2nd millennium
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(1st millennium – 2nd millennium – 3rd millennium – other millennia)
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Events
- European crusades in Middle East
- Mongol Empires in Asia
- The Black Death
- The Renaissance in Europe
- The Protestant Reformation
- The agricultural and industrial revolutions
- The rise of nationalism and the nation state
- European discovery of the Americas and Australia and their colonization
- European colonization and decolonization in Africa and Asia
- Population explosion
- World-spanning wars (Seven Years' War, French Revolutionary Wars, Napoleonic Wars, World War I, World War II)
- Ideological disputes, Capitalism and Communism
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Significant persons
- Genghis Khan, (c. 1155/1162/1167 – 1227), Mongolian conqueror
- Thomas Aquinas (1225 – 1274), Italian theologian
- Dante Alighieri (1265 – 1321), Italian poet
- John Wycliffe (c. 1320 - 1384), English theologian and early proponent of reform in the Roman Catholic Church.
- Madhava of Sangamagrama (1350 - 1425), Indian mathematician, father of mathematical analysis.
- Yongle Emperor of China (1360 - 1424), considered among the greatest Chinese emperors.
- Jan Hus (1369 - 1415), Bohemian religious thinker and reformer.
- Zheng He (1371 - 1435), Chinese explorer.
- Johannes Gutenberg (c. 1398 – 1468), Inventor of movable type
- Joan of Arc (1412 - 1431), female commander of the French army.
- Christopher Columbus (1451 – 1506), Spanish explorer
- Leonardo da Vinci (1452 – 1519), Italian Artist, Philosopher and Scientist
- Nicholas Copernicus (1473 – 1543), Polish astronomer and mathematician
- Ferdinand Magellan (1480 - 1521), Portoguese explorer.
- Martin Luther (1483 – 1546), German religious reformer
- Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616), Spanish playwright and novelist
- Galileo Galilei (1564 – 1642), Italian scientist
- William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616), British playwright and poet
- René Descartes (1596 – 1650), French philosopher and mathematician
- Isaac Newton (1642 – 1727), British scientist
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790), American founding father and scientist
- George Washington (1732 – 1799), First American president
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 – 1826), American founding father and president
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 – 1791), Austrian Composer
- Maximilien Robespierre (1758 – 1794) French Revolutionary Leader
- Napoleon I of France (1769 – 1821), French conqueror and emperor
- Michael Faraday (1791 – 1867), British scientist and inventor
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865), American president
- Charles Darwin (1809 – 1882), British natural scientist
- Otto von Bismarck (1815 – 1898), German chancellor
- Karl Marx (1818 – 1883), German political philosopher
- Queen Victoria (1819 – 1901), Queen of the United Kingdom
- Louis Pasteur (1822 - 1895) , French microbiologist and chemist.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 – 1900), German philosopher
- Thomas Edison (1847 – 1931), Inventor
- Sigmund Freud (1856 – 1939), Austrian psychoanalyst
- Nikola Tesla (1856 – 1943), Inventor
- Henry Ford (1863 – 1947), Industrialist
- Vladimir Lenin (1870 – 1924), Soviet leader
- Winston Churchill (1874 – 1965), British prime minister
- Albert Einstein (1879 – 1955), German physicist
- Joseph Stalin (1879 – 1953), Soviet leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), American president
- Adolf Hitler (1889 – 1945), German dictator
- Mao Zedong (1893 – 1976), Chinese revolutionary
- Walt Disney (1901 – 1966), American film producer and animator
- John Paul II (1920 – 2005), Pope of the Roman Catholic Church
- Dalida (1933 – 1987), International Pop music singer
- Elvis Presley (1935 – 1977), American Rock and Roll singer
- John Lennon (1940 – 1980), Psychedelic revolutionary
- Muhammad Ali (1942 – ), American heavyweight boxer
- Bill Clinton (1946 – ), American President
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Inventions, Discoveries, Introductions
- The Printing press
- Gunpowder
- The Steam engine
- The discovery of the scientific method
- Theory of evolution
- The discovery of genetics and DNA
- Calculus
- Human Flight
- Nuclear Power
- The transistor and electronics
- Space travel and mankind's first flight to the moon
- The internal combustion engine
- Capitalism and socialism
- The computer and the Internet
- Universal suffrage
- Quantum Physics
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