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Bastille Day, 1789

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The Black Death (1346-53)

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The Big Bang

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The invention of paper , 105AD by Cai Lun, a Chinese inventor. Paper was regarded to be a very costly, defective and complicated to produce. Eventually, secrets of papermaking were discovered by Arabs

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Lady Diana's death, August 1997

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One-child policy , China, 1979-2021

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NATO was founded, April 1949

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1977 the First "Star Wars" is released.

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1994 the Channel tunnel opens

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2011 William marries Kate.

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Union Act 1707.

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1297 - Battle of Stirling

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1871 creation of the NRA

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1888-1891 Jack the Ripper

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1937- Guernica by Picasso. Represents the Spanish Civil war

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Fall of the Soviet Union - USSR, December 25, 1991 (under Mikhaïl Gorbatchev )

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1803 Louisiana Purchase

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Hadrian's Wall was built. 122

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1509 Henry VIII becomes King.

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1066 - Hastings battle / then William the Conqueror becomes king

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1863 First underground line in London

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Boston Tea Party 1773

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2004 Malta joined the EU.

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Titanic, April 1912

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1867 Ottawa becomes the capital of Canada

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Civil Rights Acts 1964 - Johnson

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1838 - coronation of queen Victoria.

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Lenin's death, January 1924

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By January 1879, Edison had built the first incandescent electric bulb. (but he didn'tinvent electricity!)

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Civil War 1861-1865

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1860s-1960s the Stolen Generations were Australian Aboriginal removed from their families in order for the children to forget their indigenous culture.

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1927 - Charles Lindbergh was the American aviator who was the first to cross the Atlantic alone.

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Edmund Hillary reached Mount Everest summit - May 1953

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1840 Treaty of Waitangi

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Julius Ceasar was assassinated On March 5, 44BC

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Manchester, Lockdown 2020

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Kennedy's assassination, November 1963

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Barack Obama becomes first black president, 2008.

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1789 - Wahsington becomes the 1st American Psdt.

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1975 UK's entry into the European Economic Community

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1605 Bonfire Night

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Hiroshima , August 1945

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Defeat of the Armada , 1588

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Amelia Earhart, crossing the Atlanic, June 1928

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The first Harry Potter book is published in 1997.

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Abolition of slavery 1865

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1898 - December, Pierre and Marie Curie discover radium

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D-day June 6,1944

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Coronation of Charlemagne, 800

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Ruby Bridges is escorted to school by US marshalls, 1960

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Mandela becomes President, May 10, 1994

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India gains Independence, August 15, 1947

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Chernobyl disaster, April 26, 1986

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First step on the moon, July 21, 1969

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Bloody Sunday, January 30, 1972

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Verdun 1929 The Battle of Verdun, in northeastern France, was the longest sustained conflict of World War I. The battle, which lasted 300 days and cost more than 300,000 French and German lives in 1916, was also one of the bloodiest of “The Great War.” The landscape around Verdun was still devastated more than 10 years after the battle, when this photo was taken.

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Jeanne d'arc, 1431

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Rosa Parks, December 1, 1955

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1849 California Gold Rush

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The landing of Columbus in America 1492.

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Brexit, January 2020.

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Queen Elizabeth died on September 8, 2022.

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Queen Elizabeth's Platinum Jubilee, June 2022.

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September 11, 2001

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Founding of Rome -753.

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Fall of the Berlin Wall, November 9, 1989

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Pasteur discovers the vaccine against rabies, 1885

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Thatcher, PM 1979

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Berlin wall construction, August 1961

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Printing invention, Gutenberg,1454

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Annie Edson Taylor - Niagara Falls 1901

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2016 donald trump was elected president, He served until january2021

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First world war 1914-1918

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US Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776.

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'Euro' becomes the official currency of 12 European countries,2002.

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Stock Market Crash, Wall Street, october 1929

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1932 Amelia Earhart

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Elizabeth II is proclaimed Queen in 1953.

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Men at lunch, 1932. Published in October 1932 during the construction of Rockefeller Center

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1558 - Elizabeth I

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Departure of Mayflower, 1620.

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The invention of the telephone (1876-1877) - alexander Graham Bell

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Lincoln's assassination, 1865.

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Execution of Louis XVI by guillotine, January 1793.

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Spanish Civil war, 1936-39

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Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941

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. Louisiana Purchase, 1803 Louisiana was purchased from France by the US for 15 million dollars

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1770 Captain Cook discovers Australia.

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Joe Biden becomes president, 2020

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I have a dream, August 28, 1963

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1314 Battle of Bannockburn

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1908 First olympic games in London.

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1973 Sydney Opera opening.

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Vietnam War 1954-75

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The first computer was created in 1946 (thanks to Charles Babbage and Alan Turing)