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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
Over 50% of the world's borders today were drawn as a result of British and French imperialism. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] An unambiguous measure is the date of national constitutions ; but as constitutions are an almost entirely modern concept, all formation dates by that criterion are modern or early modern (the oldest extant constitution being that ...
February 4 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Day of the Armed Struggle [89] Earliest day on which Ash Wednesday can fall, while March 10 is the latest; celebrated on the first day of Lent (Western Christianity) Independence Day (Sri Lanka) [90] Rosa Parks Day (California and Missouri, United States) World Cancer Day; International Day of Human ...
February 19–April 2 – The 2011 Cricket World Cup is held in India, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka with India defeating Sri Lanka in the final. February 22 – March 14 – Uncertainty over Libyan oil output causes crude oil prices to rise 20% over a two-week period following the Arab Spring, [ 18 ] causing the 2011 energy crisis.
It is now February 4 2011 Today's featured picture A late 1930s Federal Art Project poster advertising the bobsled track in Lake Placid, New York , United States, which had been used in the 1932 Winter Olympics .
The first eon in Earth's history, the Hadean, begins with the Earth's formation and is followed by the Archean eon at 3.8 Ga. [2]: 145 The oldest rocks found on Earth date to about 4.0 Ga, and the oldest detrital zircon crystals in rocks to about 4.4 Ga, [34] [35] [36] soon after the formation of the Earth's crust and the Earth
The ancient Chinese historian Xu Zheng (fl. 220-265 AD) in his Three Five Historic Records dated the creation of the world by Pangu 36,000 years (2 x 18,000) before the reign of the legendary Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors. [49] [50] [51] The date of the Three sovereigns is fixed at 3000–2700 BC [52] and therefore dates the creation about ...
Disasters Cyclone Yasi The Australian state of Queensland evacuates off-shore islands and low-lying parts of North Queensland ahead of Cyclone Yasi which is expected to hit the state as a Category 4 tropical cyclone late on Wednesday or early Thursday. (Courier Mail) (Reuters via Yahoo! News) Cyclone Yasi is upgraded to Category 5 and is predicted to be the worst storm to hit Australia in ...