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69 Cards in this Set
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Röntgen, Discovers X-rays in?
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1895
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G Bell, Invented Telephone on
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1876
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Darwin writes "Origin of the Species" in
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1859
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Big Bang erupted
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14 billion years ago
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Age of Dinosaurs
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245MYA - 65 MYA
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Stone Age
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5MYA - 2500 BC
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Ice Age
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70000 BC - 8000 BC
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Iron Age
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1200 BC - 332 BC
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Hellenistic Period
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332 BC - 63 BC
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Roman Period
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63 BC - 476
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Byzantine Period
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330 - 1453
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Middle Ages
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476 - 1350
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Rennainance
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1350 - 1600
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Reformation
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1500 - 1600
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Enlightenment
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1600 - 1800
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Industrial Revolution
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1750 - 1900
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Gutenberg invented the printing press in
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1436
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the first wheel was used in Mesopotamia in the bronze age when?
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3500 BC
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Fleming discovered penicillin in
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1928
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William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain built the first transistor in
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1947
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Philo Taylor Farnsworth invented the TV in
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1927
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the abacus was invented in Babylon in
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3000 BC
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the slide rule is developed by William Oughtred in
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1622
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the first numerical calculating machines built in Paris by Blaise Pascal in
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1642
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electricity discovered by Benjamin Franklin in
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1780
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first commercially mechanical adding machine that was successful is developed by William Burroughs in
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1886
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the first public radio-telephone becomes operational between London and New York
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1927
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Englishman Alan M. Turning made a machine defined to be capable of computing any calculatable function in
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1936
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the first color broadcast is on TV on
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1940
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the first car appeared on the streets in
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1885
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a 10 kilo ton atomic explosion was unleashed on Hiroshima on
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1945
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Edison invented the first incandescent light bulb in
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1878
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The plague raged in Europe and wiped out half the population in
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1347
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Isaac Newton invented the reflecting telescope in
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1668
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Edward Jenne invented the smallpox vaccine in
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1796
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Michael Faraday invented the electric motor in
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1821
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Samuel Finley Breese Morse &
Sir Charles Wheatstone invented the telegraph in |
1937
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Alfred Bernhard Nobel invented dynamite in
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1866
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Cattle and pigs were first domesticated
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6000 BC
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Dolly was the first cloned sheep in
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1996
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Julius Caesar (102-44 BC) was assassinated by disgruntled colleagues after establishing the Roman Empire
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March 15, 44 BC
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William of Normandy crossed the English Channel from France and defeated British King Harold II at the Battle of Hastings. On Christmas Day, William was crowned King of England, and became known as William the Conqueror.
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1066
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At Runnymede, King John of England (1167-1216) signed the Magna Carta, a 63-part document of human rights that became the foundation of the English legal system.
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1215
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Marco Polo (1254-1324) returns from China after a 20-year stay, seeing more of Asia than any other European of his day.
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1295
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Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) set sail Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) set sail on September 6, 1492 from Castille, Spain with three ships— the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria. His expedition landed at San Salvador in the West Indies
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1492 (sailed the ocean blue)
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Isaac Newton (1643-1727) published the Principia where he developed the three laws of motion, demonstrated the structure of the universe, the movement of the planets, and calculated the mass of the heavenly bodies.
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1687
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The 13 colonies in America met in Philadelphia to sign their Declaration of Independence, declaring themselves free of British rule and taxation.
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1776
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The French middle class stormed the Bastille, capturing the royal fortress in Paris, and starting the French Revolution.
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1789
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Napoleon defeated at Waterloo by Duke Wellington and was exiled to St. Helena where he died on May 8, 1821.
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1815
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The Confederacy attacked an US Army post at Fort Sumter, starting the American Civil War. The four-year war resulted in the death of 364,511 Union troops & 133,821 Confederates.
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1861
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Archduke Franz Ferdinand (1863-1914) assassinated in Sarajevo by Bosnian Serbs initiating World War I.
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1914
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New York Stock Market crashed on Black Tuesday where stocks tumbled across the board.
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1929
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Germany invaded Poland overrunning it in four weeks. Britain & France declared war on Germany two days later.
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1939
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Chinese Communist Chairman Mao Tse-Tung (1893-1976) declared his country the People's Republic of China after defeating Chiang Kai-Shek's Kuomingtang forces who fled to Taiwan.
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1949
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Soviet Union's Yuri A. Gagarin (1934-1968) became the first man to complete an orbit of Earth.
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1961
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Neil Armstrong became the first human to set foot on the Moon.
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1969
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1989 German people attacked the Berlin Wall, chipping it with hammers and bashing it with rocks until the wall came tumbling down.
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1989
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Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web while working at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland.
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1990
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the year the great bard, William Shakespeare, was born
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1564
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The unsinkable ship, the Titanic sunk.
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1912
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UK - The Equal Franchise Bill was given a third unopposed reading in the House of Commons, giving all women over the age of 21 the right to vote in parliamentary elections.
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1928
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WW2. The start of the largest war in human history, killing over 60 million people in Asia, Africa and Europe.
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1939
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Charles Babbage developed the Analytical Engine
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1837
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Roger Bannister breaks the four-minute mile.
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1954
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nspiring civil rights campaigner, Martin Luther King, was shot dead in Memphis
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1968
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9/11 They day the world stood still as evil struck America..
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2001
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George Boole published "An Investigation of the Laws of Thought". His system for symbolic and logical reasoning became the basis of computing.
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1845
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In the "First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC", the concept of storing a program in the same memory as data was described by John von Neumann.
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1945
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The Spanish Inquisition was established by Ferdinand and Isabella to maintain Catholic orthodoxy in their kingdoms and was under the direct control of the Spanish monarchy.
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1478
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