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The Renaissance

The events that make The Renaissance.

Predestination - The Movie

The timeline of events in the movie Predestination from the protagonist Ethan Hawke’s perspective

• The Agent's Life Loop
• The Temporal Bureau
• The Fizzle Bomber Paradox

Aeroplanes

Create a history of the evolution of planes

Fall of the Roman Empire

From the Crisis of the Third Century to the sack of Rome — division, invasion, and the slow collapse of the West.

World War II, 1939 to 1945

The global war that began with Germany's invasion of Poland and ended with Japan's surrender. It also saw the Holocaust, the systematic murder of European Jews.

• Europe and the Road to War
• Asia and the Pacific
• The Holocaust and Persecution

RMS Titanic: Construction to Discovery

The building of the White Star liner Titanic in Belfast, her 1912 maiden voyage and sinking, the inquiries and safety rules that followed, and the finding of the wreck in 1985.

• Design and Construction
• Voyage and Sinking
• Inquiries and Discovery

Human Ancestors

The timeline of the arrival of our human ancestors, the regions in the word they stayed, geological events that shaped their migrations, and the studied events that led to the evolution of species to the homo sapiens.

The Conquest of India

A comprehensively dated timeline of the various conquests that happened in India. This includes the Mughals, the British, the French and other sea faring nations that came to India.

The Crusades, 1095 to the Fall of Acre

A series of religious wars launched by Latin Christendom, beginning with the call at Clermont in 1095 and ending on the mainland with the loss of Acre in 1291. Crusading against Ottoman and other enemies continued afterwards.

• Campaigns and Battles
• Crusader States and Orders
• Popes, Rulers and Diplomacy

Timeline of the Discovery of Elements

A detailed timeline of every element discovered on the Periodic Table.

World War II

Major events of the World War 2.

How Fast We Moved?

Mind Bending timeline of the birth of the Internet, the release of the first personal computers, the fall of the Berlin wall and the premier of Star Wars.

The Viking Age, 793 to 1066

From the raid on Lindisfarne in 793 to the defeat at Stamford Bridge in 1066, Norse people raided, settled, traded and explored across Europe and the North Atlantic.

• Raids and Conquests
• Settlement, Trade and Exploration
• Kings and Conversion

The Space Race, Sputnik to Apollo-Soyuz

The Cold War contest between the United States and the Soviet Union to lead in spaceflight, from Sputnik in 1957 to the Moon landing in 1969. It gave way to cooperation with the joint Apollo-Soyuz mission in 1975.

• Soviet Space Program
• US Space Program
• People, Setbacks and Cooperation

The Silk Road, from Han Envoys to Sea Routes

A network of trade routes linking China, Central Asia and the West from about the second century BCE to the mid-15th century, carrying goods, travellers, religions and ideas.

• Han Origins
• Travellers and Trade
• Religions, Ideas and Decline

The Rise and Fall of Rome

Rome grew from a legendary founding and a republic into a Mediterranean empire, then lost its western half in 476. This timeline follows the main turning points.

• Monarchy and Republic
• Empire at its Height
• Crisis, Christianity and Fall

The Punic Wars: Rome vs Carthage

Between 264 and 146 BCE Rome and Carthage fought three wars for control of the western Mediterranean. This timeline includes Hannibal's invasion of Italy and the destruction of Carthage.

• First Punic War
• Hannibal and the Second Punic War
• Third Punic War

Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt: Unification to Rome

Key rulers and turning points in Egyptian kingship, from the first unified state around 3100 BCE to the end of the Ptolemies and Roman annexation in 30 BCE. Dates before the first millennium BCE are scholarly estimates.

• Early Dynastic and Old Kingdom
• Middle and New Kingdom
• Foreign rule and the Ptolemies

The Ottoman Empire, 1299 to 1923

How a small Anatolian principality grew into an empire spanning three continents, and how it was reformed, weakened and finally replaced by the Republic of Turkey.

• Conquests and Wars
• Institutions and Culture
• Reform and Collapse

Napoleon Bonaparte, 1769-1821

The life of the Corsican officer who rose through the French Revolution to rule France, redrew Europe by conquest, and died in exile on Saint Helena.

• Rise to Power
• Empire and War
• Fall, Exile and Legacy

The Mongol Empire, from Genghis Khan to the Yuan's Fall

How Genghis Khan united the Mongol tribes, how his successors built the largest contiguous empire in history, and how it split into four states before the Yuan dynasty fell in 1368.

• Genghis Khan
• Conquests Abroad
• Succession and Fragmentation

Leonardo da Vinci: Art, Notebooks, Inventions

The life of Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), from his birth near Florence to his death in France, with his best-known paintings and the notebooks in which he recorded his studies and designs.

• Life and Patrons
• Paintings and Sculpture
• Notebooks and Inventions

Julius Caesar and the End of the Roman Republic

Caesar's path from a patrician family to dictator of Rome, through the Gallic Wars and civil war to his assassination in 44 BCE, and the rise of Augustus that ended the Republic.

• Rise to power
• Gaul and civil war
• Dictatorship and the end of the Republic

The Industrial Revolution, 1760 to 1840

How new machines, steam power and factories changed how goods were made in Britain from about 1760, and how the change spread to the United States and continental Europe by about 1840.

• Machines and Power
• Transport and Iron
• Factories and Society

India's Road to Independence, 1857 to 1947

From the 1857 uprising against Company rule to independence and partition in August 1947, this timeline follows Congress campaigns, armed resistance and the rise of the demand for Pakistan.

• Congress and mass movements
• Revolt and armed resistance
• Communal politics and partition

The French Revolution, 1789-1799

How a financial crisis turned into a revolution that ended the French monarchy, brought war and the Terror, and ended with Napoleon's seizure of power in 1799.

• Reform and Revolt, 1789-1791
• War, Republic and Terror, 1792-1794
• Thermidor to Napoleon, 1794-1799

Feudal Japan and the Samurai, 1185-1877

How a warrior class rose to rule Japan under successive shogunates, and how the Meiji government dismantled the samurai's privileges in the 1870s.

• Kamakura and Muromachi
• Warring States to Tokugawa
• Bakumatsu and Meiji

The Cold War, 1947 to 1991

The long standoff between the United States and the Soviet Union and their allies, fought through crises, proxy wars and a nuclear arms race. It ended with the dissolution of the Soviet Union in December 1991.

• Crises and Diplomacy
• Proxy Wars
• Arms Race and Soviet Collapse

Cleopatra VII and the End of Ptolemaic Egypt

The life of Egypt's last active Ptolemaic ruler, from her birth in 69 BCE through her alliances with Julius Caesar and Mark Antony to her death in 30 BCE, when Egypt became a Roman province.

• Queen of Egypt
• Caesar and Rome
• Antony and Octavian

The American Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968

The campaign to end legal segregation and secure voting rights for Black Americans. Follows the key court rulings, protests, leaders and laws from Brown v. Board to the Fair Housing Act.

• Courts and Legislation
• Campaigns and Direct Action
• Leaders and Turning Points

The Black Death and Its Legacy

The plague pandemic that killed an estimated 30 to 60 percent of Europe's people between 1346 and 1353. This timeline covers its spread, the responses to it and its long-term effects.

• Origins and Spread
• Responses and Beliefs
• Aftermath and Understanding

The American Revolution, 1763 to 1789

How thirteen British colonies broke from Britain over taxation and self-government, won independence by 1783, and replaced the Articles of Confederation with the Constitution.

• Protest and Politics
• The War for Independence
• Building a Government

The American Civil War, 1850-1865

How disputes over slavery pushed the United States into civil war, how the Union won it, and how it ended slavery. Covers the road to secession, the major campaigns and emancipation.

• Road to Secession
• Campaigns and Battles
• Emancipation and Reconstruction

Refrigeration and Cooling

Refrigeration has enabled us to store food for longer, enabled organ transplants, discover unique behaviours of matter. We take it for granted when we open the fridge, but it has a long and ardous history filled with many inventions. Discover the science,the technology and the social impact behind it.

Personal Computers

How Computers Went from machines that took entire warehouses to the palm of your hand and beyond.

machine learning and autonomicity in machines

How did autonomicity in physical machines started as a concept in terms of working and than later translated to thinking