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How did the world start?

One belief is that God created the world, then Adam and Eve. This is explained in the book of Genesis in the Bible.

Another belief is that there was a “Big Bang”. According to the big bang theory, the universe was created sometime between 10 billion and 20 billion years ago from a cosmic explosion that hurled matter in all directions. God could of also created the Big Bang.


Stone Age - tools and weapons were made of stone
Bronze Age - most tools and weapons were made of bronze (from about 4000-3000 BC to about 1000 BC)
Iron Age – most tools and weapons were made of iron (from about 1000 BC)


3.2 million years ago - oldest fossil skeleton of a human ancestor
c. 2540 B.C. - Pyramids of Egypt constructed
1232 - Rockets invented in China
1348 - The plague appeared in Europe
1390 - The first paper mill began operating in Germany
1450 - Telescope invented
1608 - Printing Press invented
1619 - The first slaves transported to America
1704 - United Kingdom of Great Britain formed
1773 - The Boston Tea Party
1774 - First Continental Congress drafts “Declaration of Rights and Grievances”
1776 - Declaration of Independence
1778 - Hawaii discovered
1789 - First president of the United States (George Washington)
1790 - U.S. population about 3,929,000, including 698,000 slaves
1793 - Cotton gin invented
1796 - smallpox vaccination begins
1799 - Rosetta Stone discovered in Egypt (created in 196 BC)
1807 - First Steamboat "Clermont" sails
1814 - Locomotive engine invented
1833 - Slavery abolished in British Empire
1838 - Photography invented
1842 - first anesthetic used (ether)
1844 - First telegraph message transmitted
1849 - California gold rush begins
1858 - First trans-Atlantic telegraph cable completed
1864 - Pasteurization invented
1866 - dynamite invented
1867 - Trans-Atlantic cable laid
1867 - Steam engine motorcycle invented
1872 - Brooklyn Bridge opens
1873 - Color photography invented
1876 - Telephone invented
1877 - Phonograph invented
1879 - Electric light bulb invented
1882 - Edison created the first large power station in NYC
1885 - First practical automobile to be powered by an internal-combustion engine.
1885 - First gas engine motorcycle invented
1885 - Box camera invented
1885 - World's first skyscraper built in Chicago
1886 - Coca Cola invented
1887 - first Sherlock Holmes story (A Study in Scarlet)
1888 - pneumatic tire invented
1895 - X-rays discovered
1899 - Wireless telegraph service established between England and France
1890 - First electrocution in the electric chair
1892 - Diesel engine invented
1893 - First car built by Henry Ford
1893 - Zipper invented
1901 - First successful radio receiver
1902 - Air conditioner invented
1903 - Wright brothers' airplane remained in flight for 12 seconds
1906 - Cornflakes invented
1908 - Model T automobile produced
1913 - Motion pictures with sound invented
1917 - Germany - the first major military use of airplanes to drop bombs on cities
1920 - Women get the right to vote
1920 - Alcohol prohibition began (ended 1932)
1926 - First liquid-fueled rocket launched
1927 - First television transmission (England)
1927 - Aerosol can patented
1928 - Penicillin discovered
1932 - Polaroid photography invented
1936 - Hoover Dam completed
1938 - Ballpoint pen invented
1938 - Teflon invented
1939 - The first regular TV broadcast in the U.S.
1939 - First successful helicopter invented
1945 - The first atomic bomb was detonated at Hiroshima, Japan. About 70,000 people were killed instantly; about 30,000 more people died within several weeks
1946 - First programmable computer constructed
1947 - Transistor invented
1957 - The first satellite, Sputnik, put into Earth orbit (Soviet Union)
1959 - First unmanned spacecraft hit the moon (Soviet Union)
1961 - A person orbited the Earth for the first time (Yuri Gagarin)
1961 - First American in space (Alan Shepard)
1964 - Unmanned U.S. spacecraft transmitted television pictures of the moon before hitting the surface
1965 - The first "space walk" (Soviet Union)
1965 - The first unmanned spacecraft to Mars (Mariner 4)
1966 - The first unmanned soft landing on the moon (Soviet Union)
1967 - China enters the nuclear age
1968 - Human beings orbited the moon for the first time (Apollo 8)
1969 - People walked on the moon for the first time (Apollo 11)
1971 - First unmanned successful landing on Mars (Soviet Union)
1973 - Pioneer 10 reaches Jupiter
1975 - First unmanned soft landing on Venus (Soviet Union)
1975 - US & Soviet spacecraft dock in space
1975 - Invention of the CAT scanner
1976 - Viking 1 & 2 land on Mars
1981 - Personal computer introduced
1982 - First launch of communications satellites into orbit by space shuttle
1983 - First American woman in space (Sally Ride)
1984 - AIDS identified
1985 - Hole in Ozone Layer discovered
1986 - Chernobyl nuclear plant accident
1986 - Voyager 2 reaches Uranus
1997 - Sheep cloned
2009 - First black US President elected (Barack Obama)
2009 - US Population 305,000,000


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