tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19979698401843178642024-02-20T02:41:20.562-08:00Historystack BlogThe best timelines from Historystack projectAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13626402926818216595noreply@blogger.comBlogger25125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1997969840184317864.post-7049308396183390442018-04-05T12:37:00.001-07:002018-04-05T12:37:00.885-07:00French campaign in Egypt and Syria<ul id='eventslist'>
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<div class="date">May 19, 1798 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1504/23992901700_c25fb50ff9.jpg">A French armada of 335 ships carrying nearly 40,000 men set sail for Alexandria, Egypt, which <a href="https://historystack.com/French_campaign_in_Egypt_and_Syria">Napoleon plans to conquer</a></div>
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<div class="date">July 1, 1798 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1710/24207974781_565c408aee.jpg">Shortly after disembarkment at Alexandria forces of Napoleon Bonaparte break into the city of Alexandria in Egypt and takes it</div>
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<div class="date">July 21, 1798 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm1.staticflickr.com/523/18737796038_c6196d0f5f.jpg">Napoleon Bonaparte defeats Murad Bey and his Mameluke warriors on the outskirts of Cairo at the Battle of the Pyramids ending 700 years of Mamluk rule in Egypt</div>
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<div class="date">August 1, 1798 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1695/23920072969_b438b5d840.jpg">Admiral Horatio Nelson's fleet of 14 ships routes the French fleet capturing six and destroying seven of the 17 French vessels in the Battle of the Nile at Aboukir Bay, Egypt</div>
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<div class="date">February 10, 1799 </div>
<div class="description"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/64OOkl1JAsA" frameborder="0" height="330" width="100%"></iframe>Napoleon Bonaparte left Cairo for Syria, at the head of 13,000 men, to avoid defend against the Ottoman army and to attack them</div>
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<div class="date">March 7, 1799 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1547/24289135705_18099a9855.jpg">Napoleon Bonaparte captures the Turkish citadel at Jaffa, Palestine and orders the massacre of thousands of imprisoned Muslim soldiers claiming that he could not feed them</div>
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<div class="date">March 20, 1799 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1624/24205652631_5094c4257c.jpg">Napoleon Bonaparte begins the siege of Acre defended by Turks, which becomes the turning point of Napoleon's invasion of Egypt and Syria</div>
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<div class="date">May 20, 1799 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4601/38514693455_8a02719535.jpg">Napoleon Bonaparte orders a withdrawal from his siege of city of Acre in Ottoman Empire due to plague which run through besieging French forces</div>
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<div class="date">1799, July</div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1704/24289044175_a06bd709bd.jpg">Pierre-François Bouchard, a soldier of the Napoleonic expedition to Egypt, discovers Rosetta Stone, a black basalt stone with three texts: the upper one is Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, the middle portion Demotic script, and the lowest Ancient Greek</div>
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<div class="date">July 25, 1799 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1680/24261469446_a005f3f2a5.jpg">On his way back from Syria, Napoleon Bonaparte defeat superior Ottoman forces at Battle of Abukir, which temporarily secures French control over Egypt and makes Napoleon more popular in France</div>
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<div class="date">October 7, 1799 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4684/27616089289_da2dd7a613.jpg">Napoleon returns to France and lands at Saint Raphael, 50 kilometers east of Toulon after his campaign in Egypt and Syria</div>
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<div class="date">March 8, 1801 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4731/25523548438_e5df670b36.jpg">British defeat French at the Second Battle of Abukir driving them out from Abukir</div>
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<div class="date">September 2, 1801 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4728/39363663652_2600443eba.jpg">French garrison at Alexandria surrender to the British after the siege of Alexandria, the last action of the Egyptian Campaign, and are forced to leave Egypt on British ships</div>
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<div class="date">January 4, <a href="https://historystack.com/Year_1717">1717</a> </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4614/39765499701_11e760473f.jpg">The Netherlands, Britain and France sign the Triple Alliance in the Hague to prevent Spain to become a superpower in Europe</div>
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<div class="date">1717</div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4740/24895605527_33e60928a5.jpg">In France John Law proposes a company with exclusive rights to trade with and exploit the resources of the Mississippi territory and to pay down the government's debt from company profits, which becomes the Company of the West</div>
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<div class="date">April 26, 1717 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4659/39733838572_261e6f05a3.jpg">Black Samuel Bellamy, the wealthiest pirate in recorded history, dies at the age of 27 along with 143 others when their ship, the Whydah, sank off of Wellfleet, Cape Cod, sending over 4.1 tonnes of silver and gold to the ocean floor</div>
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<div class="date">June 4, 1717 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4628/38867018755_ae521c3c05_z.jpg">The Freemasons, who begun in the 13th century as a guild of masons, establish their Grand Lodge in London, the oldest Grand Lodge in the world</div>
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<div class="date">August 22, 1717 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4634/27173309329_5a39bdaa90.jpg">The Austrian army under Eugene of Savoy force the Turkish army out of Belgrade, ending the Turkish revival in the Balkans</div>
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<div class="date">1717</div>
<div class="description"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/XLThLZvqPdk" frameborder="0" height="330" width="100%"></iframe>The Mississippi Scheme, an attempt to hold a business monopoly in French colonies in North America and the West Indies, leads to increased settlement in Louisiana</div>
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<div class="date">1717</div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4752/27987831859_a43b5cdd78.jpg">Dzungar tribes of Mongolia invade Tibet starting a period of internal strife and civil war</div>
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<div class="date">1717</div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5348/17821372539_973fc50867.jpg">Voltaire, a French Enlightenment writer, is imprisoned in the Bastille, a fortress in Paris used as a state prison by the kings of France, for criticizing the French aristocracy</div>
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<div class="date">December 25, 1717 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4770/25894324548_8d557f3309.jpg">A northwesterly storm, which hit the coast area of the Netherlands, Germany and Scandinavia, results in approximately 14,000 drowned people</div>
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</ul>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13626402926818216595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1997969840184317864.post-5322373491928747152018-01-02T10:41:00.001-08:002018-01-02T10:41:04.968-08:00Fyodor Pirotsky<ul id='eventslist'>
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<div class="date">February 17, 1845 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1477/23792881923_abbe8dd78d_z.jpg"><a href='https://historystack.com/Fyodor_Pirotsky'>Fyodor Apollonovich Pirotsky</a>, a Ukrainian-born inventor and engineer, is born in family of Ukrainian Cossacks ancestry in Lokhvytsia Uezd of Poltava Gubernia, modern-day Ukraine</div>
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<div class="date">1871</div>
<div class="description">Russian engineer Fyodor Pirotsky develops a new type of blast furnace</div>
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<div class="date">February 17, 1875 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1642/24393405776_08a1abecbc.jpg">Fyodor Pirotsky puts electrically powered railway cars running on isolated from the ground and working as conductors rails on the Sestroretsks railway Miller's line in Russian Empire</div>
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<div class="date">May 16, 1881 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm1.staticflickr.com/777/23163862729_36e9710ae0.jpg">World's first electric tram, invented and made of two-decker horse tramway by Ukrainian-born Russian engineer Fyodor Pirotsky, goes into service in Saint Petersburg, Russia</div>
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<div class="date">1881</div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4647/38257330425_67061a472a_z.jpg">Fyodor Pirotsky meets with German entrepreneur Carl Heinrich von Siemens to discuss regular electric transportation</div>
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<div class="date">February 28, 1898 </div>
<div class="description"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/nMVKKJWPmIw" frameborder="0" height="330" width="100%"></iframe>Fyodor Pirotsky, inventor of the world's first electric tram, dies in poverty and is buried on a credit secured by the furniture in the town of Aleshki, now Ukraine</div>
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August 29, 1526 </div>
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<iframe frameborder="0" height="330" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/Um3hDVl5q3E" width="100%"></iframe>Turkish forces of Suleiman the Magnificent defeat the Hungarian forces and kill Hungarian King Louis II at the Battle of Mohács, which leads to the partition of Hungary for several centuries, which becomes the first clash <a href="https://historystack.com/Ottoman-Habsburg_Wars">between house of Habsburg and Ottoman Empire</a></div>
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October 15, 1529 </div>
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<img src="https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8671/16809018612_17faf8c19e.jpg" />Ottoman armies under Suleiman end their unsuccessful siege of Vienna and head back to Belgrade, which marks the peak of Ottoman Empire with the Turks settled in Buda on the left bank of the Danube</div>
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May 19, 1565 </div>
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<img src="https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4586/38798717631_3fee4bcdd6.jpg" />The Turkish army of 40,000 men under Suleyman the Magnificent begin 5-month siege of the Knights of Malta, led by Grand Master Jean de la Valette with 2,500 troops at their garrison Fort Saint Elmo</div>
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September 8, 1565 </div>
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<img src="https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4515/38798935701_3ca36afc9a.jpg" />The Hospitallers defeat the Ottoman Empire at the Siege of Malta halting the westward advance of Islam in the Mediterranean</div>
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October 7, 1571 </div>
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<img src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7610/16906473522_5050a405e8.jpg" />Spanish, Venetian and Papal ships of the Holy League under command of Spain's Don Juan de Austria destroys an Ottoman fleet in the naval Battle of Lepanto, the last great clash of galleys</div>
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March 7, 1573 </div>
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<img src="https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4548/38235903054_d5a76433c2.jpg" />Venice and Turkey sign treaty whereby Venice surrenders Cyprus and pays Turkey a large indemnity</div>
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July 29, 1593 </div>
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<img src="https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4551/37913419545_fe214eb3ce.jpg" />The Long War between the Habsburg monarchy and the Ottoman Turks starts since Sinan Pasha's campaign for the Principalities of Wallachia, Transylvania and Moldavia</div>
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May 1, 1648 </div>
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<img src="https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4567/24927402918_8d84022382.jpg" />The Ottomans begin the Siege of Candia in order to capture Crete from the Venetians</div>
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April 18, 1663 </div>
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<img src="https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4550/27024997809_6c9ce2eceb.jpg" />Osman declares war on Austria beginning Austro-Turkish War</div>
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August 1, 1664 </div>
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<img src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7787/16772686483_6be8afccea.jpg" />The Turkish army is defeated by French and German troops in Battle of St. Gotthard, Hungary, which becomes the key episode of the Austro–Turkish War of 1663–64</div>
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September 26, 1669 </div>
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<img src="https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8758/16771712994_16071bbb75.jpg" />The island of Crete, being 465 years as a colony of Venice, fell to the Ottoman Turks after Siege of Candia, the longest siege in history</div>
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September 12, 1683 </div>
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<iframe frameborder="0" height="330" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/DnPuWZstN1o" width="100%"></iframe>A combined Austrian and Polish army defeat the Ottoman Turks in Battle of Vienna and lift the siege on Vienna in Austria which becomes the turning point in the Ottoman–Habsburg wars and finishes the Ottoman Empire's hegemony in south-eastern Europe</div>
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August 12, 1687 </div>
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<img src="https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4644/38919212452_711990bbcf.jpg" />At the Battle of Mohács, Hungary, the forces of Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I, commanded by Charles of Lorraine defeated the Turks</div>
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September 11, 1697 </div>
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<iframe frameborder="0" height="330" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/C2383cZ7zS8" width="100%"></iframe>Prince Eugene of Savoy leads the Austrians to victory over the Ottoman Turks at Zenta, Serbia, which becomes one of the most decisive defeats in Ottoman history</div>
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January 26, 1699 </div>
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<img src="https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4534/27034922359_fe940edea5.jpg" />The Treaty of Karlowitz ends Great Turkish War marking the end of Ottoman control in much of Central Europe and establishing the Habsburg Monarchy as the dominant power in central and southeast Europe</div>
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August 22, 1717 </div>
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<img src="https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4634/27173309329_5a39bdaa90.jpg" />The Austrian army under Eugene of Savoy force the Turkish army out of Belgrade, ending the Turkish revival in the Balkans</div>
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August 4, 1791 </div>
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<img src="https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4584/38239776164_056585f5b5.jpg" />The chief item in the Peace of Sistova agreement between the Austrian Empire and Ottoman Empire returns of Belgrade, taken in 1789 by the Holy Roman emperor Joseph II, to Turkey</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13626402926818216595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1997969840184317864.post-2061673324055273112017-06-05T21:21:00.001-07:002017-06-05T21:21:12.714-07:0020 Best Castles Ever<ul id='eventslist'>
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<div class="date">1078</div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4170/34230711050_5fec4de442.jpg">William the Conqueror begins the construction of the Tower of London on the north bank of the River Thames to fortify key position, making foundation of one of <a href="https://historystack.com/25_Best_Castles_in_the_World">the most famous castles</a> in the World</div>
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<div class="date">1144</div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4181/33807784983_cb397a43dd.jpg">The Knights Hospitallers begin expanding a fortress 140 kilometers northwest of Damascus known as Krak des Chevaliers</div>
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<div class="date">1150</div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4155/34240381900_0cbcc74e59.jpg">Edinburgh Castle, one of the most important strongholds in the Kingdom of Scotland, is built upon the plug of an extinct volcano by the king David I</div>
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<div class="date">1157</div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4169/33806640954_25f1fed3d1.jpg">Eltz Castle, one of three castles in Rhineland-Palatinate which have never been destroyed, is built on a 70-metre rock spur in Koblenz, Germany, by the Eltz family</div>
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<div class="date">1190</div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4165/34582992186_f47ca0bdee.jpg">The King of Castile Alfonso VIII starts rebuilding of a Muslim wooden fort on a rocky crag in Segovia into a stone castle and makes it a royal residence</div>
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<div class="date">1200 ± 10</div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4157/33807933853_44bab88344.jpg">King John's Castle is built on King's Island in Limerick, Ireland by order King John of England</div>
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<div class="date">1202</div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4177/34618198225_204fc9d2f6.jpg">The Predjama Castle is built at the mouth of a huge cave at Postojna, Slovenia</div>
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<div class="date">1213</div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4161/33845781493_e18297332a.jpg">Kilkenny Castle is built by the Anglo-Normans in Ireland to control a fording-point of the River Nore</div>
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<div class="date">1250</div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4179/33846740703_d1717a7be5.jpg">Cité de Carcassonne, an ancient Roman citadel on a hill on the right bank of the River Aude, France, is reinforced and extended by French government, becoming a strong frontier between France and the Crown of Aragon</div>
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<div class="date">1289</div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4191/34487014331_50e4af5411.jpg">Conwy Castle, a medieval fortification in Conwy, Wales, is built as part of the extensive program of castle-building initiated by Edward I after his conquest of Wales</div>
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<div class="date">1385</div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4171/34583291146_a8346f931d.jpg">Sir Edward Dalyngrigge, a former knight of Edward III, builds, with the permission of Richard II, a castle known as Bodiam Castle in East Sussex, in order to defend the area against French invasion during the Hundred Years' War</div>
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<div class="date">1406</div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4193/34575368686_c0075d828e.jpg">Malbork Castle, the largest castle in the world by surface area, is completed by the Teutonic Knights in Marienburg, the administrative center of the Order in Prussia</div>
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<div class="date">1452</div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8622/16729913291_e46772e788.jpg">Ottoman Sultan Mehmet II begins construction of a new fortress called Rumeli Hisar on the Constantinople side of the Bosporus in order to control the sea traffic on the Bosphorus strait</div>
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<div class="date">1520</div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4177/33836924923_f4e1c694ec.jpg">The fortified monastery on Mont Saint-Michel, an island commune in Normandy, is completed, becoming one of the most recognizable landmarks in France</div>
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<div class="date">1547</div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4172/34239421850_6228ca6c32.jpg">Château de Chambord, the largest château in the Loire Valley and one of the most famous ones in France is built at the behest of the king of France Francis I </div>
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<div class="date">1586</div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4157/33803549254_c638bed121.jpg">George Khevenhüller, a Carinthian nobleman, who purchased Hochosterwitz Castle on a high rock in Duchy of Carinthia, modern-day Austria, fortifies it to defend the region against Turkish invasions</div>
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<div class="date">1609</div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7668/17343947376_90f9b6a3b4.jpg">Himeji Castle, a hilltop Japanese castle located in Himeji, Japan is completely rebuilt into a large castle complex by Japanese daimyo Ikeda Terumasa</div>
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<div class="date">1857</div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4157/34240033720_5a32273950.jpg">Schwerin Palace, a palatial castle in Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, is built by architect Georg Adolph Demmler</div>
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<div class="date">1867</div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4161/33812103464_d0cc636061.jpg">Construction on the third Hohenzollern Castle, the seat of the House of Hohenzollern, is completed by Hohenzollern scion Frederick William IV of Prussia atop Berg Hohenzollern, a 234-metre bluff</div>
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<div class="date">1882</div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm1.staticflickr.com/255/19321788321_5ce848e800.jpg">Neuschwanstein Castle, a Romanesque Revival palace in southwest Bavaria, Germany, is completed by Ludwig II of Bavaria</div>
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</ul>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13626402926818216595noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1997969840184317864.post-8127273161011447492017-05-08T22:32:00.001-07:002017-05-08T22:32:13.740-07:0020 Most Important Events in Earth's History<ul id='eventslist'>
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<div class="date">4.560 Billion Years Ago</div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3884/15214410221_5c8a845a76.jpg">The <a href="https://historystack.com/30_Major_Events_in_History_of_the_Earth">planet Earth</a> forms from the protoplanetary disk of dust grains and rocks attracting by the force of gravity at the outer edge of the habitable zone in the accretion disc revolving around the young Sun</div>
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<div class="date">4.533 Billion Years Ago</div>
<div class="description"><iframe src="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/hWIb_yzVHp8" frameborder="0" height="330" width="100%"></iframe>Planet Earth and the hypothesized protoplanet Theia collide sending large number of moonlets into orbit around the Earth which eventually coalesce to form the Moon</div>
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<div class="date">3.6 Billion Years Ago</div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3887/15036694180_8b1f07496a.jpg">Prokaryotes, the first simple cells without nucleus and mitochondria, that use carbon dioxide as a carbon source and oxidize inorganic materials to extract energy, appear, probably in deep-sea thermal vents or atmosphere</div>
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<div class="date">2.9 Billion Years Ago</div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5605/15778563665_1a2716e831.jpg">Photosynthesizing cyanobacteria, which use water and carbon dioxide as a reducing agent and produce oxygen as waste product, evolve, creating the oxygen-rich atmosphere</div>
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<div class="date">2.1 Billion Years Ago</div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7575/15782460545_107acec04a.jpg">Eukaryotes, complex cells which contain nucleus enclosed within membranes, derive from prokaryotes via fusion of some cells and free-living bacteria, which become mitochondria and start providing energy to the cell by converting sugars</div>
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<div class="date">1.2 Billion Years Ago</div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5574/15205512496_ea192d58a5.jpg">First simple multicellular organisms, mostly consisting of cell colonies of limited complexity, evolve independently in some groups of single cells, which allows organisms to exceed the size limits</div>
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<div class="date">580 Million Years Ago</div>
<div class="description">The accumulation of atmospheric oxygen allows the formation of an ozone layer, which blocks ultraviolet radiation, permitting the colonisation of the land</div>
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<div class="date">540 Million Years Ago</div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5613/15599655869_3eb1bfe404.jpg">The Cambrian explosion, the relatively rapid, lasting 70 million years, appearance of most major animal phyla accompanied by major diversification of organisms, begins</div>
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<div class="date">435 Millions Years Ago</div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5606/15791929365_4c1912cd80.jpg">The first primitive plants move onto land and rapidly diversify, having evolved from green algae living along the edges of lakes</div>
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<div class="date">365 Million Years Ago</div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8274/15176196554_98c26b43a7.jpg">First amphibians, four-limbed backboned tetrapods, evolve from the lobe-finned fishes, gradually gaining adaptations, such as lungs and nares, which will help them occupy land and give rise to reptiles and mammals</div>
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<div class="date">320 Million Years Ago</div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2897/33112786343_b88309cfb0.jpg">The first reptiles evolve from advanced reptiliomorph labyrinthodonts, a newt-like amphibians that gain scaly skin and begin laying eggs with hard shells outside the water</div>
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<div class="date">220 Millions Years Ago</div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7507/15177100843_53e9ba03aa.jpg">Adelobasileus, the first known mammal, which resembles modern rats and has sweat glands, including those that are specialized to produce milk to nourish their young, evolves from reptiles called cynodonts</div>
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<div class="date">200 Million Years Ago</div>
<div class="description"><iframe src="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/5OvgdCKcjQc" frameborder="0" height="330" width="100%"></iframe>Pangaea, the large supercontinent, begins to rift into two continents: Laurasia, which contains North America and Eurasia, and other supercontinent - Gondwana, containing Africa, South America, India, Antarctica, and Australia</div>
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<div class="date">199,6 Million Years Ago</div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm1.staticflickr.com/368/19743671356_5ac7b55730.jpg"><a href="https://historystack.com/Extinction_Events">Triassic-Jurassic extinction event</a> wipes out twenty percent of all marine families and all large non-dinosaurian archosaurs other than crocodilians on land, leaving the dinosaurs the dominant land animals</div>
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<div class="date">155 Million Years Ago</div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7537/15176737994_87dd7f5964_z.jpg">Archaeopteryx, one of the first birds and transitional fossil between feathered dinosaurs and modern birds, appears following evolution of some other early birds, such as Anchiornis and Aurornis</div>
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<div class="date">130 Million Years Ago</div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3945/33126448763_3dc9b22858.jpg">The first flowering plants, whose boast structures attract insects and other animals to spread pollen, which causes a major burst of animal evolution through co-evolution, appear</div>
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<div class="date">65.5 Million Years Ago</div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3836/15046255397_de0bd58d19.jpg">An asteroid 10 kilometers in diameter falls on the coast of Yucatán in Mexico and causes the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event with eradicating about half of all animal species, including the dinosaurs but excluding their descendants, the birds</div>
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<div class="date">65 Million Years Ago</div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2929/33561389080_ea87a80c91.jpg">Purgatorius, a rat-sized placental mammal with mass about 40 grams, becomes the earliest example of a primate or a proto-primate, giving rise to monkeys, apes and humans</div>
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<div class="date">2.5 Million Years Ago</div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3897/15015152979_7596230be1.jpg">Homo habilis, the earliest known species of the genus Homo, evolves from Hominidae in East Africa, beginning usage of primitive stone tools for hunting and work</div>
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<div class="date">200 Thousand Years Ago</div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5558/15048909629_4a1022aff3.jpg">Anatomically modern human, who has more gracile frames, reduced brow ridges and vertical forehead, evolve from archaic Homo sapiens in East Africa</div>
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The first blog is hosted on Dreamwidth platform, which have simple design, but allows easily to add images and embedded elements. Here is <a href="http://alexandermorz.dreamwidth.org/">an example of a nice blog</a> that contains a lot of curious information. This blog is written by a friend of our, Alex Morz.<br />
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Of course, you know that the most popular blog platform in the Internet is Wordpress. There is also <a href="https://historystack.wordpress.com/">a very good account on Wordpress</a> which we want to recommend. We have already shared with you a wonderful historical resource. It is a blog that posts <a href="http://today-in-history-timeline.blogspot.com/">information about this day</a> in form of timeline every day. Enjoy reading every morning about the crucial moments occurred on the day.<br />
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Another blog platform is Weebly, which lets to experiment with design and easily combine a post full of media information. This is <a href="http://historystack.weebly.com/">a wonderful example of a blog</a> implemented on this platform. The blog explains information about very wide rage of topics: from Islam to Haiti Revolution.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13626402926818216595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1997969840184317864.post-14790035467765255572017-03-30T12:01:00.001-07:002017-03-30T12:01:02.044-07:00Ethiopian Empire<ul id='eventslist'>
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<div class="date">1137</div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm1.staticflickr.com/742/32574129875_b051c89990.jpg">Mara Takla Haymanot overthrows the last ruler of Axumite dynasty, founded by Jewish queen Gudit 40 years before, and starts the Zagwe dynasty, the first dynasty in <a href='http://historystack.com/Ethiopian_Empire'>Empire of Ethiopia</a></div>
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<div class="date">1150 ± 50</div>
<div class="description">The Kebra Negast, an Ethiopian text claiming that the Queen of Sheba came from Ethiopia to see Solomon and that he tricked her into sleeping with him and bearing him a son, appears</div>
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<div class="date">1197</div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5753/29624361943_56abf447fd_z.jpg">Lalibela Cross, a large and elaborately decorated processional cross, is made from one piece of metal in Ethiopia</div>
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<div class="date">1270</div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm1.staticflickr.com/528/31771472993_a67847d983.jpg">Solomonic dynasty, whose members claimed patrilineal descent from King Solomon of Israel, is founded in Ethiopia by Yekuno Amlak, a member of the Habesha people, from whom Abyssinia gets its name</div>
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<div class="date">April 9, 1520 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm1.staticflickr.com/662/31738429223_df34339e83_z.jpg">The first European diplomatic mission to Ethiopia, sent by the Portuguese, arrives at Massawa, followed by their arrival at the imperial encampment of Emperor Dawit II in Shewa on 9 October</div>
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<div class="date">March 9, 1529 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm1.staticflickr.com/339/32574034525_57a5c355a3.jpg">Imam Ahmad Gragn defeats the Ethiopian Emperor Dawit II in the Battle of Shimbra Kure, the opening clash of the Ethiopian–Adal War</div>
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<div class="date">1557</div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm1.staticflickr.com/706/32575495275_5097c80a5c.jpg">The Ottomans capture Massawa, a city on the Red Sea coast of Eritrea, isolating Ethiopia from the rest of the world</div>
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<div class="date">1636</div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm1.staticflickr.com/279/32533076266_2196f3e650.jpg">Emperor Fasilides founds the city of Gondar, which becomes the capital of Ethiopia for the next two centuries</div>
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<div class="date">May 7, 1769 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm1.staticflickr.com/395/32196498610_d09449d044.jpg">Zemene Mesafint, or Princes era, a period in Ethiopia, when the empire was divided into several regions with no effective central control, begins since the overthrow of Emperor Iyoas</div>
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<div class="date">April 13, 1868 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm1.staticflickr.com/569/31739815493_dc1ef8cdfb_z.jpg">Tewodros II, Emperor of Ethiopia, commits suicide with a pistol presented him by Queen Victoria at Magdala as the British troops storm the citadel</div>
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<div class="date">January 26, 1887 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm1.staticflickr.com/347/31762490773_c1cd204213.jpg">Abyssinian Emperor Yohannes IV defeats Italians in the Battle of Dogali</div>
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<div class="date">March 10, 1889 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm1.staticflickr.com/440/32452326841_bc1e8dab4a.jpg">In Ethiopia Emperor Yohannes IV is killed in a war against the dervishes during the Battle of Gallabat</div>
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<div class="date">March 25, 1895 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm1.staticflickr.com/776/32422699932_1617be5aa4.jpg">Italian troops invade Abyssinia, starting First Italo-Ethiopian War</div>
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<div class="date">December 8, 1895 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm1.staticflickr.com/407/32534033586_3f4fe55e44_c.jpg">Ethiopian emperor Menelik II drives Italian General Baratieri out in Battle of Amba Alagi during the First Italo–Ethiopian War</div>
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<div class="date">March 1, 1896 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm1.staticflickr.com/376/20181179700_1eb72aec7e.jpg">Ethiopia defeats Italy at the Battle of Adwa during the First Italo-Ethiopian War and ensures the first victory of an African state over a European colonial power</div>
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<div class="date">November 2, 1930 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm1.staticflickr.com/694/20831328231_cbff879e67_z.jpg">Haile Selassie, a defining figure in both Ethiopian and African history and the messiah in the Rastafari movement, is crowned Haile Selassie I, the 225th emperor of Solmonic Dynasty in Abyssinia</div>
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<div class="date">October 2, 1935 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5797/21070674702_ea99b8604b.jpg">Italy invades Abyssinia, today Ethiopia, beginning Second Italo-Abyssinian War, which concluded with the exile of Emperor of Ethiopia Haile Selassie and the conquest of Abyssinia by Benito Mussolini</div>
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<div class="date">May 9, 1936 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm1.staticflickr.com/692/32202922960_4c187cc4e0.jpg">Italy takes Addis Ababa, annexing Abyssinia and incorporates it with Italian Somaliland and Italian Eritrea into the new colony of Italian East Africa</div>
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<div class="date">August 27, 1942 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm1.staticflickr.com/430/32582163395_acc2e202c7.jpg">Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia ends slavery imposing severe penalties, including death, for slave trading</div>
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<div class="date">June 26, 1945 </div>
<div class="description">United Nations Charter, the foundational treaty of the United Nations, is signed by 50 nations in San Francisco, California, United States</div>
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<div class="date">September 12, 1974 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm1.staticflickr.com/460/32459766251_4e990067a5.jpg">A Soviet-backed Marxist-Leninist military junta, the "Derg" led by Mengistu Haile Mariam, depose Emperor Haile Selassie and establish communist state known as People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia</div>
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<div class="description"><img src="https://farm1.staticflickr.com/732/21155063006_7a18448fb5.jpg">Hello, everyone! We are glad to introduce to you <a href='http://today-in-history-timeline.blogspot.com'>our new project</a>. It is wonderful timeline for this very day. Every day you can read about the best evets that happened in the past. Enjoy reading!/div>
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<div class="date">2700 BC</div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1717/23662999034_001528bd8b.jpg">One of the <a href="http://historystack.com/Minoan_Civilization">earliest known civilizations in the Aegean world</a>, the Minoan civilization, rise on the island of Crete beginning the period of flourishing</div>
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<div class="date">2000 BC</div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3712/18214147324_4fba4497b1.jpg">The first palace of Phaistos is built in south central Crete by Minoan civilization</div>
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<div class="date">1900 BC</div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm1.staticflickr.com/289/32821646882_58f5b989fe.jpg">The potter's wheel is introduced in Minoan civilization, making designs of ceramic more free and graceful</div>
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<div class="date">1900 BC</div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5559/18649087888_f289853f84.jpg">The first palace in the ancient city of Knossos, which considered as Europe's oldest city, is built by Minoan civilization on Crete</div>
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<div class="date">1700 BC</div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7678/16653727933_44fb8c7f1d.jpg">Naturalistic forms such as fish, squid, birds, and lilies in Minoan pottery decoration becomes common</div>
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<div class="date">1627 BC</div>
<div class="description">An eruption of the volcano Thera in the Aegean Sea devastates the island of Thera including the Minoan settlement at Akrotiri and generates 150 m high tsunami that devastates the Minoan coastal settlements on the island of Crete</div>
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<div class="date">1600 BC</div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8647/15835429819_eda2828a61.jpg">Bull-Leaping Fresco, a stucco panel on east wall of the palace at Knossos in Crete, a striking example of Minoan Civilization art, is created</div>
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<div class="date">1600 BC</div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5671/23444168645_430c0da7de.jpg">The Phaistos Disc, a disk of terracotta 16 cm in diameter covered on both sides with a spiral of stamped symbols, is made for the Minoan palace of Phaistos on the Greek island of Crete</div>
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<div class="date">1550 BC</div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7581/15844670457_bfbe7a8c0a.jpg">Rise of <a href='http://historystack.com/Mycenaean_Civilization'>Mycenaean</a> Civilization in mainland Greece begins under influences from Minoan Crete</div>
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<div class="date">1450 BC</div>
<div class="description"><iframe src="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/zRFJg_Xunnw" frameborder="0" height="330" width="100%"></iframe>Mycenaean Greeks conquer and replace Minoan Civilization on Crete</div>
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<div class="date">1899</div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2349/32976044975_36b7e49611.jpg">Sir Arthur Evans discovers the center of Minoan civilization on the island of Crete</div>
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<div class="date">March 16, 1900 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7073/26397855933_dac0f3bfba.jpg">English archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans finds old city of Knossus</div>
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<div class="date">200 Thousand Years Ago</div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5558/15048909629_4a1022aff3.jpg"><a href="http://historystack.com/Anatomically_Modern_Human">Anatomically modern human</a>, who has more gracile frames, reduced brow ridges and vertical forehead, evolve from archaic Homo sapiens in East Africa</div>
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<div class="date">70 Thousand Years Ago</div>
<div class="description">Anatomically modern humans leave Africa and start colonising the other continents, replacing the Neanderthals in Europe and other hominins in Asia</div>
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<div class="date">50 Thousand Years Ago</div>
<div class="description">Homo sapiens start colonising South Asia, replacing other hominins there</div>
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<div class="date">40 Thousand Years Ago</div>
<div class="description">Homo sapiens migrate to Australia and Europe, replacing the Neanderthals</div>
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<div class="date">32 Thousand Years Ago</div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7522/15804851605_9b47ff9419.jpg">Neanderthals extinct in Europe as a result of competition with modern humans, who moves into their habitat</div>
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<div class="date">June 8, 632 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm1.staticflickr.com/360/31532707500_d52c5fbf7e.jpg">Mohammed, the founder of Islam and unifier of Arabia, dies, and Abu Bakr, his father-in-law, becomes first Caliph during Rashidun Caliphate, the term comprising <a href='http://historystack.com/Rashidun_Caliphate'>the first four caliphs in Islam's history</a></div>
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<div class="date">August 22, 634 </div>
<div class="description">Abu Bakr, successor of Mohammed and first Caliph, dies; Umar, a companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, becomes the second Caliph</div>
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<div class="date">634</div>
<div class="description">Byzantium city of Damascus is captured by the Muslims</div>
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<div class="date">August 15, 636 </div>
<div class="description"><iframe src="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/vJINgsdfswM" frameborder="0" height="330" width="100%"></iframe>At the Battle at Yarmuk Islamic forces under Khalid ibn al-Walid beat a Byzantine army under Emperor Heraclius and gain control of Syria and Palestine</div>
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<div class="date">638</div>
<div class="description">Caliph Umar ibn al-Khattab gives an assurance of safety to the people of Jerusalem</div>
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<div class="date">639</div>
<div class="description">Islamic armies invade Egypt</div>
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<div class="date">641</div>
<div class="description">Founding of Fustat near Cairo, the first capital of Egypt under muslim rule</div>
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<div class="date">November 8, 641 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7303/16418705195_b18e52a48e.jpg">After a fourteen month siege Muslims take Alexandria from Byzantine Empire completing the conquests of Egypt</div>
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<div class="date">642</div>
<div class="description">Muslim Arabs invade Armenia and capture Dvin, its principal town, slaughtered 12,000 of its inhabitants</div>
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<div class="date">642</div>
<div class="description">Islamic forces decisively defeat Persians at the battle of Nihawand completing the conquest of the Sassanid Empire</div>
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<div class="date">642</div>
<div class="description">The library at Alexandria, Egypt, disappears completely</div>
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<div class="date">November 7, 644 </div>
<div class="description">Caliph Umar, one of the most powerful caliphs of the Rashidun Caliphate, dies after being stabbed by Pirouz Nahavandi while the morning prayer three days before</div>
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<div class="date">December 14, 644 </div>
<div class="description">Uthman ibn Affan, one of the companions of Islamic prophet Muhammad, is appointed the third Caliph by council</div>
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<div class="date">650</div>
<div class="description">Zayd ibn Thabit, the personal scribe of Muhammad, with a group of some scribes complete the compilation of Muhammad's revelations into one work called the Koran</div>
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<div class="date">650</div>
<div class="description">Babylonian Talmud, a compilation of documents compiled over the period of Late Antiquity, is finalized in Mesopotamia</div>
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<div class="date">651</div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7429/16418036532_3ab8cf398b.jpg">Sassanid king Yazdegerd III is assassinated by local miller while his attempt to flee from Merv, marking end of Sassanid Dynasty in Persia</div>
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<div class="date">June 20, 656 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm1.staticflickr.com/375/31881122916_8b526a622e.jpg">Caliph Uthman ibn Affan is assassinated, thus Ali becomes caliph</div>
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<div class="date">November 7, 656 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm1.staticflickr.com/434/31078104254_2b3dea9315_z.jpg">Rashidun Caliphate beats rebel forces at the Battle of the Camel, the first battle of First Islamic Civil War</div>
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<div class="date">July 26, 657 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm1.staticflickr.com/357/31108799393_e35f13761d.jpg">Battle of Siffin occurs between Governor of Syria Muawiyah I and Rashidun Caliphate during the first Muslim civil war</div>
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<div class="date">January 31, 661 </div>
<div class="description">Muawiyah I, the governor of Levant, founds Umayyad Dynasty in Damascus, after Ali, the last Caliph of Rashidun Caliphate dies, wounded by poison-coated sword while praying in mosque in Iraq three days before, which marks the split of Islam into Sunni and Shi'a branches</div>
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<div class="date">358 BC</div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1473/24792564542_4e7d911dbd_z.jpg"><a href='http://historystack.com/Seleucus_I_Nicator'>Seleucus I Nicator</a>, one of the Diadochi and the founder of the Seleucid Empire, is born in family of Philip II of Macedon's generals in Europos, the northern part of Macedonia</div>
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<div class="date">May, 326 BC</div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7512/16215456815_50a5b19cd9.jpg">Macedonian army under Alexander the Great defeats Indian king Porus at the battle of The Hydaspes River in Punjab, modern-day Pakistan, expanding Alexandrian Empire to its maximum extent</div>
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<div class="date">324 BC, February</div>
<div class="description">Seleucus marries Apama, the Persian princess Apama, at the great marriage ceremony at Susa, arranged by Alexander of Macedon</div>
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<div class="date">June 13, 323 BC </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1713/24523205939_8c6bcd7300.jpg">Alexander the Great dies of fever after a feast in Babylon, which causes wars of the Diadochoi, his generals and friends, in the Empire</div>
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<div class="date">321 BC</div>
<div class="description">After assassination of Perdiccas, the regent of Alexander's empire, during The First War of the Diadochi, and partition of the empire between Perdiccas' opponents, Seleucus is appointed Satrap of Babylon under the new regent Antipater</div>
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<div class="date">312 BC</div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1475/24890991085_441b45e1e2.jpg">Being forced to flee Babylon by Antigonus, Seleucus I Nicator returns to Babylon with the support of Ptolemy I Soter and formally establishes Seleucid Empire in Mesopotamia</div>
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<div class="date">305 BC</div>
<div class="description">Seleucus I Nicator, the Basileus of the Seleucid Empire, founds the city of Seleucia on the Tigris and makes it new capital of the empire, which eventually depopulates Babylon</div>
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<div class="date">305 BC</div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1541/24614780800_b50d7e6611.jpg">Chandragupta Maurya, the first emperor of Mauryan Empire, seizes the satrapies of Paropanisadai, Aria, Arachosia and Gedrosia from Seleucus I Nicator, the Macedonian satrap of Babylonia, in return for 500 elephants</div>
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<div class="date">301 BC</div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1455/24283528303_0ec36717ea.jpg">Antigonus I Monophthalmus, a Macedonian general and satrap under Alexander the Great, is defeated and killed by the united forces of Seleucus and Lysimachus at battle of Ipsus, ending the Fourth War of the Diadochi and confirming dissolution of Alexander's empire</div>
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<div class="date">281 BC</div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1647/24283572303_96911bc621.jpg">Seleucus I Nicator invades Asia Minor and defeats Lysimachus, the King of Macedon and his last rival, in the Battle of Corupedium in Lydia, which leaves him the only living contemporary of Alexander the Great</div>
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<div class="date">281 BC</div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1522/24817202901_e36c7d225f.jpg">Seleucus I Nicator, the founder of the Seleucid Empire, is assassinated by the King of Macedon Ptolemy Ceraunus, and is succeeded by his son Antiochus I as ruler of the Seleucid empire</div>
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</ul>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13626402926818216595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1997969840184317864.post-51531402920390758772016-09-17T23:44:00.001-07:002016-09-17T23:44:27.095-07:00Jean-Jacques Dessalines<ul id='eventslist'>
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<div class="date">September 20, 1758 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1488/24963500075_ce4af683aa.jpg"><a href="http://historystack.com/Jean-Jacques_Dessalines">Jean-Jacques Dessalines</a>, the first ruler of an independent Haiti, is born and named after his owner Jean-Jacques Duclos, in Guinea</div>
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<div class="date">August 22, 1791 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3688/18914133815_acf2f8ea16.jpg">Haitian Revolution, the only slave revolt which led to the founding of a state, begins in the French colony of Saint-Domingue</div>
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<div class="date">May 6, 1794 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1677/24667566670_950b5affc0_z.jpg">After the French declared an end to slavery, Toussaint Louverture, Haitian rebel leader, ends his alliance with the Iberian monarchy and embraces the French Republicans</div>
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<div class="date">1801</div>
<div class="description">Dessalines cruelly supresses an insurrection in the north led by Toussaint Louverture's nephew, General Moyse</div>
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<div class="date">March 22, 1802 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1449/24659046880_91e888cc19.jpg">After a 20-day siege Dessalines and his 1,300 men are forced to abandon strategically important Crete-a-Pierrot fort and go into the Cahos Mountains through the enemy lines being largely intact</div>
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<div class="date">1802, October</div>
<div class="description">After the betrayal and capture of Toussaint Louverture and re-establishment slavery in Guadeloupe by France, Dessalines becomes the leader of the revolution</div>
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<div class="date">November 18, 1803 </div>
<div class="description">Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Haitian rebel leader, leads his army to decisive victory over the French at the Battle of Vertieres, the last major battle of the the Haitian Revolution</div>
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<div class="date">January 1, 1804 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1685/24332658864_7d7f16cc3e.jpg">Jean-Jacques Dessalines declares independence from France and proclaims the Republic of Haiti, making it the only nation in the world established as a result of a successful slave revolt</div>
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<div class="date">April 20, 1804 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1454/24845337232_7dec82f93d.jpg">Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Haitian rebel leader, commands 1804 Haiti Massacre of the French at town of Cape Francois, during which the white Haitians were practically eradicated</div>
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<div class="date">October 8, 1804 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1496/24845194942_7177e53bcc_z.jpg">Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Governor-General of Haiti, crowns himself James I, Emperor of Haiti with the right to name his successor, in the city of Le Cap</div>
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<div class="date">May 20, 1805 </div>
<div class="description">The Imperial Constitution of Haiti, which names Dessalines emperor for life with the right to name his successor, is released</div>
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<div class="date">October 17, 1806 </div>
<div class="description">Jean-Jacques Dessalines, the Emperor of Haiti, is assassinated by members of his administration after a meeting to negotiate the future of the young nation</div>
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<div class="date">July 6, 1415 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8642/16726967855_9624575ffb.jpg"></br>Jan Hus, Bohemian religious reformer who spoken out against Church corruption, is burned as a heretic at the stake at Constance, Germany</div>
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<div class="date">September 1, 1415 </div>
<div class="description">The nobles of Bohemia and Moravia send the protestatio Bohemorum to the Council of Constance, which strongly condemns the execution of Hus</div>
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<div class="date">July 30, 1419 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1638/24910703645_75f9d1b40b_c.jpg">The group of the followers of Jan Hus threw the judge, the burgomaster, and some thirteen council members out of the window of the New Town Hall in Prague triggering <a href="http://historystack.com/Hussite_Wars">Hussite Wars in central Europe</a></div>
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<div class="date">March 1, 1420 </div>
<div class="description">Pope Martin I calls for the first of five crusades against the Hussieten</div>
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<div class="date">March 25, 1420 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1607/24283243934_fd58ee4212_z.jpg">Jan ЕЅiѕka, Czech general and Hussite leader, defeats the Catholic forces at the Battle of Sudomer in southern Bohemia, the first battle of the Hussite wars</div>
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<div class="date">July 14, 1420 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1675/24283917473_99b18e671b.jpg">Hussite forces under command of Jan ЕЅiѕka defeat the forces of Emperor Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor at the Battle of Vitkov Hill, a part of the first anti-Hussite crusade, on the edge of the city of Prague</div>
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<div class="date">1422</div>
<div class="description">Vytautas, the Grand Duke of Lithuania, accepts the crown of Bohemia, offered by Jan ЕЅiѕka, with the condition that the Hussites reunite with the Catholic Church</div>
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<div class="date">August 14, 1431 </div>
<div class="description">Hussite forces led by Prokop the Great defeat a large army of crusaders under Frederick I, Elector of Brandenburg, at the Battle of Domaiѕlice during the fifth anti-Hussite crusade</div>
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<div class="date">May 30, 1434 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1502/24884600446_07d3b90228.jpg">An army of Utraquists and Catholics, called the Bohemian League, defeat the radical Taborites and Orphans, led by Prokop the Great and Prokop the Lesser, who both fell in the battle of of Lipany, which marks the end of the Hussite wars</div>
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<div class="date">July 5, 1436 </div>
<div class="description">An agreement ending the Hussite wars and establishing the Utraquist creed in Bohemia is signed by King Sigismund, by the Hussite delegates, and by the representatives of the Roman Catholic Church at Jihlava, in Moravia</div>
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</ul>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13626402926818216595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1997969840184317864.post-50355668924339358442016-02-13T19:38:00.001-08:002016-02-13T19:49:12.779-08:00Egyptian Obelisks<ul id='eventslist'>
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<div class="date">1950 BC</div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1532/24850293405_81bdc4a607.jpg">The earliest <a href="http://historystack.com/Egyptian_Obelisks">Egyptian obelisk</a> still in its original position is erected by Senusret I at Al-Matariyyah in Heliopolis, near Cairo</div>
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<div class="date">1450 BC</div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1532/24857875895_16e6e4c37f.jpg">The largest ancient Egyptian obelisk, weighing nearly 1,200 tons, is abandoned unfinished at the stone quarries in Aswan due to cracks in the granite</div>
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<div class="date">1200 BC</div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1502/24228399324_ecfc2048e6.jpg">Two red granite monolithic obelisks of different height are erected at the entrance of the Temple of Luxor emphasizing the heights and distance from the wall</div>
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<div class="date">10 BC</div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1629/24563258360_6a21bac7d9.jpg">Flaminio Obelisk, one of the thirteen ancient obelisks in Rome, is taken from the Temple of Sun in Heliopolis, Egypt, and placed on the spina of the Circus Maximus by command of Augustus</div>
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<div class="date">37</div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1474/24826460876_3cc64e684c.jpg">An Egyptian obelisk of red granite, today known as Vatican Obelisk, is moved from the Julian Forum of Alexandria to Rome and placed at the Circus of Nero by order of Emperor Caligula</div>
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<div class="date">1586</div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1445/24858113895_efe5955f5b.jpg">An obelisk that has been brought from Egypt to Rome by the emperor Caligula in AD 37 is erected by Italian architect Domenico Fontana at Saint Peter's Square in Rome</div>
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<div class="date">1829</div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1582/24735950992_4124506ba8.jpg">The Obelisk of Luxor, a gift of the Ottoman viceroy of Egypt, Muhammad Ali, is transported to the Place de la Concorde in Paris</div>
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<div class="date">September 21, 1878 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1502/24828147296_0eb5b3eb99.jpg">The red granite obelisk of Alexandria, known as Cleopatra's Needle, is erected upright at a public park on the Victoria Embankment, London</div>
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<div class="date">February 22, 1881 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1685/24854912755_79694cc485_z.jpg">Cleopatra's Needle, a red granite Egyptian obelisk, made during the reign of pharaoh Thutmose III, is erected in Central Park, New York</div>
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</ul>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13626402926818216595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1997969840184317864.post-6201024591720086542016-01-23T06:56:00.001-08:002016-01-23T06:56:28.635-08:00Twenty-seventh Century BC<ul id='eventslist'>
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<div class="date"><a href="http://historystack.com/27th_Century_BC">2700 BC</a></div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1506/24215924001_76feed0dc7.jpg">Maize is domesticated in the Tehuacan Valley in Mesoamerica</div>
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<div class="date">2700 BC В± 300</div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1717/23662999034_001528bd8b.jpg">One of the earliest known civilizations in the Aegean world, the Minoan civilization, rise on the island of Crete beginning the period of flourishing</div>
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<div class="date">2700 BC</div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1480/24217068911_0c37627dc4.jpg">Minoan Civilization ancient palace city Knossos reach 80,000 inhabitants</div>
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<div class="date">2700 BC</div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1495/23931644159_e04af4a6ba.jpg">Preservation of fish and poultry by drying and salting is invented in Egypt</div>
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<div class="date">2700 BC</div>
<div class="description">Merit-Ptah, an early physician in ancient Egypt, becomes the world's first named woman in medicine and all of science</div>
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<div class="date">2686 BC</div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1477/23681972244_f20fb7126c.jpg">Nebka, an Ancient Egyptian pharaoh, begins to rule in Ancient Egypt, starting Third Dynasty of Egypt and the Old Kingdom</div>
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<div class="date">2675 BC</div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1638/24331180855_160ec6e57f.jpg">Aga of Kish, the last king in the first Dynasty of Kish, is defeated by Gilgamesh of Uruk, the fifth king of that city, marking start of Uruk hegemony in Sumer</div>
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<div class="date">2650 BC</div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm1.staticflickr.com/322/18736344256_8da00ed757.jpg">The first step pyramid in Egypt is built for pharaoh Djoser at Saqqara by his vizier Imhotep, the first known architect</div>
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<div class="date">2650 BC</div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7462/15826108427_c4d5301ca8.jpg">Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors period in China, the first period in history of ancient China, characterized by semi-mythological rulers and considered as demigods and wise characters, begins</div>
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<div class="date">2650 BC</div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1505/23942447139_d56688da8e.jpg">The ancient city of Harappa in modern-day Pakistan, one of the largest metropolises of ancient world with superior urban planning and sewage systems, begins to flourish during urbanization in the Indus Valley civilization</div>
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<div class="date">2620 BC</div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm1.staticflickr.com/581/22121136851_a2c2f5a787_c.jpg">Seated Scribe, an Egyptian painted limestone realistic statue representing a figure of a seated scribe at work, is made</div>
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<div class="date">2613 BC</div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1580/23943028869_2f88a2dd3c.jpg">Sneferu, builder of three survived pyramids in Egypt, founds the Fourth Dynasty of Egypt, following his father pharaoh Huni</div>
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</ul>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13626402926818216595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1997969840184317864.post-73956069896130512062015-11-30T11:42:00.001-08:002015-11-30T11:42:17.187-08:00Belarusian People's Republic<ul id='eventslist'>
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<div class="date">March 25, 1918 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5636/22828039682_f4b8df13c1.jpg">Belarusian National Council, an assembly of different Belarusian political powers, issues a Third Constituent Charter declaring <a href="http://historystack.com/Belarusian_People's_Republic">the independence of Belarus under German occupation</a></div>
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<div class="date">April 28, 1918 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5798/22852900131_d8269f77ca.jpg">Belarusian language is proclaimed by the Rada the only official language in Belarusian People's Republic</div>
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<div class="date">1918, June</div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5627/22815873496_75e2896850_z.jpg">The white-red-white flag and Pahonia, the coat of arms of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, are adopted national flag and emblem of Belarusian People's Republic</div>
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<div class="date">October 11, 1918 </div>
<div class="description">Temporary constitution of Belarusian People's Republic is adopted by government under the Prime Minister Anton Łuckievič</div>
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<div class="date">1918</div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5645/22284004921_f489281644.jpg">Marc Chagall, a Belarusian-French modernist painter, completes his Cubist work "Over the town"</div>
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<div class="date">December 3, 1918 </div>
<div class="description">The Rada of the Belarusian Democratic Republic, today the oldest existing government in exile, moves from Minsk to Vilnius in front of the advancing Red Army</div>
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<div class="date">December 10, 1918 </div>
<div class="description">The German army retreat from Minsk, leaving the city to the Red Army</div>
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<div class="date">January 1, 1919 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5735/22220977503_0c06fff171.jpg">During Soviet westward offensive the Bolsheviks proclaim in Smolensk the puppet Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic with capital in Minsk</div>
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<div class="date">January 8, 1919 </div>
<div class="description">Communist government replaces the government of Belarusian People's Republic in Minsk, occupied by Red Army during Soviet westward offensive</div>
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</ul>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13626402926818216595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1997969840184317864.post-69728254080851194752015-08-25T21:30:00.001-07:002015-08-25T21:30:02.925-07:00The Major Events of World War I<ul id='eventslist'>
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<div class="date">June 28, 1914 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5740/20594786378_6708bc4462.jpg">Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie are shot to death by Bosnian Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip during an official visit to the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo, triggering <a href="http://historystack.com/World_War_I">World War I</a></div>
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<div class="date">September 6, 1914 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5740/20161006614_922d19e3e6.jpg">The German Schlieffen Plan fails when French forces defeat the German army at the <a href="http://historystack.com/Battle_of_the_Marne">First Battle of the Marne</a> followed by four years of trench warfare on the Western Front</div>
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<div class="date">April 24, 1915 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5786/20596082258_d0ab81841a.jpg">Massacre of Armenians by Turks begins as part of Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire, during which over 1 million Armenian was deported and killed</div>
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<div class="date">February 21, 1916 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm1.staticflickr.com/581/20601556520_bf7e1035a9.jpg">Battle of Verdun, which caused one million casualties, begins in Region de Verdun, France, after German General Erich von Falkenhayn attempts to bleed the French Army white</div>
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<div class="date">September 15, 1916 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5651/20168720853_ba61742764.jpg">British Mark I tank is first used at Flers-Courcelette during Battle of the Somme, becoming the world's first tank to enter combat</div>
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<div class="date">March 3, 1918 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5702/20803003551_35cd8e46fd.jpg">Bolshevik government of Russia signs the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, by which they surrender large territories to Germany, and formally withdraw from World War I</div>
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<div class="date">June 28, 1919 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5614/15587580821_df8aa26e9b.jpg">The Treaty of Versailles, signed by Germany and the Allied Powers, blames Germany for World War I, establishes the Weimar Republic, redraws European borders, and creates a League of Nations</div>
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</ul>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13626402926818216595noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1997969840184317864.post-4181083688702630602015-08-25T21:17:00.001-07:002015-08-25T21:42:38.791-07:00Four Great Chinese Inventions<ul id='eventslist'>
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<div class="date">105</div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7529/16124264449_fbbab57bdc_c.jpg">Cai Lun, a <a href="http://historystack.com/History_of_China">Chinese</a> eunuch, tell Emperor He about his invention, zhi, i.e. paper, made of bark, hemp, silk, and fishing net</div>
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<div class="date">808</div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8678/16276007838_a27c7e81e9.jpg">The first mention of a mixture resembling gunpowder, made of sulfur, saltpeter and herb, appears in Taoist text, known as Taishang Shengzu Danjing Mijue, in China</div>
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<div class="date">868</div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3894/15310223535_f2167dd42d.jpg">Diamond Sutra, the first extant complete printed book containing its date is issued using woodblock printing technique in China</div>
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<div class="date">1020</div>
<div class="description">Floating magnetic compass, consisting of an iron body floating in a bowl of water, is invented for navigation in China</div>
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<div class="date">1078</div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7340/16349038888_f43848dfc3.jpg"><a href="http://historystack.com/William_the_Conqueror">William the Conqueror</a> begins the construction of the Tower of London on the north bank of the River Thames to fortify key position and overawe the city by the new ruling elite</div>
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<div class="date">1406</div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3687/18697179863_82e783ff0b.jpg">Malbork Castle, the largest castle in the world by surface area, is completed by the <a href="http://historystack.com/Teutonic_Knights">Teutonic Knights</a> in Marienburg, the administrative center of the Order in Prussia</div>
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<div class="date">1452</div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8622/16729913291_e46772e788.jpg">Ottoman Sultan Mehmet II begins construction of a new fortress called Rumeli Hisar on the Constantinople side of the Bosporus in order to control the sea traffic on the Bosphorus strait</div>
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<div class="date">1609</div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7668/17343947376_90f9b6a3b4.jpg">Himeji Castle, a hilltop Japanese castle located in Himeji, Japan is completely rebuilt into a large castle complex by Japanese daimyo Ikeda Terumasa</div>
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<div class="date">1882</div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm1.staticflickr.com/255/19321788321_5ce848e800.jpg">Neuschwanstein Castle, a Romanesque Revival palace in southwest Bavaria, Germany, is completed by Ludwig II of Bavaria</div>
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<div class="date">1865</div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3765/19132392299_f739730883.jpg">Gregor Mendel, Austrian botanist, formulates his laws of inheritance after exploration of the inheritance of certain traits in pea plants, thus founding the science of <a href="http://historystack.com/Genetics">genetics</a></div>
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<div class="date">February 28, 1953 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3702/19352229595_e767525374.jpg">Cambridge University scientists James Watson and Francis Crick announce that they have determined the double-helix structure of <a href="http://historystack.com/DNA">DNA</a>, deoxyribonucleic acid, the molecule containing human genes</div>
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<div class="date">April 25, 1953 </div>
<div class="description">Francis Crick and James D. Watson publish an article describing the double helix structure of DNA</div>
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<div class="date">1956</div>
<div class="description">Soviet Russian biologists Alexander Spirin and Andrey Belozersky predict existence of messenger RNA, a large family of RNA molecules that convey genetic information from DNA to the ribosome</div>
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<div class="date">1965</div>
<div class="description">Werner Arber, a Swiss microbiologist and geneticist, discovers restriction endonucleases, an enzyme that cuts DNA, thus laying foundation for recombinant DNA technology</div>
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<div class="date">1973</div>
<div class="description">American geneticists Stanley Norman Cohen and Herbert Boyer transfer the gene for frog ribosomal RNA into bacterial cells, thus starting genetic engineering</div>
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<div class="date">September 10, 1984 </div>
<div class="description">Alec Jeffreys, a British geneticist, develops techniques for DNA fingerprinting and DNA profiling</div>
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<div class="date">1990</div>
<div class="description">Four-year-old Ashanthi DeSilva, who suffers from severe combined immunodeficiency, becomes the first patient to undergo successful gene therapy</div>
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<div class="date">May 18, 1994 </div>
<div class="description">Food and Drug Administration concludes that Flavr Savr, a genetically modified tomato, is safe for food use, making it the first commercially grown genetically engineered food</div>
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<div class="date">April 14, 2003 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm1.staticflickr.com/542/19353602805_31bd18dde9.jpg">The Human Genome Project, an international scientific research project, is successfully completed, with 99 percent of the human genome sequenced to 99.99 percent accuracy</div>
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<div class="date">May 7, 2010 </div>
<div class="description">Scientists conducting the Neanderthal genome project announce that they have sequenced enough of the Neanderthal genome to suggest that Neanderthals and humans may have interbred</div>
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<div class="date">October 22, 1962 </div>
<div class="description"><iframe src="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/EgdUgzAWcrw" frameborder="0" height="330" width="100%"></iframe>In a televised speech, US President John F. Kennedy announces that U.S. spy planes have discovered Soviet missile bases in Cuba which would house medium-range missiles capable of striking a number of major cities in the US, marking start of Cuban Missile Crisis</div>
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<div class="date">October 23, 1962 </div>
<div class="description">US navy ships begin a blockade of Cuba, to prevent Soviet ships from bringing in supplies to complete building missile bases</div>
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<div class="date">October 27, 1962 </div>
<div class="description">Soviet Union leader Nikita Khrushchev publicly calls for the dismantling of U.S. missile bases in Turkey, which was accepted by US President Kennedy at a later date</div>
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<div class="date">October 28, 1962 </div>
<div class="description">Nikita Khrushchev announces his government's intent to dismantle and remove all offensive Soviet weapons in Cuba</div>
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<div class="date">August 30, 1963 </div>
<div class="description">Hot Line communications link between Washington DC and Moscow begins in the wake of the Cuban Missile Crisis</div>
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<div class="date">March 5, 1198 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8649/16407493400_14f9dcd269.jpg">The Teutonic Knights, religious Catholic order, are established as a military order in a ceremony at Acre in Palestine</div>
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<div class="date">1226, March</div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8618/16417273088_787e0e6b97.jpg">The Golden Bull of Rimini, issued by Emperor Frederick II, authorizes the Teutonic Knights to conquer and convert pagan Prussian tribes in the Baltic</div>
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<div class="date">December 28, 1233 </div>
<div class="description">Kulm law, a charter granted settlers civic freedoms, is issued by the Teutonic Knights as a part of their efforts to colonize Prussia</div>
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<div class="date">April 5, 1242 </div>
<div class="description"><iframe src="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/vKZPgGbUuX0" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="330" width="100%"></iframe>At the Battle on the Ice the Republic of Novgorod under 20-year-old Prince Alexander Nevsky defeat the Livonian branch of the Teutonic Knights halting the Northern Crusades directed against pagans and Eastern Orthodox Christians</div>
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<div class="date">February 7, 1249 </div>
<div class="description">Treaty of Christburg forces the pagan Prussian clans to recognize the rule of the Teutonic Knights, establishing German as the dominant culture and language</div>
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<div class="date">1255</div>
<div class="description">Königsberg is founded on the site of the ancient Old Prussian settlement Twangste by the Bohemian King Otakar II, who came to help Teutonic Knights during their conquest of Prussia</div>
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<div class="date">July 13, 1260 </div>
<div class="description">Lithuanians defeat the joint forces of the Teutonic Knights from Prussia and Livonian Order from Livonia at the Battle of Durbe during the Livonian Crusade</div>
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<div class="date">June 1, 1298 </div>
<div class="description">The people of Riga with help of Grand Duke of Lithuania Vytenis defeat the order in the Battle of Turaida</div>
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<div class="date">1341</div>
<div class="description">The Livonian Order buy the Duchy of Estonia from King Valdemar IV of Denmark</div>
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<div class="date">February 17, 1370 </div>
<div class="description">Teutonic Knights beat forces of Grand Duchy of Lithuania at Battle of Rudau</div>
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<div class="date">1406</div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3687/18697179863_82e783ff0b.jpg">Malbork Castle, the largest castle in the world by surface area, is completed by the Teutonic Knights in Marienburg, the administrative center of the Order in Prussia</div>
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<div class="date">July 15, 1410 </div>
<div class="description"><iframe src="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/L4DrZPSlp2I" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="330" width="100%"></iframe>Lithuanian-Polish forces defeat the Teutonic Knights at the Battle of Grunwald in Prussia, thereby halting the Knights' eastward expansion along the Baltic and hastening their decline</div>
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<div class="date">1466</div>
<div class="description">Second Peace of Thorn ends the Thirteen Years' War, a conflict between the Prussian Confederation, allied with the Kingdom of Poland, and the State of the Teutonic Order, with win of Prussian Confederation</div>
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<div class="date">April 10, 1525 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5590/15220292871_e766ff8a69.jpg">Albert von Brandenburg, a member of a branch of the House of Hohenzollern and the leader of the Teutonic Order, secularizes Order's remaining territories into the Duchy of Prussia and passes the first laws of the Protestant church, making Prussia a Protestant state</div>
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<div class="date">1809</div>
<div class="description">Napoleon strips the Teutonic Knights of their last holdings in Bad Mergentheim in Germany</div>
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<div class="date">604</div>
<div class="description">Æthelberht of Kent, king of Kent, builds a wooden Anglo-Saxon cathedral dedicated to Saint Paul, the first <a href="http://historystack.com/St_Paul%27s_Cathedral">Saint Paul's Cathedral</a> in London</div>
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<div class="date">1561</div>
<div class="description">Saint Paul's Cathedral in London is destroyed by lightning</div>
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<div class="date">September 2, 1666 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8738/17368074566_d20e381d06.jpg"><a href="http://historystack.com/Great_Fire_of_London">Great London Fire</a>, which destroys 80% of London including Saint Paul's Church in five days, begins in house of baker on Pudding Lane</div>
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<div class="date">June 21, 1675 </div>
<div class="description">Sir Christopher Wren begins to rebuild St Paul's Cathedral in London, replacing the old building which has been destroyed by the Great fire</div>
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<div class="date">December 2, 1697 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7707/17407679482_9836d2e935.jpg">Saint Paul's Cathedral opens at the top of Ludgate Hill, the highest point in the City of London, thirty-two years after the Great Fire</div>
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