📜 Code of Hammurabi
c. 1750 BCE, Babylon (Mesopotamia)
📅 Historical Events
Did you know there were moments when everything changed? Explore the great battles, peace treaties, and discoveries that redrew the world map and influenced how we live today.
🏛️ Fall of Rome
476, Rome (Italy)
🤺 Hundred Years' War
1337–1453, France and England
🦠 Black Death
1346–1353, Europe, Asia and North Africa
🎨 Renaissance
14th – 17th century, Europe
🏰 Fall of Constantinople
1453, Constantinople (Byzantine Empire)
📜 Edict of Nantes
1598, Nantes (France)
🚂 Industrial Revolution
c. 1760 – 1840, United Kingdom and Europe
🇫🇷 French Revolution
1789–1799, France
⛓️ Abolition of slavery
1848 (France) / 1865 (USA), International
🎩 American Civil War
1861–1865, United States
🚢 Sinking of the Titanic
1912, North Atlantic Ocean
🪖 World War I
1914–1918, Global
🚩 Russian Revolution
1917, Russia
📜 Treaty of Versailles
1919, Versailles (France)
📉 Great Depression
1929–1939, Global
🎖️ World War II
1939–1945, Global
🇺🇳 Creation of the UN
1945, San Francisco (United States)
🧊 Cold War
1947–1991, Global
🇮🇳 Indian Independence
1947, India
🇩🇿 Algerian War
1954–1962, Algeria
🇻🇳 Vietnam War
1955–1975, Vietnam
🚀 Cuban Missile Crisis
1962, Cuba
🧱 Fall of the Berlin Wall
1989, Berlin (Germany)