1440-01-01 00:00 UTC
Movable type in Mainz
January 1, 1440
Johannes Gutenberg begins printing with movable metal type, and the cost of a page collapses.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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