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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
day–day: 5–7 January 1979 ... Examples: fl. 1571–1588, ... To refer to a decade as a chronological period per se (not with reference to a social era or cultural ...
The most widely used method for denominating decades is to group years based on their shared tens digit, from a year ending in a 0 to a year ending in a 9 – for example, the period from 1960 to 1969 is the 1960s, and the period from 1970 to 1979 is the 1970s.
No major civil rights legislation passed in 1963, but it was the most important year in the decade that transformed America, writes historian Peniel E. Joseph, and no day was more defining of that ...
2600 BC: Public bath in Mohenjo-daro, Indus Valley (modern-day Pakistan). [173] 2600 BC: Levee in Indus Valley. [174] 2600 BC: Balance weights and scales, from the Fourth Dynasty of Egypt; examples of Deben (unit) balance weights, from reign of Sneferu (c. 2600 BC) have been attributed. [175]
September 1 – 3: On the first school day in Russia, a group of Chechen terrorists held students, parents and teachers hostage in Beslan school, in North Ossetia–Alania. During three days under attack, 334 people died. October 23 – 27: Boston Red Sox wins the World Series for the first time since 1918, ending the Curse of the Bambino.
The House Tax Hartal was an occasion of nonviolent resistance to protest a tax in parts of British India, with a particularly noteworthy example of hartal (a form of general strike) in the vicinity of Varanasi: British India: Demonstrators 1810 The West Florida rebellion against Spain, eventually becomes a short-lived republic. Spain: Rebels ...