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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.
3 days ago · Gregory Conquers Julius Caesar. 1701 Drenthe, Netherlands, adopts Gregorian calendar, tomorrow is May 12, 1701. Pope Gregory XIII with the calendar that was to make his name. 1706 Emperor Jozef I becomes monarch of Cologne and Bavaria.
6 days ago · April26. Today's Events in History. Calendar. Events. Birthdays. Deaths. 757 Paolo Orsini replaces his brother Pope Stephen II, as Paul I. 1220 German king Frederick II grants bishops sovereign rights. 1336 Italian Renaissance poet Francesco Petrarch famously climbs Mont Ventoux.
Russian Revolution – October 1917. Start of World War II – September 1939. Pearl Harbour – and entry of the US into WWII – Dec. 1941. Atomic Bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Aug 1945. Indian Independence – Aug 1947. Establishment of Maoist China, 1949. The assassination of John F Kennedy, 1963. Fall of the Berlin Wall 1989. 9/11 September attacks.
