Online Encyclopedia
2nd millennium
(1st millennium – 2nd millennium – 3rd millennium – other millennia)
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Events
- The Black Death
- Mongol Empires in Asia
- The Renaissance in Europe
- The Protestant Reformation
- The agricultural and industrial revolutions
- The rise of nationalism and the nation state
- European discovery of the Americas and Australia and their colonization
- European colonization and decolonization in Africa and Asia
- Population explosion
- World-spanning wars (Seven Years' War, French Revolutionary Wars, Napoleonic Wars, World War I, World War II)
- Capitalism and Communism
Significant persons
- Thomas Aquinas, Italian theologian
- Genghis Khan, Mongolian conqueror
- Dante Alighieri, Italian poet
- Christopher Columbus, Spanish explorer
- Martin Luther, German religious reformer
- René Descartes, French philosopher and mathematician
- Nicholas Copernicus, French astronomer and mathematician
- Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish playwright and novelist
- Galileo Galilei, Italian scientist
- William Shakespeare, British playwright and poet
- Isaac Newton, British scientist
- Charles Darwin, British natural scientist
- Benjamin Franklin, American founding father and scientist
- Thomas Jefferson, American founding father and president
- Napoleon Bonaparte, French conqueror and emperor
- Abraham Lincoln, American president
- Otto von Bismarck, German chancellor
- Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher
- Karl Marx, German political philosopher
- Sigmund Freud, Austrian psychoanalyst
- Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin, Soviet leaders
- Franklin D. Roosevelt, American president
- Adolf Hitler, German dictator
- Winston Churchill, British prime minister
- Albert Einstein, German physicist
- William Gates, Computer engineer
Inventions, Discoveries, Introductions
- The Printing press
- Gunpowder
- The Steam engine
- The discovery of the scientific method
- Theory of evolution
- The discovery of genetics and DNA
- Calculus
- Human Flight
- Nuclear Power
- Space travel and mankind's first flight to the moon
- The internal combustion engine
- Capitalism and socialism
- The computer and the Internet
- Universal suffrage
Centuries and Decades
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