Ancient
Cheops Pyramid is thought to have been built in this year
What is 2550 BC?
The Holy Spirit descended upon all gathered with the disciples in Jerusalem in this year.
What is AD 30?
In this year a German theologian wrote his "Ninety-five theses" which sparked the Protestant Reformation around Europe and fueled a long conflict between Catholics and Lutherans.
What is 1517?
The author of the play being performed on May 15 and May 16 in the TFS Auditorium died in this year.
What is 1616?
These two buildings were attacked by terrorists who had hijacked commercial flights in this year.
What are The World Trade Center and the Pentagon in 2001?
In this year, Rome was founded.
What is 753 B.C.
Christianity was made legal by this emperor and this proclomation.
Who is Constantine in the Edict of Milan.
In this year, wealthy religious leaders first convinced thousands of illiterate peasants that in order to be saved they must travel to Jerusalem to fight against Muslims for the rite to the land?
What is 1095?
The invention of this new machine reduced the labor required to harvest cotton and increased the profit planters gained from growing cotton in the southern United States. The invention of this machine in this year paradoxically required more enslaved workers to plant, harvest, and operate the machines.
What is the cotton gin in 1797?
In this year on Black Tuesday the stock market crash entered first the United States and the world into the Great Depression.
What is 1929?
In 44 BC, Julius Caesar was assassinated by this ruling body of Roman patricians.
What is the Senate?
Which gathering of theologians who lived around the Mediterranean Sea occurred to establish the deity of Christ after the Edict of Milan because meeting publicly was now legal.
What is the Council of Nicea?
Muhammad claimed to have had a vision in the Cave of Hilah, and spoken with the Angel Gabrielle. In response, to intense persecution and an assassination plot he left Mecca and fled to Medina, the Hijra, in this year.
What is 622?
The Declaration of Independence was signed in this year, but the American Constitution was not adopted until this year.
What is 1776 and 1789.
This court case ignited the civil rights movement in its effort to desegregate education in America, in this year.
What is Brown vs. Board of Education in 1954?
Abraham left this city around 2000 B.C to go to this ancient land.
The Roman emperor who accused and brutally persecuted Christians for starting a fire in Rome, a fire that burned 10 out of 14 Roman districts, began to rule in this year.
What is AD 43?
In the year 1066, the Norman victory under the command of William duke of Normandy at the Battle of Hastings brought this oppressive social and political system to England.
What is Feudalism?
What is 1807 and 1865?
Britain and France declared war against Germany on September 3, 1939, but Mussolini's fascism began to give him public power in Italy in this year, and Hitler began enforcing Nazism in Germany in this year.
What is 1922 and 1933?
In this year the Jewish temple was destroyed by the Babylonian army.
What is 587 B.C.
Jesus was most likely born in 3BC during the reign of this Emperor.
Who is Caesar Augustus?
The enlightenment was the beginning of the end of the Middle Ages, and for the first time the word of God was accessible to common people because this German craftsmen invented a way to print words on paper in this year.
Who is Gutenberg in 1455.
Roughly 60,000 Indigenous Americans were forced off their land and marched a network of trails that totaled 5,000 miles long. More than 16,000 men, women and children died on The Trail of Tears which was a result of this president signing the Indian Removal Act in this year.
Who is President Andrew Jackson is 1830?
This war was fought over a 3 year period in the second half of the 29th century, but ended in a stale mate that left the country divided along the 38th parallel.
What is the Korean War?