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Events

The events in this section are organized according to the UN geoscheme.

Events of the 2nd millennium AD
	Africa	America	Asia	Europe	Oceania
11th century	1043 Eze Nri Ìfikuánim becomes first king of Nri Kingdom 1054 Almoravid dynasty established 1060 Kingdom of Kanem converts to Islam	1000 Cahokia (present-day Illinois, USA) becomes regional chiefdom of Mississippian culture	1008 The Tale of Genji completed 1005 Treaty of Shanyuan signed 1044 Gunpowder recipe published	1054 The East–West Schism divides the Christian church 1088 The first university was founded 1095 First Crusade
12th century	1143 Almohad dynasty take control from the Almoravids 1171 Salah-ad-Din deposes Fatimid ruler of Egypt and establishes the Ayyubid dynasty 1173 Ayyubids capture Qasr Ibrim in Nubia	1100 Toltecs establish capital at Tula 1124 Arnaldur appointed first bishop of Greenland 1175 Destruction of Toltec civilization	1117 The magnetic compass is used at sea 1120 Meng Yuanlao describes four-star dining in Kaifeng 1150 Construction of Angkor Wat	1169 Averoes translates Aristotle
	Africa	America	Asia	Europe	Oceania
13th century	1200 Kingdom of Mwenemutapa established in Zimbabwe 1203 Sumaguru Kante of Sosso conquers kingdom of Ghana 1250 Mamluk soldiers take Egypt from the Ayyubids	1200 Chichén Itzá abandoned 1200 Kingdom of Cuzco founded 1200 Expansion of Chimú state of Chimor	1211 Genghis Khan Builds an Empire	1215 Magna Carta 1260 Dedication of the Cathedral at Chartres	1200 Tahitians colonize Hawaii
14th century	1324 Musa's pilgrimage to Mecca 1365 Crusade led by king of Cyprus sacks Alexandria 1375 Kingdom of Songhai breaks away from Mali	1315 Founding of Tenochtitlan 1350 Norsemen abandon Greenland 1350 War between Inca and Chimú	1350 Coffee was first brewed 1368 Zhu Yuanzhang ousts the Mongols from power	1348 Black Plague 1350 Emergence of fashion 1382 Wycliffe's Bible	1300 Polynesian immigration to New Zealand 1300 Hawaiians develop class structure 1300 Huge stone statues erected on Easter Island
	Africa	America	Asia	Europe	Oceania
15th century	1400 capital of Sayfawa Dynasty moved to Borno 1400 Funj settled Alodia 1496 Spain conquers Melilla, Morocco	1470 Incas conquer Chimú empire 1428 Aztecs conquer Atzcapotzalco, ally with Texcoco and Tlacopan, become the dominant state in Mexico 1492 Voyages of Christopher Columbus	1407 Work begins on Forbidden City, Beijing 1431 Ayutthaya conquers Angkor	1413 The invention of linear perspective 1453 Ottoman conquest of Constantinople 1455 Gutenberg Bible printed	1400 Tongans build ceremonial centre at Mu'a
16th century	1546 Songhai Empire takes Niani 1509 African slaves arrive in the Americas 1517 Ottomans capture Egypt 1535 Holy Roman Emperor Charles V conquers Tunis	1535 Europeans discover tobacco 1537 Europeans discover potatoes 1545 The discovery of silver in the Andes mountains		1517 The Ninety-Five Theses published 1543 Publication of On the Structure of the Human Body 1596 Invention of the toilet	1550 Maoris of New Zealand build fortified enclosures
	Africa	America	Asia	Europe	Oceania
17th century	1600 Kingdom of Rwanda founded 1600 Dahomey Kingdom founded 1644 Start of the Char Bouba	1607 Virginia colony founded 1624 Manhattan island purchased from Native Americans 1697 Last Mayan resistance defeated	1610 Tea spreads to the world 1637 Japanese prohibition against European contact	1603 First performance of Hamlet 1610 Galileo publishes his observations of Jupiter 1666 Discovery of gravitation	1600 Tu'i Konokupolu dynasty take power in Tonga 1642 Abel Tasman sights New Zealand
18th century	1700 Maravi Empire tears apart 1754 Usman dan Fodio is born 1799 Discovery of the Rosetta Stone	1742 Native American revolt against Spanish in Peru 1776 United States Declaration of Independence published	1751 Chinese occupy Tibet	1722 Bach composed the Well-Tempered Clavier 1769 Invention of the steam engine 1796 The first vaccination	1795 Formation of the Kingdom of Hawaii
	Africa	America	Asia	Europe	Oceania
19th century	1869 The Suez Canal opens 1896 Battle of Adwa 1879 Battle of Isandlwana	1821 Bolívar liberates Venezuela 1876 Menlo Park opens 1876 First telephone transmission	1868 End of Japanese seclusion	1830 First steam railway 1859 Origin of Species 1882 Germ theory proven	1840 Treaty of Waitangi signed 1845 New Zealand land wars
20th century	1956 Suez Crisis 1967 Six-Day War 1996 End of apartheid	1903 First controlled, powered airplane flight 1908 Ford builds the Model T 1928 First television broadcast	1917 The Russian Revolution 1934 Mao's long march 1945 Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki	1901 First transatlantic radio transmission 1928 Discovery of penicillin 1933 Adolf Hitler appointed Chancellor	1915 Australians and New Zealanders serve in the Gallipoli Campaign 1985 Nuclear Free Zone established in New Zealand

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“One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape ... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.”
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“We have defined a story as a narrative of events arranged in their time-sequence. A plot is also a narrative of events, the emphasis falling on causality. “The king died and then the queen died” is a story. “The king died, and then the queen died of grief” is a plot. The time sequence is preserved, but the sense of causality overshadows it.”
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“A curious thing about atrocity stories is that they mirror, instead of the events they purport to describe, the extent of the hatred of the people that tell them.
Still, you can’t listen unmoved to tales of misery and murder.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)

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