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5th Grade History Ch
Event | Date |
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Egyptians settle in the Nile River valley | around 4000 BC |
Invention of writing | around 3200 BC |
Khufu builds the Great Pyramid of Giza | around 2900 BC |
Birth of Abraham | around 2000 BC |
Code of Hammurabi | around 1750 BC |
The Exodus | 1446 BC |
Trojan War | 1250 BC |
David becomes king of Israel | around 1010 BC |
First Olympic Games | 776 BC |
Roman Republic founded | 753 BC |
Babylonian destruction of Solomon's Temple | 586 BC |
Battle of Marathon | 490 BC |
Death of Socrates | 399 BC |
Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia | 331 BC |
Great Wall of China completed | 214 BC |
Julius Caesar assassinated by senators | 44 BC |
Birth of Jesus | 3 BC |
Death and Resurrection of Jesus | around 30 AD |
Destruction of Jerusalem by Romans | 70 AD |
Division of Roman Empire into east and west | 286 AD |
Edict of Milan | 313 AD |
Council of Nicaea | 325 AD |
Patrick arrives in Ireland | around 432 AD |
Fall of the Western Roman Empire | 476 AD |
Columba evangelizes Britain | 563 AD |
The Hegira begins the Muslim era | 622 AD |
Charlemagne crowned 1st Holy Roman Emperor | 800 AD |
Reign of Alfred the Great begins | 871 AD |
Leif Ericson sails to the New World | around 1000 AD |
Normans conquer England at the Battle of Hastings | 1066 AD |
Signing of the Magma Carta | 1214 AD |
Marco Polo begins journey to China | 1270 AD |
Birth of John Wycliffe | 1324 AD |
The Renaissance begins | around 1350 AD |
Guttenberg printing press invented | around 1456 AD |
Columbus lands in the New World | 1492 AD |
Martin Luther's 95 Thesis | 1517 AD |
Magellan's crew circumnavigates the globe | 1522 AD |
Church of England established | 1534 AD |
English defeat the Spanish Armada | 1588 AD |
Jamestown colony founded | 1607 AD |
King James Version printed | 1611 AD |
House of Burgesses formed in Virginia | 1619 AD |
Mayflower Compact | 1620 AD |
Massachusetts Bay Colony founded | 1630 AD |
The Enlightenment begins | around 1687 AD |
The beginning of the Great Awakening | 1740 AD |
End of the French and Indian War | 1763 AD |
Patriots have a Tea Party in Boston | 1773 AD |
First shot of American Revolution fired | 1775 AD |
Declaration of Independence signed | 1776 AD |
US Constitution ratified | 1788 AD |
Lewis and Clark expedition begins | 1804 AD |
Slave trade abolished in Britain | 1807 AD |
War of 1812 | 1812 AD |