America celebrates its Cenntenial. Samurai swords banned in Japan. Boss Tweed captured.

30 Years War, English Civil War end. Peace of Westphalia. Quakers founded.

Traditional date for birth of Christ. Ovid’s “Metamorphoses”. Tenotihuacan culture starts.

Canada hosts FIFA Women’s World Cup. New Horizons visits Pluto. Houthis seize Yemen.

Traditional date for the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ. Tiberius founds a bank.

Ebola virus epidemic. USA-Cuba normalize relations. Malaysia Airline Flight 17 shot down.

Death of Mohammed. Beginning of Hejira Era. Abu Bakr becomes caliph.

Columbus makes his first voyage to the West Indies. Reconquista on Spain complete.

Pope Francis elected. Boston Marathon bombing. Margaret Thatcher dies.

Transcontinental Railroad completed. U.S. Grant becomes U.S. President. Rasputin born.

Shakespeare born. Galileo born. John Calvin dies.

America’s Bicentennial. Harold Wilson resigns as British PM. Isabel Peron deposed.

Mau Mau Uprising. Rosenbergs executed as spies. Salk announces polio vaccine.

Black Hawk War begins. Andrew Jackson re-elected. Otto becomes King of Greece.

Charles Darwin dies. 1812 Overture debuts. Standard Oil Trust created.

Scots win Battle of Bannockburn. Jacque de Molay burned at the stake.

Deaths of Christopher Lee, Leonard Nimoy, Rod Taylor, and John Nash, Jr.

Deaths of Robin Williams, Joan Rivers, Mickey Rooney, and Lauren Bacall.

Deaths of Paul Walker, Cory Monteith, Roger Ebert, and Jean Stapleton.

Deaths of Whitney Houston, Dick Clark, Davy Jones, and Maurice Sendak.

Deaths of Peter Falk, Elizabeth Taylor, Randy Savage, and Heavy D.

Deaths of Dennis Hopper, Tony Curtis, Gary Coleman, and Lena Horne.

Year of Three Popes. Roman Polanski flees to France. Dallas debuts on TV.

Genghis Khan founds the Mongol Empire. Mameluk Dynasty founded in India.

Joseph Stalin dies. Little Ricky arrives on I Love Lucy. USA develops hydrogen bomb.

Fraud Hitler diaries published. Wheel of Fortune debuts. Beirut bombing.

Gettysburg Address delivered. Thomas Nast draws Santa Claus. Grant conquers Vicksburg.

Battle of Actium sees Octavian triumph. Masada completed. Octavian third time consul.

Zayn Malik leaves One Direction. Nepal suffers twin earthquakes. Blackhawks NHL champs.

Battle of Adrianople. Emperor Valens killed. Flavius Theodosius made co-emperor.

Beatles “All You Need Is Love”. Muhammad Ali stripped of title. Dictatorship in Greece.

Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia. Ronald Reagan gives his farewell address.

French lose entire army at Sedan. Napoleon III abdicates.

Jack Ruby kills Lee Harvey Oswald. Alcatraz closes. “Letter From Birmingham Jail”.

Seven Year’s War ends. No settlement allowed past Appalachians. Pontiac’s War.

Thirty Years’ War begins. Defenestration of Prague. Synod of Dort.

Last episode of M*A*S*H. Klaus Barbie arrested. Michael Jackson moonwalks.

NASA’s Dawn visits orbit of Ceres. ISIS destroys Nimrud. Lithuania adopts the Euro.

Battle of Marathon. Greeks repel Persians. Pheidippides possibly runs his last race.

Viktor Yanukovych booted in Ukraine. Giants-Royals World Series. Coup in Thailand.

Alfred Nobel invents dynamite. H.G. Wells born. Tennessee rejoins the Union.

Shaka Zulu begins his reign. Argentina’s independence. “Frankenstein” first imagined.

De Gama discovered route to India. Third voyage of Columbus. John Cabot disappears.

Hitler becomes Fuhrer. Night of the Long Knives in Germany. Engelbert Dollfuss killed.

Queen Mary dies, Queen Elizabeth of England reigns. Livonian War begins.

Nazi “Final Solution” decided. Guadalcanal campaign begins. Stalingrad battle begins.

Buchenwald, Auschwitz liberated. Prague Uprising. U.S. occupies Okinawa.

Battle of Wounded Knee. U.S. Frontier closed. Chief Sitting Bull is killed.

FIFA’s Sepp Blatter resigns. Ireland approves same-sex marriage. Patriots win Super Bowl.

Russia moves troops into Crimea. Flight MH370 disappears. MV Sewol disaster.

Martin Luther at the Diet of Worms. Magellan killed during his great voyage.