History Dates
490 BCE Battle of Marathon (Athens defeats Persia) 324 BCE Chandragupta founds Mauryan dynasty 323 BCE Alexander the Great dies 221 BCE Shi Huangdi establishes Qin Empire 44 BCE Murder of Julius Caesar 220 Fall of the Han Dynasty 313 Edict of Milan (Constantine legalizes Christianity in Roman Empire) 476 Fall of the Roman Empire in the West 622 The Hijra (flight of Muhammad from Mecca to Medina) 800 Charlemagne crowned first Holy Roman Emperor 1066 Norman Conquest of England 1095 Council of Clermont begins Crusades 1206 Delhi Sultanate founded in India; Genghis Khan's reign begins 1215 Magna Carta in England 1347 Black Death in Europe 1324 Mansa Musa's Hajj 1368 Ming Dynasty founded 1453 Ottomans take Constantinople 1454 Gutenberg Bible printed