History by Country 2

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The Klondike Gold Rush begins

Vlad the Impaler goes to war with the Ottoman Empire

Pol Pot commits genocide against his own people

The Battle of Actium

Mehmet the Conqueror takes the greatest city of his career

Temujin is born

Timur the Lame or Tamerlane becomes king

Captain Cook enters Botany Bay

The Battle of Hastings

Vikings become the first known Europeans to establish a settlement in the New World

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Francisco Pizarro topples the Inca Empire

Magellan dies

Roman general Pompey the Great is murdered

Nelson Mandela ends the apartheid regime

The Jacobins come to power and begin the "Reign of Terror"

The Battle of Cannae

Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand is assassinated beginning World War 1

Charles Darwin visits the Galapagos Islands inpiring him to write The Origin of Species

Alexander the Great wins The Battle of Gaugemela

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid die in a firefight