World History Timeline: Identity by Luis Sanchez Leon _ Student - SouthGarnerHS

Founding of islam: 610 BC

lasanchezleon — 2023-10-17 16:37:26 UTC

The start of Islam is marked in the year 610, following the first revelation to the prophet Muhammad at the age of 40. Muhammad and his followers spread the teachings of Islam throughout the Arabian peninsula.

Spanish reconquista begins: 722AD

lasanchezleon — 2023-10-17 16:40:24 UTC

Historians traditionally mark the beginning of the Reconquista with the Battle of Covadonga (most likely in 722), and its end is associated with Portuguese and Spanish colonization of the Americas. The Arab Islamic conquest had dominated most of North Africa by 710 CE.

The first crusade: August 15, 1096

lasanchezleon — 2023-10-17 16:42:56 UTC

The First Crusade was the first of a series of religious wars, or Crusades, initiated, supported and at times directed by the Latin Church in the medieval period. The objective was the recovery of the Holy Land from Islamic rule.

Spanish inquisition begin: Nov 1, 1478

lasanchezleon — 2023-10-17 16:45:21 UTC

When the Spanish Inquisition was created on November 1, 1478, it was not entirely unexpected. Follow the origins and evolution of the Spanish Inquisition. Spanish Inquisition, (1478–1834), judicial institution ostensibly established to combat heresy in Spain.

Sykes-picot treaty: May 16, 1916

lasanchezleon — 2023-10-17 16:56:00 UTC

The Sykes–Picot Agreement was a 1916 secret treaty between the United Kingdom and France, with assent from the Russian Empire and the Kingdom of Italy, to define their mutually agreed spheres of influence and control in an eventual partition of the Ottoman Empire.

Treaty of versailles ends ww1: June 28, 1919

lasanchezleon — 2023-10-17 16:59:30 UTC

On June 28, 1919, 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—World War I.

The Holocaust begins: January 30, 1933

lasanchezleon — 2023-10-17 17:01:55 UTC

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

Hitler appointed chancellor: January 30, 1933

lasanchezleon — 2023-10-17 17:03:46 UTC

Recently appointed as German chancellor, Adolf Hitler greets President Paul von Hindenburg in Potsdam, Germany, on March 21, 1933. —⁠US Holocaust Memorial Museum; US Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of B. I. Sanders

D-day invasion of normandy: june 6, 1944

lasanchezleon — 2023-10-17 17:05:27 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.

Creation of israel: May 14, 1947

lasanchezleon — 2023-10-17 17:09:06 UTC

Then British Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour submitted a letter of intent in 1917 supporting the establishment of a Jewish homeland. When the Ottoman Empire fell, Great Britain took control of the region and controlled Palestine until Israel became an independent state in 1947.

Apartheid ends: June 17, 1991

lasanchezleon — 2023-10-17 17:12:36 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, came to an end in the early 1990s in a series of steps that led to the formation of a democratic government in 1994.

Bosnian civil war begins: April 6, 1992

lasanchezleon — 2023-10-17 17:14:34 UTC

The Bosnian War (Serbo-Croatian: Rat u Bosni i Hercegovini / Рат у Босни и Херцеговини) 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 6 April 1992, following a number of earlier violent incidents.

The neolithic Revolution Begins

lasanchezleon — 2023-11-30 12:35:27 UTC

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. Shortly after, Stone Age humans in other parts of the world also began to practice agriculture.

The Green Revolution begins

lasanchezleon — 2023-11-30 12:37:49 UTC

The beginnings of the Green Revolution are often attributed to Norman Borlaug, an American scientist interested in agriculture. In the 1940s, he began conducting research in Mexico and developed new disease resistance high-yield varieties of wheat.

Gunpowder is invented

lasanchezleon — 2023-11-30 12:39:02 UTC

Gunpowder: Origins in the East. “Gunpowder,” as it came to be known, is a mixture of saltpeter (potassium nitrate), sulfur, and charcoal. Together, these materials will burn rapidly and explode as a propellant. Chinese monks discovered the technology in the 9th century CE, during their quest for a life-extending elixir

The Industrial Revolution Begins

lasanchezleon — 2023-11-30 12:41:36 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 (1852–83) to describe Britain's economic development from 1760 to 1840.

Plastic is invented

lasanchezleon — 2023-11-30 12:43:02 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.

Columbus “discovers” the Americas

lasanchezleon — 2023-11-30 12:46:52 UTC

Columbus left Castile in August 1492 with three ships and made landfall in the Americas on 12 October, 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.

The Syrian Civil War begins

lasanchezleon — 2023-11-30 12:52:49 UTC

The Syrian civil war is an ongoing multi-sided conflict in Syria involving various state-sponsored and non-state actors. In March 2011, popular discontent with the rule of Bashar al-Assad triggered 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

lasanchezleon — 2023-11-30 12:54:27 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

lasanchezleon — 2024-01-08 16:10:44 UTC

The WTO began life on 1 January 1995, but its trading system is half a century older. Since 1948, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) had provided the rules for the system. (The second WTO ministerial meeting, held in Geneva in May 1998, included a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the system.

The Printing Press is invented

lasanchezleon — 2024-01-08 16:15:08 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

lasanchezleon — 2024-01-08 16:16:13 UTC

Facebook, initially titled as thefacebook.com and limited to Harvard students, launched on Feb. 4, 2004. In 2006, Facebook became open to general public.

Cambridge Analytica goes bankrupt

lasanchezleon — 2024-01-08 16:22:35 UTC

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

The Battle of Thermopylae ends in defeat for the Greeks

lasanchezleon — 2024-01-08 16:30:43 UTC

After three days of holding their own against the Persian king Xerxes I and his vast southward-advancing army, the Greeks were betrayed, and the Persians were able to outflank them. Sending the main army in retreat, Leonidas and a small contingent remained behind to resist the advance and were defeated.

The Battle of the Somme begins

lasanchezleon — 2024-01-08 16:31:58 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.

An atomic bomb is dropped on Nagasaki

lasanchezleon — 2024-01-08 17:23:49 UTC

On August 6, 1945, during World War II (1939-45), an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima.