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History

Dates We Should Remember

 

 

Date Event
8000 BC Jericho founded
2340 BC Sargon's empire
1730 BC Hammurabi's Reign (Code of Hammurabi)
1473 BC Hatshepsut wife of Thutmose II mother of III declared self a pharaoh
1382-1344 B.C Amenhotep introduced worship of Aten
1279 BC Moses and the Exodus
1183 BC Traditional date for the fall of Troy defeat of the Trojans by the Myceneans
970 BC King Solomon built Temple in Jerusalem
800 BC Carthage founded by Phoenicians (Philistines from Tyre)
624 BC Buddha born
551 BC Confucius born
490 BC Battle of Marathon  battle fought on the Marathon plain of northeastern Attica in which the Athenians under Miltiades, in a single afternoon, repulsed the first Persian invasion of Greece
480 BC Battle of Salamis:  Leonidas at Thermopylae-Xerxes’ invasion and flight
480 and 460 BC Cincinnatus   farmer and soldier called from the fields to defend Rome
480 BC. Themistocles chief saviour of Greece from subjection to the Persian Empire at the Battle of Salamis
474 BC Publication of the Twelve Tables of Law
 469 BC - 399 BC  Socrates:  Greek philosopher in Athens
 461-429 BC AGE OF PERICLES (Athenians became attached to democracy) speech reported by Thucydides
450 BC Battle of Marathon
413 BC Seige of Syracruse: The defeat of Athens and the passing of her sway
c. 347 BC

Plato:  wrote The Republic  

331 BC The Victory of Arbela:  Alexander the Great:  His conquest of Asia and entry into Babylon
264 BC Roman Republic
202 BC Scipio defeated Hannibal at the Battle of Zama
c. 6 AD Birth of Christ
44 AD Julius Caesar murdered
312 AD 312 AD Constantine consolidated his position as Roman Emperor with his victory at the Malvian Bridge. He attributed his victory to the "Sign of the Cross" which he had seen in the heavens.
410 AD Sack of Rome by Alaric king of the Visogoths
570 A.D Mohammed was born
732 AD Battle of Tours Muslims turned back by Charles Martel
800 AD Charlemagne crowned Holy Roman Emperor
871 AD Alfred the Great king of Wessex
940 AD Brian Boru one of Ireland's greatest leaders
1066 AD William the Conquer defeated Harold at the Battle of Hastings
1096 AD Year of the First Crusade
1215 AD King John signed the Magna Charta
1314 AD Robert the Bruce won the decisive Battle of Bannockburn (1314) and ultimately confirmed Scottish independence in the Treaty of Northampton (1328).
1337 AD Beginning of the 100 years war between England and France  Edward III won 2 great victories at Crecy (1346) and Poitiers
1349 AD First year of the Black Death
1429 AD Joan of Arc led the French army in a momentous victory at Orléans that repulsed an English attempt to conquer France during the Hundred Years' War.
1588 AD Spanish Armada defeated during Queen Elizabeth I reign
1607 AD Settlement of Jamestown
Dec 21, 1620 AD Mayflower landed
1638 AD Louis XIV born Le Roi de Soleil
1653-1658 AD English Civil War and then Commonwealth of Oliver Cromwell

Copyright 1996  These are my own working genealogy files that I share with you.  The errors are my own.  But, perhaps they will give you a starting point.  All original writing is copyrighted.  Webmaster

Copyright 1996  These are my own working genealogy files that I share with you.  The errors are my own.  But, perhaps they will give you a starting point.  All original writing is copyrighted.  Webmaster