Quotes from James Weber

1791 -  The Bill of Rights is ratified

1803 -  The Louisiana Purchase nearly doubles the size of the U.S.     The

On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland under the false pretext that the Poles had carried out a series of sabotage operations against German targets. Two days later, on September 3, France and the United Kingdom, followed by the fully independent Dominions of the British Commonwealth — Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa — declared war on Germany. This marks the beginning of World War II.

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.

The hijra, or emigration of Mohammed and his followers to Medina in 622, is celebrated as the founding of Islam.

The first crusade started after a speech given on November 27, 1095 by Pope Urban II with the primary goal of responding to an appeal from Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos, who requested that Western volunteers come to his aid and help to repel the invading Seljuq Turks from Anatolia. An additional goal soon became the principal objective — the Christian re-conquest of the sacred city of Jerusalem and the Holy Land, and the freeing of the Eastern Christians from Muslim rule.

1812 -  U.S. declares war on Britain (War of 1812)   The

Printing Revolution," and is widely regarded as the most important event of the modern period. It played a key role in the development of the Renaissance, Reformation, the Age of Enlightenment, and the Scientific Revolution, and laid the material basis for the modern knowledge-based economy and the spread of learning to the masses.

The death of Jesus marks the beginning of Christianity, today the world's largest religion with about 2.4 billion adherents.

Human migration seems to follow a certain pattern, from eastern Africa into modern Israel then up through modern Turkey and into eastern Europe, where they worked their way west.

The shift from hunting-gathering to agriculture led to one very important development -- it laid the building blocks for civilization as we know it.

We set up a telephone connection between us and the guys at SRI ..., Kleinrock ... said in an interview, We typed the L and we asked on the phone, Do you see the L? Yes, we see the L, came the response. We typed the O, and we asked, Do you see the O. Yes, we see the O. Then we typed the G, and the system crashed... Yet a revolution had begun…

The extensive surplus of food is what allowed those areas to become densely populated in the first place. It is these two things that allowed for political systems, specialized labor,  writing, property ownership, and more- all things we can't imagine modern society without.

In 2014, however, Chinese scientists were believed to have a 75% success rates cloning pigs. In the future, the procedure might be used to preserve endangered species or even revive extinct species. First experiments with DNA from a wild mountain goat, officially declared extinct in 1999, proved successful.

Adolf Hitler committed suicide by shooting himself

Caesar and Augustus both have months named after them (July for Julius Caesar and August for Augustus).

Many consider the publication of this book to be the beginning of the Scientific Revolution.   This has been debated.  However, Copernicus' theory stimulated the astronomical work of some of the most important minds of the sixteenth and early seventeenth century, upon which later natural philosophers, including Newton, were able to build modern science.

In spite of his many successes, he is denigrated for his extreme polygamy, having had 700 wives and 300 concubines according to the Bible. These women drew him towards sin and idolatry and made God angry with him, and this has been attributed as one of the causes for the division of Israel after his death.

Newton's influence on science particularly and on eighteenth century culture in general was profound.  Few scientists after him would deny themselves the identity of being a "Newtonian", while his (apparent) application of rational thought to the solution of scientific problems became the model for the Enlightenment embrace of "rationalism".

The introduction of penicillin in the 1940s, which began the era of antibiotics, has been recognized as one of the greatest advances in therapeutic medicine.

Nevertheless, economic historians agree that the first Industrial Revolution was the most important event in the history of humanity since the domestication of animals, plants, and fire.