plane crash on takeoff canary islands 155 dead.
Eastern Airlines Lockheed Tristar plane crashes at Miami airport 101 dead.
1973 - Vietnam Peace Agreement.
Boeing 707 plane explodes Kano airport 176 dead.
Libyan jetliner plane shot down accidentally 108 dead.
British Vanguard Turboprop plane crash during snowstorm 104 dead.
1974 - Amityville Murders, Ronald Defeo killed six of his family members.
Shipwreck Motor launch sinks off Bangladesh coast 250 dead.
Soviet destroyer burns in black sea 200 dead.
1975 - Vietnam War ends.
International treaty banning biological weapons went into effect.
Cargo Vessel Edmund Fitzgerald sinks. Eastern Lake Superior.
1976 - Mississippi River Ferry George Prince sinks. Rammed by Norwegian tanker Frosta.
Jimmy Carter elected president.
Shipwreck George Prince ferryboat sinks on Mississippi river 77 dead.
Egyptian ship Patria burns in the Red Sea 100 dead.
1977 - NY city blackouts. massive looting.
Shipwreck Grand Zenith sinks off Cape Cod 38 dead.
1978 - John Gacy arrested and confessed to torturing and murdering 30 victims.
1979 - Sniper attack on Cleveland Elementary School by Brenda Spencer.
Equipment Failure on Three Mile Island nuclear reactor. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
23 Yachts sink during storm in S. Irish Sea 18 dead.
1980 - Mt. St. Helens erupts.
Ronald Reagan elected president.
1981 - MTV
Passenger ship Tamponas II burns in Java Sea 580 dead.
USS Nimitz Marine combat jet crashes on deck 14 dead.
1982 - Freedom of Information act.
1983 - The Nuclear Waste Policy Act is signed by President Ronald Reagan.
Shipwreck Marine Electric sinks in storm off Chincoteague Va. 33 dead.
Ship 10th of Ramadan burns off Nassar 357 dead.
1984 - Russian Air Force Antonov AN-22 SSSR-08837 crashes killing 240.
1985 - Air India Boeing B-747-237B VT-EFO crashes killing 329.
Japan Air Lines Boeing B-747-SR46 JA8119 crashes killing 524.
1986 - Russian Nukeular Power Plant Chernobyl. Reactor four core meltdown.
Russian Space Station Mir Core module launched.
Nasa Shuttle Challenger explodes after takeoff, all hands lost.
Shipwreck Admiral Nakhimov collision in Black Sea 398 dead.
1987 - Ferry Dona Paz collides with oil tanker Victor Mindoro Island. 4000 killed.
Shipwreck british ferry sinks off Belgium 188 dead.
Hungerford, Berkshire spree killer Michael Ryan's suicide in John O' Grant School.
INF treaty with Soviet Union.
1988 - The United States Air Force unveiled the B-2 "stealth" bomber.
Plutonium production stops. Hanford becomes waste facility.
Shipwreck indian ferry sinks on Ganges river 400 dead.
1989 - Spree killer of 14 Marc Lepine's suicide in the University of Montreal.
Serial killer Ted Bundy put to death in Florida.
The Night Stalker Richard Ramirez died in gas chamber.
Exxon Valdez tanker ran aground in Prince William Sound.
Fall of Berlin Wall.
Soviet Submarine sinks off Norway 42 dead.
USS Iowa battleship explosion in gun turret 47 dead.
Shipwreck Bowbelle barge collision off london 56 dead.
Shipwreck Romanian pleasure boat collision 161 dead.
1990 - Scandanavian Star sinks. Arson Fire, Skagerrak Strait, Norway.
Desert Storm begins.
Nasa launches the Hubble Space Telescope.
1991 - Ferry Estonia sinks. Capsized off the coast of Finland 140 dead.
Ferry Salem Express rams coral reef sinks off Egypt 462 dead.
Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer's apartment is searched revealing many greusome bodies.
Rodney king beat by police batans cought on tape.
the Communists fell from power in Russia after the attempted take-over President Mikhail S. Gorbachev.
1992 - Air Force Concorde around the world in a record 32 hours 49 minutes 3 seconds.
Acquittal in California v. Powell in Rodney King case sparks LA riots.
1993 - Nasa successful repair mission to the Hubble Space Telescope.
Terrorist bombing of the World Trade Center.
Ferry Neptune sinks off Port au Prince 500 dead.
1994 - Russian serial killer Andrei Chikatilo was executed for 52 victims.
U.S. buys Uranium from Russian Federation for missile warheads.
Terrorist bombing in Oklahoma City.
1995 - Spacecraft Galileo begins exploring Jupiter.
1996 - Spree killer of sixteen Thomas Hamilton's suicide.
Final Module of Mir Space Station launched. Mir compleete.
1997 - Spree killer of five Andrew Cunanan's suicide.
Car bomb kills 21 in Algiers.
Accident on Space Station Mir, resupply ship collision.
Panorama report airs, German Government had paid millions of Marks to Nazi war criminals as victim pensions.
1998 - Mass-execution of political prisoners in Iran.
Begin assembly in orbit International space station.
1999 - Total solar eclipse.
2000 - Russian Atomic Submarine Kursk sinks to bottom. Explodes in Barents Sea.
Cassini spacecraft, on its way to Saturn, arrives at planet Jupiter.
President George w. Bush wins election in one of the closest presidential elections in U.S. history.
Last crew leaves Mir Space station.
2001 - Fishing boat Ghime Maru sunk. Collides with U.S. Submarine Greenville.
De-Orbit of Space Station Mir. Station crashed into the Pasific Ocean.
Terrorist attack World Trade Center Buildings, NY.
War on Terrorism begins.
2002 - Mars Odyssey spacecraft begins maping mars surface.
Tri State Crematory fraudulent, 300+ bodies found uncremated.
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2 million BC - Homo Habilis stone tools.
1.5 million BC - Homo Erectus first hunters. Follow land bridges.
500,000 BC - Homo Sapiens stone-tipped spears, fished, clothed in animal skins.
38,000 BC - Begining of the last Ice Age.
25,000 BC - Homo Sapien Modern bow and arrow, oil lamps, honey.
14000 BC - Carvings of the Saluki / Persian greyhound.
10000 BC - Hunters moved into the Peru area.
5000 BC - Biblical creation of the world.
3100 BC - Egypt enters Early Dynastic period.
2686 BC - Egypt enters The Old Kingdom.
2181 BC - Egypt enters The First Intermediate Period.
2050 BC - Egypt enters The Middle Kingdom.
2000 BC - Settlements in Peru became larger moving inland from the coast.
Chinese dynasty Xia begins.
1869 BC - First Assyrian Empire, Shamshi-Adad conquered Mari and Ekallutum.
1786 BC - Egypt enters The Second Intermediate Period.
1700 BC - Chinese dynasty Shang begins.
1567 BC - Egypt enters The New Kingdom.
1550 BC - Ahmose and his army defeat the Hyksos and he becomes Pharaoh of a united Egypt.
1525 BC - Egyptian Pharoh Ahmose dies. used horses in battle.
Amenhotep I continues the campaigns against Nubia and leads a military expedition to Kush.
1504 BC - Tuthmosis I marks his reign with a series of military campaigns.
1500 BC - Chinese dynasty Xia ends.
1492 BC - Tuthmosis II Despite poor health, leads successful military campaigns in Syria and Nubia.
1491 BC - Noah's ark touches down on Mt. Ararat.
1479 BC - Egyptian Queen Hatshepsut becomes Pharoh.
1458 BC - Egyptian female Pharoh Hatshepsut dies. 22 years as Pharoh, known for trading trip to the land of Punt.
Egyptian Pharoh Tuthmosis III takes power.
1425 BC - Egyptian Pharoh Tuthmosis III dies. the Pharaoh’s scribes recorded troop achievements. Started dead hand counting by army.
Egyptian Pharoh Amenhotep II takes power. makes sacrifices of Palestinians and Syrians.
1400 BC - Tuthmosis IV takes power, legitimacy to Egyptian throne unclear, conqueror of Syria.
1390 BC - Amenhotep III becomes Pharoh. Corresponds with other rulers through the Amarna letters.
1352 BC - Amenhotep III dies. Built two temples south in Nubia dedicated to himself and his wife Tiy. Worshipped as gods.
Akhenaten begins building new Egyptian capital city in the desert of Amarna.
1336 BC - Akhenaten son of Amenhotep III dies. known for Religious revolution, 1st change in 2000 years. 12th year of reign Queen Nefertiti vanished from history.
City Akhenaten had built in dedication to the god Aten was abandoned.
Tutenkamen becomes Pharoh at age 9.
1327 BC - Egyptian Pharoh Tutenkamen dies unexpectedly. son of Akhenaten.
After Tutankhamen’s death many images and references to Akhenaten and Nefertiti were destroyed.
With no relative to succeed the throne, court advisor Ay becomes pharaoh.
1322 BC - With no heir, the throne passes to Horemheb, Commander of the Army.
1293 BC - Horemheb dies with no heir and his army commander Ramesses, already in late middle age, becomes pharaoh.
1285 BC - Egyptian King Ramses II led armies into 16 year stalemate with the Hittite armies.
1225 BC - Assyrians capture Babylon.
1212 BC - Ramses II dies. with his multitude of minor wives, bore him more than 100 children.
1200 BC - Hittite Empire comes to an end.
1085 BC - Egypt enters The Late Period.
1027 BC - Chinese dynasty Shang ends.
900 BC - Chavin era begins in Peru.
800 BC - Paracas culture begins south coast, Peru.
570 BC - Eyuf dies, the mayor of Bahriyah in the 26th dynasty in the reign of Pharaoh Apris.
500 BC - Herodotus the Greek historian chronicler of the Egyptian Pyramid Age.
469 BC - Greek Socrates born.
427 BC - Greek Plato born.
399 BC - Greek Socrates dies.
347 BC - Greek Plato dies.
338 BC - Greece was conquered by the kingdom of Macedonia.
332 BC - Egypt under Greek rule.
264 BC - The first gladiatorial games were offered in Rome.
241 BC - Two War vessels destroyed off Sicily, Italy with cannabis onboard.
200 BC - Chavin era ends in Peru.
164 BC - Titus Flamininus offered 74 pairs in games in honor of his father lasted three days.
140 BC - Roman forces took control of Macedonia and Greece.
100 BC - Paracas culture ends. Famous for burying Brain surgery patients who survived surgery.
67 BC - Roman forces begin a campaign to rid the area of pirates.
51 BC - Ptolemy Auletes dies, daughter Cleopatra is 18.
50 BC - Julius Caesar completes the conquest of Gaul.
49 BC - Caesar crosses the Rubicon River. Civil War begins.
44 BC - Julius Caesar Assassinated.
42 BC - Defeat of Brutus and Cassius, Caesar's assassins, in Greece.
30 BC - Cleopatra dies by snake bite.
Egypt under Roman rule.
29 BC - Beginning of Pax Romana.
4 BC - Death of Herod the Great.
0 - Nazca culture begins south coast, Peru. trade, giant drawings in desert.
Moche culture begins north coast, Peru. prospered by agression, gold work.
8 - Ovid banished to Tomis.
14 - Death of Agustus Caesar.
37 - Death of Tiberius.
41 - Death of Caligula.
54 - Death of Claudius.
64 - Great fire of Rome.
68 - Death of Nero.
70 - Roman Titus destroys Jerusalem.
79 - Mt. Vesuvius erupts destroying Pompeii.
80 - Coloseum Inaugurated. Gladiator games begin in Rome.
81 - Death of Titus.
96 - Bible written.
98 - Trajan was declared Caesar.
105 - Rome captures Dacia.
106 - Rome captures Arabia Petraea.
114 - Rome captures Parthia.
117 - Emperor Hadrain took over the Roman Empire at its greatest size.
130 - Hadrians Wall built in Britain.
132 - Jewish revolt.
165 - Roman Plague outbreak 2000 die daily.
180 - Marcus Aurelius dies.
192 - Commodus Assassinated.
217 - Caracalla Assassinated.
235 - Serverus Assassinated.
238 - Maximus Assassinated.
244 - Gordian Assassinated.
272 - Rome loses Mesopotamia.
292 - Rise of Mayan culture in South America.
395 - Roman Empire divides East and West.
407 - Rome loses Britain.
410 - Alaric, the Visigoth sacks Rome.
435 - Rome loses Carthage.
450 - Attilla the Hun invades Gaul.
Dark Ages period begins.
455 - Rome sacked by vandals.
476 - Fall of Rome
500 - Horseshoes are becoming common.
593 - Mayan culture widespread. Multiple calendars, multiple gods needing human sacrifice.
768 - Charlemagne becomes ruler of the Frankish Kingdom.
793 - Norwegian Vikings began the Viking reign of terror attacking and looting the monastery of Lindisfarne on an island off the coast of England.
800 - Manorialism land system begins in Europe.
841 - City of Dublin established as a Viking base.
900 - Mayans abandon cities. cause unknown.
Toltec began imigrating south into South America.
1000 - Dark Ages period ends.
1040 - Macbeth murders Duncan, king of Scotland.
1066 - William the Conqueror invades England and becomes King.
1144 - Second Crusade begins.
1185 - First recorded Windmill.
1200 - Fourth Crusade lasts four years.
The city of Roven, France burns to the ground 6 times before 1225.
1217 - Fifth Crusade.
1228 - Sixth Crusade.
1248 - Seventh Crusade.
1270 - Eighth Crusade.
1271 - Marco Polo of Venice travels to China.
1300 - Later Samaurai period begins.
The city of Tenochtitlan is founded.
1324 - The first mention of cannon used in the siege of Metz.
1325 - The beginning of the Renaissance in Italy.
1347 - At least 25 million people die in Europe's Black Death (bubonic plague) untill 1351.
1368 - Ming Dynasty begins in China.
1400 - Rise of Aztec/Toltec culture in South America.
1428 - Joan of Arc leads French army against English.
1438 - Incas rule in Peru. Master architects.
1440 - Mocteuzma I
1457 - City of Tokyo Japan founded.
1469 - Aztec/Toltec Mocteuzma I (1440-1469) undertook wars of conquest through South America.
1477 - Marco Polo's Travels published.
1478 - The Spanish Inquisition lasted untill 1828 with 1000 people put to death.
1488 - Leonardo da Vinci's design for the flying machiene.
1492 - Christopher Columbus sets sail west.
1497 - Vasco da Gama sails around Africa and discovers sea route to India (1498).
1501 - First black slaves in America brought to Spanish colony of Santo Domingo.
1502 - Aztec Mocteuzma II takes power in South America.
1503 - Leonardo da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa.
1505 - Leonardo da Vinci's 2nd design for the flying machiene.
1512 - Michelangelo completed the celing of the Sistine Chapel.
1513 - Balboa becomes the first European to encounter the Pacific Ocean.
1515 - Leonardo da Vinci's drawing Anatomy of the Neck.
1519 - Cortez invades Aztec controlled South America.
Alonso Alvarez de Pineda is the first european to sight and map the Texas coast.
1521 - Herman Cortés conquered the Aztecs
1522 - The Spaniards under Cortez kidnap Mocteuzma II.
1524 - Spaniards kill Mocteuzma II.
Aztec culture ends. Famous for religious calendar that included ritual human sacrifice.
1525 - Teutonic Knight Albert of Hohenzollern changed the Order from religious to civil.
1531 - Pizarro invades the Incas in South America.
1532 - Pizarro marches from Panama into Inca controlled Peru.
1533 - Pizarro executes the Inca chieftain, Atahualpa, of Peru.
1542 - Portuguese arrive in Japan and the introduction of firearms.
1560 - Fall of Macchu Picchu, the last stronghold of Inca Civilization.
Spanish forces gain control of Inca Empire.
1564 - Shakespeare born.
1565 - Town of St. Augustine founded by the Spanish.
1580 - Francis Drake returns to England after circumnavigating the globe.
1587 - Roanoake, Virginia entire population vanishes.
Mary, Queen of Scots, executed for treason by order of Queen Elizabeth I.
1588 - Defeat of the Spanish Armada by English.
1600 - Giordano Bruno burned as a heretic.
1607 - Jamestown Virginia founded.
1609 - Samuel de Champlain establishes French colony of Quebec.
1610 - Galileo sees the moons of Jupiter through his telescope.
1614 - Dutch trading post set up on Manhattan Island.
1616 - Shakespeare dies.
1618 - Teutonic Knight Order's territory passed to the Hohenzollern Elector of Brandenburg.
Start of the Thirty Years' War.
1619 - A Dutch ship brings the first African slaves to British North America.
1620 - Pilgrims, after three-month voyage in Mayflower, land at Plymouth Rock.
1630 - Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1634 - First settlement in Maryland.
1636 - Harvard College founded.
1637 - The Pequot War, Mystic, Connecticut, burned alive between 600 and 700 Indians.
1641 - Massachusetts first to recognize slavery as a legal institution.
1642 - English Civil War.
1643 - Taj Mahal completed.
1664 - Dutch New Netherland colony becomes English New York.
1665 - Great Plague in London kills 75,000.
1666 - Great Fire of London.
1668 - Hope diamond Tavernier sold the diamond to King Louis XIV of France.
1671 - Famous buccaneer Henry Morgan +2000 sack Panama City, Panama.
1675 - King Philip's War begins, Wampanoag Indians attack on Swansea, Massachusetts.
1676 - King Philip's War ends. Wampanoag Indian king killed.
1680 - Capitain Greaves known as Red Legs imprisioned for piracy.
the Pueblo Indians revolt killing over 400 Spaniards.
1682 - Pennsylvania founded by William Penn.
1683 - War of European powers against the Turks begins.
1684 - Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz's calculus published.
1689 - French Indian war begins.
1690 - European Pirates begin plundering ships from any nation.
1692 - soldiers under Diego de Vargas easily reconquered the Pueblo indians.
Salem witch trials.
1695 - Pirate William Kidd takes command of Adventure Galley.
1703 - Massachusetts paid 12 pounds for an Indian scalp.
1704 - Deerfield (Mass.) Massacre of English colonists by French and Indians.
Bach's first cantata.
1706 - Benjamin Franklin born.
1707 - United Kingdom of Great Britain formed England, Wales, and Scotland by Act of Union.
1712 - New York slave riots.
1717 - Carolina and Virginia coasts terrorized by the pirate Blackbeard.
1718 - Pirate Stede Bonnet hanged. Commanded the Revenge.
1723 - The price had soared to 100 pounds for an Indian scalp.
1732 - Georgia founded.
1740 - Capt. Vitus Bering, Dane employed by Russia, discovers Alaska.
1741 - New York fires blamed on slaves.
1751 - Publication of the Encyclopédie begins in France.
1752 - Benjamin Franklin invents the lightning rod using a kite.
1753 - King George II appointed Benjamin Franklin to share postmasters general for the American colonies.
1754 - Benjamin Franklin dissmissed as postmaster by King George II because of Franklins revolutionary beliefs.
1759 - British capture Quebec from French.
1763 - Ottawa chief Pontiac seized every British post between the Straits of Mackinac and western New York except Detroit and Fort Pitt.
1765 - James Watt invents the steam engine.
1770 - The Boston Massacre.
1774 - Boston Tea Party.
First Continental Congress.
1775 - American Post Office established.
American Navy established.
Benjamin Franklin appointed 1st US postmaster general.
The American Revolution begins with battle of Lexington and Concord.
1776 - American declaration of independence
1778 - Capt. James Cook discovers Hawaii.
1781 - Slave Ship Zong throws 132 sick slaves overboard.
Battle of Yorktown.
1786 - The first Indian reservation established.
1787 - The Constitution of the United States signed.
1789 - George Washington elected president of the U.S.
1793 - Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette executed. Reign of Terror begins in France.
Eli Whitney invents the cotton gin.
1794 - French Army sent up soldiers in balloons to observe enemy troop movements.
Chippewa, and Potawatomi indians under Blue Jacket defeated by Major General "Mad Anthony" Wayne. Battle of Fallen Timbers.
1796 - Napoléon Bonaparte, French general, defeats Austrians.
In the U.S., Washington's Farewell Address.
1798 - Napoleon extends French conquests to Rome and Egypt.
U.S. Navy Department established.
1799 - Rosetta Stone discovered in Egypt.
1800 - Napoleon conquers Italy.
1803 - U.S. negotiates Louisiana Purchase from France.
1805 - Lord Nelson defeats the French-Spanish fleets in the Battle of Trafalgar.
1807 - Robert Fulton makes first successful steamboat trip on Clermont between New York and Albany.
1811 - William Henry Harrison defeats Shawnee indians in the Battle of Tippecanoe.
1812 - u.s. war against British.
Potawatomi indians attack and burn Fort Dearborn.
Vessel La Rodeur outbreak of Opthalmia 39 slaves overboard.
1814 - first design for the steam locomotive
French defeated by allies (Britain, Austria, Russia, Prussia, Sweden, and Portugal) abandon posts.
1817 - Jean Laffite occupied Galveston Island and used it for smuggling and privateering.
1820 - Missouri Compromise Missouri admitted as slave state but slavery barred in rest of Louisiana Purchase north of 36°30' N.
1825 - First passenger-carrying railroad in England.
1827 - matches invented
1830 - French forces capture the last pirate base in Algiers.
1831 - In U.S., Nat Turner leads unsuccessful slave rebellion.
1832 - The Blackhawk War. Sauk and Fox Indians unsuccessfuly try to save villages (now Rock Island, Illinois)
1833 - Lady of the Lake sunk. Struck iceberg.
Slavery abolished in British Empire.
1835 - wrench patented
1836 - Battle of the Alamo. Santa Anna's Army.
1837 - telegraph invented.
1838 - 1500 Cherokee Indians die during roundups.
1839 - bicycle invented.
First Opium War (to 1842) between Britain and China, over importation of drug into China.
3000 Cherokee Indians die on the trail of tears.
1840 - Lower and Upper Canada united.
1846 - U.S. declares war on Mexico.
1849 - California gold rush begins.
1850 - fugitive slave act passed allowing for extradition.
The Compromise of 1850 was a group of acts passed by Congress gave new territories the right to decide whether to permit slavery.
1851 - Herman Melville's Moby-Dick.
1853 - Crimean War begins as Turkey declares war on Russia.
1854 - Boston Slave riots.
Shipwreck City of Glasgow steamer 480 dead.
Shipwreck Arctic steamer 351 dead.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act created Kansas and Nebraska and gave the people the right to regulate slavery matters.
Founding of the Republican Party in the North.
1855 - Armed clashes in Kansas between pro- and anti-slavery forces.
1856 - Shipwreck Pacific steamer 286 dead.
Antislavery senator, Charles Sumner of Massachusetts, was beaten unconscious by Preston Brooks, a proslavery representative from South Carolina.
1857 - Supreme Court, in Dred Scott decision, rules that a slave is not a citizen.
Supreme Court, ruled that Congress could not prohibit slavery in the territories.
1858 - Pro-slavery constitution rejected in Kansas.
Shipwreck Austria steamer burns 471 dead.
1859 - the last land dispute ended between the u.s. and England giving the u.s. the shape it currently has.
Oil found
Charles Darwin's Origin of Species.
The raid at Harpers Ferry. Virginia slave revolt.
1860 - Abraham Lincoln elected president of the U.S.
South Carolina secedes from the Union.
1861 - six Southern states organized their own government in Montgomery, Alabama, in February South Carolina, Mississippi Florida Alabama Georgia Louisiana
u.s. civil war begins.
Richmond, Va., was chosen as the Confederate capital.
Northern troops retreated after the First Battle of Bull Run.
1862 - Dr. Richard Gatling patents the machine gun.
Both sides suffered heavy losses in the Battle of Shiloh, won by the Union.
Burnside's Union forces received a crushing blow in the Battle of Fredericksburg.
The ironclad ships Monitor and Merrimack (Virginia) battled to a draw.
Union victory at the bloody Battle of Antietam (Sharpsburg).
1863 - Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation freeing slaves.
Shipwreck AngloSaxon steamer 238 dead.
Lincoln begins using black soldiers.
The Battle of Gettysburg ended in a Southern defeat (turning point of war).
Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address.
1864 - Grant became general in chief of the North.
Northern troops captured Atlanta.
Union forces inflicted heavy losses in the Battle of Franklin.
The Union suffered heavy losses on the final day of the Battle of Cold Harbor.
Lincoln was reelected President.
1865 - Lee became general in chief of the South.
Confederate troops gave up Petersburg and Richmond.
u.s. civil war ends
Sultana Mississippi river steamboat sinks. Boiler explosion 1450 dead.
President Abraham Lincoln assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
1866 - dynamite invented
1867 - typewriter invented
1868 - Impeachment of President Andrew Johnson.
Ulysses S. Grant elected president.
1869 - eastern railroad meets west
Shipwreck Stonewall steamer burned 200 dead.
1870 - Shipwreck City of Boston 177 dead.
Shipwreck Cambria steamer 196 dead.
1871 - cement and concrete patent #119,413.
1872 - Carl Panzram aged 11 burns down his school causing 100,000.00 damages.
Brig Ship Mary Celeste found abandoned in Atlantic no survivors mystery.
1873 - Economic crisis in Europe. U.S. establishes gold standard.
Shipwreck Northfleet steamer 300 dead.
Shipwreck Atlantic steamer 585 dead.
Shipwreck Ville du Havre steamer 226 dead.
Woman's Crusade against the saloon and the liquor traffic.
1875 - Shipwreck Schiller steamer 312 dead.
Shipwreck Pacific steamer 236 dead.
1876 - telephone invented.
Sioux kill Gen. George A. Custer and 264 troopers at Little Big Horn River.
1878 - the first telephone switchboard goes into service.
Shipwreck Princess Alice steamer 700 dead.
Shipwreck Byzantin steamer 210 dead.
1879 - Thomas Edison invents the light bulb.
1880 - U.S.-China treaty allows U.S. to restrict immigration of Chinese labor.
1881 - Billy the Kid AKA William Bonney killed by Pat Garrett.
Shipwreck Victoria steamer 200 dead.
President Garfield fatally shot by assassin.1884 - mechanical cash register invented.
1882 - Terrorism in Ireland after land evictions.
Britain invades and conquers Egypt.
Germany, Austria, and Italy form Triple Alliance.
1883 - Shipwreck Cimbria steamer 389 dead.
1887 - Shipwreck Wah Yeung steamer burned 400 dead.
1888 - East London, Jack the Ripper never cought. 7 female prostitutes murdered.
1890 - Shipwreck Duburg steamer 400 dead.
Shipwreck Ertogrul frigate 540 dead.
1891 - Shipwreck Utopia steamer 562 dead.
1892 - internal combustion engine invented.
1893 - William Busby and others make first mining claim in Prince William Sound.
The Anti Saloon League founded.
1895 - The Anti Saloon League became a powerful national organization.
Shipwreck Elbe steamer 332 dead.
Shipwreck Reina Regenta cruiser 400 dead.
1896 - Plessey Vs Ferguson ruling set precedent 'seperate but equal' for slaves.
1897 - Copper, Gold deposits at Virginia Bay.
The Excelsior arrives in San Francisco with $400,000 in gold from Klondike.
On July 18th, the Portland docks in Seattle with $700,000 Klondike gold.
- U.S. battleship Maine destroyed in Havana harbor.
Spanish American War begins.
1898 - 3,000 to 4,000 gold rushers stampede across Valdez Glacier to the Copper River Area.
Shipwreck Maine battleship explosion 260 dead.
Shipwreck La Bourgogne steamer 549 dead.
Shipwreck Portland steamer 157 dead.
1899 - Al Capone born.
1900 - zeppelin invented.
1901 - first working radio receiver.
First wireless radio message.
President William McKinley assasinated in Buffalo.
Theodore Roosevelt becomes US president.
1902 - polygraph machine invented.
1903 - Crayons invented.
Ford Motor Co. starts
British archaeologist Howard Carter found name of Hatshepsut, mystery of the unknown pharaoh was solved.
1904 - the Wright brothers first flight.
teabags invented.
Excursion Steamer General Slocum burned in NY 1030 dead.
Shipwreck Norge steamer 620 dead.
Nefertari’s tomb discovered in the Valley of the Queens Egypt.
1905 - Albert Einstein comes up with E=mc².
1906 - sonar invented.
Shipwreck Sirio steamer 350 dead.
San Francisco earthquake 500,000 people homeless.
1907 - Bakelite plastic invented.
Color photography invented.
1908 - Football field sized meteor impact Siberia, 20 acre impact.
Shipwreck Matsu Maru steamer 300 dead.
1909 - First Model T. automobile produced by Henry Ford.
instant coffee invented.
Shipwreck Waratah steamer vanished 300 dead.
Robert Peary reached the North Pole.
1910 - Thomas Edison's first talking picture.
Shipwreck General Chanzy steamer 200 dead.
1911 - Triangle factory fire kills 146.
Shipwreck Liberte battleship exploded 285 dead.
1912 - first tank patent.
Spanish Steamer Principe de Asturias sinks. Struck rock 500 dead.
Titanic sinks. Struck iceberg 1503 dead.
Shipwreck Kichemaru steamer 1000 dead.
1913 - Mary Phelps Jacob invents the bra.
1914 - Panama Canal officially opened.
Gavrilo Princip assassinates Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria.
World War I begins.
Germany invaded Belgium and started fighting.
Allies stopped the Germans in France in the First Battle of the Marne.
Empress of Ireland sinks. Collision 1014 dead.
1915 - Liner Lusitania sunk by a German submarine 1198 dead.
Italy declared war on Austria.
Germany the first to use poison gas, in April, during the Second Battle of Ypres.
Excursion Steamer Eastland sinks. Overturned in Chicago River 812 dead.
1916 - Radio tuners invented.
Germany sinks passenger liner Sussex.
British fleet fought the German fleet in the Battle of Jutland.
Britannic sinks. Hits Mine in Aegean Sea.
Stainless steel invented.
Shipwreck Provence french steamer sinks in Mediterranean 3100 dead.
Shipwreck Principe de Asturias steamer 558 dead.
Shipwreck Hsin Yu steamer 1000 dead.
1917 - U.S. enters World War I. landing in France.
Russia signed an armistice with Germany, ending the fighting on the Eastern Front.
led by Vladimir Lenin the Bolsheviks took over the Russian government.
The Ohio Dry Federation.
Shipwreck Mont Blanc Collision 1600 dead.
1918 - Germany launched its final three offensives on the Western Front.
World War I. Ends.
Shipwreck Kiang Kwan steamer collision 500 dead.
Shipwreck Kawachi Battleship explosion in tokayama bay 500 dead.
Shipwreck Princess Sophia steamer off Alaskan coast 398 dead.
1919 - British John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown, made the first nonstop transatlantic flight.
Shipwreck Chaonia steamer 460 dead.
Shipwreck Valbanera steamer off florida coast 500 dead.
1920 - John Thompson invents the Tommy gun.
1921 - Tulsa Race Riot. Tulsa Tribune newspaper stories, Nab Negro for Attacking Girl in Elevator, To Lynch Negro Tonight, spark riots.
Shipwreck Hong Kong steamer in south china sea 1000 dead.
1922 - insulin invented.
Tutankhamen tomb in the Valley of the Kings discovered.
U.S.S.R. Soviet Union established in Russia under Joseph Stalin.
Shipwreck Niltaka cruiser in storm off ussr coast 300 dead.
1923 - traffic signal invented.
1924 - Two U.S. Army planes made the first round-the-world flight.
1925 - Tennessee law forbidding the teaching of evolution sparks The Scopes 'Monkey Trial'
The Weiss-Moran gang tried to assassinate Al Capone.
1926 - Americans Richard E. Byrd, Floyd Bennett first airplane flight over the North Pole.
The National Prohibition Law, Hearings, U.S. Senate, 69th Congress, 1st Session (1926): 666-67
1927 - Babe Ruth hits 60 home runs.
Shipwreck Principessa Mafalda steamer explosion 314 dead.
Charles Lindbergh, U.S. pilot, made the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight.
Andrew Kehoe bombs Bath Consolidated School, Bath, Michigan 38 children, 7 teachers died.
1928 - British Steamer Vestris sinks in storm 113 dead.
Bonnie and Clyde begin robbing.
1929 - Richard E. Byrd of the United States and crew first flight over the South Pole.
Stock Market crash.
US Great depression begins.
St. Valentine's Day Massacre Chicago.
1930 - Stalin Begins Collectivizing Agriculture in the U.S.S.R.
1931 - Two U.S. pilots, Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon, first nonstop flight across the Pacific.
Al Capone indictment for tax evasion totalling over 200,000 $
1932 - Scientists Split the Atom.
Amelia Earhart of the US. was the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean alone.
1933 - Wiley Post, a U.S. pilot, made the first solo round-the-world flight.
US Great depression ends.
Hitler comes to power in Germany.
1934 - Vessel Morro Castle sinks. Burns off the NJ coast 134 dead.
Bonnie and Clyde killed trying to escape police.
Al Capone sent to Alcaraz Federal Pinitentiary.
1935 - Alcoholics Anonymous Founded.
1936 - Sing Sing NY electrocuted Albert Fish who in 1928 ate a twelve year old girl.
Zepplin explodes over Lakehurst, NJ.
Olympic Games held in Nazi Germany, Berlin 1936.
1937 - The Hindenberg disaster. Burns at Lakehurst NJ 36 dead.
Japan Invades China.
1938 - The Night of Broken Glass (Kristallnacht).
Broadcast of "The War of the Worlds" Causes Panic.
1939 - World War II. Begins.
Submarine Squalus sinks. NH coast 26 dead.
Submarine Thetis sinks. Liverpool Bay, England 99 dead.
Helicopter Invented.
NY Worlds Fair.
1940 - Germany invades Norway.
1941 - Japan bombs Pearl Harbor.
U.S. enters World War II.
1942 - Dr. Enrico Fermi makes the first controlled nuclear chain reaction Chicago Pile 1.
Manhattan Project begins.
Shipwreck Curacao cruiser collision 338 dead.
Shipwreck Truxtun and Pollux destroyer off newfoundland 204 dead.
1943 - Germany surrenders armies at Stalingrad.
Hanford, Washington selected by manhattan project for plutonium production.
Lehnigk-Emden killed 15 unarmed women and children in Caiazzo near Naples Italy.
1944 - Franklin D. Roosevelt elected president.
Allied invasion of Normandy.
Shipwreck 3 us third fleet destroyers sink during typhoon in Philippine sea 790 dead.
B-24 bomber crash, Freckelton England 76 dead.
1945 - U.S. drops Atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
U.S. drops Atomic bomb on Nagasaki.
B-25 bomber crash, hit Empire state building NYC 14 dead.
World War II. Ends.
Cruise Ship Wilhelm Gustloff sinks. Torpedoed by Soviet Submarine.
1946 - The Atomic Energy Act of 1946 signed by President Harry S. Truman.
Manhattan Project officialy ends.
1947 - The National Security Act created The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Also established the Department of Defense (DOD)
And the National Security Council (NSC).
Atomic Energy Commission (AEC).
Shipwreck Himera steamer hits mine off Athens 392 dead.
Shipwreck Grandcamp fighter explodes off Texas city 510 dead.
DC-4 Eastern Air Lines crashes at Port Deposit MD 53 dead.
Hanford Nuclear site expands, two new reactors, H and DR, ancillary buildings were cunstructed.
1948 - Long block fire NY.
Shipwreck Chinease evacuation ship explodes off S. Manchuria 6000 dead.
Shipwreck Kiangya refugee ship 1100 dead.
1949 - Canadian Cruise Ship Noronic sinks. Burned in Toronto docks 130 dead.
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) founded.
Soviet Union's first atomic bomb.
1950 - Korean War begins.
Hanford Nuclear site expands, C reactor and support facilities built.
CIA engaged in a program of domestic human experimentation from the 1950s into the 1970s.
1951 - United Air Lines Douglas DC-6B N37543 crash kills 50.
United Air Lines Douglas DC-6B N37550 crash kills 50.
Classified Operation Buster/Jangle Nevada desert, multiple Atomic bomb tests.
1952 - Vessel Hobson sinks. Struck by the Aircraft Carrier Wasp Mid. Atlantic 176 dead.
Katmchatka Earthquake. magnitude 9.0Mw coordinates 52.75NX159.5E
C-124 Air Force plane Crash and Burned, Moses Lake Washington 87 dead.
1953 - Korean War ends.
British Ferry Princess Victoria sinks. Irish Sea 134 dead.
MKULTRA formally began for DOD human behavior research.
First Soviet hydrogen bomb detonated
Hanford Plutonium production site builds two jumbo reactors KE and KW.
The US ballistic missile development program was initiated.
Canadian Pacific Comet Jet Crash at Karachi Pakistan 11 dead.
C-124 Air Force plane Crash and Burned, near Tokyo 129 dead.
1954 - Ferry Toya Maru sinks. Tsugaru Strait, Japan 1172 dead.
1955 - Dr. Jonas Salk's polio vaccine.
DC-6B United Air Lines plane crash and explodes near Longmont Colorado 44 dead.
1956 - Italian Liner Andrea Doria sinks. Collision with Sweedish Liner Stockholm Mass Coast 51 dead.
The U.S.S.R. launched Sputnik 1, the first spacecraft to circle the earth.
Hanford Plutonium production site builds N reactor.
Venezuelan Super Constellation plane crashes in atlantic off NJ 74 dead.
TWA Super Const United DC-7 Plane collision and crash over Grand Canyon Arizona 128 dead.
1957 - U.S. declares war on Vietnam.
Shipwreck Eshghabad ran aground in Caspian sea 270 dead.
Andreanof Islands Earthquake magnitude 9.1Mw coordinates 1.3NX175.8W
First full scale nuclear powerplant in the U.S. Shippingport, Pennsylvania.
The Windscale plutonium reactor catches fire spreading radioactivity across Europe.
Little Rock Central High School, National Guard keeps the first nine black students from entering.
1958 - US Troops in Lebanon.
1959 - Karl Jager Nazi war criminal cought. Charged with the death of 20,000 jews in Kauen he commited scuicide.
1960 - John F. Kennedy elected president.
remains of a Viking settlement found at L'Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland.
Chile Earthquake. magnitude 9.5Mw coordinates 38.25X72.6W
Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann captured. Head of Jewish Affairs SS division.
United DC-8 plane collides and crashes over NYC 134 dead.
1961 - The SL-1 reactor, Idaho Falls becomes uncontrolible, emits 500rems per hour.
Yuri A. Gagarin, a Soviet air force officer, became the first person to orbit the earth.
Bay of Pigs invasion.
Shipwreck Save ran aground off Mozambique 259 dead.
1962 - British Liner Daria sinks. Exploded in Persian Gulf 236 dead.
Cuban Missile crisis Soviet Union builds secret missile bases in Cuba.
Marylyn Monroe found dead from scuicide.
Flying Tiger Super Constillation Plane vanishes in w Pacific 107 dead.
Air France Boeing 707 jet crashed on takeoff from Paris 130 dead.
Air France Boeing 707 jet crashed in storm Guadeloupe WI 113 dead.
1963 - John F. Kennedy assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald.
U.S. Atomic Submarine Thresher sinks. North Atlantic 129 dead.
Chartered Northwest Airlines DC-7 crashed in pacific off British Columbia 101 dead.
Trans Canada Airlines DC-8F crashed on takeoff Montreal 118 dead.
CIA General (IG) report.MKULTRA was a program with research and materials capable of employment in controling human behavior.
1964 - Prince of William Sound, Alaska. Earthquake magnitude 9.2 coordinates 61.1NX147.5W
Shipwreck Voyager destroyer collision off new south wales 82 dead.
1965 - The Sound of Music.
Shipwreck Yarmouth Castle burned off Nassau 90 dead.
Pakistani Boeing 720 B plane crashes at Cairo Egypt airport 121 dead.
Tank 105-A at Hanford Nuclear waste/plutonium production site in SE Washington explodes. Radioactive steam for 30+mins. went unreleased for 25 years.
1966 - Greek Passenger Vessel Herak Lion sinks. Heavy Seas, Coast of Crete.
Air India Boeing 707 jetliner crashes on Mont Blanc Italy 117 dead.
All Nippon Boeing 727 plane crashes into Tokyo Bay 133 dead.
BOAC Boeing 707 jetliner crashed on Mt Fuji Japan 124 dead.
Military chartered CL-44 plane crashed S Vietnam 129 dead.
1967 - Charles Manson begins killing.
Uss Forestal carrier burns off coast N vietnam 134 dead.
Swiss Britannia turboprop plane crash at Nicosia Cyprus 126 dead.
Piedmont Boeing 727 Cessna 310 collision in air Hendersonville NC 82 dead.
1968 - Richard Nixon elected president.
Israeli Submarine Dakar sinks. Eastern Mediterranean 69 dead.
U.S. Atomic Submarine Scorpion sinks. Atlantic Ocean 99 dead.
French Submarine Minerve vanishes in Medterranean 52 dead.
African Airways Boeing 707 Crashes on takeoff Windhoek S Africa 122 dead.
Braniff International Electra plane crash in storm Dawson Texas 85 dead.
Apollo 7 first manned Apollo mission 163 orbits of Earth.
Apollo 8 first manned launch of Saturn V rocket looped around the moon Christmass eve.
1969 - Apollo 9 first manned lunar module 151 orbits of Earth.
Apollo 11 Neil Armstrong is 1st man to step on the Moon.
Us Destroyer Evans cut in half by collision with carrier Melbourne in S china Sea 74 dead.
Venezuelan DC-9 plane crashes at takeoff Maracaibo Venezuela 155 dead.
Olympia Airways DC-6B plane crashes in storm Athens 93 dead.
1970 - Apollo 13 O2 explosion, used LEM as a life boat for orbit around the Moon. No casualties.
The Crawford Family Murders.
French Submarine Eurydice sinks in Mediterranean 57 dead.
South Korean ferry Namyong ho sinks in korea strait 308 dead.
Dominican DC-9 plane crashes into sea Santo Domingo 102 dead.
British Chartered jetliner plane crashes near Barcelona Spain 112 dead.
Air Canada DC-8 plane Crash toronto airport 108 dead.
Peruvian turbojet planecrash Cuzco Peru 101 dead.
Southern Airways DC-9 Plane crash in mountains Huntington w VA. 75 dead.
Violence at Kent State University.
1971 - San Fernando earthquake magnitude 6.6 at 34° 24.67' N, 118° 24.04'W kills 65.
All Nippon Boeing 727 Plane in air collision Morioka Japan 162 dead.
Alaska Airlines Boeing 727 plane crash into mountain Juneau Alaska 111 dead.
1972 - Richard Nixon re-elected president.
Watergate scandal.
The first Email program written.
German Iiyushin 62 plane crashes on takeoff 156 dead.
Aeroflot Iiyushin 62 plane crashes near Moscow 176 dead.
Spanish Charter plane crash on takeoff canary islands 155 dead.
Eastern Airlines Lockheed Tristar plane crashes at Miami airport 101 dead.
1973 - Vietnam Peace Agreement.
Boeing 707 plane explodes Kano airport 176 dead.
Libyan jetliner plane shot down accidentally 108 dead.
British Vanguard Turboprop plane crash during snowstorm 104 dead.
1974 - Amityville Murders, Ronald Defeo killed six of his family members.
Shipwreck Motor launch sinks off Bangladesh coast 250 dead.
Soviet destroyer burns in black sea 200 dead.
1975 - Vietnam War ends.
International treaty banning biological weapons went into effect.
Cargo Vessel Edmund Fitzgerald sinks. Eastern Lake Superior.
1976 - Mississippi River Ferry George Prince sinks. Rammed by Norwegian tanker Frosta.
Jimmy Carter elected president.
Shipwreck George Prince ferryboat sinks on Mississippi river 77 dead.
Egyptian ship Patria burns in the Red Sea 100 dead.
1977 - NY city blackouts. massive looting.
Shipwreck Grand Zenith sinks off Cape Cod 38 dead.
1978 - John Gacy arrested and confessed to torturing and murdering 30 victims.
1979 - Sniper attack on Cleveland Elementary School by Brenda Spencer.
Equipment Failure on Three Mile Island nuclear reactor. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
23 Yachts sink during storm in S. Irish Sea 18 dead.
1980 - Mt. St. Helens erupts.
Ronald Reagan elected president.
1981 - MTV
Passenger ship Tamponas II burns in Java Sea 580 dead.
USS Nimitz Marine combat jet crashes on deck 14 dead.
1982 - Freedom of Information act.
1983 - The Nuclear Waste Policy Act is signed by President Ronald Reagan.
Shipwreck Marine Electric sinks in storm off Chincoteague Va. 33 dead.
Ship 10th of Ramadan burns off Nassar 357 dead.
1984 - Russian Air Force Antonov AN-22 SSSR-08837 crashes killing 240.
1985 - Air India Boeing B-747-237B VT-EFO crashes killing 329.
Japan Air Lines Boeing B-747-SR46 JA8119 crashes killing 524.
1986 - Russian Nukeular Power Plant Chernobyl. Reactor four core meltdown.
Russian Space Station Mir Core module launched.
Nasa Shuttle Challenger explodes after takeoff, all hands lost.
Shipwreck Admiral Nakhimov collision in Black Sea 398 dead.
1987 - Ferry Dona Paz collides with oil tanker Victor Mindoro Island. 4000 killed.
Shipwreck british ferry sinks off Belgium 188 dead.
Hungerford, Berkshire spree killer Michael Ryan's suicide in John O' Grant School.
INF treaty with Soviet Union.
1988 - The United States Air Force unveiled the B-2 "stealth" bomber.
Plutonium production stops. Hanford becomes waste facility.
Shipwreck indian ferry sinks on Ganges river 400 dead.
1989 - Spree killer of 14 Marc Lepine's suicide in the University of Montreal.
Serial killer Ted Bundy put to death in Florida.
The Night Stalker Richard Ramirez died in gas chamber.
Exxon Valdez tanker ran aground in Prince William Sound.
Fall of Berlin Wall.
Soviet Submarine sinks off Norway 42 dead.
USS Iowa battleship explosion in gun turret 47 dead.
Shipwreck Bowbelle barge collision off london 56 dead.
Shipwreck Romanian pleasure boat collision 161 dead.
1990 - Scandanavian Star sinks. Arson Fire, Skagerrak Strait, Norway.
Desert Storm begins.
Nasa launches the Hubble Space Telescope.
1991 - Ferry Estonia sinks. Capsized off the coast of Finland 140 dead.
Ferry Salem Express rams coral reef sinks off Egypt 462 dead.
Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer's apartment is searched revealing many greusome bodies.
Rodney king beat by police batans cought on tape.
the Communists fell from power in Russia after the attempted take-over President Mikhail S. Gorbachev.
1992 - Air Force Concorde around the world in a record 32 hours 49 minutes 3 seconds.
Acquittal in California v. Powell in Rodney King case sparks LA riots.
1993 - Nasa successful repair mission to the Hubble Space Telescope.
Terrorist bombing of the World Trade Center.
Ferry Neptune sinks off Port au Prince 500 dead.
1994 - Russian serial killer Andrei Chikatilo was executed for 52 victims.
U.S. buys Uranium from Russian Federation for missile warheads.
Terrorist bombing in Oklahoma City.
1995 - Spacecraft Galileo begins exploring Jupiter.
1996 - Spree killer of sixteen Thomas Hamilton's suicide.
Final Module of Mir Space Station launched. Mir compleete.
1997 - Spree killer of five Andrew Cunanan's suicide.
Car bomb kills 21 in Algiers.
Accident on Space Station Mir, resupply ship collision.
Panorama report airs, German Government had paid millions of Marks to Nazi war criminals as victim pensions.
1998 - Mass-execution of political prisoners in Iran.
Begin assembly in orbit International space station.
1999 - Total solar eclipse.
2000 - Russian Atomic Submarine Kursk sinks to bottom. Explodes in Barents Sea.
Cassini spacecraft, on its way to Saturn, arrives at planet Jupiter.
President George w. Bush wins election in one of the closest presidential elections in U.S. history.
Last crew leaves Mir Space station.
2001 - Fishing boat Ghime Maru sunk. Collides with U.S. Submarine Greenville.
De-Orbit of Space Station Mir. Station crashed into the Pasific Ocean.
Terrorist attack World Trade Center Buildings, NY.
War on Terrorism begins.
2002 - Mars Odyssey spacecraft begins maping mars surface.
Tri State Crematory fraudulent, 300+ bodies found uncremated.
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