Miscellaneous

Here is a miscellaneous timeline of events throughout history:

8000 BCE

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Evidence of early farming and domestication of animals in  

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3000 BCE

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Wheels invented, allow early forms of transportation

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2550 BCE

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Great Pyramids built at Giza

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776 BCE

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First recorded Olympic games held in Greece

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218 BCE

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Construction of the Great Wall of China begins under Qin Dynasty

44 BCE

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Julius Caesar assassinated in the Roman Senate

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1453 CE

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Ottoman Turks capture Constantinople, marking the fall of the Byzantine Empire

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1492 CE

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Christopher Columbus lands in the Americas, beginning period of European colonization

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1610 CE

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Galileo observes Jupiter's moons through a telescope, providing evidence for the Copernican model of the solar system

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1776 CE

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American Revolution begins with the Declaration of Independence

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1804 CE

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Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself French Emperor in Notre Dame Cathedral

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1859 CE

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Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species, introduces theory of evolution by natural selection

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1876 CE

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Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone

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1903 CE

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First controlled, sustained flight achieved by Orville and Wilbur Wright

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1917 CE

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Bolshevik revolution in Russia, Lenin becomes first Soviet premier  

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1929 CE

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Stock market crash leads to the Great Depression in America

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1945 CE

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End of World War 2 with the unconditional surrender of Axis powers  

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1969 CE

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Apollo 11 lands first humans (Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin) on the moon

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1990 CE

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Hubble Space Telescope launched into low Earth orbit  

2007 CE

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Apple releases first iPhone, ushering new era in smartphone technology