Always a subjective issue and free for you to stretch your imagination here are a few choicest picks from Will Durant

2. 4241 BC -Introduction of the Egyptian Calendar
 It divided the year into 12
months of thirty days
each with five intercalary
days at the end of
roistering

3. 543 BC-Death of Buddha
 The spirit of India lies in
contemplation and not
application of
mathematics in artillery or
chemistry to bombs
 The death of Buddha is the
beginning of a civilisation
that has seen every
injustice,slavery and in the
midst of it produced
geniiuses and saints like
Buddha ,Ashoka,Gandhi
and Tagore

4. 478 BC -Death of Confucius
 Poise of soul ,simple
dignity, quite
understanding ,depth of
character , infinite
courtesy
 Never has a man so
written a name on the
face and spirit of its
people as Confucius has
done in China

5. 399 BC -Death of Socrates
 For the first time a whole
civilization liberated
itself from superstition
and created science,
drama,democracy,
liberty and passed to
Rome and Europe half of
its intellectual and
aesthetic heritage

6. 44 BC-Death of Caesar
 Greatest blunder in
history-assassination of
Caesar
 Events after his death-reconstruction
of roman
law and order by
augustus caesar,poetry of
Virgil and Horace,prose
of Pliny and
Tacitus,philosophy of
Epitectus and Aurelius

7. ?BC-Birth of Christ
 Most important date of
all as it divides all history
in the West and gives
one of our greatest
heroes and models

8. AD 632-The bereavement of Prophet
Mohammed

9. 1294 AD-The death of Roger Bacon
 It was gunpowder that gave to
the rising bourgeoise of late
medieval Europe the means of
overthrowing the feudal baron
by bombarding from a distance
his once impregnable castle
 It was gunpowder that turned
war from a gentleman’s game
occasionally fatal to a form of
standardized mass destruction
 Most important date in the story
of the fall of man

10. 1492-Columbus discovers AMERICA!!
 Put an end to the Italian
Renaissance by changing
trade routes from the
Mediterranean to the
Atlantic
 The New World opened
up a vast market for
European goods and a
vast area for Europe’s
surplus population

11. 1789-The French Revolution
 It was the peak of human
history greater than
Periclean Greece,
Augustan Rome, or
Medicean Italy
 Never had men thought
so bravely, spoken so
brilliantly or lifted
themselves to a greater
height of culture and
courtesy

12. Afterword ……
 Thoughts have been shared from the writings of Will
Durant
 One man’s meat is another’s poison
 Each of you in different corners of the planet can
identify your own exciting years and welcome to share
your thoughts with us

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