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Unfortunately, humans have made far greater advances in the technical aspects of living than in the
social aspects. As a world society, too many of us are no better off than what our ancient ancestors were
100 centuries ago.
The records speak for themselves. We can not change history, but we can mold our future based on
lessons learned. That is to say, if we have the desire, the will and the solutions to advance society to the
point where all people of the world have the opportunity to experience a more acceptable way of living.
Please see below a chronology of our world as it has developed over the years referencing notable
people and events...
Town of Jericho founded (~ 8,000 BC) / Great Pyramids of Egypt (~2600-~2500 BC) / Sargon of Akkad (~2334-~2279 BC) / Hammurabi - Code of
Hammurabi (~1820-1750 BC) / Moses - Ten Commandments (~1571-1451 BC) / Ramses (II) the Great (1304-1237 BC) / Trojan War (~1200 BC) /
Sanctuary of Zeus (~1000 BC) / First Recorded Olympic Games (776 BC) / Rome founded (753 BC) / First Recorded Naval Battle (664 BC) /
Nebuchadnezzar II (~630-562 BC) / Solon (~620-~560 BC) / First Sacred War (~590 BC) / Cyrus the Great (~589-529 BC) / Pythagoras (~581-497
BC) / Buddha (~563-~483 BC) / Confucius (559-476 BC) / Pindar (518-438 BC) / Roman Republic (510-27 BC) / Greek-Persian Wars (499-449 BC)
/ Sophocles (~496-406 BC) / Pericles (~495-429 BC) / Salamis Naval Battle (480 BC) / Hippocrates of Cos (~460-377 BC) / 12 Tables of Roman
Law (450 BC) / Parthenon completed (432 BC) / Peloponnesian War (431-404 BC) / Plato (429-347 BC) / Peace of Nicias (421 BC) / Aristotle
(~384-322 BC) / Second Sacred War (356 BC) / Alexander (III) The Great (356 -323 BC) / Third Sacred War (355-346 BC) / Battle of Issus (333
BC) / Euclid (~330-260 BC) / Archimedes (~287-212 BC) / Colossus of Rhodes (280 BC) / First Punic War (264-241 BC) / Battle of Mylae (260
BC) / Hannibal (247-183 BC) / Qin (221-206 BC) / Second Punic War (218-201 BC) / First Macedonian War (214-205 BC) / Paper Invented in
China (~200 BC) / Second Macedonian War (200-196 BC) / Rosetta Stone (196 BC) / Third Macedonian War (171-168 AD) / Hipparchus
(~170-125 BC) / Revolt of Maccabees (167-160 BC) / Third Punic War (149-146 BC) / Spartacus (~110-71 BC) / Julius Caesar (100-44 BC) /
Sosigenes of Alexandria (~90-~30 BC) / Strabo (~64 BC-~21 AD) / Roman Civil War (49-45 BC) / Roman Empire (27 BC-476 AD) / Jesus Christ (~6
BC-~30 AD) / Roman Colosseum (~70 AD) / Zhang Heng (78-139 AD) / Ptolemy (90-168 AD) / Galen of Pergamum (130-201 AD) / St. Simeon
Stylites (~390-459 AD) / Attila the Hun (~406-453 AD) / Hun Invasion of Eastern Roman Empire (441-443 AD) / Hun Invasion of Gaul & Italy (
451-452 AD) / Mohammed (~570-632 AD) / First Muslim Mosque completed (622 AD) / Charles Martel (~689-741 AD) / Li Po 705-762 AD) /
Charlemagne (~742-814 AD) / Holy Roman Empire (800-~1805 AD) / Al-Khwarizmi (800-850 AD) / Rollo (~860-~931AD) / Murasaki Shikibu
(~978-~1026 AD) / First Crusade (1095-1099 AD) / Norman Conquest of England (1066-1072 AD) / Battle of Hastings (1066 AD) / Knights
Hospitailers founded (~1070 AD) / Knights Templars founded (~1120 AD) / Saladin (~1137-1193 AD) / Second Crusade (1147-1148 AD) / Genghis
Khan (~1162-1227 AD) / Third Crusade (1189-1192 AD) / Teutonic Knights founded (~1190 AD) / Fourth Crusade (1202-1204 AD) / Magna Carta
(1215 AD) / Barons' War 1215-1217 AD) / Kublai Khan (1215-1294 AD) / Begining of the Inquisition (1231 AD) / Hanseatic League (~1250-1669
AD) / Barons' War 1264-1267 AD) / Sicilian Vespers (1282 AD) / Hundred Years' War (1337-1453 AD) / Bubonic Plague (1348 AD) / Peasants'
Revolt (1381 AD) / Johannes Gutenberg (1400-1468 AD) / Gilles de Rais (1404-1440 AD) / Joan of Arc (~1412-1431 AD) / Christopher Columbus
(1451-1506 AD) / Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519 AD) / Nanak (1469-1539 AD) / Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564 AD) / Martin Luther
(1483-1546 AD) / First Treaty of Pressburg (1491 AD) / Henry VIII (1491-1547 AD) / New World Discovered (1492 AD) / Peasants' War (1524-1525
AD) / Pilgrimage of Grace (1536 AD) / Sir Francis Drake (1540-1596 AD) / Sir Walter Raleigh (1554-1618 AD) / Treaty of Religion (1555 AD) /
Peace of Augsburg (1555 AD) / Plantation of Ireland (1556-1660 AD) / Livonian War (1558-1583 AD) / Wars of Religion (1562-1598 AD) / William
Shakespeare (1564-1616 AD) / Galileo Galilei (1564-1642 AD) / Revolt of the Netherlands (1568-1648 AD) / Squanto (~1572-1622 AD) / St.
Bartholomew's Day Massacre (1572 AD) / William Harvey (1578-1657 AD) / Johann Van Helmont (1579-1644 AD) / Shah Jahan (1592-1666 AD) /
Rene Descartes (1596-1650 AD) / Edict of Nantes (1598 AD) / Opera originated (~1600 AD) / Time of Troubles (1605-1613 AD) / Ulster Plantation
(1608-1611 AD) / Thirty Years' War (1618-1648 AD) / Blaise Pascal (1623-1662 AD) / Robert Boyle (1627-1691 AD) / Christiaan Huygens
(1629-1695 AD) / Samuel Von Pufendorf (1632-1694 AD) / Anton Van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723 AD) / Robert Hooke (1635-1703 AD) / Pequot War
(1637 AD) / Bishops' Wars (1639-1640 AD) / English Civil War (1642-1651 AD) / Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727 AD) / Fronde Rebellion (1648-1653
AD) / Treaty of Westphalia (1648 AD) / Thomas Savery (~1650-1715 AD) / First Dutch War (1652-1654 AD) / Taj Mahal completed (1653 AD) /
Second Dutch War (1665-1667 AD) / Treaty of Pyrenees (1659AD) / Thomas Newcomen (1663-1729 AD) / Third Dutch War (1672-1678 AD) /
Peter the Great (1672-1725 AD) / King Phillip's War (1675-1676 AD) / League of Augsburg (1686 AD) / War of the Grand Alliance (1689-1697 AD)
/ Treaty of Rijswijk (1697 AD) / First Steam Engine constructed (1698 AD) / Great Northern War (1700-1721 AD) / War of Spanish Succession
(1701-1714 AD) / Queen Anne's War (1702-1713 AD) / Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790 AD) / Copyright Act (1709 AD) / Treaty of Utrecht (1713 AD)
/ Jacobite Uprising (1715 AD) / Treaties of Stockholm (1719-1720 AD) / South Sea Bubble (1720 AD) / Treaty of Nystad (1721 AD) /
Russian-Persian War (1722-1723 AD) / Catherine the Great (1729-1796 AD) / Joseph Priestly (1733-1804 AD) / War of Polish Succession
(1733-1735 AD) / James Watt (1736-1819 AD) / War of Jenkins' Ear (1739-1748 AD) / War of Spanish & Austrian Succession (1740-1748 AD) /
Treaty of Berlin (1742 AD) / Antoine Lavoisier (1743-1794 AD) / Treaty of Abo (1743 AD) / Count Alessandro Volta (1745-1827 AD) / Benjamin
Rush (1746-1813 AD) / Edward Jenner (1749-1823 AD) / Wolfgang Mozart (1752-1791 AD) / Gouverneur Morris (1752-1816 AD) / French and
Indian War (1754-1763 AD) / Seven Years War (1756-1763 AD) / First Treaty of Paris (1763 AD) / Pontiac's Conspiracy (1763-1766 AD) / Stamp
Act (1765 AD) / First Turkish War (1768-1774 AD) / Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821 AD) / Aloys Senefelder (1771-1834 AD) / Lord Dunmore's
War (1774 AD) / Treaty of Camp Charlotte (1774 AD) / U.S. War of Independence (1776-1781 AD) / Declaration of Independence (1776 AD) / Jose
de San Martin (1778-1850 AD) / Cape Frontier Wars (1779-1878 AD) / Fourth Dutch War (1780-1784 AD) / Simon Bolivar (1783-1830 AD) /
Second Treaty of Paris (1783 AD) / Shaka (~1787-1828 AD) / French Revolution (1789AD) / US Constitution (1789 AD) / Mzilikazi (~1790-1868
AD) / Samuel Morse (1791-1872 AD) / Reign of Terror (1793-1794 AD) / Kosciuszko's Rebellion (1794 AD) / Treaty of Greenville (1795 AD) /
Pinckney's Treaty (1795 AD) / Irish Rebellion (1798 AD) / Lithography invented (1798 AD) / Charles Goodyear (1800-1860 AD) / Treaty of
Luneville (1802 AD) / Treaty of Amiens (1802 AD) / Napoleonic Code / Civil Code (1804 AD) / Napoleonic Wars (1805-1815 AD) / Second Treaty
of Pressburg (1805 AD) / Confederation of the Rhine (1806 AD) / Treaties of Tilsit (1807 AD) / Peninsular War (1808-1814 AD) / Edgar Allan
Poe (1809-1849 AD) / Harriet Stowe (1811-1896 AD) / War of 1812 (1812-1814 AD) / Third Treaty of Paris (1814 AD) / Treaty of Ghent (1815 AD)
/ Elizabeth Stanton (1815-1902 AD) / Fourth Treaty of Paris (1815 AD) / Karl Marx (1818-1883 AD) / Peterloo Massacre (1819 AD) / Adams-Onis
Treaty (1819 AD) / War of Greek Independence (1821-1832 AD) / Louis Pasteur (1822-1895 AD) / First Operational Railroad (1825 AD) / First
Photograph (1826 AD) / Joseph Lister (1827-1912 AD) / Henri Dunant (1828-1910 AD) / Saigo Takamori (1828-1877 AD) / July Revolution (1830
AD) / Nikolaus Otto (1832-1891 AD) / Alfred Nobel (1833-1896 AD) / Sitting Bull (~1834-1893 AD) / Second Seminole War (1835-1842 AD) /
Battle of San Jacinto (1836 AD) / Rebellion of 1837 (1837 AD) / First Opium War (1839-1842 AD) / Treaty of Waiting (1840 AD) / Treaty of
Nanking (1842AD) / Sikh Wars of India (1845-1849 AD) / Wilhelm Roentgen (1845-1923 AD) / Oregon Treaty (1846 AD) / Mexican War
(1846-1848 AD) / Thomas Edison (1847-1931 AD) / Revolutions of 1848 (1848-1849AD) / Sewing Machine invented (1851 AD) / Taiping
Rebellion 1851-1864 AD) / Crimean War (1854-1856 AD) / Ostend Manifesto (1854 AD) / Paul Ehrlich (1854-1915 AD) / Ostend Agreement
(1854 AD) / Second Opium War (1856-1860 AD) / Fifth Treaty of Paris (1856 AD) / Indian Mutiny (1857-1859 AD) / Treaty of Tientsin (1858 AD)
/ Peking Conference (1860 AD) / U.S. Civil War (1861-1865 AD) / French/Mexican War (1861-1867 AD) / Draft Riots (1862-1863 AD) / Henry Ford
(1863-1947 AD) / Baron Pierre de Couberin (1863-1937 AD) / International Red Cross founded (1864 AD) / War of Triple Alliance (1865-1870 AD)
/ Salvation Army founded (1865 AD) / Reconstruction (U.S.) (1865-1877 AD) / Austro-Prussian War (1866 AD) / Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948 AD)
/ Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871 AD) / Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937 AD) / Ludwig Prandtl (1875-1953 AD) / Russian-Ottoman War
(1877-1878 AD) / Treaty of San Stefano (1878 AD) / War of the Pacific (1879-1884 AD) / Joseph Stalin (1879-1953 AD) / First Boer War
(1880-1881 AD) / Kemal Ataturk (1881-1938 AD) / Margaret Sanger (1883-1966 AD) / Jean Monnet (1888-1979 AD) / Adolf Hitler (1889-1945 AD)
/ Wounded Knee (1890 AD) / Ho Chi Minh (1890-1969 AD) / First Women to Vote-New Zealand (1893 AD) / Mao Tse-Tung (1893-1976 AD) /
First Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895 AD) / Treaty of Shimonoseki (1895 AD) / Spanish-American War (1898 AD) / Second Boer War (1899-1902
AD) / British-Boer Concentration Camps (1900-1902 AD) / Peace of Vereeniging (1902 AD) / Cuban-American Treaty (1903 AD) / Wright
Brothers' first powered flight (1903 AD) / Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905 AD) / Portsmouth Peace Conference (1905 AD) / Russian Revolution
(1905 AD) / Algeciras Conference (1906 AD) / Hague Convention (1907 AD) / Boy Scouts founded (1908 AD) / Root-Takahira Agreement (1908
AD) / Chinese Republican Revolution (1911 AD) / Balkan War (1912-1913 AD) / Jonas Salk (1914-1995 AD) / World War I (1914-1918 AD) /
Easter Rising (1916 AD) / John F. Kennedy (1917-1963 AD) / Russian Revolution (1917 AD) / Influenza Epidemic (1918-1919 AD) Russian Civil
War (1918-1921 AD) / Paris Peace Conference (1919-1920 AD) / Prohibition (1919-1933 AD) / First Treaty of Rapallo (1920 AD) / League of
Nations Founded (1920 AD) / March to Rome (1922 AD) / Chinese Civil War (1926-1949 AD) / Moroccan War (1927 AD) / Martin Luther King
Jr. (1929-1968 AD) / Lateran Treaty (1929 AD) / Stock Market Crash (1929 AD) / Round Table Conference (1930-1932 AD) / Chaco War
(1932-1935 AD) / Third Reich (1933-1945 AD) / Italian/Ethiopian War (1936 AD) / Rome/Berlin Axis (1936 AD) / Spanish Civil War (1936-1939
AD) / Seconnd Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945 AD) / Munich Agreement (1938 AD) / World War II (1939-1945 AD) / Russo-Finnish War
(1939-1940 AD) / Invasion of Iran (1941 AD) / Atomic Bombs blast Hiroshima and Nagasaki (1945 AD) / Potsdam Conference (1945 AD) / Greek
Civil War (1945-1949 AD) / San Francisco Conference on International Organization (1945 AD) / United Nations founded (1945 AD) / Arab
League founded (1945 AD) / Cold War (1945-1990 AD) / First aircraft to fly faster than speed of sound (1947 AD) / Organization of American
States founded (1948 AD) / Arab-Isreali War (1948-?) / First Transistor developed (1948 AD) / UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights
(1948 AD) / World Health Organization founded (1948) / NATO founded (1949AD) / Korean War (1950-1953 AD) / Columbo Plan (1951 AD) /
Organization of Central American Sates founded (1951 AD) / Vietnam War (1954-1975 AD) / Warsaw Pact (1955-1991 AD) / Hungarian
Revolution (1956) / Suez Crisis (1956 AD) / Occupation of Gaza Strip (1956 AD) / Poznan Riots (1956 AD) / Cuban Civil War (1956-1959 AD) /
Treaties of Rome (1957 AD) / Indus Waters Treaty (1960 AD) / First manned space flight (1961 AD) / Organization for Economic Cooperation
and Development founded (1961 AD) / OPEC founded (1961 AD) / North Yemen Civil War (1962-1970 AD) / Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (1963 AD) /
Organization of African Unity founded (1963 AD) / Cultural Revolution (1966-1968 AD) / Six Day War (1967 AD) / Nigerian Civil War
(1967-1971 AD) / My Lai (1968 AD) / SALT Agreements (1968-1972 AD) / Prague Spring (1968 AD) / First manned landing on the Moon (1969
AD) / Pakistani Civil War (1971 AD) / Yom Kippur War (1973 AD) Shillong Peace Agreement (1975 AD) / Iran Civil War (1979 AD) / Camp
David Accord (1979 AD) / SALT II Agreement (1979 AD) / Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988 AD) / Falkland War (1982 AD) / Invasion of Kuwait (1990
AD) / Gulf War (1991 AD) / Rwanda Genocide (1994 AD) / Millennium Declaration (2000 AD) / World Trade Centre attacks (2001 AD) /
Afghanistan War (2001-? AD) / Iraq War (2003-? AD) / The United World Federation founded (2004 AD) / Beslan Tragedy (2004 AD)