| Birth of Jesus Christ | 4 B.C. |
| Death of Jesus Christ | 29 A.D. |
| Birth of Prophet Mohammed | 570 |
| Emigration of Mohammed to Madina, Beginning of Hijri era | 622 |
| Death of Prophet Mohammed | 632 |
| Magna Carta, first document limiting the powers of King of England was signed | 1215 |
| Black Death, most devastating pandemic in Europe killed over 100 million people | 1348-50 |
| 100 years war between England and France | 1337-1453 |
| Christopher Columbus discovers the New World | 1492 |
| Vasco da Gama discovers the sea route from Europe to India | 1497-98 |
| Defeat of Spanish Armada also known as Invincible Fleet by England | 1588 |
| Great Plague of London which killed about 1 million people in the city | 1665-66 |
| Great fire of London which destroyed about 70000 homes in the city | 1666 (2 - 5 Sep) |
| 7 years war involving the great powers of the time | 1757-1763 |
| Declaration of independence of United States of America | 1776 |
| Beginning of the French Revolution | 1789 |
| Battle of Waterloo in which Napolean was defeated | 1815 |
| The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels published | 1848 |
| On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin published | 1859 |
| Slavery is abolished by the 13th Amendment in the United States of America | 1865 |
| First modern Olympic Games held at Athens | 1896 |
| Robert Peary reached the North Pole | 1909 |
| Roald Amundsen reached the South Pole | 1911 |
| Republic of China is established, Titanic sinks | 1912 |
| 1st World War | 1914-1918 |
| Russian Revolution ending the Tsarist autocracy | 1917 |
| USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) came into existence | 1922 |
| Beginning of the Great Depression | 1929 |
| 2nd World War | 1939-1945 |
| Dropping of Atom Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki | 1945 |
| Launch of Sputnik 1, marking the beginning of space age | 1957 |
| Landing of Apollo 11 with Neil Armstrong on the surface of moon | 1969 |
| Chernobyl disaster | 1986 |
| World Wide Web invented, Reunification of Germany | 1990 |
| Dissolution of USSR | 1991 |
| End of apartheid in South Africa | 1994 |
| 9/11 attack on World Trade Center | 2001 |
| Tsunami in Indian Ocean | 2004 |
| Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster | 2011 |
