World history timeline: Identity by Jolette Bustos-Santana _ Student - EastGarnerMS

610- Founding of Islam

jbustossantana — 2023-10-19 22:39:52 UTC

Following the first revelation to the prophet Muhammad at the of 40. Muhammad and his followers spread the teachings of Islam throughout the Arabian peninsula.

722 AD- Spanish Reconquista

jbustossantana — 2023-10-30 22:31:30 UTC

The Reconquista or the fall of al-Andalus is a term used to describe the military campaigns that Christian kingdoms following the Umayyad conquest of Hispania.

1096- The first crusade

jbustossantana — 2023-10-30 22:35:42 UTC

The Crusade assisted in capturing Nicaea, restoring much of western Anatolia to the Byzantine Empire, the crusaders successfully captured Jerusalem and establish the crusader states.

1478- Spanish Inquisitions

jbustossantana — 2023-10-30 22:39:30 UTC

The tribunal of the holy office of the Inquisition, commonly known as the Spanish Inquisition, was established in 1478 by the Catholic Monarchs, king Ferdinand II of Aragon and queen Isabella I of castile.

1919- Treaty of Versailles ends WWI

jbustossantana — 2023-10-30 22:42:36 UTC

The Treaty of Versailles was signed at the palace of Versailles outside Paris, France. The treaty was one of several that officially ended five years of conflict known as the Great war and world war I.

1916- Sykes-Picot Treaty

jbustossantana — 2023-10-31 03:04:38 UTC

Secret treaty between the United Kingdom and France, with assent from Russian Empire and the Kingdom of Italy, to define their mutually greed spheres of influence and control in a eventual partition of the Ottoman Empire.

1933- The holocaust

jbustossantana — 2023-10-31 03:08:36 UTC

The holocaust was the genocide of European Jews during world war II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and it's collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German- occupied Europe around two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population.

1933- Hitler Appointed Chancellor

jbustossantana — 2023-10-31 14:08:04 UTC

On this date, Adolf Hitler was appointed as Chancellor of Germany and the Nazi party assumed control.

1944- D-Day Invasion of Normandy

jbustossantana — 2023-10-31 14:13:55 UTC

The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on Tuesday 6, June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in operation overlord during world war II. Codenamed operation Neptune and often referred to as D-Day, it was and still is the largest seaborne invasion in history.

1947- Creation of Israel

jbustossantana — 2023-10-31 14:18:43 UTC

During the British mandate, Palestine's official name in Hebrew was "Eretz Yisrael." That was the name that appeared in Hebrew (alongside "Palestine" in the English and Arabic) on the local currency stamps and official documents, lending the name "Israel" official status.

1990- Apartheid Ends

jbustossantana — 2023-10-31 14:22:06 UTC

Apartheid, the Afrikaans name given by the white-ruled South Africa's Nationalist party in 1948 to the country's harsh, institutionalized system of racial segregation.

1992- Bosnian Civil war

jbustossantana — 2023-10-31 14:26:27 UTC

The Bosnian War was an international armed conflict that took place in Bosnia and Herzegovina between 1992 and 1995. The war is commonly seen as having started on April 6 1992, following a number of earlier violent incidents. The war ended on December 14 1995 when the Dayton accords were signed.

10000 BC- The Neolithic Revolution

jbustossantana — 2023-12-18 14:41:27 UTC

The Neolithic Revolution, also referred to as the Agricultural Revolution is thought to have begun about 12,000 years ago, It coincided with then end of the last ice age and the beginning of the current geological epoch, the Holocene, and it forever changed how human live, eat, and interact paving the way for modern civilization

800 CE- Gunpowder is invented

jbustossantana — 2023-12-18 14:53:39 UTC

Gunpowder, also commonly known as black powder to distinguish it from modern smokeless powder, is the earliest known chemical explosive, it consists of a mixture of sulfur, carbon, and potassium nitrate, The sulfur and carbon act as fuels while saltpeter is an oxidizer.

1940- The Green Revolution

jbustossantana — 2023-12-18 15:05:10 UTC

Green revolution had a great increase in production of food grains, especially wheat and rice, that resulted in large part from the introduction into developing countries of new, high- yielding varieties, beginning in the mid 20th century. Its early dramatic successes were in Mexico and the Indian subcontinent.

1492- Columbus "discovers" the Americas

jbustossantana — 2023-12-18 15:26:05 UTC

Columbus left Castile in August 1492 with three ships and made landfall in the Americas on October 12, ending the period of human habitation in the Americas now referred to as the pre- Columbian era. His landing place was an island in the Bahamas, known by its native inhabitants as Guanahani.

1760- Industrial Revolution

jbustossantana — 2023-12-19 13:40:20 UTC

In modern history, the process of change from an agrarian and handicraft economy to one dominated by industry and machine manufacturing, these technological changes introduced novel ways of working and living and fundamentally transformed society.

1907- Plastic is invented

jbustossantana — 2023-12-19 14:15:29 UTC

Belgian chemist and clever marketeer Leo Baekeland pioneered the first fully synthetic plastic in 1907. He beat his Scottish Rival,James Swinburne, to the patent office by one day. His invention, which he would christen Bakelite, combined two chemicals, formaldehyde and phenol, under heat and pressure

1969- Neil armstrong steps onto the surface of the moon

jbustossantana — 2023-12-19 14:22:26 UTC

The world watched on television as Neil Armstrong from Apollo 11 took the first human footsteps on the moon's surface on July 20, 1969. It was the first time humans walked on another world as he stepped onto the lunar surface, Armstrong said "That is on small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."

2011- Syrian civil war

jbustossantana — 2023-12-19 14:32:20 UTC

In March 2011 Syria's government, led by pres. Bashar al- Assad, faced an unprecedented challenge to its authority when pro-democracy protests erupted throughout the country. Protesters demanded an end to the authoritarian practices of the Assad regime, in place since Assad's father, Hafez al- Assad, became president in 1971. The Syrian government used violence to suppress demonstrations, making extensive use of police, military, and paramilitary forces. Opposition militias began in 2011, and by 2012 the conflict had expanded into a full- fledged civil war.

480 BC- The Battle of the Thermopylae Ends In Defeat For The Greeks

jbustossantana — 2024-01-08 14:19:24 UTC

In early June of 480 BC, a mighty Persian army crossed the Dardanelles strait on two pontoon bridges to continue a brutal advance into Greece. Led by the great king Xerxes, the sulphur springs. Seated on the east coast of Greece, between the malian Gulf and the Kallidromo massif, some 85 miles (136km) northwest of Athens, it is a rugged, craggy landscape of think brush, thorny shrubs, and steep hillsides, where severe weather- torrential downpours and scorching heat- is the norm.

1436- The Printing Press was invented

jbustossantana — 2024-01-08 14:27:15 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 book markers were printing with moveable metal type a century before Gutenberg.

1916- The Battle of the Somme begins

jbustossantana — 2024-01-08 14:34:17 UTC

The Battle of the Somme was one of the most bitterly contested and costly battles of the First World War, lasting nearly five months. Despite this, it is often the first day of the battle that is most remembered. The offensive began on 1 July 1916 after a week-long artillery bombardment of the German lines.

1945- An Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki

jbustossantana — 2024-01-08 14:47:46 UTC

During World War II, American bombing raids on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, that marked the first use of the atomic weapons in war. Ten thousands were killed in the initial explosions and many more would later succumb to radiation poisoning. On August 10, one day after the bombing of Nagasaki, the Japanese government issued a statement agreeing to accept the Allied surrendered terms that had been dictated in the Potsdam Declaration.

1995- The World Trade Organization Is Founded

jbustossantana — 2024-01-08 14:55:39 UTC

The WTO began life on January 1, 1995, but its trading system is half a century older. Since 1948, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade had provided the rules for the system.

2004- Facebook Launches

jbustossantana — 2024-01-09 01:38:55 UTC

An American online social media platform and social network service that is part of the company meta platforms, Facebook was founded in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes, all of whom were students at Harvard University. Facebook became the largest social network in the world, with nearly three billion users as of 2021, and about half that number were using Facebook every day. The company's headquarters are in Menlo Park, California.

2018- Cambridge Analytica goes bankrupt

jbustossantana — 2024-01-09 01:50:18 UTC

The embattled political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica announced on Wednesday that it would cease most operations and fire for bankruptcy amid growing legal and political scrutiny of its business practices and work for Donald J. Trump's presidential campaign.