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Facebook introduces the ability to tag friends in photos. [316] 2006: March 28: Acquisition talks: A potential acquisition of Facebook is reportedly under negotiations, for $750 million first, then later $2 billion. [259] 2006: April: Userbase: Facebook expands its membership requirements to include corporate employees. [317] 2006: August 22 ...
These timelines of world history detail recorded events since the creation of writing roughly 5000 years ago to the present day. For events from c. 3200 BC – c. 500 see: Timeline of ancient history; For events from c. 500 – c. 1499, see: Timeline of post-classical history; For events from c. 1500, see: Timelines of modern history
He reigned over the Kingdom of France until his death in 1715, making his reign the longest of any monarch in history at 72 years and 110 days. 1643: L'incoronazione di Poppea, by Monteverdi, first performed. 1644: Giovanni Battista Pamphili is elected Pope Innocent X at the Papal conclave of 1644. 1644: The Manchu conquer China ending the Ming ...
History, by period (See also Timeline of world history) Prehistory – events occurring before recorded history (that is, before written records). Colorado prehistory – Prehistoric technology – technologies that emerged before recorded history (i.e., before the development of writing).
Through this lens, Ferguson viewed world history as humanity's struggle to reach an ideal society. [28] Henry Home, Lord Kames was a philosopher during the Enlightenment and contributed to the study of world history. In his major historical work, Sketches on the History of Man, Kames outlined the four stages of human history which he observed. [29]
The center will feature a large cutaway model of the White House with rooms that, with the help of technology, can morph into the Green Room, the Blue Room or the Red Room.
From left, clockwise: Ramzi Yousef and other Islamic terrorists detonate a truck bomb in the subterranean garage of the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City, killing 7 also known as the World Trade Center bombing; the Russian White House is shelled during a constitutional crisis after Russian president Boris Yeltsin imposed a self-coup; Czechoslovakia is peacefully dissolved ...
"Sunday Morning" looks back at historical events on this date. ARTS: Gallery owner Larry Gagosian on the "blood sport" of the art world He's been called "the biggest art dealer in the history of ...