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| Building of the Great Pyramid (also known as Pyramid
of Cheops/Khufu) at Giza, Egypt
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| Battle of Thermopylae between the Persian Empire
of Xerxes I and an alliance of
the Greek city-states |
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| Building of Great Wall of China by China's first
Emperor, on the site of older
defences |
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| Crucifixion of Jesus Christ |
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| Fall of the Roman Empire in the West - when the
last emperor, Romulus Augustus,
was forced to abdicate by the
German chieftain Odoacer. (Various
other dates are also cited for
the Roman Empire's slow decline) |
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| Muhammad's Flight to Mecca (the Hegira) |
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| Norman invasion of England |
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| Black Death (plague) in Europe |
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| Fall of Constantinople, the last redoubt of the
Byzantine or Eastern Roman Empire,
to the Turks |
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| Voyage of Christopher Columbus to what later became
known as the American continent |
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| Martin
Luther's 95 Theses at Wittenberg,
Germany, launching the Protestant
Reformation |
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| Death
of Montezuma (also given as Moctezuma,
Motecuhzoma), presaging defeat
of the Aztec Empire by Spain |
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| Exile
of James II and start of the 'Glorious
Revolution' in Britain |
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| United
States Declaration of Independence
from Britain |
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| Battle
of Waterloo, when Napoleon, returning
from exile in Elba, was defeated
by the coalition armies of Britain,
Prussia and other European allies |
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| The
Meiji Restoration in Japan, ending
the Tokugawa era |
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| Atomic
bombs dropped on Hiroshima and
Nagasaki, Japan |
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| Independence
of India and Pakistan from the
British Empire |
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| Note:
the science fiction guru Arthur
C. Clarke once remarked that:
'Apollo [the American lunar programme]
may be the only achievement by
which our age is remembered a
thousand years from now'. Yet
how many today remember this date? |
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| European-style
dating of the American '9/11'
Destruction of New York's Twin
Towers by al-Qaeda |
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