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Confucius’s life

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551-479 BCE

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Buddha’s life

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563-483 BCE

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Hellenistic period

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323-31 BCE

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Grand Canal built (Sui)

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581-618 CE

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Abbasid Caliphate begin and end

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750-1258 CE

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Year of permanent schism between Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic

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1054 CE

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Beginning of Aztec Empire

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1325 CE

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Qing rise and fall

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1644-1912 CE

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Year Peace of Westphalia (ended thirty years war)

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1648 CE

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Seven years war

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1756-1763 CE

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Defeat of Aztecs by Hernan Cortez

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1521 CE

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Establishment of the Mughal Empire in India

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1526 CE

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Yuan (Mongol) rule in China

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1271-1368 CE

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Fall of the Roman Empire

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476 CE

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Nailing of 95 theses on the door of the Wittenburg Cathedral

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1517 CE

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Year of Ottoman capture of Constantinople

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1453 CE

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Hejira of Muhammad

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622 CE

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Sumerians settled in Tigris and Euphrates valley

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3500 BCE

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Height of kingdom of Ghana

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750-1076 CE

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19
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Great pyramids built

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2600-2400 BCE

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Mohenjo Daro built

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2600 BCE

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21
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Beginning of sedentary agriculture

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8000 BCE

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First Christian crusade on Palestine

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1096 CE

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Ibn battuta’s journey begins

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1325 CE

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24
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First great Chinese trading expedition

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1405 CE

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Emperor Qin shi haungdi dies

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210 BCE

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Silk Road founded

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114 BCE

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Founding of Incan empire

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1438 CE

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28
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Height of Mayan civilization

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250-900 CE

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29
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King lalibela stone churches

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1250 CE

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30
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Great Zimbabwe built

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1400 CE

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31
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Bantu migrations

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1500 BCE- 1000 CE

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32
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Magna Carta signed by king john

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1215 CE

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33
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English civil war fought

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1642-1649 CE

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34
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Glorious revolution

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1688 CE

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35
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Tokugawa shogunate rule in Japan

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1603-1857 CE

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36
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Polynesian migrations

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300-1300 BCE

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37
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Stonehenge built

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2800-1800 BCE

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38
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Gupta empire rule

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320-550 CE

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39
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Hammurabi unite Mesopotamia

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1750 BCE

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40
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Justinian’s code of laws

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529 CE

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41
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English defeat of Spanish Armada

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1588 CE

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42
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Invention of printing press by Gutenburg

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1450 CE

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Height of Athenian culture

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470-430 BCE

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Rule of Mongols (Tartars) in Russia

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1237-1380 CE

45
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Peter the Great as Czar of Russia

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1682-1725 CE

46
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Unification of Europe under Charlemagne

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800-814 CE

47
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Northern Renaissance

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1450-1600 CE

48
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Unification of German states

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1871 CE

49
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Opium War

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1839-1842 CE

50
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Taiping Rebellion

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1851 CE

51
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Russo-Japanese War

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1905 CE

52
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Meiji Restoration

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1867 CE

53
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Invention of steam engine by James Watt

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1769 CE

54
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Napoleon becomes emperor of France

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1804 CE

55
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Magellan’s circumnavigation of globe

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1519-1522 CE

56
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Safavid Empire control of Persia

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1502-1736 CE

57
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Ottoman Empire

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1299-1922 CE

58
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Monroe Doctrine

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1823 CE

59
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Communist Manifesto written by Karl Marx

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1848 CE

60
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Execution of Louis XVI

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1793 CE

61
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Boxer Rebellion

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1899 CE

62
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Berlin Conference (scramble for Africa)

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1884 CE

63
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Suez Canal opened

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1869 CE

64
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Panama Canal Opened

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1914 CE

65
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Slavery abolished in Brazil

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1888 CE

66
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Century by which most Latin American colonies gained independence

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1820s CE

67
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Sepoy Rebellion

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1857 CE

68
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October Revolution (November or Communist Revolution)

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1917 CE

69
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Treaty of Versailles signed

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1919 CE

70
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Serfs emancipated

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1861 CE

71
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Abolishment of transatlantic slave trade by Great Britain

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1807 CE

72
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The Wealth of Nations written by Adam Smith

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1776 CE

73
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Haitian Revolution led by Toussaint L’Ouvertune

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1791-1804 CE

74
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Turkey proclaimed a republic by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

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1923 CE

75
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Cosmopolitan rule of Tang Dynasty

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618-907 CE

76
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Delhi Sultanate rule

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1206-1526 CE

77
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Visit of Commodore Perry to Japan

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1853-1854 CE

78
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Life of Dutch humanist Eramus

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1466-1536 CE

79
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Mexican Revolution

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1910-1917 CE

80
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Muhammad Ali as leader of Egypt

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1805-1849 CE

81
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Tanzimat Reforms

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1839-1876 CE

82
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Louis XIV’s move into Versailles

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1682 CE

83
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Kangxi Emperor of China

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1661-1722 CE

84
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Stalin as head of USSR

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1928-1953 CE

85
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First attack of the Irish coast by Viking raiders

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793 CE

86
Q

Beginning of Roman Empire

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31 BCE

87
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Shaka unites Zulu people

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1812 CE

88
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Queen Nzinga rule in Angola

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1622-1663 CE

89
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Norman conquest of England

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1066 CE

90
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Congress of Vienna

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1815 CE

91
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Mexican-American War

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1846-1848 CE

92
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Spanish American War

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1898 CE

93
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Missionary activities of Methodius and Cyril

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862-885 CE

94
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Year India gained independence from Britain

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1947 CE

95
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Separation of West Pakistan from East Pakistan

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1971 CE

96
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End of WWII

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1945 CE

97
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NATO formed

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1949 CE

98
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Korean War

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1950-1953 CE

99
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Cuban Missile Crisis

A

1962 CE

100
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Mao Zedong’s forces win the communist revolution

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1949 CE

101
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End of Vietnam War

A

1975 CE

102
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Berlin Wall built

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1961 CE

103
Q

First atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima

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1945

104
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End of Apartheid

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1991 CE

105
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Nelson Mandela becomes President of South Africa

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1994 CE

106
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Ghana wins independence

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1957 CE

107
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Israel becomes independent state

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1948 CE

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