Timeline of the World

3000 BC -- Egyptian Alphabet
2500 BC -- Epic of Gigamesh (The epic poem created)
2300 BC -- Bronze Age
750   BC -- Homer (Epic poems The Odyssey and The Iliad created)
350   BC -- Alexander the Great
1       AD -- Birth of Christ
450   AD -- Fall of the Roman Empire
650   AD -- Rise of Islam
1050 AD -- Norman Conquest
1200 AD -- Magna Carta
1500 AD -- Columbus Reaches America
1600 AD -- Shakespeare
1660 AD -- Restoration
1750 AD -- Johnson's Dictionary
1780 AD -- Revolutionary War
1790 AD -- French War
1850 AD -- American Civil War
1885 AD -- Combustion Engine
1900 AD -- Queen Victoria Dies
1915 AD -- World War I
1925 AD -- Television
1940 AD -- World War II
1950 AD -- Queen Elizabeth II
1965 AD -- The Beatles and Vietnam War
1970 AD -- Man on the Moon
1990 AD -- Berlin Wall Falls / First Web Page
2000 AD -- September 11th Attacks