
Events contained by the Chronology app:
Event | Date |
Construction of The Terrace of the Lions (Delos Island, Greece) | BC 3000 |
Babylon becomes a power center | BC 1830 |
Hittites occupy Babylon | BC 1531 |
Construction of Pieta statue (Italy) | BC 1499 |
Murder of Tutankhamen | BC 1337 |
The first known strike | BC 1156 |
Foundation of Carthage | BC 814 |
The beginning of Ancient Greek Olympic Games | BC 776 |
Foundation of Rome | BC 753 |
Foundation of Tarentum | BC 706 |
Taharqa becomes pharaoh of Egypt | BC 690 |
Assyrians destroy Babylon | BC 689 |
Greeks found Chalcedon | BC 685 |
Jimmu Tenno founds dynasty | BC 660 |
Battle of Megiddo | BC 608 |
Psamtik II becomes king | BC 595 |
Babylonian captivity | BC 587 |
Thales of Miletus predicts a solar eclipse | BC 585 |
Amasis II becomes pharaoh | BC 570 |
Foundation of Magadha Empire | BC 543 |
Scythian campaign of Persians | BC 513 |
Beginning of Roman Republic | BC 509 |
Battle of Marathon | BC 490 |
Athens receives democratic constitution | BC 487 |
Final defeat of Babylon | BC 482 |
Second Persian War begins | BC 480 |
Construction of Zeus Temple is finished | BC 457 |
Construction of Parthenon (Greece) completed | BC 432 |
Battle of the Allia | BC 387 |
Alexander the Great becomes king | BC 336 |
Campaign of Alexander the Great against Persia | BC 334 |
Susa weddings | BC 324 |
Elephant Battle | BC 275 |
Rome becomes great power | BC 237 |
Construction of the Terracotta Army (China) completed | BC 208 |
Foundation of Han dynasty | BC 206 |
Foundation of Aquileia | BC 181 |
Ptolemy publishes his theory of the Earth-centered universe | BC 150 |
Jews establish their kingdom | BC 140 |
Hipparchos completes the first catalog of the stars | BC 129 |
Construction of Venus de Milo statue completed | BC 100 |
Beginning of Spartacus’ Revolt | BC 73 |
Construction of Colosseum (Italy) completed | BC 70 |
Construction of The Statues Of Mount Nemrut (Turkey) | BC 62 |
The first triumvirate in Rome | BC 60 |
Introduction of Julian calendar | BC 46 |
Herod becomes King of the Jews | BC 37 |
Battle of Actium | BC 31 |
Construction of Augustus Prima Porta statue (Italy) | BC 27 |
Judea comes under direct Roman rule | BC 6 |
Red eyebrow rebellion | 23 |
Pontius Pilate becomes procurator | 26 |
Crucifixion of Jesus | 33 |
Nero becomes roman emperor | 54 |
Great Fire of Rome | 64 |
Eunuch invents paper | 105 |
Foundation of Regensburg | 179 |
Foundation of Sasanian Empire | 224 |
Beginning of first persecution of Christians | 249 |
Formation of independent Gallic empire | 259 |
Ssu-ma clan unites China | 265 |
Constantine the Great becomes emperor | 306 |
Milan Grace Order | 313 |
The first Hun attack | 350 |
Foundation of the first monastery | 361 |
Western Goths defeat Emperor Valens | 378 |
Sack of Rome by the Visigoths | 410 |
Foundation of Vandal Empire | 429 |
Attila becomes sole monarch | 445 |
Fall of the Western Roman Empire | 476 |
Creation of Christian calendar | 525 |
Turks appear in history | 552 |
Beginning of Byzantine Empire | 627 |
Creation of Quran | 653 |
The final destruction of Carthage | 698 |
Vikings appear in Russia | 700 |
Nara becomes capital of Japan | 710 |
Pepin the Short becomes sole monarch | 747 |
Charlemagne becomes roman emperor | 800 |
Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin | 895 |
Louis III. becomes Frankish emperor | 901 |
Erik the Red discovers Greenland | 982 |
Stephen I. dies | 1038 |
Creation of Domesday Book | 1086 |
Beginning of the Second Crusade | 1146 |
Construction of Leaning Tower of Pisa (Italy) starts | 1173 |
Beginning of the Third Crusade | 1189 |
Foundation of Delhi Sultanate | 1206 |
Creation of Magna Carta Libertatum | 1215 |
Edward I. becomes King of England | 1272 |
Pestilence appears in Europe | 1347 |
Foundation of Ming dynasty | 1368 |
Construction of The Manneken Pis statue (Belgium) | 1388 |
Battle of Kosovo | 1389 |
Geoffrey Chaucer writes The Canterbury Tales | 1392 |
Beijing becomes capital of China | 1421 |
Issue of Pragmatic Sanction of Bourges | 1438 |
Gutenberg’s invention of the printing press | 1445 |
Printing of Chronica Hungarorum | 1473 |
Construction of The Moscow Kremlin starts | 1475 |
Sandro Botticelli finishes The Birth of Venus | 1486 |
Christopher Columbus discovers America | 1492 |
Vasco da Gama reaches Calicut, India | 1498 |
Amerigo Vespucci explores lands in South America | 1499 |
Bartolomeu Dias’ ship sinks | 1500 |
Construction of David Statue (Italy) | 1501 |
Mail traffic starts | 1505 |
Charles I. becomes king of Spain | 1516 |
Martin Luther’s 95 Theses | 1517 |
Leonardo Da Vinci finishes Mona Lisa | 1519 |
Italian Four Years’ War | 1521 |
Finishing the first world circumnavigation | 1522 |
Soccer appears in Italy as Calcio | 1530 |
Girolamo Fracastoro’s epic poem about syphilis | 1530 |
Foundation of Montreal | 1535 |
Proposal of Copernican heliocentrism | 1543 |
William Shakespeare is born | 1564 |
Foundation of Rio de Janeiro | 1565 |
Pieter Bruegel the Elder paints The Harvesters | 1565 |
Foundation of Royal Exchange | 1570 |
Foundation of Buenos Aires | 1580 |
Publication of the most important Chinese pharmacopoeia | 1593 |
Death of Christopher Marlowe | 1593 |
Publication of Romeo and Juliet (William Shakespeare) | 1597 |
Burning of Giordano Bruno | 1600 |
First appearance of forensic medicine | 1602 |
Publication of Don Quixote (Miguel de Cervantes) | 1605 |
Foundation of Quebec | 1608 |
Publication of The Sonnets (William Shakespeare) | 1609 |
King James Bible is completed and published | 1611 |
Johannes Kepler’s third law | 1618 |
The first legislative assembly | 1619 |
Foundation of Dutch West Indi Company | 1621 |
Publication of The First Folio (William Shakespeare) | 1623 |
Construction of the Apollo and Daphne statue (Italy) completed | 1625 |
William Harvey discovers the large circle of blood circulation | 1628 |
Foundation of Boston | 1630 |
Crust of cinchona, the first specific medicine | 1630 |
The first obstetrics in Paris | 1630 |
First Cotswold Games | 1634 |
Publication of Johann Schröder’s pharmacopoeia | 1641 |
Vincenzo Viviani discovers air pressure | 1643 |
Evangelista Torricelli invents the mercurial barometer | 1644 |
Construction of Taj Mahal (India) completed | 1645 |
Construction of Ecstasy Of Saint Teresa statue (Italy) | 1652 |
Construction of Taj Mahal (India) completed | 1653 |
The first injection directly into vein | 1665 |
The first blood transfusion | 1665 |
Johannes Vermeer paints Girl with a Pearl Earring | 1665 |
Great Fire of London | 1666 |
Hennig Brand invents phosphorus | 1669 |
First recorded boxing match | 1681 |
Erhard Weigel invents the elevator | 1687 |
Brazilian Gold Rush | 1693 |
Voltaire is born | 1694 |
Cadillac founds Detroit | 1701 |
Saint Petersburg becomes capital of Russia | 1712 |
Surgery becomes independent science | 1718 |
Publication of Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe) | 1719 |
First paper money inflation | 1720 |
Publication of Gulliver’s Travels (Jonathan Swift) | 1727 |
Jacques Daviel makes the first cataract surgery | 1745 |
First defeating of scurvy | 1747 |
French conquest of Corsica | 1768 |
Boston Tea Party | 1773 |
Joseph Priestley discovers Oxygen | 1774 |
European anatomy and medicine appears in Japan | 1774 |
James Watt invents the steam engine | 1776 |
Law to regulate the biliard game in Paris | 1777 |
William Herschel discovers Uranus | 1781 |
George Washington becomes the first president of the USA | 1789 |
Introduction of Dollar in the USA | 1792 |
The unit of length measurement becomes meter | 1795 |
T. Beddoes applies oxygen and laughing gas against diseases | 1799 |
Alessandro Volta invents electric battery | 1800 |
Robert Fulton creates the first submarine | 1800 |
Discovery of the ultra violet rays | 1801 |
Edgar Allan Poe is born | 1809 |
First fight for the world boxing champion title | 1810 |
Friedrich Ludwig Jahn invents gymnastics | 1811 |
Stephenson starts to construct steam locomotives | 1813 |
First book about athletics by Walter Tom | 1813 |
Publication of Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus | 1818 |
First steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean | 1819 |
Walt Whitman is born | 1819 |
The first public steam train | 1825 |
Anyos Jedlik invents the electric motor | 1829 |
Discovery of the magnetic pole | 1831 |
Asian cholera appears in Europe | 1831 |
Publication of Faust (Goethe) | 1832 |
Publication of Eugene Onegin (Alexander Pushkin) | 1832 |
Foundation of Chicago | 1833 |
Opening of Germany’s first steam-powered railway | 1835 |
First proven arsenic poisioning | 1836 |
Beginning of transatlantic shipping | 1838 |
Samuel Colt invents the revolver | 1842 |
The first morse telegraph message | 1844 |
First public baseball game in USA | 1846 |
Johann Galle is the first person to spot Neptune | 1846 |
Ignaz Semmelweis introduces hand disinfection standards | 1847 |
Ascanio Sobrero invites nitroglycerine | 1847 |
California Gold Rush | 1848 |
First medical college for women in USA | 1848 |
Publication of David Copperfield (Charles Dickens) | 1849 |
Publication of Moby Dick (Herman Melville) | 1851 |
William Thomson invents the heat pump | 1852 |
Foundation of Dakar | 1857 |
Foundation of FC Sheffield as world’s first soccer club | 1857 |
Darwin publishes Theory Of Evolution | 1859 |
Publication of On the Origin of Species (Charles Darwin) | 1859 |
Publicatin of I Hear America Singing (Walt Whitman) | 1860 |
Foundation of first german shooter association (DSB) | 1861 |
Invention of four-stroke engine | 1862 |
Foundation of Football Association | 1863 |
Football becomes soccer by the rules of Football Association | 1863 |
The first science fiction comic strip: Trip to the Moon | 1865 |
Gregor Mendel discovers laws of inheritance | 1865 |
Publication of Alice in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll) | 1865 |
Foundation of first athletic club | 1866 |
Publication of Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky) | 1866 |
Pierre Michaux founds the first bicycle factory | 1867 |
Publication of War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy) | 1867 |
Inauguration of the Suez Canal | 1869 |
Construction of Suez Canal competed | 1869 |
J. A. Abbott paints the Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1 | 1871 |
Mandatory vaccination against smallpox in German Empire | 1874 |
Claude Monet paints Impression, Sunrise | 1874 |
Construction starts of Statue of Liberty (USA) | 1875 |
Nikolaus August Otto creates the first four-stroke engine | 1876 |
First Wimbledon tennis tournament | 1877 |
First commercially successful typewriter in USA | 1878 |
Edison invents the carbon-filament lamp | 1879 |
Walther Flemming discovers cytogenetics | 1879 |
Foundation of National Board of Health in USA | 1879 |
First successful gastrectomy | 1882 |
Cocaine as local anesthetic | 1884 |
Construction of La Sagrada Familia (Spain) starts | 1884 |
Foundation of German Swim Federation | 1886 |
John Stith Pemberton invents Coca-Cola as patent medicine | 1886 |
Carl Benz creates the first gasoline car | 1886 |
Vincent van Gogh paints The Starry Night | 1889 |
Construction of Eiffel Tower (France) starts | 1889 |
Publication of The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde) | 1890 |
Invention of Diesel engine | 1893 |
Establishment of Stanley Cup | 1893 |
The world’s first car race in France | 1894 |
Foundation of International Olympic Committee | 1894 |
Conrad Rontgen discovers X-ray | 1895 |
The first international Olympic Games in modern history | 1896 |
Publication of Quo Vadis (Henryk Sienkiewicz) | 1896 |
The first Nobel Prize Award Ceremony | 1901 |
Release of A Trip to the Moon film | 1902 |
Construction of The Thinker statue (France) | 1902 |
The first flight of Wright brothers | 1903 |
The first Tour de France | 1903 |
Japan’s Attack on Port Arthur | 1904 |
St. Louis Olympic Games | 1904 |
Foundation of FIFA | 1904 |
Publication of Peter Pan (JM Barrie) | 1904 |
‘Bloody Sunday’ in St. Petersburg | 1905 |
Radium as medicine for uterine cancer | 1905 |
Alfred Einhorn invents Novocain as replacement of Cocaine | 1905 |
The first Grand Prix de France | 1906 |
Development of bakelite | 1907 |
Ford Model T on the market | 1908 |
First airplane flight across the English Channel | 1909 |
The ‘Lightning Benz’ race car exceeds 200 kph | 1909 |
Ernest Rutherford discovers the nucleus | 1910 |
Earth passes through the tail of Halley’s Comet | 1910 |
First man to the South Pole | 1911 |
First international hygiene exhibition | 1911 |
Victor Francis Hess discovers the cosmic radiation | 1911 |
Stockholm Olympic Games | 1912 |
Publication of In Search of Lost Time (Marcel Proust) | 1913 |
Unveiling of Little Mermaid statue (Danmark) | 1913 |
Formation of Federal Reserve | 1913 |
Ford introduces the assembly line | 1913 |
Beginning of World War I. | 1914 |
Release of five-ringed symbol of the Olympic Games | 1914 |
Panama Canal opens | 1914 |
Germans use poison gas for the first time | 1915 |
Birth of Edith Piaf | 1915 |
Construction of Lincon Memorial (Washington DC) | 1917 |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 |
Montreal Canadiens wins Stanley Cup for first time | 1919 |
Construction of Sacre Coeur (France) completed | 1919 |
Canada wins gold medal in ice hockey for first time | 1920 |
First appearance of insulin | 1921 |
Publication of Ulysses (James Joyce) | 1922 |
Construction starts of Christ The Redeemer statue (Brazil) | 1922 |
Beer Hall Putsch | 1923 |
The first 24 Hours of Le Mans race | 1923 |
The first Winter Olympic Games | 1924 |
First hemodialysis in humans | 1924 |
Publication of The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald) | 1925 |
The first talking movie | 1927 |
Construction of Mount Rushmore National Memorial starts | 1927 |
Alexander Flemming discovers penicillin | 1928 |
Black Friday on New York Stock Exchange | 1929 |
Philip Dinker invents the iron lung | 1929 |
Uruguay wins the first FIFA World Cup | 1930 |
Construction of Empire State Building starts | 1930 |
Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto | 1930 |
Karl Jansky detects the first radio waves coming from space | 1932 |
Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor | 1933 |
British chemists invent polyethylene | 1933 |
Opening of Wembley Arena | 1934 |
Elvis Presley’s birthdate | 1935 |
Birth of Luciano Pavarotti | 1935 |
Inauguration of the Hoover Dam | 1936 |
Hoover Dam is completed | 1936 |
Second Sino-Japanese War | 1937 |
Pablo Picasso paints Guernica | 1937 |
Construction of Golden Gate Bridge completed | 1937 |
Foundation of Volkswagen AG | 1937 |
Foundation of Toyota Motor Corporation | 1937 |
Beginning of World War II. | 1939 |
Release of The Wizard of Oz film (Victor Fleming) | 1939 |
Release of Gone With the Wind film (Victor Fleming) | 1939 |
Publication of Johnny Got His Gun book (Dalton Trumbo) | 1939 |
Foundation of The Hewlett-Packard Company | 1939 |
The first commercial television broadcast | 1939 |
Grote Reber reports the first radio telescope survey of the sky | 1940 |
Attack on Pearl Harbor | 1941 |
Release of Citizen Kane film (1941) | 1941 |
Birth of Placido Domingo | 1941 |
Release of Casablanca film (Michael Curtiz) | 1942 |
Albert Hofmann discovers effects of LSD | 1943 |
Normandy landings (D-Day) | 1944 |
Birth of Diana Ross | 1944 |
U.S. fire-bombing raids of Tokyo | 1945 |
Burning nearly 30000 books of nazi affiliated texts in Germany | 1946 |
Invention of audiometer | 1947 |
Breaking the sound barrier by jetfighter | 1947 |
Three Bell Labs scientists invent the transistor | 1947 |
Foundation of World Health Organisation | 1948 |
Foundation of Honda Motor Company, Ltd. | 1948 |
The Marshall Plan is enacted | 1948 |
Establishment of CMEA | 1949 |
Publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell) | 1949 |
Foundation of Formula 1 | 1950 |
First successful kidney transplantation | 1950 |
Explosion of the first hydrogen bomb | 1952 |
First test of H-bomb | 1952 |
Release of Singin’ in the Rain film (Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly) | 1952 |
Coronation of Elizabeth II | 1953 |
Publication of Casino Royale (Ian Fleming) | 1953 |
Foundation of UEFA | 1954 |
Release of The Seven Samurai film (Akira Kurosawa) | 1954 |
Release of On the Waterfront film (Elia Kazan) | 1954 |
Publication of The Lord of the Rings book series (JRR Tolkien) | 1954 |
Beginning of Vietnam War | 1955 |
Chuck Berry’s ‘maybellene’ is released | 1955 |
Suez Crisis | 1956 |
Soviet Union launches Sputnik I. | 1957 |
Boston Celtics wins NBA championship for first time | 1957 |
Laika dog in space | 1957 |
Appearance of Wankel engine | 1957 |
First flying around the Earth without landing | 1957 |
Release of 12 Angry Men film (Sidney Lumet) | 1957 |
The first Japanese car, a Toyota, is sold in the US | 1957 |
Elvis joins the army | 1958 |
Bank of America launches the first credit card | 1958 |
Release of Some Like It Hot film (Billy Wilder) | 1959 |
The Day the Music Died | 1959 |
Construction of Sydney Opera House starts | 1959 |
Release of Psycho film (Alfred Hitchcock) | 1960 |
First man in space | 1961 |
Release of Live at the Apollo (James Brown) | 1962 |
Formation of Kennedy Space Center | 1962 |
The first Walmart opens | 1962 |
Assassination of John F. Kennedy | 1963 |
The German Football Association founds Bundesliga | 1963 |
Edith Piaf dies | 1963 |
Equal pay for equal work in the USA | 1963 |
Muhammad Ali world boxing champion for first time | 1964 |
Establishment of German Cancer Research Center | 1964 |
Release of Mary Poppins film (Robert Stevenson) | 1964 |
The Beatles appears on Ed Sullivan’s TV show | 1964 |
First photograph about fetus inside its amniotic sac | 1965 |
Release of Doctor Zhivago film (David Lean) | 1965 |
Bob Dylan releases ‘Like a Rolling Stone’ | 1965 |
Bob Dylan plays the Newport Folk Festival | 1965 |
Release of My Generation (The Who) | 1965 |
Release of (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction (The Rolling Stones) | 1965 |
Muhammad Ali stripped of his world boxing champion title | 1967 |
First successful heart transplantation | 1967 |
Release of Bonnie and Clyde film (Arthur Penn) | 1967 |
Unveiling of The Motherland Calls statue (Russia) | 1967 |
Olympic victory with Fosbury Flop technique | 1968 |
Jim Clark dies | 1968 |
Introduction of Numerus Clausus at German universities | 1968 |
Release of 2001: A Space Odyssey film (Stanley Kubrick) | 1968 |
First Woodstock festival | 1969 |
Pelé scores his 1000th goal | 1969 |
Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin on the Moon | 1969 |
First flight of Concorde | 1969 |
Jimi Hendrix plays ‘The Star Spangled Banner’ at Woodstock | 1969 |
Black Sabbath release their first album | 1970 |
Jimi Hendrix dies | 1970 |
Janis Joplin dies | 1970 |
Formation of Aerosmith | 1970 |
Xerox founds its Palo Alto Research Center | 1970 |
Launch of Salyut space station | 1971 |
Appearance of Liquid Cristal Display | 1971 |
Jim Morrison dies | 1971 |
Release of Johnny Got His Gun film (Dalton Trumbo) | 1971 |
Release of Riders on the Storm (The Doors) | 1971 |
Intel invents the single-chip microprocessor | 1971 |
Russia launches its first space station Salyut 1 into orbit | 1971 |
Massacre during the Summer Olympics in Munich | 1972 |
Release of The Godfather film (Francis Ford Coppola) | 1972 |
Dream On is released (Aerosmith) | 1973 |
Construction of Sydney Opera House completed | 1973 |
Federal Express begins operations | 1973 |
Creation of Rubik’s Cube | 1974 |
Turbocharger in series production | 1974 |
Release of The Godfather: Part II film (Francis Ford Coppola) | 1974 |
Kraftwerk release ‘Autobahn’ | 1974 |
End of Vietnam War | 1975 |
Foundation of Microsoft Corporation | 1975 |
Release of No Woman, No Cry (Bob Marley & the Wailers) | 1975 |
Formation of Iron Maiden | 1975 |
Foundation of Microsoft Corporation | 1975 |
Niki Lauda’s accident at Nurburgring | 1976 |
Foundation of Apple Inc. | 1976 |
Release of Rocky film (John G. Avildsen) | 1976 |
Release of Taxi Driver film (Martin Scorsese) | 1976 |
Foundation of Apple Inc. | 1976 |
NASA’s Viking 1 and Viking 2 space probes arrive at Mars | 1976 |
Elvis Presley dies | 1977 |
Release of Star Wars film (George Lucas) | 1977 |
Saturday Night Fever premieres and Disco Comes Alive | 1977 |
Construction of The Centre Pompidou (France) completed | 1977 |
Argentina wins FIFA World Cup for first time | 1978 |
First test tube baby born in England | 1978 |
Release of The Deer Hunter film (Michael Cimino) | 1978 |
Margaret Thatcher becomes prime minister | 1979 |
Release of Alien film (Ridley Scott) | 1979 |
Construction of Tian Tan Buddha statue (Hong Kong) | 1979 |
Murder of John Lennon | 1980 |
Release of Airplane! film (J. Abrahams, D. Zucker, J. Zucker) | 1980 |
Release of The Empire Strikes Back film (Irvin Kershner) | 1980 |
Ronald Reagan is elected | 1980 |
Discovery of AIDS | 1981 |
First appearance of crack in USA | 1981 |
First appearance of compact disc on the market | 1981 |
First launch of Colombia space shuttle | 1981 |
Release of Raiders of the Lost Ark film (Steven Spielberg) | 1981 |
The launch of MTV | 1981 |
Formation of Metallica | 1981 |
Harley-Davidson adopts Japanese management techniques | 1981 |
Appearance of magnetic resonance tomography | 1982 |
Release of E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial film (Steven Spielberg) | 1982 |
Release of Thriller (Michael Jackson) | 1982 |
The mankind starts to use more plastic than iron | 1983 |
Formation of Bon Jovi | 1983 |
The first infrared astronomy satellite, IRAS, is launched | 1983 |
Los Angeles Olympic Games | 1984 |
Michael Jordan drafted by Chicago Bulls | 1984 |
Appearance of anti-lock braking system | 1984 |
Release of Amadeus film (Milos Forman) | 1984 |
Release of Ghostbusters film (Ivan Reitman) | 1984 |
Release of Born in the USA (Bruce Springsteen) | 1984 |
Michael Jackson performs the ‘moonwalk’ for the first time | 1984 |
Garry Kasparov world chess champion | 1985 |
Ayrton Senna wins his first Formula 1 race | 1985 |
Release of Back to the Future film (Robert Zemeckis) | 1985 |
Madonna’s ‘Material Girl’ is released | 1985 |
Parental Advisory label is introduced by RIAA | 1985 |
The Day the Music Changed the World | 1985 |
Space Shuttle Challenger disaster | 1986 |
Chernobyl nuclear accident | 1986 |
The first surgical application of laser technology | 1986 |
The Deep Thought becomes chess grandmaster | 1988 |
Release of Die Hard film (John McTiernan) | 1988 |
Release of Fuck tha Police (N.W.A) | 1988 |
Fall of the Iron Curtain | 1989 |
Release of Metallica’s first music video | 1989 |
Launch of Hubble Space Telescope | 1990 |
The World Wide Web publicly debuts | 1991 |
Initial release of Linux | 1991 |
Release of Beauty and the Beast film (G. Trousdale, K. Wise) | 1991 |
Release of The Silence of the Lambs film (Jonathan Demme) | 1991 |
Bill Clinton is elected as President of the US for first time | 1992 |
Release of Reservoir Dogs film (Quentin Tarantino) | 1992 |
Release of Smells Like Teen Spirit (Nirvana) | 1992 |
Release of Schindler’s List film (Steven Spielberg) | 1993 |
Release of Jurassic Park film (Steven Spielberg) | 1993 |
M. Schumacher wins his first Formula 1 World Championship | 1994 |
Release of The Shawshank Redemption film (Frank Darabont) | 1994 |
Release of Pulp Fiction film (Quentin Tarantino) | 1994 |
Release of Forrest Gump film (Robert Zemeckis) | 1994 |
Release of The Lion King film (Roger Allers, Rob Minkoff) | 1994 |
Kurt Cobain dies | 1994 |
Foundation of Amazon.com Inc. | 1994 |
Release of Bravehart film (Mel Gibson) | 1995 |
Release of Seven film (David Fincher) | 1995 |
Release of Toy Story film (John Lasseter) | 1995 |
The Spice Girls appears | 1995 |
Netscape goes public | 1995 |
Tupac Shakur dies | 1996 |
Eminem releases his debut album | 1996 |
Princess Diana dies in car accident | 1997 |
Release of Titanic film (James Cameron) | 1997 |
Release of Good Will Hunting film (Gus Van Sant) | 1997 |
Publication of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone | 1997 |
Foundation of Google Inc. | 1998 |
Release of Saving Private Ryan film (Steven Spielberg) | 1998 |
Foundation of PayPal Holdings, Inc. | 1998 |
Release of American Beauty film (Sam Mendes) | 1999 |
Release of Fight Club film (David Fincher) | 1999 |
Release of The Matrix film (Andy and Lana Wachowski) | 1999 |
George W. Bush is elected as President of the US for first time | 2000 |
Release of Memento film (Christopher Nolan) | 2000 |
Release of Gladiator film (Ridley Scott) | 2000 |
Foundation of Napster | 2000 |
Release of ‘1’ (The Beatles) | 2000 |
The World Trade Center attacks | 2001 |
Foundation of Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) | 2002 |
Space Shuttle Columbia disaster | 2003 |
Foundation of Tesla Motors, Inc. | 2003 |
Hurricane Katrina | 2005 |
Release of Pan’s Labyrinth film (Guillermo del Toro) | 2006 |
Luciano Pavaotti dies | 2007 |
Barack Obama is elected as President of the US for first time | 2008 |
Release of Slumdog Millionaire film (Danny Boyle) | 2008 |
Release of The Dark Knight film (Christopher Nolan) | 2008 |
Construction of Spring Temple Buddha (China) | 2008 |
Construction of Shanghai World Financial Center completed | 2008 |
Michael Jackson dies | 2009 |
Release of Up film (Pete Docter, Bob Peterson) | 2009 |
Release of Avatar film (James Cameron) | 2009 |
Release of Inception film (Christopher Nolan) | 2010 |
The Beatles put their music on iTunes | 2010 |
Construction of Burj Khalifa (UAE) completed | 2010 |
Osama bin Laden is found and killed | 2011 |
The Voice debuts on NBC | 2011 |
Len Blavatnik’s Access Industries buys Warner Music Group | 2011 |
Spotify arrives in America | 2011 |
Release of What Makes You Beautiful (One Direction) | 2012 |
Release of Baby (Justin Bieber) | 2012 |
U.S. Prosecutors shut down MegaUpload, arrest Kim Dotcom | 2012 |
Whitney Houston dies at 48 | 2012 |
Tupac gets resurrected via hologram at Coachella | 2012 |
Sony/ATV Buys EMI Publishing | 2012 |
Universal Music Group Completes Acquisition of EMI | 2012 |
Psy’s ‘Gangnam Style’ video hits a billion YouTube views | 2012 |
Beyoncé plays halftime of Super Bowl XLVII | 2013 |
Construction of The Statue of Unity (India) | 2013 |
David Bowie dies at 69 | 2016 |
Mass shooting in Orlando’s Pulse nightclub | 2016 |
Liberty Media buys Formula 1 | 2017 |
Route 91 Harvest Music Festival shooting | 2017 |
Avicii dies by suicide | 2018 |
TikTok merges with Musical.ly | 2018 |
Apple shuts down iTunes | 2019 |