Revolutionary World History Timeline by Madison Wilson _ Student - SouthGarnerHS

The Neolithic Revolution Begins 10000 BC – 2200 BC

mpwilson4 — 2024-04-24 12:16:00 UTC

The Neolithic Revolution, also called the Agricultural Revolution, marked the transition in human history from small, nomadic bands of hunter-gatherers to larger, agricultural settlements and early civilization. The Neolithic Revolution started around 10,000 B.C. in the Fertile Crescent, a boomerang-shaped region of the Middle East where humans first took up farming. https://www.history.com/topics/pre-history/neolithic-revolution

The Green Revolution begins 1950 and 1984

mpwilson4 — 2024-04-24 12:16:17 UTC

the Green Revolution transformed agriculture around the globe, world grain production increased by 160%. The production increases fostered by the Green Revolution are often credited with having helped to avoid widespread famine, and for feeding billions of people.https://populationeducation.org/a-timeline-of-the-three-major-agricultural-revolutions-in-history/

Gunpowder is invented

mpwilson4 — 2024-04-24 12:16:32 UTC

Chinese monks discovered the technology in the 9th century CE

The Industrial Revolution Begins 1760

mpwilson4 — 2024-04-24 12:16:54 UTC

This process began in Britain in the 18th century and from there spread to other parts of the world. Although used earlier by French writers, the term Industrial Revolution was first popularized by the English economic historian Arnold Toynbee

Plastic is invented

mpwilson4 — 2024-04-24 12:17:17 UTC

Belgian chemist and clever marketeer Leo Baekeland pioneered the first fully synthetic plastic in 1907

Columbus “discovers” the Americas

mpwilson4 — 2024-04-24 12:17:38 UTC

Christopher Columbus did not “discover” the Americas, nor was he even the first European to visit the “New World.” (Viking explorer Leif Erikson had sailed to Greenland and Newfoundland in the 11th century.) However, his journey kicked off centuries of exploration and exploitation on the American continents.

The Syrian Civil War begins March 15, 2011

mpwilson4 — 2024-04-24 12:19:45 UTC

In March 2011, popular discontent with the Ba'athist government led to large-scale protests and pro-democracy rallies across Syria, as part of the wider Arab Spring protests in the region

Neil Armstrong steps onto the surface of the moon July 20, 1969

mpwilson4 — 2024-04-24 12:19:58 UTC

On July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong landed their moon module on a broad dark lunar lava flow, called the Sea of Tranquility. And six hours later, Neil Armstrong became the first human being to walk on the surface of a world beyond Earth.

The World Trade Organization is founded January 1, 1995

mpwilson4 — 2024-05-24 11:33:20 UTC

The World Trade Organization (WTO) is an international organization established in 1995 following the ratification of the Uruguay Round Agreements, and today includes 164 members.

The Printing Press is invented in 1436

mpwilson4 — 2024-05-24 11:33:32 UTC

German goldsmith Johannes Gutenberg is credited with inventing the printing press around 1436, although he was far from the first to automate the book-printing process. Woodblock printing in China dates back to the 9th century and Korean bookmakers were printing with moveable metal type a century before Gutenberg

Facebook launches February 4, 2004

mpwilson4 — 2024-05-24 11:33:40 UTC

Facebook was launched on February 4, 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg and fellow Harvard students Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz, Andrew McCollum, and Chris Hughes. Back then, the site was intended as a social media platform for Harvard students exclusively.

Cambridge Analytica goes bankrupt May 1st 2018,

mpwilson4 — 2024-05-24 11:34:04 UTC

The app developer breached Facebook's terms of service by giving the data to Cambridge Analytica. On 1 May 2018, Cambridge Analytica and its parent company SCL filed for insolvency proceedings and closed operations.

An atomic bomb is dropped on Nagasaki 1945

mpwilson4 — 2024-05-24 11:34:14 UTC

The two atomic bombs dropped on Japan in 1945 killed and maimed hundreds of thousands of people, and their effects are still being felt today. By the end of 1945, the bombing had killed an estimated 140,000 people in Hiroshima, and a further 74,000 in Nagasaki. In the years that followed, many of the survivors would face leukemia, cancer, or other terrible side effects from the radiation.

Creation of the World Wide Web

mpwilson4 — 2024-05-24 11:34:25 UTC

Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist, invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989, while working at CERN. The Web was originally conceived and developed to meet the demand for automated information-sharing between scientists in universities and institutes around the world.

The Protestant Reformation

mpwilson4 — 2024-05-24 11:34:33 UTC

Protestant Reformers were theologians whose careers, works and actions brought about the Protestant Reformation of the 16th century.

Council of Trent

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The Council of Trent, held between 1545 and 1563 in Trent, now in northern Italy, was the 19th ecumenical council of the Catholic Church. Prompted by the Protestant Reformation at the time, it has been described as the embodiment of the Counter-Reformation.