0079-08-24 13:00 UTC
Vesuvius buries Pompeii
August 24, 79
Mount Vesuvius erupts above the Bay of Naples, burying Pompeii and Herculaneum under ash and sealing a Roman afternoon in place.
Not for saleOpen record
Curated minutes from history.
Held permanently by the registry. Never for sale.
- 0476-09-04 12:00 UTC
The last Western emperor is deposed
September 4, 476
Odoacer removes Romulus Augustulus at Ravenna, the date later historians chose as the end of the Western Roman Empire.
Not for saleOpen record - 0622-07-16 12:00 UTC
The Hijra begins
July 16, 622
Muhammad's migration from Mecca to Medina starts the year that becomes the first of the Islamic calendar.
Not for saleOpen record - 0800-12-25 09:00 UTC
Charlemagne is crowned emperor
December 25, 800
Pope Leo III crowns Charlemagne in Rome on Christmas Day, reviving an imperial title in the West after three centuries.
Not for saleOpen record - 1066-10-14 15:00 UTC
Harold falls at Hastings
October 14, 1066
A day-long battle on Senlac Hill ends with the death of Harold Godwinson and the Norman conquest of England.
Not for saleOpen record - 1206-05-01 12:00 UTC
Temüjin becomes Genghis Khan
May 1, 1206
A council on the Mongolian steppe proclaims Temüjin ruler of all the tribes, founding the Mongol Empire.
Not for saleOpen record - 1215-06-15 12:00 UTC
Magna Carta is sealed
June 15, 1215
King John seals a charter at Runnymede accepting that the king is subject to law.
Not for saleOpen record - 1347-10-01 12:00 UTC
Plague ships reach Messina
October 1, 1347
Galleys arriving in Sicily carry the Black Death into Europe, beginning the deadliest pandemic in recorded history.
Not for saleOpen record - 1431-05-30 09:00 UTC
Joan of Arc is executed at Rouen
May 30, 1431
Condemned for heresy at nineteen, Joan of Arc is burned in the market square of Rouen.
Not for saleOpen record 
Photo: International Printing Museum · CC0 · Wikimedia Commons 1440-01-01 00:00 UTCMovable type in Mainz
January 1, 1440
Johannes Gutenberg begins printing with movable metal type, and the cost of a page collapses.
Not for saleOpen record- 1453-05-29 05:00 UTC
Constantinople falls
May 29, 1453
After a fifty-three-day siege, Ottoman forces enter Constantinople and the Eastern Roman Empire ends.
Not for saleOpen record 
Photo: The Bureau of Engraving and Printing · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons 1492-10-12 00:00 UTCLandfall in the Americas
October 12, 1492
A Spanish expedition under Columbus reaches an island in the Bahamas, opening four centuries of contact and conquest.
Not for saleOpen record
Photo: Martin Luther · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons 1517-10-31 00:00 UTCNinety-five theses
October 31, 1517
Martin Luther circulates his objections to indulgences in Wittenberg.
Not for saleOpen record
Photo: Abraham Ortelius · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons 1522-09-06 00:00 UTCThe first circumnavigation returns
September 6, 1522
The Victoria reaches Sanlucar de Barrameda with eighteen survivors, the first ship to circle the world.
Not for saleOpen record
Photo: derivative work of Johannes Petreius 1543 edition of File:Ni · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons 1543-05-24 00:00 UTCThe Earth is not the centre
May 24, 1543
Copernicus receives the printed De revolutionibus on the day he dies.
Not for saleOpen record- 1582-10-15 00:00 UTC
The Gregorian calendar begins
October 15, 1582
Catholic Europe wakes on 15 October, ten days having been deleted overnight to correct the drifting Julian year.
Not for saleOpen record - 1600-02-17 08:00 UTC
Giordano Bruno is burned in Rome
February 17, 1600
The philosopher who argued for an infinite universe of other suns is executed in the Campo de' Fiori.
Not for saleOpen record - 1602-03-20 12:00 UTC
The first multinational corporation is chartered
March 20, 1602
The Dutch East India Company receives a twenty-one-year monopoly and issues the first publicly traded shares.
Not for saleOpen record - 1610-01-07 19:00 UTC
Galileo sees moons around Jupiter
January 7, 1610
Through a homemade telescope, Galileo notes three small stars beside Jupiter that move with it.
Not for saleOpen record - 1620-11-21 12:00 UTC
The Mayflower Compact is signed
November 21, 1620
Forty-one men aboard a ship off Cape Cod agree to govern themselves by majority consent.
Not for saleOpen record 
Photo: The original uploader was Zhaladshar at English Wikisource. · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons 1687-07-05 00:00 UTCPrincipia is published
July 5, 1687
Newton sets out the laws of motion and universal gravitation.
Not for saleOpen record- 1755-11-01 09:40 UTC
The Lisbon earthquake
November 1, 1755
A massive quake, then a tsunami, then fire destroys Lisbon on All Saints' Day and shakes European philosophy.
Not for saleOpen record 
Photo: original: w:Second Continental Congress; reproduction: Willi · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons 1776-07-04 00:00 UTCThe Declaration is adopted
July 4, 1776
The Second Continental Congress adopts the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia.
Not for saleOpen record- 1783-11-21 13:54 UTC
The first human flight
November 21, 1783
Pilâtre de Rozier and the Marquis d'Arlandes lift off from Paris in a Montgolfier balloon.
Not for saleOpen record 
Photo: Unidentified painter · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons 1789-07-14 00:00 UTCThe Bastille falls
July 14, 1789
A Paris crowd takes the fortress, and the French Revolution has its symbol.
Not for saleOpen record- 1791-08-22 20:00 UTC
The Haitian Revolution begins
August 22, 1791
Enslaved people in the north of Saint-Domingue rise against the plantation system in the only successful slave revolution in history.
Not for saleOpen record - 1804-12-02 11:00 UTC
Napoleon crowns himself
December 2, 1804
At Notre-Dame, Napoleon takes the crown from the pope's hands and places it on his own head.
Not for saleOpen record - 1815-06-18 19:30 UTC
Waterloo is decided
June 18, 1815
The Imperial Guard breaks as Prussian forces arrive, ending twenty-three years of European war.
Not for saleOpen record 
Photo: Nicéphore Niépce · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons 1826-07-01 00:00 UTCThe first photograph
July 1, 1826
Nicephore Niepce fixes a view from his window at Le Gras after hours of exposure.
Not for saleOpen record- 1848-02-21 12:00 UTC
The Communist Manifesto is published
February 21, 1848
A pamphlet printed in London sets out a theory of history that will organise and divide the next century.
Not for saleOpen record 
Photo: John Murray, Publisher · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons 1859-11-24 00:00 UTCOn the Origin of Species
November 24, 1859
Darwin publishes, and the first print run sells out the same day.
Not for saleOpen record
Photo: Thomas Nast · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons 1863-01-01 00:00 UTCThe Emancipation Proclamation
January 1, 1863
Lincoln declares enslaved people in the rebelling states to be free.
Not for saleOpen record- 1865-04-15 03:15 UTC
Lincoln is shot at Ford's Theatre
April 15, 1865
Five days after the surrender at Appomattox, the president is shot during a performance in Washington.
Not for saleOpen record - 1869-05-10 19:47 UTC
The golden spike
May 10, 1869
A telegraph key wired to a ceremonial spike at Promontory Summit transmits one word, "done", and joins a continent by rail.
Not for saleOpen record 
Photo: NASA · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons 1869-11-17 00:00 UTCThe Suez Canal opens
November 17, 1869
Two seas are joined and the route to Asia is cut by thousands of miles.
Not for saleOpen record
Photo: Unknown authorUnknown author · CC0 · Wikimedia Commons 1876-03-10 00:00 UTCThe first telephone call
March 10, 1876
Alexander Graham Bell speaks the first words transmitted by telephone to Thomas Watson in Boston.
Not for saleOpen record
Photo: KMJ, alpha masking by Edokter · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons 1879-10-22 00:00 UTCA lamp that burns for hours
October 22, 1879
Edison and his team run a carbon filament lamp long enough to make electric light practical.
Not for saleOpen record
Photo: Benh LIEU SONG · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons 1889-03-31 00:00 UTCThe Eiffel Tower opens
March 31, 1889
Gustave Eiffel raises the French flag at the top of the tallest structure in the world.
Not for saleOpen record- 1893-09-19 12:00 UTC
New Zealand gives women the vote
September 19, 1893
The Electoral Act receives royal assent, making New Zealand the first self-governing country with universal women's suffrage.
Not for saleOpen record 
Photo: Unknown authorUnknown author · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons 1895-12-28 00:00 UTCThe first public film screening
December 28, 1895
The Lumiere brothers show paying audiences moving pictures at the Grand Cafe in Paris.
Not for saleOpen record
Photo: Émile Gilliéron · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons 1896-04-06 00:00 UTCThe first modern Olympics
April 6, 1896
The Games open in Athens with fourteen nations.
Not for saleOpen record- 1898-12-26 12:00 UTC
Radium is announced
December 26, 1898
Marie and Pierre Curie report a new, intensely radioactive element to the French Academy of Sciences.
Not for saleOpen record 
Photo: Unknown authorUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0 de · Wikimedia Commons 1900-12-14 00:00 UTCEnergy comes in packets
December 14, 1900
Max Planck presents the quantum hypothesis to the German Physical Society.
Not for saleOpen record
Photo: Pach Brothers · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons 1901-12-12 00:00 UTCThree dots across the Atlantic
December 12, 1901
Marconi reports receiving a wireless signal in Newfoundland sent from Cornwall.
Not for saleOpen record
Photo: John T. Daniels · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons 1903-12-17 15:35 UTCThe first powered flight
December 17, 1903
Orville Wright leaves the ground at Kitty Hawk for twelve seconds.
Not for saleOpen record
Photo: Lucien Chavan [1] (1868 - 1942), a friend of Einstein's when · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons 1905-09-26 00:00 UTCSpecial relativity
September 26, 1905
Einstein's paper on the electrodynamics of moving bodies appears in Annalen der Physik.
Not for saleOpen record
Photo: Unknown authorUnknown author · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons 1911-12-14 00:00 UTCThe South Pole
December 14, 1911
Amundsen's party plants a flag at ninety degrees south.
Not for saleOpen record
Photo: Willy Stöwer · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons 1912-04-15 02:20 UTCTitanic goes under
April 15, 1912
The ship disappears beneath the North Atlantic two hours and forty minutes after striking ice.
Not for saleOpen record
Photo: Achille Beltrame · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons 1914-06-28 00:00 UTCSarajevo
June 28, 1914
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand sets the summer of 1914 in motion.
Not for saleOpen record
Photo: Otis Historical Archives, National Museum of Health and Medi · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons 1918-03-04 00:00 UTCThe first recorded case
March 4, 1918
A cook at Camp Funston reports sick, the earliest documented case of the 1918 influenza pandemic.
Not for saleOpen record
Photo: Unknown authorUnknown author · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons 1918-11-11 11:00 UTCThe guns fall silent
November 11, 1918
The armistice takes effect on the Western Front at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day.
Not for saleOpen record
Photo: Roland Unger · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons 1922-11-26 00:00 UTCWonderful things
November 26, 1922
Howard Carter opens a sealed doorway in the Valley of the Kings.
Not for saleOpen record
Photo: Harris & Ewing · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons 1927-05-21 22:22 UTCLe Bourget
May 21, 1927
Charles Lindbergh lands in Paris after thirty-three hours alone over the Atlantic.
Not for saleOpen record
Photo: Unknown author · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons 1928-09-28 00:00 UTCPenicillin is noticed
September 28, 1928
Alexander Fleming returns to a contaminated petri dish and sees a ring of cleared bacteria.
Not for saleOpen record
Photo: US-gov · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons 1929-10-24 00:00 UTCBlack Thursday
October 24, 1929
Panic selling on Wall Street begins the collapse that opens the Great Depression.
Not for saleOpen record
Photo: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Sou · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons 1930-02-18 00:00 UTCA ninth object
February 18, 1930
Clyde Tombaugh finds Pluto on photographic plates at Lowell Observatory.
Not for saleOpen record
Photo: Underwood & Underwood (active 1880 – c. 1950)[1] · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons 1932-05-21 00:00 UTCEarhart lands in Derry
May 21, 1932
Amelia Earhart completes the first solo transatlantic flight by a woman.
Not for saleOpen record
Photo: Acme News Photos · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons 1936-08-09 00:00 UTCJesse Owens wins his fourth gold
August 9, 1936
Berlin watches an American sprinter dismantle the theatre staged around him.
Not for saleOpen record
Photo: Rocky Acosta · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons 1936-11-12 00:00 UTCOn Computable Numbers
November 12, 1936
Alan Turing's paper describes the universal machine that every computer since has imitated.
Not for saleOpen record
Photo: George R. Caron / Charles Levy · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons 1945-08-06 23:15 UTCHiroshima
August 6, 1945
The first atomic weapon used in war detonates above a city at 08:15 local time.
Not for saleOpen record
Photo: Published in accordance with the direction of the Internatio · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons 1945-11-20 00:00 UTCNuremberg
November 20, 1945
The International Military Tribunal opens, and international criminal law begins.
Not for saleOpen record
Photo: The original uploader was TexasDex at English Wikipedia. · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons 1946-02-14 00:00 UTCENIAC is shown
February 14, 1946
The first general-purpose electronic computer is unveiled in Philadelphia.
Not for saleOpen record
Photo: Ulfbastel · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons 1947-12-23 00:00 UTCThe transistor works
December 23, 1947
Bell Labs demonstrates the device that every later computer is built from.
Not for saleOpen record
Photo: FDR Presidential Library & Museum · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons 1948-12-10 00:00 UTCThe Universal Declaration
December 10, 1948
The UN General Assembly adopts the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Paris.
Not for saleOpen record
Photo: Orihara1 · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons 1949-10-01 00:00 UTCThe People's Republic is proclaimed
October 1, 1949
Mao Zedong declares the founding of the People's Republic of China in Beijing.
Not for saleOpen record
Photo: Science Museum, London / Science and Society Picture Library · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons 1953-02-28 00:00 UTCThe structure of DNA
February 28, 1953
Watson and Crick settle on the double helix in Cambridge.
Not for saleOpen record
Photo: Jamling Tenzing Norgay · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons 1953-05-29 05:30 UTCThe summit of Everest
May 29, 1953
Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay stand on the highest point on Earth.
Not for saleOpen record
Photo: Oren Jack Turner · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons 1955-04-18 01:15 UTCEinstein dies
April 18, 1955
The physicist dies in Princeton, having declined surgery the day before.
Not for saleOpen record
Photo: Unknown authorUnknown author · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons 1955-12-01 00:00 UTCRosa Parks stays seated
December 1, 1955
A refusal in Montgomery, Alabama begins a 381-day bus boycott.
Not for saleOpen record
Photo: Andrey Butko · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons 1957-10-04 19:28 UTCSputnik reaches orbit
October 4, 1957
The first artificial satellite begins transmitting its signal from low Earth orbit.
Not for saleOpen record
Photo: Музей космонавтики / Главархив Москвы · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons 1957-11-03 02:30 UTCLaika in orbit
November 3, 1957
The first living passenger reaches orbit aboard Sputnik 2 and does not return.
Not for saleOpen record
Photo: cole8888, https://flickr.com/photos/187597251@N05/ (aka Cole · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons 1958-09-12 00:00 UTCThe integrated circuit works
September 12, 1958
Jack Kilby demonstrates a working circuit built on a single piece of semiconductor.
Not for saleOpen record
Photo: ESO/A. Ghizzi Panizza (www.albertoghizzipanizza.com) · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons 1960-05-16 00:00 UTCThe first laser
May 16, 1960
Theodore Maiman gets coherent light out of a ruby rod at Hughes Research Laboratories.
Not for saleOpen record
Photo: ТАСС · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons 1961-04-12 06:07 UTCThe first human in space
April 12, 1961
Yuri Gagarin lifts off from Baikonur for a single orbit of the planet.
Not for saleOpen record
Photo: Image courtesy by Olga Arkhipova · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons 1962-10-27 00:00 UTCOne vote against
October 27, 1962
Vasili Arkhipov refuses to authorise a nuclear torpedo aboard B-59 at the height of the Cuban missile crisis.
Not for saleOpen record
Photo: This file comes from the website of the President of the Rus · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons 1963-06-16 09:29 UTCThe first woman in space
June 16, 1963
Valentina Tereshkova lifts off aboard Vostok 6.
Not for saleOpen record
Photo: National Park Service · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons 1963-08-28 00:00 UTCI have a dream
August 28, 1963
Martin Luther King Jr. speaks from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
Not for saleOpen record
Photo: Walt Cisco, Dallas Morning News · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons 1963-11-22 18:30 UTCKennedy is pronounced dead
November 22, 1963
Dallas time 12:30. The announcement follows from Parkland Memorial Hospital.
Not for saleOpen record- 1963-11-23 17:16 UTC
Doctor Who begins
November 23, 1963
The first episode airs on the BBC the day after Kennedy is killed.
Not for saleOpen record - 1964-02-09 00:00 UTC
Seventy-three million watching
February 9, 1964
The Beatles play The Ed Sullivan Show and American music changes key.
Not for saleOpen record 
Photo: IPPA photographer · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons 1967-12-03 00:00 UTCA borrowed heart
December 3, 1967
Christiaan Barnard performs the first human-to-human heart transplant in Cape Town.
Not for saleOpen record
Photo: NASA/Bill Anders · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons 1968-12-24 16:40 UTCEarthrise
December 24, 1968
Apollo 8 rounds the Moon and Bill Anders photographs the Earth coming up over the limb.
Not for saleOpen record
Photo: Neil A. Armstrong · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons 1969-07-20 20:17 UTCEagle has landed
July 20, 1969
The lunar module touches down in the Sea of Tranquility.
Not for saleOpen record
Photo: Arnold Skolnick · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons 1969-08-15 00:00 UTCWoodstock opens
August 15, 1969
Half a million people arrive at a dairy farm in Bethel, New York.
Not for saleOpen record
Photo: NASA · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons 1970-04-14 03:07 UTCHouston, we have had a problem
April 14, 1970
An oxygen tank ruptures on Apollo 13 two hundred thousand miles from home.
Not for saleOpen record
Photo: Andreu Veà, WiWiW.org · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons 1971-10-29 22:00 UTCThe first email
October 29, 1971
Ray Tomlinson sends a message between two machines standing side by side.
Not for saleOpen record
Photo: Harrison Schmitt / Apollo 17 · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons 1972-12-07 10:39 UTCThe Blue Marble
December 7, 1972
The crew of Apollo 17 photographs the whole lit face of the Earth.
Not for saleOpen record
Photo: McKay Savage from London, UK · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons 1973-04-03 00:00 UTCA call from a sidewalk
April 3, 1973
Martin Cooper calls a rival lab from a handheld phone on Sixth Avenue.
Not for saleOpen record- 1975-04-04 00:00 UTC
Microsoft is founded
April 4, 1975
Two programmers in Albuquerque bet that software, not hardware, is the business.
Not for saleOpen record 
Photo: NASA · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons 1976-07-20 11:53 UTCViking 1 touches Mars
July 20, 1976
The first successful landing on Mars sends back a picture of its own footpad.
Not for saleOpen record
Photo: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons 1977-09-05 00:00 UTCVoyager 1 departs
September 5, 1977
The probe leaves Earth on a trajectory that will carry it out of the solar system.
Not for saleOpen record
Photo: NASA · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons 1981-04-12 12:00 UTCColumbia lifts off
April 12, 1981
The first Space Shuttle flight launches twenty years to the day after Gagarin.
Not for saleOpen record
Photo: Queery-54 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons 1983-09-26 00:14 UTCStanislav Petrov waits
September 26, 1983
A Soviet duty officer judges a missile-attack alert to be a false alarm, and is right.
Not for saleOpen record
Photo: Courtesy of NOAA/Institute for Exploration/University of Rho · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons 1985-09-01 00:00 UTCThe wreck is found
September 1, 1985
Robert Ballard's team locates Titanic on the seabed after seventy-three years.
Not for saleOpen record
Photo: Kennedy Space Center · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons 1986-01-28 16:39 UTCChallenger
January 28, 1986
The shuttle breaks apart seventy-three seconds after launch with seven aboard.
Not for saleOpen record
Photo: IAEA Imagebank · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons 1986-04-26 01:23 UTCReactor four
April 26, 1986
A test at the Chernobyl plant ends in the worst nuclear accident on record.
Not for saleOpen record
Photo: Jiří Tondl (Blow up) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons 1989-06-04 00:00 UTCTiananmen Square
June 4, 1989
The protests in Beijing are cleared by force; the number of dead has never been established.
Not for saleOpen record
Photo: Unknown photographer, Reproduction by Lear 21 at English Wik · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons 1989-11-09 18:53 UTCThe border opens
November 9, 1989
A misread statement at a press conference sends Berliners to the Wall.
Not for saleOpen record
Photo: ŠJů (cs:ŠJů) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons 1989-11-17 00:00 UTCPrague, Narodni trida
November 17, 1989
A student march is broken up and the Velvet Revolution begins.
Not for saleOpen record
Photo: NASA · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons 1990-04-24 12:33 UTCHubble is released
April 24, 1990
The telescope leaves the shuttle payload bay and begins thirty years of looking outward.
Not for saleOpen record
Photo: Liamd967 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons 1991-08-06 00:00 UTCThe web goes public
August 6, 1991
Tim Berners-Lee posts a short summary of the World Wide Web project to Usenet.
Not for saleOpen record- 1991-12-25 19:00 UTC
The red flag comes down
December 25, 1991
Gorbachev resigns and the Soviet Union ceases to exist.
Not for saleOpen record 
Photo: Kingkongphoto & www.celebrity-photos.com from Laurel · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons 1994-05-10 00:00 UTCMandela is sworn in
May 10, 1994
South Africa inaugurates its first president elected by all its citizens.
Not for saleOpen record
Photo: Toni Barros from São Paulo, Brasil · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons 1996-07-05 00:00 UTCDolly is born
July 5, 1996
A lamb cloned from an adult cell is born at the Roslin Institute.
Not for saleOpen record
Photo: James the photographer · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons 1997-05-11 00:00 UTCDeep Blue wins
May 11, 1997
A machine takes a match from a reigning world chess champion for the first time.
Not for saleOpen record
Photo: Ehud Kenan · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons 1998-09-04 00:00 UTCGoogle is incorporated
September 4, 1998
Two Stanford students file the paperwork for a search company.
Not for saleOpen record
Photo: NASA · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons 1998-11-20 06:40 UTCThe first module
November 20, 1998
Zarya launches from Baikonur and the International Space Station begins.
Not for saleOpen record
Photo: Wikipedia contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons 2001-01-15 00:00 UTCWikipedia opens
January 15, 2001
An encyclopedia anyone can edit goes live and is not expected to work.
Not for saleOpen record
Photo: U.S. Department of Energy, Human Genome Project · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons 2003-04-14 00:00 UTCThe human genome is finished
April 14, 2003
The international sequencing consortium declares the reference genome complete.
Not for saleOpen record
Photo: Elaine Chan and Priscilla Chan · CC BY 2.5 · Wikimedia Commons 2004-02-04 00:00 UTCThefacebook launches
February 4, 2004
A directory for one campus goes online in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Not for saleOpen record
Photo: Tobias Kleinlercher / Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons 2006-03-21 20:50 UTCjust setting up my twttr
March 21, 2006
The first post on a service that will rewrite how news travels.
Not for saleOpen record- 2007-01-09 17:51 UTC
Three devices in one
January 9, 2007
Steve Jobs introduces the iPhone at Macworld in San Francisco.
Not for saleOpen record - 2007-06-29 00:00 UTC
The queues
June 29, 2007
The first iPhone goes on sale and the pocket computer becomes ordinary.
Not for saleOpen record 
Photo: Steve Jurvetson · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons 2009-01-03 18:15 UTCThe genesis block
January 3, 2009
The first Bitcoin block is mined with a newspaper headline written into it.
Not for saleOpen record
Photo: desierto_atacama · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons 2010-10-13 00:00 UTCThirty-three come up
October 13, 2010
The last of the trapped miners at San Jose reaches the surface after sixty-nine days.
Not for saleOpen record
Photo: CERN for the ATLAS and CMS Collaborations · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons 2012-07-04 00:00 UTCA new particle
July 4, 2012
CERN announces the observation of a boson consistent with the Higgs.
Not for saleOpen record
Photo: NASA · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons 2012-08-06 05:17 UTCCuriosity is down
August 6, 2012
The rover lands in Gale Crater after the seven minutes of terror.
Not for saleOpen record
Photo: SpaceX Photos · CC0 · Wikimedia Commons 2015-12-21 01:38 UTCThe booster comes back
December 21, 2015
A Falcon 9 first stage lands upright at Cape Canaveral.
Not for saleOpen record
Photo: Nkij · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons 2016-02-11 00:00 UTCSpacetime rings
February 11, 2016
LIGO announces the first direct detection of gravitational waves.
Not for saleOpen record
Photo: en:NASA, en:STScI, en:WikiSky · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons 2019-04-10 00:00 UTCThe first photograph of a black hole
April 10, 2019
The Event Horizon Telescope releases an image of the shadow at the centre of M87.
Not for saleOpen record
Photo: Gustavo Basso · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons 2020-03-11 00:00 UTCA pandemic is declared
March 11, 2020
The World Health Organization uses the word for COVID-19.
Not for saleOpen record
Photo: Joel Kowsky · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons 2020-05-30 19:22 UTCTwo astronauts, a private rocket
May 30, 2020
Crew Dragon Demo-2 launches from Kennedy Space Center.
Not for saleOpen record
Photo: semeion.photo Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/Simeon Schmauß · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons 2021-02-18 20:55 UTCPerseverance lands
February 18, 2021
The rover reaches Jezero Crater carrying a helicopter under its belly.
Not for saleOpen record
Photo: NASA · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons 2021-12-25 12:20 UTCWebb leaves Earth
December 25, 2021
The James Webb Space Telescope launches on an Ariane 5 from Kourou.
Not for saleOpen recordPhoto: NASA · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons 2022-07-12 00:00 UTCThe deep field
July 12, 2022
The first full-colour images from Webb are released.
Not for saleOpen record
Photo: NASA Headquarters / NASA/Keegan Barber · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons 2024-04-08 18:17 UTCTotality over North America
April 8, 2024
The Moon's shadow crosses Mexico, the United States and Canada.
Not for saleOpen record