It’s my pleasure sharing with you the important date history has left behind. As you read along, you can comment your observations as time flies, I will do likewise.
BEFORE THE COMING OF CHRIST(BC)
10,000 settlements in Nile valley
5000 Kingdoms of upper and lower Egypt formed
3500 Menes (1st Pharaoh) ruled whole of Egypt: Zoser, the first pyramid builder step-formed pyramid at Sakkara
2500 Egyptian calendar introduced
1925 Babylon captured by the Hittites
1700-1580 Hyksos, or shepherd king rule Egypt
1600 Assyria became a separate kingdom, Nineveh being its capital. Minoan civilization reached its zenith
1360-1350 Tutankhamen (king Tut) ruled Egypt
1016-975 David became king of Israel
975-935 solomon became Israel’s king
753 Rome was founded
573 Nebuchadnezzar captured Tyre
404 Fall of Athens: Sparta supreme in Greece
400 stamped money first used in Egypt
202 Hannibal defeated at Zama by Scipio
44 Caesar assassinated
31BC-476AD Rome became an empire

ANNO DOMINI (AT THE TIME OF CHRIST) AD
0 Birth of Jesus Christ of Nazareth and change of calendar from BC to AD
33 The crucifixion
80 Colosseum at Rome completed
330-410 Rome sacked by the Goths and Vandals from Carthage respectively.
476 Fall of the western Empire of Rome. And from here, the middle age was reached.
THE MIDDLE AGE
476-800 The Dark Ages
571 Birth of Mohammed
622 Flight of Mohammed from Mecca to Medina
632 Death of Mohammed
637 Jerusalem captured by the Moslems
641 Alexandria captured by the Moslems
711 Spain invaded by Saracens (Moors) from Africa
732 Moslems driven out of France (Battle of Tours)
800-814 Charlemagne crowned king by the Pope and death of Charlemagne respectively
800-1100 Norse, or Viking, or Danish raids.
1096-1292 The Crusades
1250-1323 Marco Polo: visited the court of Kublai Khan
1216 Order of St. Dominic (Black Frairs) founded
1265-1321 Dante, the Italian poet
1338-1450 Hundred years of War (Jeanne d’Arc)
1309-1377 Seat of Papacy removed to Avignon (Babylonish Captivity of Popes)
1340-1400 Days of Geoffrey Chaucer (Canterbury tales author and a great poet)

THE MODERN WORLD
1942 The moors driven out of Spain. Columbus discovers west Indies
1519-1522 Ferdinand Magellan’s ship sailed round the world
1564-1616 The days of Williams Shakespeare
1577-1580 Drakes’ voyage round the world
1584 William the Silent assassinated at Delft
1618-1648 Thirty years war
1638-1853 Europeans excluded from Japan
1769-1821 Days of Napoleon Bonaparte
1775-1783 The War of American Independence
1776 American declaration of Independence (4th July)
1789 French revolution began, George Washington first president (U.S.A.)
1833 Abolition of slavery under British flag. Sir Henry Rawlinson deciphers cuneiform writing
1830 Belgium separated from Holland, became an independent nation
1914-1981 First world war. Northern and Southern Nigeria was amalgamated
1917 Revolution in Russia. Communist seizes power
1933 17,000,000 unemployed in U.S.A. and 9,000,000 in Germany.
1939 Russia and Germany sign a non-aggressive pact. Second world war.
1945 Creation of Atomic Bomb. Unconditional surrender of Germany and Japan
1960 Nigeria declared independent state.
2001 world trade center attacked by terrorist
2011 Osoma bin Laden and Muammar Gaddafi were killed. The fomer, a Pakistan terrorist and the later, a Libyan leader.
2017-2018. Recognition of Jerusalem as Isreal’s capital by U.S.A and a treaty move between U.S.A. and North Korea.
sources: World Encyclopedia, African encyclopedia, Match to civilization by G. Bells and sons. (All books)



My Observations: Egypt had once been a cradle of civilization and had an unimaginable influence in the world, but in the long run, they are now the shadow of their former selves. The problems of Nigeria now was once experienced by the countries we look up to now, but their leader drove their nations out of the problems. Nigeria can one day get it right. One day, U.S.A. will be stripped off the power it has. History should be introduced into our curriculum as a compulsory subject.
please the mods should move this to front page so that we learn what had happen in the past and people should also includethe important dates that can never be forgotten.
cc. Lalasticlala
Dominique.