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69 Cards in this Set

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Röntgen, Discovers X-rays in?
1895
G Bell, Invented Telephone on
1876
Darwin writes "Origin of the Species" in
1859
Big Bang erupted
14 billion years ago
Age of Dinosaurs
245MYA - 65 MYA
Stone Age
5MYA - 2500 BC
Ice Age
70000 BC - 8000 BC
Iron Age
1200 BC - 332 BC
Hellenistic Period
332 BC - 63 BC
Roman Period
63 BC - 476
Byzantine Period
330 - 1453
Middle Ages
476 - 1350
Rennainance
1350 - 1600
Reformation
1500 - 1600
Enlightenment
1600 - 1800
Industrial Revolution
1750 - 1900
Gutenberg invented the printing press in
1436
the first wheel was used in Mesopotamia in the bronze age when?
3500 BC
Fleming discovered penicillin in
1928
William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain built the first transistor in
1947
Philo Taylor Farnsworth invented the TV in
1927
the abacus was invented in Babylon in
3000 BC
the slide rule is developed by William Oughtred in
1622
the first numerical calculating machines built in Paris by Blaise Pascal in
1642
electricity discovered by Benjamin Franklin in
1780
first commercially mechanical adding machine that was successful is developed by William Burroughs in
1886
the first public radio-telephone becomes operational between London and New York
1927
Englishman Alan M. Turning made a machine defined to be capable of computing any calculatable function in
1936
the first color broadcast is on TV on
1940
the first car appeared on the streets in
1885
a 10 kilo ton atomic explosion was unleashed on Hiroshima on
1945
Edison invented the first incandescent light bulb in
1878
The plague raged in Europe and wiped out half the population in
1347
Isaac Newton invented the reflecting telescope in
1668
Edward Jenne invented the smallpox vaccine in
1796
Michael Faraday invented the electric motor in
1821
Samuel Finley Breese Morse &
Sir Charles Wheatstone invented the telegraph in
1937
Alfred Bernhard Nobel invented dynamite in
1866
Cattle and pigs were first domesticated
6000 BC
Dolly was the first cloned sheep in
1996
Julius Caesar (102-44 BC) was assassinated by disgruntled colleagues after establishing the Roman Empire
March 15, 44 BC
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.
1066
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.
1215
Marco Polo (1254-1324) returns from China after a 20-year stay, seeing more of Asia than any other European of his day.
1295
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
1492 (sailed the ocean blue)
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.
1687
The 13 colonies in America met in Philadelphia to sign their Declaration of Independence, declaring themselves free of British rule and taxation.
1776
The French middle class stormed the Bastille, capturing the royal fortress in Paris, and starting the French Revolution.
1789
Napoleon defeated at Waterloo by Duke Wellington and was exiled to St. Helena where he died on May 8, 1821.
1815
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.
1861
Archduke Franz Ferdinand (1863-1914) assassinated in Sarajevo by Bosnian Serbs initiating World War I.
1914
New York Stock Market crashed on Black Tuesday where stocks tumbled across the board.
1929
Germany invaded Poland overrunning it in four weeks. Britain & France declared war on Germany two days later.
1939
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.
1949
Soviet Union's Yuri A. Gagarin (1934-1968) became the first man to complete an orbit of Earth.
1961
Neil Armstrong became the first human to set foot on the Moon.
1969
1989 German people attacked the Berlin Wall, chipping it with hammers and bashing it with rocks until the wall came tumbling down.
1989
Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web while working at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland.
1990
the year the great bard, William Shakespeare, was born
1564
The unsinkable ship, the Titanic sunk.
1912
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.
1928
WW2. The start of the largest war in human history, killing over 60 million people in Asia, Africa and Europe.
1939
Charles Babbage developed the Analytical Engine
1837
Roger Bannister breaks the four-minute mile.
1954
nspiring civil rights campaigner, Martin Luther King, was shot dead in Memphis
1968
9/11 They day the world stood still as evil struck America..
2001
George Boole published "An Investigation of the Laws of Thought". His system for symbolic and logical reasoning became the basis of computing.
1845
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.
1945
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.
1478