Humans living in California and Mexico.

Beginnings of Agriculture in Near East (10,000 B.C.).

Glaciers retreat, migration of Mastodons & Mammoths.

Domestication of sheep (9,000 B.C.).
City and walls of Jericho built (8,000 B.C.).
First cities in the Tigris and Euphrates valleys appear (5,000 B.C.).
Maize first cultivated in Meso-America (4,000 B.C.).

First cultivation of rice in Asia (3,500 B.C.).
Stonehenge used as a ceremonial center. (3,300 B.C.).
Hieroglyphic Writing and Paper made in Egypt (3,200 B.C.).

King Menes founded the first dynasty of Egypt
Agrigulture develops in Mexico

The Great Pyramids built in Egypt (2,500 B.C.).
Myceneans arrive In Greece (1,900 B.C.).
First official Olympic games held (776 B.C.).
Birth of Confucius (551 B.C.).

Punic wars between Rome and Carthage.

Chinese invent gunpowder.
Colosseum in Rome completed (80).

Easter Island statues carved (1000).
Work begins on Notre Dame (1163).
Oxford founded (1170).
Ireland conquered by Henry II of England (1171).

Hundred Years' War between France and England begins (1337).
British attempt first North American settlement (1585).
Shakespeare's "Hamlet" published (1600).

Mayflower lands at Plymouth (1620).
Champlain starts Quebec city (1608).
The "Night Watch" is painted by Rembrandt (1642).

First piano made in Italy (1709).
Smallpox plague kills 14,000 in Paris (1719).
Boston is largest city in British colonies with 12,000 people (1720).
Bering begins to explore Alaska (1728).
Earthquake in Calcutta, India kills 300,000 (1737).

Liberty Bell is hung in Pennsylvania State House (1753).
FrenchIndian War Begins (1754).
British Establish Sovereignty Over India.
U.S. Embargo Act against Britain and France.
U.S. prohibited import of slaves from Africa.
Ben Franklin invents bifocal glasses (1766)
Mason-Dixon line becomes boundary between slave and non-slave owning colonies (1766).
The American Revolutionary War begins (1775).
American Declaration of Independance is signed (1776).
Northwest Ordinance passed by Congress (1788).
Washington D.C. becomes federal capital (1800).

Thomas Jefferson is inaugurated president (1801).
Lousiana Purchase (1803).
Beethoven writes Symphony No. 3 (1803).
Napoleon crowns himself emperor (1804).
Electric telegraph is first demonstrated in Spain (1804).
First typewriter made (1808).
U.S. buys Florida from Spain (1819).
Samuel Morse invents the Morse code (1837).
Photography invented (1839).
Start of Irish potato famine (1845).
Mexican-American war (1846-1848).
California gold rush begins (1849).

Pony Express begins (1860).
Abe Lincoln elected president (1860).
U.S. Civil War (1861-1865).
Slavery is abolished in the United States (1863).
Henri Dunant founds the Red Cross (1864).
Civil Rights Act makes Black Americans citizens of U.S. (1866).
U.S. has coast-to-coast railroad system. (1869).
Suez Canal opens (1869).
First automobiles built in Germany (1885).
Olympic Games revived in Athens (1896).
Spanish-American War (1898).

Panama Canal is opened (1914).
World War I (1914-1918).
The Russian Revolution begins (1917).
Hitler becomes leader of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (1921).
Egypt is declared independent from British and French influence (1922).

Charles Lindbergh flies across Atantic (1927).
Mickey Mouse makes his first appearance (1928).
Wall Street stock market crashes (1929).
Roosevelt begins the New Deal (1933)
Germany invades Poland, starting World War II (1940-1945).
Pearl Harbor bombed by Japan (1941).
Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima to end WWII (1945).
South Africa introduces apartheid (1949).

Korean War (1950-1953).
Hawaii becomes 50th state to the U.S. (1959).
Berlin Wall is built (1961).
Russian is first man to orbit in space (1961).
Cuba missle crisis (1962).
President Kennedy assassinated in Dallas, TX (1963).
War in Vietnam (1964-1975).
U.S. sends troops to Vietnam (1965).
Martin Luther King assassinated (1968).
Man walks on moon (1969).
First successful heart transplant is performed in Utah (1982).
The space shuttle Challenger explodes after lift-off (1986).
The Chernobyl nuclear plant in the Ukraine explodes (1986).
East and West Germany are united as one country (1990).