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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
A graphical view of the Cosmic Calendar, featuring the months of the year, days of December, and the final minute. The Cosmic Calendar is a method to visualize the chronology of the universe , scaling its current age of 13.8 billion years to a single year in order to help intuit it for pedagogical purposes in science education or popular science .
Historical anniversaries; Historical sites; Inventors killed by their own inventions; Missing treasure; Defunct buildings ; Roman sites. Spain; UK; World records in chess; Time periods: On this day (December 31) Months; This Year (2024) By year; By decade, century, or millennium; Timelines of events. By chronology: Big Bang; Ancient Mesopotamia ...
Timelines of world history; List of timelines; Chronology; See calendar and list of calendars for other groupings of years. See history, history by period, and periodization for different organizations of historical events. For earlier time periods, see Timeline of the Big Bang, Geologic time scale, Timeline of evolution, and Logarithmic timeline
This year's Atlantic Hurricane season features Hurricane Harvey, which kills 107 and becomes the costliest hurricane in US history, as well as Hurricane Irma, killing 134, and Hurricane Maria, killing 3,059. Robert Mugabe is ousted in a coup d'état. Serb military commander Ratko Mladić is declared guilty of genocide in the Bosnian Genocide.
June 15: Release date of Disney's The Lion King. June 23: Release date of Forrest Gump. July 1: Plano Real introduces the new real currency in Brazil. July 5: Amazon founded in Bellevue, Washington, by Jeff Bezos. July 8 – 17: Death and state funeral of Kim Il-sung. Kim Jong-il becomes Supreme Leader of North Korea.
The date used as the end of the ancient era is arbitrary. The transition period from Classical Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages is known as Late Antiquity.Late Antiquity is a periodization used by historians to describe the transitional centuries from Classical Antiquity to the Middle Ages, in both mainland Europe and the Mediterranean world: generally from the end of the Roman Empire's ...
The following pages, corresponding to the Gregorian calendar, list the historical events, births, deaths, and holidays and observances of the specified day of the year: Jan 1