1.
What Happened In Different
Years In History?

2.
From Pre-History through modern
times. An array of years and the events
that shaped us. Links to each year
follow.
Cool Gus says: “Enjoy the ride!”
(click on image on each slide to go to that year)

3.
Claudius marries Plautia Urgulanilla
(he’d later, much later, have a book and
a BBC series on his life, who’d have
thought? And check out the hair on that
guy on the left!)
What Happened in 9 A.D.?

4.
What Happened in 1973?

5.
BP stands for Before Present, dating back
from 1 January 1950 because after that
date the proportion of carbon isotopes in
the atmosphere from nuclear testing
makes carbon dating unreliable.
What Happened in 32,415 Before Present (BP)?

6.
What Happened in
1980?

7.
What Happened in 44
B.C?
Pharaoh Cleopatra VII is outside of
Rome, staying at one of Caesar’s Villas.

8.
What Happened in 452 A.D.?
Pope Leo confronts Attila.

9.
What Happened in
1998?

10.
The World’s population is 100
million.
What Happened in 478 B.C.?

11.
The world’s population is roughly 100 million, soon
to be minus 300 Spartans and a bunch of Persians.
What Happened in 480
B.C?

12.
What Happened in 493 A.D?
The World’s Population is roughly 190 million.
Saint Patrick, who would become the patron
saint of Ireland, dies.

13.
What Happened in 1944 A.D.?

14.
What Happened in 999 A.D.?
aka Y1K

15.
What Happened in
1972?

16.
What Happened in 1929?
All Quiet on the Western Front is
Published.

17.
The 54th Massachusetts leaves for
the front
What Happened in 1863 A.D.?

18.
Dred Scott vs. Sandford rules that Negroes are not
citizens and slaves cannot sue for freedom.
What Happened in 1857 A.D.?

19.
Former West Point cadet Edgar
Allan Poe’s The Tell-Tale Heart is
published.
What Happened in 1843 A.D.?

20.
What Happened in 1826 A.D.?
New York City is the most populous city in the
country, packed with almost 150,000 people

21.
What Happened in 1783?
The World’s Population is roughly 900 million.
Only 3.6 million are part of the fledgling United States.

22.
What Happened in 1776 A.D.?
The Liberty Bell rings (and it doesn’t crack)

23.
What Happened in 1946?
It’s A Wonderful Life premieres

24.
What Happened in 1976?
The Muppets Premieres

25.
What Happened in 1618?
The Thirty Years’ War, one of the longest and most
destructive conflicts in European History, begins
when two Catholic Lord Regents are thrown out of a
window in Prague; they land unharmed.

26.
What Happened in 1493?
The World’s Population is roughly 425 million.
It was 450 million 150 years earlier, but the
Black Death wiped out an estimated 75 million
people.

27.
What Happened in 1779?
John Paul Jones says he has not yet
begun to fight, then fights harder and
captures the HMS Serapis while his own
ship, the Bonhomme Richard, sinks

28.
What Happened in 1945?
Franklin D. Roosevelt is sworn in for a
fourth term as President.

29.
What Happened in 1969?

30.
What Happened In 1917?
Mata Hari is arrested for spying on 13 February.

31.
What Happened in 2001?
The World Changed.

32.
Free audiobook shorts on Soundcloud from the
Time Patrol series. Click on box.
Roland’s complete mission from Independence Day.
4 July 1865, at Gettysburg. HERE
Mac’s complete mission from D-Day.
6 June 1944.

33.
Click on Image for links

34.
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35.
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