HUMANS

Events in human history

The emergence of modern human – homo sapiens (”wise man”) – about 200,000 years ago
 
Important early discoveries such as control of fire, invention of tools, language and writing, agriculture and farming
 
Emergence of religions
 
Invention of money
 
Invention of the printing press (around 1440)
 
The scientific revolution (about 1553 – late 1700) with great developments in mathematics, physics, astronomy, biology (including human anatomy) and chemistry
 
Colonialism, which is the practice of acquiring full or partial political control over another country, occupying it with settlers, and exploiting it economically
 
Discovery of electricity
 
The industrial revolution (about 1760 – 1840), when hand production methods where substituted by machines
 
Abolition of slavery
 
Development of modern medicine including the invention of vaccination and antibiotics
 
The rise of communism
 
The invention of nuclear weapons (1945)
 
World War II (1939 - 1945) with an estimated 50 - 85 million fatalities. The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The rise of nazism. The Holocaust.
 
Invention of factory farming, (about 1947) in which animals are exploited as machines for human benefit
 
The Cold War, (about 1947 - 1990) which was the state of hostility that existed between the Soviet bloc countries and the Western powers
 
Cuban Missile Crisis, (1962)  often considered the closest the Cold War came to escalating into a full-scale nuclear war
 
Invention of contraceptive pills (about 1960)
 
First humans to step onto the surface of the Moon (1969)
 
Dissolution of the Soviet Union (1991)
 
Rise of civil rights
 
Invention of mass media, such as radio, television, newspapers and Internet
 
Invention of the computer and artificial intelligence
 
Invention of the World Wide Web

Invention of genetic engineering
 
World Trade Center attacks (11 September 2001)

Rise of terrorism
 
”Cold War II” (about 2014 - )
 
Global warming
 
The sixth extinction, caused by human