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Begining of the Old Kingdom in Egypt
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2700 BC
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The mammoth goes extinct
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2500 BC
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King Mursilis of the Hittites sacks Babylon. Begin of Babylonian "dark ages."
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1595 BC
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Death of Tutankhamun
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1341 BC
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Battle of Kadesh
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1274 BC
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Start of the Trojan War
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1260 BC
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Homer writes The Iliad and The Odyssey
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890 BC
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Carthage founded
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813 BC
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Tiglath-Pileser III becomes the king of Assyria
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745 BC
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Birth of Siddhartha Gautama
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563 BC
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Rome becomes a Republic
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509 BC
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Indian campaign of Alexander the Great
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326BC
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Battle of Marathon
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490 BC
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Hannibal crosses the Alps
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218 BC
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Vesuvius erupts, destroying Pompeii
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79 BC
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Augustus Becomes Emperor of Rome
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27 BC
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Jesus is born
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0AD
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The Roman Empire splits into East and West
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284 AD
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Visigoths sack Rome for the first time since 390 BC
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410 AD
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Romulus Augustus forced to abdicate by Odoacer
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476 AD
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Muhammed is born
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570 AD
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Gregory the Great becomes Pope
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590AD
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Battle of Heavenfield
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633AD
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First Arab siege of Constantinople
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674AD
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Charlegmagne becomes first Holy Roman Emperor
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800AD
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Kenneth McAlpin becomes king of the Picts and Scots
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843 AD
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Alfred the Great becomes King of a united England
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871 AD
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The Viking Rollo and his tribe settle in Normandy
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911 AD
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Battle of Lechfeld. Otto the Great, son of Henry the Fowler, defeats the Magyars
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955 AD
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Eric the Red, exiled from Iceland, begins Scandinavian colonization of Greenland
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985 AD
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Leif Eriksson lands in the Americas
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1001 AD
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Canute the Great becomes King of England
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1016 AD
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The Byzantines under Basil II conquer Bulgaria
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1018 AD
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Battle of Hastings
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1066 AD
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First Crusade
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1096 AD
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The Knights Templar are founded
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1118 AD
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Richard I ascends the throne of England
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1189 AD
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Sack of Constantinople during the Fourth Crusade
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1204 AD
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Genghis Khan becomes sole ruler of Mongolia
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1206 AD
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The Magna Carta is sealed by John of England
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1215 AD
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The Battle of Stirling Bridge
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1297 AD
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Battle of Bannock burn
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1314 AD
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The Aztecs found their capital city of Tenochtitlan
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1325 AD
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The Hundred year war begins
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1337 AD
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The Battle of Crecy- The English use of the longbow leads to a decisive victory
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1346 AD
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The Black Death ravages Europe for the first of many times
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1347 AD
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The Bible is translated into English by John Wycliffe.
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1381 AD
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Battle of Agincourt
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1415 AD
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Execution of Joan of Arc
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1431 AD
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The hundred years war ends
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1453 AD
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Battle of Bosworth Field
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1485 AD
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Christopher Columbus reaches the New World
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1492 AD
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Michelangelo returns to his native Florence to begin work on the statue David
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1501 AD
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Leonardo da Vinci begins painting the Mona Lisa and completes it three years later
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1503 AD
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The Church of England breaks away from the Roman Catholic Church and recognizes King Henry VIII as the head of the Church
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1531 AD
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Suleiman the magnificent dies
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1566 AD
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Mary, Queen of Scots, is imprisoned by Elizabeth I.
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1567 AD
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Galileo Galilei is born
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1564 AD
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The Spanish Armada leave A Coruña
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1588 AD
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Shakespeare publishes Romeo and Julliet
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1597 AD
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James the 1st of Scotland becomes James the 6th of England
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1603 AD
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The first publication of the King James Bible
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1611 AD
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René Descartes publishes Meditationes de prima philosophia Meditations on First Philosophy.
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1641 AD
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The Great Fire of London
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1666 AD
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First Javanese War of Succession
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1704 AD
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The United Kingdom is formed
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1707 AD
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Frederick the Great comes to power in Prussia
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1740 AD
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James Cook explores and maps New Zealand and Australia
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1769 AD
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American colonies declare independance
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1776 AD
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Storming of the Bastille
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1789 AD
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Former King Louis XVI of France and his wife Marie Antoinette are guillotined
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1793 AD
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The Battle of Montenotte, Napoleon Bonaparte's first victory as an Army commander
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1796 AD
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Thomas Jefferson elected President of the United States
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1801 AD
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Ludwig van Beethoven performs his Moonlight Sonata for the first time
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1802 AD
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World population reaches 1 billion
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1804 AD
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Napoleon abdicates and is exiled to Elba
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1814 AD
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Battle of Waterloo
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1815 AD
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Discovery of Antarctica
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1820 AD
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Battle of Balaclava
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1854 AD
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Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species
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1859 AD
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Start of American civil War
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1861 AD
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End of American Civil War
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1865 AD
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Alfred Nobel invents dynamite
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1867 AD
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Dmitri Mendeleev creates the periodic table
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1869 AD
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Karl Benz sells the first commercial automobile
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1886 AD
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The Wright Brothers perform the first heavier-than-air powered flight
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1903 AD
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Amundsen reaches the South pole
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1911 AD
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Gavrilo Princip assassinates Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria in Sarajevo, triggering the start of World War I
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1914 AD
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Albert Einstein publishes his General Theory of Relativity
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1916 AD
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Treaty of Versailles signed
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1919 AD
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Picasso paints Guernica
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1937 AD
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Nazi invasion of Poland triggers the begining of World War 2
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1939 AD
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Attack of Pearl Harbor
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1941 AD
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German unconditional surrender to Allied forces
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1945 AD
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Launch of Sputnik 1
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1957 AD
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Yuri Gagarin becomes first man in space
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1961 AD
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Assasination of Martin Luther King Jr
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1968 AD
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First moon landing
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1969 AD
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Communist North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces captured the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon
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1975 AD
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Terrorist Attacks known as "9/11"
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2001 AD
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End of the Mesoamerican (Mayan) Long Count calendar
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2012 AD
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