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The Parthenon on the Acropolis in Athens

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Scene from the Bayeux Tapestry showing Harold swearing an oath

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Hans Holbein's painting The Ambassadors

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Painting of Napoleon at the Battle of Austerlitz

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Buzz Aldrin saluting the United States flag on the Moon

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Nelson Mandela at his presidential inauguration in Pretoria

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People

Franklin D. Roosevelt1882–1945 Adolf Hitler1889–1945 Joseph Stalin1878–1953 Queen Victoria1819–1901 Henry VIII1491–1547 Abraham Lincoln1809–1865 Oliver Cromwell1599–1658 Alexander the Great356–323 BC Isaac Newton1643–1727 Vladimir Lenin1870–1924 Charles Darwin1809–1882 Charles de Gaulle1890–1970 George Washington1732–1799 Clement Attlee1883–1967 Otto von Bismarck1815–1898 Elizabeth II1926–2022 Alan Turing1912–1954 Cleopatra VII69–30 BC Albert Einstein1879–1955 George VI1895–1952 Mikhail Gorbachev1931–2022 Florence Nightingale1820–1910 Emmeline Pankhurst1858–1928 Neville Chamberlain1869–1940 Isambard Kingdom Brunel1806–1859 Benjamin Disraeli1804–1881 William Gladstone1809–1898 Oswald Mosley1896–1980 Francis Drakec. 1540–1596 Mary, Queen of Scots1542–1587 Mary I1516–1558 Peter the Great1672–1725 Catherine the Great1729–1796 Wilhelm II1859–1941 Nicholas II1868–1918 Leon Trotsky1879–1940 Benito Mussolini1883–1945 Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968 John F. Kennedy1917–1963 Dwight D. Eisenhower1890–1969 Harry S. Truman1884–1972 David Lloyd George1863–1945 William Pitt the Younger1759–1806 Robert Walpole1676–1745 Louis XIV1638–1715 Marie Antoinette1755–1793 Ada Lovelace1815–1852 James Watt1736–1819 Michael Faraday1791–1867 Alexander Fleming1881–1955 Hannibal247–c. 183 BC Winston Churchill1874–1965 Elizabeth I1533–1603 Napoleon Bonaparte1769–1821 Julius Caesar100–44 BC Horatio Nelson1758–1805 Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington1769–1852 Margaret Thatcher1925–2013 Joan of Arcc. 1412–1431 Marie Curie1867–1934 Augustus63 BC–AD 14 J. Robert Oppenheimer1904–1967 Sun Yat-sen1866–1925 Qin Shi Huang259–210 BC Emperor Meiji1852–1912 Tokugawa Ieyasu1543–1616 Mahatma Gandhi1869–1948 Akbar1542–1605 Mehmed II1432–1481 Suleiman the Magnificent1494–1566 Justinian Ic. 482–565 Martin Luther1483–1546 Leonardo da Vinci1452–1519 Richard III1452–1485 Francisco Franco1892–1975

Events

Battle of Trafalgar21 October 1805 Battle of Waterloo18 June 1815 First World War1914–1918 Second World War1939–1945 D-Day6 June 1944 Falklands War2 April–14 June 1982 Fall of Constantinople29 May 1453 Spanish Armada1588 Assassination of Julius Caesar15 March 44 BC Battle of Actium2 September 31 BC Roman Conquest of Britain BeginsAD 43 Deposition of Romulus AugustulusAD 476 Battle of Marathon490 BC Death of Alexander the Great323 BC Magna Carta Sealed15 June 1215 Execution of Charles I30 January 1649 Glorious Revolution1688–1689 Great Exhibition1 May–15 October 1851 Factory Act1833 German Invasion of Poland1 September 1939 Battle of BritainJuly–October 1940 Operation Barbarossa22 June 1941 Attack on Pearl Harbor7 December 1941 Battle of Stalingrad23 August 1942–2 February 1943 Second Battle of El Alamein23 October–11 November 1942 Fall of Berlin2 May 1945 Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima6 August 1945 German Empire Proclaimed18 January 1871 Hitler Appointed Chancellor30 January 1933 Enabling Act23 March 1933 Nuremberg Laws15 September 1935 Kristallnacht9–10 November 1938 First Opium War1839–1842 Xinhai Revolution1911–1912 Meiji Restoration1868 Indian Rebellion1857–1858 Partition of British IndiaAugust 1947 US Declaration of Independence4 July 1776 Battle of Gettysburg1–3 July 1863 March on Washington28 August 1963 Berlin Wall Built13 August 1961 Cuban Missile Crisis16–28 October 1962 Dissolution of the Soviet Union26 December 1991 French Revolution Begins1789 October Revolution7 November 1917 Diet of Worms1521 Seven Years' War1756–1763 Crimean War1853–1856 Spanish Civil War1936–1939 Korean Armistice27 July 1953 Fall of Saigon30 April 1975 Battle of Bosworth22 August 1485 Representation of the People Act6 February 1918 Penicillin's Antibacterial Effect Observed1928 Slavery Abolition Act1833 Sack of Constantinople1204

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