Hammurabi issues a code of law ; Moses and monotheism -- The enlightenment of the Buddha ; Confucius instructs a nation -- Solon, democracy begins ; Marathon, democracy triumphant -- Hippocrates takes an oath ; Caesar crosses the Rubicon -- Jesus, the trial of a teacher ; Constantine I wins a battle -- Muhammad moves to Medina, the Hegira ; Bologna gets a university.
Dante sees Beatrice ; Black death, pandemics and history -- Columbus finds a new world ; Michelangelo accepts a commission -- Erasmus, a book sets Europe ablaze ; Luther's new course changes history -- The defeat of the Spanish Armada ; The battle of Vienna -- The battle of Lexington ; General Pickett leads a charge -- Adam Smith versus Karl Marx ; Charles Darwin takes an ocean voyage.
Louis Pasteur cures a child ; Two brothers take flight -- The Archduke makes a state visit ; One night in Petrograd -- The day the stock market crashed ; Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany -- Franklin Roosevelt becomes president ; The atomic bomb is dropped -- Mao Zedong begins his long march ; John F. Kennedy is assassinated -- Dr. King leads a march ; September 11, 2001.
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