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Dates are from over 50 sources. Disagreements were settled by going with the date most often cited.
Timeline -- B.C. Timeline -- A.D.
B.C. Examples/jump points A.D. Examples/jump points
9997 Start of B.C. timeline 9 Start of A.D. timeline
3000 Hours, minutes, seconds 70 Jerusalem destroyed
2700 First war coverage by media 306 Constantine rules
2500 Great Pyramid -- awesome 410 Rome sacked for a loss
1900 Iron smelt better 711 Moslems take Spain
1720 Mobility army takes Egypt 768 Charlemagne
1361 King Tut 1000 Leif Erickson sneaks in
900 Zero arrives 1066 Hastings
688 Boxing at Olympics 1189 Third Crusade
479 Golden Age in Athens 1238 Mongols are coming
425 Oedipus complex 1388 English legislate clean
400 Beginning of the atom bomb 1504 Mona Lisa, sung by Leo
336 Alex gets started 1605 Don Quixote
270 Earth goes round the sun 1700 Hand grenades go off
240 Earth is 24,000 miles round 1769 Steam engine
216 Hannibal wins big 1799 Rosetta stone turns up
121 Blue jeans get their name 1850 Screw propellers
47 Juli and Cleo, what a pair 1883 Machine guns
42 Mark and Cleo, what a pair 1905 Einstein has a flash
27 First Roman Emperor 1965 C-5 contract awarded