Which Historical Event Happened First? - #2

Frederick the Great begins his reign in Prussia

Peter the Great begins his reign in Russia

Catherine the Great begins her reign in Russia

Kamehameha the Great begins his reign in Hawaii

Christopher Columbus makes contact with the Taíno people.

The Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and the Seneca people form the Iroquois Confederacy (best estimate)

Pachacuti reorganizes the Kingdom of Cusco into the Incan Empire

The Aztec Triple Alliance is formed between the cities of Tenochtitlan, Tetzcoco, and Tlacopan

The first resident crew arrives at the ISS

The Euro is introduced as the official currency of the Eurozone

Vladimir Putin becomes acting president of Russia after the resignation of Boris Yeltsin

The Concorde is retired after its final commercial flight

The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth occupies Moscow

Forces of the German Wehrmacht reach the outskirts of Moscow, but are repelled

The Swedish Army under Charles XII are defeated by the Russians in Poltava, having never reached Moscow

Napoleon's Grande Armée temporarily occupies Moscow

Imperial Japanese forces take control of Hong Kong

Imperial Japanese forces take control of Jakarta

Imperial Japanese forces take control of Manila

Imperial Japanese forces take control of Singapore

Humans cross into North America

Humans first arrive in Australia

The first Anatomically modern humans make it to Great Britain

Humans migrate to the Japanese archipelago

The First Balkan War breaks out between the Balkan League and the Ottoman Empire

The RMS Titanic sinks in the North Atlantic on its maiden voyage

Puyi, the last emperor of China, is forced to abdicate

An assassination is attempted on former president Theodore Roosevelt

"Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde", written by Robert Louis Stevenson, is published

"Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus", written by Mary Shelley, is published

"Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas", written by Jules Verne, is published

"Dracula", written by Bram Stoker, is published

China successfully tests its first nuclear weapon

The Chernobyl disaster occurs

India successfully tests its first nuclear weapon

Tsar Bomba, the most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated, is tested

The Byzantine Empire reaches its territorial height under Justinian The Great

The famous Theodosian Walls are erected around Constantinople

Construction begins on the Hagia Sophia

The first documented use of Greek Fire occurs

The Gupta Empire reaches its territorial height after conquering much of modern day India

The Maurya Empire reaches its territorial height after conquering much of modern day India

The Delhi Sultanate reaches its territorial height after conquering much of modern day India

The Mughal Empire reaches its territorial height after conquering much of modern day India

The Duchy of Prussia is established upon the secularization of the Teutonic Knights

Ivan the Terrible proclaims the formation of the Tsardom of Russia

The crowns of Castile and Aragon are united through Isabella I and Ferdinand II, informally unifying Spain

James VI, then King of Scotland, ascends the throne of England

Battleford Industrial School, the first federally funded Canadian residential school, is opened.

American bison populations reach their lowest point after European settlers hunt them to near-extinction in order to deprive Indigenous people of the area of their primary food source

Approximately 15,000 people die during the Trail of Tears, a forced resettlement of First Nations people from the American Southeast

Approximately 250 Lakota people are killed by the U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment at The Wounded Knee Massacre

Marie Curie passes away due to aplastic anemia, likely developed from exposure to radiation

Jonas Salk develops a successful Polio vaccine

Albert Einstein publishes his general theory of relativity

Werner Heisenberg is awarded the Nobel prize in physics for the creation of quantum mechanics

Mamluk forces route an attempted Mongol invasion of Egypt in the Battle of Ain Jalut

The Song Dynasty finally surrenders to the Mongol Empire, completing their conquest of China

Mongol invaders capture and burn the city of Kyiv

The Mongols seize Baghdad, pillaging the Baghdad House of Wisdom in the process