| Revision as of 16:32, 13 April 2003 editJohnOwens (talk | contribs)Extended confirmed users8,216 editsm add a little bit, sort← Previous edit | Revision as of 04:59, 22 July 2003 edit undo218.221.231.218 (talk) +jaNext edit → | ||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
| ] ] ] | ] ] ] ] | ||
| (] - '''2nd millennium AD''' - ] - ]) | (] - '''2nd millennium AD''' - ] - ]) | ||
Revision as of 04:59, 22 July 2003
(1st millennium AD - 2nd millennium AD - 3rd millennium AD - other millennia)
Events:
- The Renaissance
- The Protestant Reformation
- The start of the Industrial revolution
- The rise of nationalism and the modern nation state
- European discovery of the Americas, and colonization there, Africa, and elsewhere
- Two World Wars (I and II)
- Creation of the United Nations
Significant persons:
- Thomas Aquinas, theologian
- Genghis Khan, Mongolian conqueror
- Christopher Columbus, explorer
- Martin Luther, religious reformer
- René Descartes, philosopher and mathematician
- Isaac Newton, scientist
- Benjamin Franklin, American founding father and scientist
- Thomas Jefferson, American founding father and president
- Napoleon Bonaparte, French conqueror and emperor
- Abraham Lincoln, American president
- Otto von Bismarck, German chancellor
- Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher
- Karl Marx, political philosopher
- Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin, Soviet leaders
- Franklin D. Roosevelt, American president
- Adolf Hitler, German dictator
- Winston Churchill, British prime minister
- Albert Einstein, physicist
Inventions, Discoveries, Introductions:
- The Printing press
- Gunpowder
- The Internet
- The Steam engine
- The discovery of the Scientific method
- Human Flight
- Nuclear Power
- Space travel
- The internal combustion engine
- Capitalism and socialism
- The Computer
Centuries and Decades