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Chinese ships larger, more numerous, safer, better designed
Approx. 1434
Ottoman Empire conquers Syria
1516
The fall of Tenochtitlan and the end of the Aztec empire
1521
Francisco Pizarro conquers the Incas in Peru
1533
Ottoman Empire Conquers Tunisia
1574
Jean Calas case
1762
James Watt improves the steam engine
1769
American Revolution
1775 - 1783
The French Revolution
1789 - 1815
Slave Rebellion Begins
1791
Haiti becomes independent
1804
Algeria French Colony
1830
First Opium War
1839 - 1842
Samuel Morse invents the telegraph
1844
Second Opium War
1856 - 1860
American Civil War
1861 - 1865
FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR
1870 - 1871
PREMIERE OF CARMEN: AN EXAMPLE OF ORIENTALISM
1875
Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone
1876
France Invades Tunisia
1881
"BERLIN CONFERENCE & THE SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA"
1884 - 1885
1889 EXPO IN PARIS
1889
Spanish-American War
1898
American-Philippine War
1899 - 1902
Herero Genocide
1904
"Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand"
1914
US Occupation of Haiti
1915 - 1934
Battle of Passchendaele
1917
Russian Revolutions
1917
Treaty of Versailles
1919
Syria becomes French mandate
1920
Benito Mussolini Rules Italy
1922
Egypt gains Independence
1923
Muslim Brotherhood founded
1928
Black Thursday - US Stock Market Crash
1929
Hitler Starting Third Reich
1933
Kenyans Fight for britain
1939 - 1945
Battle of Britain
July 10, 1940 - October 31, 1940
Pearl Harbor
December 7, 1941
Battle of Stalingrad
1942 - 1943
D-Day
June 6, 1944
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Created
1945
Hiroshima
August 6, 1945
Vietnam Independence
2 September 1945
Syria gains Independence
1946
Chinese Revolution
1949
USSR Creates Atomic Bomb
1949
Egypts becomes republic
1952
Mau Mau Uprising
1952 - 1960
Algerian War
1954 - 1962
Vietnam War
1955 - 1975
Egypts took control of Suez Canal
1956
Tunisia gains Independence
1956
Cuban Missile Crisis
1961
Kenya Gains Independence
1964
Film Battle of Algiers
1966
Six Day War
1967
My Lai Massacre
1968
Tet Offensive
1968
"Assad family rules after coup by Hafez al-Assad"
1970
Death of Mao
1976
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
1979 - 1989
Hosni Mubarak becomes president of Egypt
1981 - 2011
Chernobyl
1986
Revolution against Communism in Europe
1989
Tiananmen Square
1989
Fall of the Soviet Union
1991
Economic Reforms
1992
UN declares Srebrenica "Safe Area"
1993
NATO bombed Bosnian Serbians
1995
Srebrenica conquered by Serbians
1995
Srebrenica Massacre
1995
"Bashar al-Assad becomes president"
2000
Beslan Massacre
2004
Slobodan Milosevic prosecuted but died in prison
2006
Mohamed Bouazizi’s public immolation
2010
Arab Spring
2011 - Present
first democratic parliamentary elections in Tunisia
2011
Hosni Mubarak resigns
2011
large protests began in Egypt
2011
Large Protests begin in Syria
2011
Massacre in Qubair
2011
Massacre in Taldou
2011
Mohamed Morsi becomes president
2011
Mubarak to be put on trial
2011
President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali fled
2011
Ben Ali sentenced in absentia to life in jail for killing protesters
2012
UN declares Syria " in State of Civil War"
2012
1000 people killed in protests
2013
Morsi overthrown in Egypt
2013
Sarin Gas kills hundreds in Damascus
2013
Annexation of Crimea
2014
Tunisia adopts new constitution
2014
250,000 Killed in Syria
2015
Counter terrorism law passed
2015
nerve agent attack in Syria
2017
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