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(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 colonization of the Americas, Africa and elsewhere
- Two World Wars (I and II)
- Creation of the United Nations
Significant persons:
- Thomas Aquinas, theologian
- Genghis Khan, Mongolian conqueror
- Martin Luther, religious reformer
- René Descartes, philosopher and mathematician
- Isaac Newton, scientist
- Otto von Bismarck, German chancellor
- Napoleon Bonaparte, French conqueror and emperor
- Abraham Lincoln, American president
- Franklin D. Roosevelt, American president
- Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher
- Karl Marx, political philosopher
- Adolf Hitler, German dictator
- Albert Einstein, physicist
Inventions, Discoveries, Introductions:
- The Printing press
- Gunpowder
- The Internet
- The Steam engine
- The discovery of the Scientific method
- Nuclear Power
- Space travel
- The internal combustion engine
- Capitalism and socialism
- The Computer
Centuries and Decades