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By Year Of IssueThe Spanish Inquisition begins in practice with the first auto de fé in 1481. Martin Luther was... (more)
Nicolaus Copernicus enters Kraków University in 1491. A year later Christopher Columbus "sails the ocean blue" on... (more)
In 1690, the clarinet is invented in Nuremburg and John Flamsteed makes the earliest recorded sighting of... (more)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe finishes The Sorrows of Young Werther in 1774, Geoffrey Chaucer publishes The Canterbury... (more)
Gas lighting becomes a practical technology and is implemented in cities in Europe and the United States... (more)
Cholera breaks out in London, claiming at least 3000 victims in 1832. Lewis Carroll is born on... (more)
1842 sees the Versailles train crash, one of the worst rail disasters of the 19th century. Charles... (more)
Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick, or The Whale is published in by Harper & Brothers in 1951. Gregor... (more)
The decade of the US Civil War. In 1865, President Abraham Lincoln is shot. Lewis Carroll publishes... (more)
Yellowstone National Park is established as the world's first national park in 1872. In 1873, E. Remington... (more)
In 1881, Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company. Pharmacist Dr. John Stith... (more)
Arthur Conan Doyle publishes The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes in 1892. In 1893, Thomas Alva Edison finishes... (more)
In 1902, Robert Falcon Scott, Ernest Shackleton, and Edward Wilson reach the furthest southern point thus far... (more)
The decade of World War I. In 1912, the Titanic strikes an iceberg and sinks. In 1917,... (more)
In 1922, the first Newbery Medal is awarded, one year later the Time magazine hits the newsstands... (more)
Konrad Zuse creates the Z1, the first electrical binary programmable computer in 1938. World War II starts in 1939. (more)
In 1944, Swedish children's book author Astrid Lindgren publishes her first book, Pippi Longstocking. World War II... (more)
The comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz is first published in seven US newspapers in 1950... (more)
The world population exceeds 3 billion. On July 20, 1969 Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the... (more)
The cell phone was invented in 1973. Bill Gates founds Microsoft in 1975. Viking completes the first... (more)
In 1986, the first PC virus, Brain, starts to spread. The Soviet Union begins its program of... (more)
Pope John Paul II lifts the edict of the Inquisition against Galileo Galilei in 1992. The Channel... (more)
Almost 3,000 people are killed September 11, 2001. Apple Computer releases the iPod later in 2001. Books... (more)
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