When did it happen? The years of 414 famous events

The years of 414 famous events from 1415 to today: inventions, wars, firsts, pop culture, sport and space, each with a short fact. Sorted from oldest to newest.

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1400s

When did Henry V win the Battle of Agincourt?1415
When was Joan of Arc burned at the stake?1431
When did Gutenberg start printing with movable type in Europe?1440
When was Leonardo da Vinci born?1452
When did Constantinople fall to the Ottoman Turks?1453
When did Columbus reach the Americas?1492
When did Vasco da Gama reach India by sailing around Africa?1498

1500s

When did Leonardo da Vinci begin painting the Mona Lisa?1503
When did Michelangelo finish his statue of David?1504
When did Michelangelo finish painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling?1512
When did Ponce de León land in Florida and name it?1513
When did Martin Luther post his 95 Theses?1517
When did the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan fall to Hernán Cortés?1521
When did Magellan's expedition complete the first voyage around the world?1522
When did Copernicus publish his theory that Earth orbits the Sun?1543
When did Elizabeth I become Queen of England?1558
When was William Shakespeare born?1564
When did Spain found St. Augustine, Florida?1565
When was the 'Lost Colony' of Roanoke founded?1587
When did England defeat the Spanish Armada?1588
When was Romeo and Juliet first published?1597

1600s

When was Jamestown, the first lasting English colony in America, founded?1607
When did Galileo first turn a telescope to the sky?1609
When did Santa Fe become the capital of Spanish New Mexico?1610
When was the King James Bible published?1611
When did the first enslaved Africans arrive in English Virginia?1619
When did the Mayflower land in America?1620
When did the Pilgrims hold the first Thanksgiving?1621
When did the Dutch buy Manhattan and found New Amsterdam?1626
When did the Puritans found Boston?1630
When did construction of the Taj Mahal begin?1632
When was Harvard founded?1636
When was King Charles I of England executed?1649
When did the English take New Amsterdam and rename it New York?1664
When was the Great Fire of London?1666
When was William Penn granted the charter for Pennsylvania?1681
When was Johann Sebastian Bach born?1685
When did Isaac Newton publish his laws of motion?1687
When were the Salem witch trials?1692
When was the Bank of England founded?1694

1700s

When did England and Scotland unite to form Great Britain?1707
When did Daniel Fahrenheit invent the mercury thermometer?1714
When was New Orleans founded?1718
When was Robinson Crusoe published?1719
When was Gulliver's Travels published?1726
When was George Washington born?1732
When did Handel's Messiah premiere?1742
When did Benjamin Franklin fly a kite in a thunderstorm?1752
When did the French and Indian War begin?1754
When was Mozart born?1756
When did Britain pass the Stamp Act?1765
When did James Watt patent his improved steam engine?1769
When did Captain Cook reach the east coast of Australia?1770
When was the Boston Massacre?1770
When was the Boston Tea Party?1773
When was Paul Revere's midnight ride?1775
When was the US Declaration of Independence signed?1776
When did Adam Smith publish The Wealth of Nations?1776
When was the British surrender at Yorktown?1781
When was the US Constitution signed?1787
When did the First Fleet arrive in Australia?1788
When was the storming of the Bastille?1789
When did George Washington become the first US president?1789
When was the Bill of Rights ratified?1791
When did Eli Whitney invent the cotton gin?1793
When did Edward Jenner test the first vaccine, against smallpox?1796
When was the Rosetta Stone found?1799

1800s

When did Alessandro Volta invent the battery?1800
When did John Adams become the first president to live in the White House?1800
When was the Library of Congress founded?1800
When did the Louisiana Purchase double the size of the US?1803
When did Napoleon crown himself Emperor?1804
When was the Battle of Trafalgar?1805
When did Lewis and Clark reach the Pacific?1805
When did the War of 1812 begin?1812
When was Pride and Prejudice published?1813
When did British troops burn the White House?1814
When did Francis Scott Key write the words of 'The Star-Spangled Banner'?1814
When was the Battle of Waterloo?1815
When was Frankenstein published?1818
When was the Missouri Compromise?1820
When did Mexico win independence from Spain?1821
When was 'Twas the Night Before Christmas' first published?1823
When did the Erie Canal open?1825
When did Congress pass the Indian Removal Act?1830
When did Sarah Josepha Hale publish 'Mary Had a Little Lamb'?1830
When did Charles Darwin set off on HMS Beagle?1831
When was the Battle of the Alamo?1836
When did Victoria become Queen?1837
When was the Penny Black, the first postage stamp, issued?1840
When was the Treaty of Waitangi signed in New Zealand?1840
When did Ada Lovelace publish the first computer program?1843
When was A Christmas Carol published?1843
When did Samuel Morse send 'What hath God wrought' by telegraph?1844
When did the Irish Potato Famine begin?1845
When did Texas join the United States?1845
When was Neptune discovered?1846
When was anesthesia with ether first shown in public?1846
When did the Mexican–American War begin?1846
When did the California Gold Rush begin?1848
When was the Communist Manifesto published?1848
When was the Seneca Falls Convention on women's rights?1848
When was the first safety pin patented?1849
When did California become a state?1850
When did the Great Exhibition open in London's Crystal Palace?1851
When was Moby-Dick published?1851
When was Uncle Tom's Cabin published?1852
When did Commodore Perry's 'black ships' arrive in Japan?1853
When did Elisha Otis show off the safety elevator?1854
When did the Supreme Court rule in the Dred Scott case?1857
When did the first transatlantic telegraph cable send a message?1858
When did Darwin publish On the Origin of Species?1859
When was the Big Ben clock tower completed?1859
When did John Brown raid Harpers Ferry?1859
When did the Pony Express begin?1860
When was Abraham Lincoln elected president?1860
When did the American Civil War begin?1861
When did the Homestead Act offer free land in the West?1862
When did the London Underground open?1863
When did Lincoln give the Gettysburg Address?1863
When did Lincoln issue the Emancipation Proclamation?1863
When did Lincoln proclaim a national Thanksgiving Day?1863
When was Alice's Adventures in Wonderland published?1865
When was Abraham Lincoln assassinated?1865
When did the Civil War end at Appomattox?1865
When did the US buy Alaska from Russia?1867
When did Canada become a country?1867
When did the Suez Canal open?1869
When was the first US transcontinental railroad completed?1869
When did Mendeleev publish the periodic table?1869
When was the first professional baseball team, the Cincinnati Red Stockings, formed?1869
When did Christmas become a US federal holiday?1870
When did Yellowstone become the world's first national park?1872
When did Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis patent riveted blue jeans?1873
When was the telephone patented?1876
When was the Battle of the Little Bighorn?1876
When did Edison invent the phonograph?1877
When did Edison demonstrate his practical light bulb?1879
When did Clara Barton found the American Red Cross?1881
When did Edison open the first public power station?1882
When did Krakatoa erupt?1883
When did the Brooklyn Bridge open?1883
When was the Washington Monument completed?1884
When was the first skyscraper, Chicago's Home Insurance Building, finished?1885
When was Coca-Cola invented?1886
When was the Statue of Liberty dedicated?1886
When did Karl Benz patent the first true automobile?1886
When did Sherlock Holmes first appear?1887
When did Kodak's first camera go on sale?1888
When was Nintendo founded?1889
When was the Eiffel Tower completed?1889
When did Van Gogh paint The Starry Night?1889
When was the Wounded Knee Massacre?1890
When was basketball invented?1891
When did Carnegie Hall open in New York?1891
When did Ellis Island open to immigrants?1892
When did the first Ferris wheel open?1893
When were X-rays discovered?1895
When were the first modern Olympic Games held?1896
When did the Supreme Court rule in Plessy v. Ferguson?1896
When was the first Boston Marathon run?1897
When did Pepsi-Cola get its name?1898
When was the Spanish–American War?1898
When did the US annex Hawaii?1898

1900s

When was the first Hershey's milk chocolate bar sold?1900
When was the Wizard of Oz book published?1900
When were the first Nobel Prizes awarded?1901
When did Theodore Roosevelt become president?1901
When was the teddy bear created?1902
When did Willis Carrier invent modern air conditioning?1902
When did the Wright brothers make the first powered flight?1903
When was Harley-Davidson founded?1903
When was the first World Series played?1903
When did the New York City subway open?1904
When did Einstein publish special relativity?1905
When was the San Francisco earthquake?1906
When was Bakelite, the first fully synthetic plastic, invented?1907
When did the first New Year's Eve ball drop in Times Square?1907
When did Ford launch the Model T?1908
When was the NAACP founded?1909
When was the Mona Lisa stolen from the Louvre?1911
When did Roald Amundsen reach the South Pole?1911
When was the first Indianapolis 500 run?1911
When did the Titanic sink?1912
When did Arizona become the 48th state?1912
When was the first crossword puzzle published?1913
When did the first Model T roll off a moving assembly line?1913
When did the US start a federal income tax?1913
When did World War I begin?1914
When did the Panama Canal open?1914
When was the Lusitania sunk by a German submarine?1915
When did Einstein publish general relativity?1915
When was the National Park Service created?1916
When was the Russian Revolution?1917
When was the first jazz record released?1917
When did the US enter World War I?1917
When did World War I end?1918
When did the Spanish flu pandemic begin?1918
When was Grand Canyon National Park created?1919
When did US women win the right to vote?1920
When were Band-Aid adhesive bandages invented?1920
When did Prohibition begin?1920
When did KDKA in Pittsburgh start the first commercial radio station?1920
When was Tutankhamun's tomb found?1922
When was insulin first used to treat diabetes?1922
When did the BBC make its first radio broadcast?1922
When was the Lincoln Memorial dedicated?1922
When did the Hollywood sign go up?1923
When was the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade?1924
When was The Great Gatsby published?1925
When was the Scopes 'Monkey Trial'?1925
When was television first demonstrated?1926
When did Robert Goddard launch the first liquid-fueled rocket?1926
When was Route 66 created?1926
When did Charles Lindbergh fly solo across the Atlantic?1927
When was The Jazz Singer, the first feature 'talkie', released?1927
When did Babe Ruth hit 60 home runs in a season?1927
When did carving begin on Mount Rushmore?1927
When was penicillin discovered?1928
When did Mickey Mouse first appear in Steamboat Willie?1928
When was sliced bread first sold?1928
When was the first Academy Awards ceremony?1929
When was the Wall Street Crash?1929
When was Pluto discovered?1930
When was the first FIFA World Cup held?1930
When did the Empire State Building open?1931
When did 'The Star-Spangled Banner' become the national anthem?1931
When did workers put up the first Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center?1931
When was the LEGO company founded?1932
When did the Sydney Harbour Bridge open?1932
When did Amelia Earhart fly solo across the Atlantic?1932
When did Hitler become Chancellor of Germany?1933
When did Prohibition end?1933
When did Franklin D. Roosevelt launch the New Deal?1933
When did the Detroit Lions first play on Thanksgiving?1934
When was Monopoly first sold by Parker Brothers?1935
When was the Social Security Act signed?1935
When was the Hoover Dam completed?1936
When did Jesse Owens win four gold medals in Berlin?1936
When did the Golden Gate Bridge open?1937
When did the Hindenburg airship burst into flames?1937
When was Snow White, Disney's first feature film, released?1937
When did Superman first appear in a comic?1938
When did World War II begin?1939
When did Gone with the Wind premiere?1939
When did Roosevelt move Thanksgiving a week earlier?1939
When was Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer created?1939
When did the first McDonald's restaurant open?1940
When was Mount Rushmore completed?1941
When did Japan attack Pearl Harbor?1941
When did the Manhattan Project begin?1942
When was D-Day, the Allied landing in Normandy?1944
When was the microwave oven invented?1945
When was the United Nations founded?1945
When was the first atomic bomb tested in New Mexico?1945
When was ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic computer, unveiled?1946
When did India and Pakistan become independent?1947
When was the transistor invented?1947
When did Chuck Yeager break the sound barrier?1947
When was Anne Frank's diary first published?1947
When did Jackie Robinson break baseball's color line?1947
When was the Roswell UFO incident?1947
When was Britain's National Health Service founded?1948
When did the Polaroid instant camera go on sale?1948
When was NATO founded?1949
When was George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four published?1949
When was the first Diners Club credit card issued?1950
When did the Korean War begin?1950
When did the Peanuts comic strip first appear?1950
When did I Love Lucy first air?1951
When was the structure of DNA revealed as a double helix?1953
When did Hillary and Tenzing first climb Mount Everest?1953
When did Swanson sell the first TV dinner?1953
When did the Supreme Court rule in Brown v. Board of Education?1954
When did Disneyland open?1955
When was the polio vaccine declared safe and effective?1955
When did Rosa Parks refuse to give up her bus seat?1955
When did the military start tracking Santa on Christmas Eve?1955
When did Elvis Presley record his first hit, 'Heartbreak Hotel'?1956
When was the Interstate Highway System approved?1956
When was bubble wrap invented?1957
When was Sputnik, the first satellite, launched?1957
When was The Cat in the Hat published?1957
When was NASA founded?1958
When did the hula hoop craze sweep America?1958
When was Barbie launched?1959
When did Alaska and Hawaii become states?1959
When was the first laser built?1960
When was the first televised presidential debate?1960
When did Yuri Gagarin become the first person in space?1961
When was the Berlin Wall built?1961
When did Alan Shepard become the first American in space?1961
When was the Cuban Missile Crisis?1962
When did Walmart open its first store?1962
When did John Glenn become the first American to orbit Earth?1962
When did the Beatles release their first album?1963
When did Martin Luther King Jr. give his 'I Have a Dream' speech?1963
When was President John F. Kennedy assassinated?1963
When did Doctor Who first air?1963
When did the Beatles play on The Ed Sullivan Show?1964
When did the Ford Mustang go on sale?1964
When was the Civil Rights Act signed?1964
When was the Voting Rights Act signed?1965
When did 'A Charlie Brown Christmas' first air on TV?1965
When did England win the football World Cup?1966
When did Star Trek first air?1966
When was the first Super Bowl played?1967
When did Douglas Engelbart demo the computer mouse?1968
When was Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated?1968
When did humans first walk on the Moon?1969
When was the Woodstock music festival?1969
When was the first message sent over ARPANET, the internet's ancestor?1969
When was the first Earth Day?1970
When did the Beatles break up?1970
When was the first email sent?1971
When did Intel release the first microprocessor?1971
When did the first Starbucks open?1971
When did Walt Disney World open in Florida?1971
When was Pong released?1972
When was the first handheld mobile phone call made?1973
When did the Sydney Opera House open?1973
When was the Rubik's Cube invented?1974
When was a barcode scanned in a shop for the first time?1974
When did Richard Nixon resign as US president?1974
When was Microsoft founded?1975
When did Queen release 'Bohemian Rhapsody'?1975
When was Jaws released?1975
When did the Vietnam War end with the fall of Saigon?1975
When was Apple founded?1976
When did the US celebrate its Bicentennial?1976
When was Star Wars released?1977
When was Voyager 1 launched?1977
When did Elvis Presley die?1977
When was Space Invaders released?1978
When did the Sony Walkman go on sale?1979
When was Pac-Man released?1980
When did Mount St. Helens erupt?1980
When did Post-it Notes go on sale across the US?1980
When did MTV launch?1981
When did the Space Shuttle make its first flight?1981
When did the IBM PC go on sale?1981
When did CDs go on sale?1982
When did Michael Jackson release Thriller?1982
When did Sally Ride become the first American woman in space?1983
When was Tetris created?1984
When was the Apple Macintosh launched?1984
When was Super Mario Bros. released?1985
When was the first .com domain name registered?1985
When was the Chernobyl nuclear disaster?1986
When did the Space Shuttle Challenger break apart after launch?1986
When did the Berlin Wall fall?1989
When was the Game Boy released?1989
When did The Simpsons first air as a full series?1989
When did the White House turkey pardon become a yearly tradition?1989
When was Nelson Mandela freed from prison?1990
When was the Hubble Space Telescope launched?1990
When did the first website go online?1991
When did Nirvana release 'Smells Like Teen Spirit'?1991
When was the first text message sent?1992
When did the 'Dream Team' win Olympic basketball gold?1992
When was Jurassic Park released?1993
When did the Channel Tunnel open?1994
When was Amazon founded?1994
When did Mariah Carey release 'All I Want for Christmas Is You'?1994
When was Toy Story, the first fully computer-animated film, released?1995
When was Dolly the sheep, the first cloned mammal, born?1996
When were Pokémon Red and Green released in Japan?1996
When did Atlanta host the Summer Olympics?1996
When was the first Harry Potter book published?1997
When was James Cameron's film Titanic released?1997
When was Netflix founded?1997
When was Google founded?1998

2000s

When did the first crew move into the International Space Station?2000
When was Wikipedia launched?2001
When did Apple release the iPod?2001
When were the September 11 attacks?2001
When did Euro notes and coins enter circulation?2002
When was the Human Genome Project completed?2003
When was Facebook launched?2004
When was Gmail launched?2004
When was the Indian Ocean tsunami?2004
When did the Red Sox win the World Series for the first time since 1918?2004
When was YouTube founded?2005
When did Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans?2005
When was Twitter launched?2006
When was Pluto reclassified as a dwarf planet?2006
When did the first iPhone go on sale?2007
When did the first Android phone go on sale?2008
When did Spotify launch?2008
When did the App Store open?2008
When was Barack Obama elected president?2008
When was the first Bitcoin mined?2009
When did Usain Bolt run 100 m in 9.58 seconds?2009
When was Instagram launched?2010
When was the iPad launched?2010
When was Minecraft fully released?2011
When was the last Space Shuttle flight?2011
When was the Higgs boson discovered?2012
When did NASA's Curiosity rover land on Mars?2012
When did SpaceX land an orbital rocket booster for the first time?2015
When did NASA's New Horizons fly past Pluto?2015
When did the UK vote to leave the European Union?2016
When was Pokémon Go released?2016
When did the Chicago Cubs win the World Series?2016
When was Fortnite Battle Royale released?2017
When did the 'Great American Eclipse' cross the whole US?2017
When was the first photo of a black hole published?2019
When did Notre-Dame Cathedral catch fire?2019
When was COVID-19 declared a pandemic?2020
When did SpaceX fly its first crew to the International Space Station?2020
When was the James Webb Space Telescope launched?2021
When was ChatGPT released?2022
When did Queen Elizabeth II die?2022
When did a total solar eclipse cross the US from Texas to Maine?2024