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2nd millennium

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2nd millennium - Events

• European crusades in Middle East
• Mongol Empires in Asia
• The Black Death
• The Renaissance in Europe
• The Protestant Reformation
• The agricultural and industrial revolutions
• The rise of nationalism and the nation state
• European discovery of the Americas and Australia and their colonization
• European colonization and decolonization in Africa and Asia
• Population explosion
• World-spanning wars (Seven Years' War, French Revolutionary Wars, Napoleonic Wars, World War I, World War II)
• Ideological disputes, Capitalism and Communism

2nd millennium - Significant persons

• Bhaskara (1114 - 1185), Indian mathematician, founder of differential calculus.
• Genghis Khan, (c. 1155/1162/1167 – 1227), Mongolian conqueror
• Thomas Aquinas (1225 – 1274), Italian theologian
• Dante Alighieri (1265 – 1321), Italian poet
• John Wycliffe (c. 1320 - 1384), English theologian and early proponent of reform in the Roman Catholic Church.
• Timur (1336 - 1405), founder of Timurid Empire
• Madhava of Sangamagrama (1350 - 1425), Indian mathematician, father of mathematical analysis.
• Yongle Emperor of China (1360 - 1424), considered among the greatest Chinese emperors.
• Jan Hus (1369 - 1415), Bohemian religious thinker and reformer.
• Zheng He (1371 - 1435), Chinese explorer.
• Johannes Gutenberg (c. 1398 – 1468), Inventor of movable type
• Joan of Arc (1412 - 1431), female commander of the French army.
• Christopher Columbus (1451 – 1506), Spanish explorer
• Leonardo da Vinci (1452 – 1519), Italian Artist, Philosopher and Scientist
• Nicholas Copernicus (1473 – 1543), Polish astronomer and mathematician
• Ferdinand Magellan (1480 - 1521), Portoguese explorer.
• Martin Luther (1483 – 1546), German religious reformer.
• Babur (1483 – 1530), founder of India's Mughal Empire, descendant of Timur.
• Jyeshtadeva (1500 – 1575), Indian mathematician and astronomer, writer of the world's first calculus text.
• Akbar (1542 – 1605), considered the greatest of the Mughal emperors
• Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616), Spanish playwright and novelist
• Galileo Galilei (1564 – 1642), Italian scientist
• William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616), British playwright and poet
• Jahangir (1569 – 1627), one of the greatest Mughal emperors
• Shah Jahan (1592 – 1666), one of the greatest Mughal emperors, builder of the Taj Mahal
• René Descartes (1596 – 1650), French philosopher and mathematician
• Isaac Newton (1642 – 1727), British scientist
• Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790), American founding father and scientist
• George Washington (1732 – 1799), First American president
• Thomas Jefferson (1743 – 1826), American founding father and president
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 – 1791), Austrian Composer
• Maximilien Robespierre (1758 – 1794) French Revolutionary Leader
• Napoleon I of France (1769 – 1821), French conqueror and emperor
• Michael Faraday (1791 – 1867), British scientist and inventor
• Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865), American president
• Charles Darwin (1809 – 1882), British natural scientist
• Otto von Bismarck (1815 – 1898), German chancellor
• Karl Marx (1818 – 1883), German political philosopher
• Queen Victoria (1819 – 1901), Queen of the United Kingdom
• Louis Pasteur (1822 – 1895) , French microbiologist and chemist.
• Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 – 1900), German philosopher
• Thomas Edison (1847 – 1931), Inventor
• Sigmund Freud (1856 – 1939), Austrian psychoanalyst
• Nikola Tesla (1856 – 1943), Inventor
• Mangal Pandey (d. 1857), considered to be responsible for the Indian Mutiny
• Henry Ford (1863 – 1947), Industrialist
• Mahatma Gandhi (1869 – 1948), Indian civil rights leader
• Vladimir Lenin (1870 – 1924), Soviet leader
• Winston Churchill (1874 – 1965), British prime minister
• Albert Einstein (1879 – 1955), German physicist
• Joseph Stalin (1879 – 1953), Soviet leader
• Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 – 1945), American president
• Adolf Hitler (1889 – 1945), German dictator
• Mao Zedong (1893 – 1976), Chinese revolutionary
• Walt Disney (1901 – 1966), American film producer and animator
• Bhagat Singh (1907 – 1931), one of the most famous martyrs of the Indian freedom struggle
• John Paul II (1920 – 2005), Pope of the Roman Catholic Church
• Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929 – 1968), American civil rights leader

2nd millennium - Inventions Discoveries Introductions

• The Printing press
• Gunpowder
• The Steam engine
• The discovery of the scientific method
• Theory of evolution
• The discovery of genetics and DNA
• Calculus
• Human Flight
• Nuclear Power
• The transistor and electronics
• Space travel and mankind's first flight to the moon
• The internal combustion engine
• Capitalism and socialism
• The computer and the Internet
• Universal suffrage
• Quantum Physics

2nd millennium - Centuries and Decades

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