8th millenium BC
4th millenium BC
2nd - 1st millenium BC
5th century BC
52 BC
1st century
2nd century
5th century
496
622
800
987
13th century
1453
Middle of the 15th century
1492
16th century
1661-1715
Middle of the 18th century
Second half of the 18th century
1789
1792
1804-1815
1815-1848
1848-1852
1852-1870
1870-1940
1885
1898
August 1914
1917
November 11th, 1918
1929
January 1933
1935
1936-1938
1936
September 1939
June 18th, 1940
1944
1945
May 1945
August 1945
1947
1947-1958
1949
1954-1962
1957
1958-1969
1981-1995
1991
1992
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Birth of Agriculture (Mesopotamia)
The birth of writing
The time of the Bible
Athens at its peak (Pericles, the Parthenon).
Victory of Ceasar on Vercingetorix in Alesia
Beginning of Christianity
The Roman Empire at its peak
The dismantling of the Roman Empire
Clovis' Baptism
The Hegira (beginning of the muslim era)
The Crown of Charlemagne
The accession of Hugues Capet
Louis IX (Saint Louis) - the time of the cathedrals
The Fall of Constantinople
Birth of printing in the West (Gutenberg's Bible)
Capture of Granada - discovery of America
Protestant reforms (Luther, Calvin)
Personal reign of Louis XIV (Versailles)
Encyclopedia
The steam engine (James Watt) - beginning of the industrial era
Fall of the Bastille - Declaration of the rights of man and of the citizen
Proclamation of the Republic
First Empire (Napoleon Ist)
Constitutional monarchy in France
Second Republic (universal suffrage - slavery abolition)
Second Empire (Napoleon III)
Third Republic
Pasteur discovers rabies vaccine
Dreyfus affair
Beginning of the First World War
Russian Revolutions
Armistice
Land collectivization in the USSR
Hitler, chancelor
Nuremberg laws
Moscow trials
Social laws of the Popular Front
Invasion of Poland
General de Gaulle's call
Women's voting rights
Social security
German capitulation
Hiroshima
Marshall Plan; independance of India
Fourth Republic
Popular Republic of China
Algerian war
The Treaty of Rome
The De Gaulle years
The Mitterrand years
USSR break up
The Maastricht Treaty
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