World+Events

202 B.C. – Outbreak of Fifth Syrian War A.D. 220 – Han dynasty falls and China disintegrates 800 - Charlemagne's crowning by the Pope 1066 - Battle of Hastings 1646-46 - English Civil War 1842 - End of Opium war 1861-65 - American Civil War 1870-71 - Franco - Prussian War 1884 - European nations divide Africa 1898 - Spanish - American War 1900 - Boxer Rebellion fails in China 1901 - Death of Queen Victoria 1905 - Einstein publishes theory of relativity 1911-13 - Sun Yat-sen Nationalist Revolution 1917 - Russian Bolshevik Revolution (brings Lenin to power) 1914-18 - World War I 1939-45 - World War II 1950-53 - Korean War 1964-75 - Vietnam War 2001 - Twin Towers destroyed**
 * 221 B.C. – Qin dynasty unites all of China