| 40,000 BCE: |
Human remains from 42,000 years ago in what is now Romania |
| 440 BCE : |
earliest written evidence of people living in the territory of the present-day Romania comes from Herodotus in book IV of his Histories |
| 1387-1392 |
Town of Roman founded |
| Middle Ages: |
Romanians lived in three distinct provinces Wallachia (Romanian: Ţara Românească—"Romanian Land"), Moldavia (Romanian: Moldova) and Transylvania. |
| 1450: |
Guttenberg unveils the first printing press |
| 1492: |
Columbus 'discovers' America
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| 1541: |
Romanian provinces of Moldavia, Wallachia, and Transylvania, came under Ottoman suzerainty, |
| 1763-1783: |
American Revolution |
| 1789-1795: |
French Revolution |
| 1836: |
Siege of the Alamo, Texas wins independence |
| 1849: |
California Gold Rush |
| 1850: |
US Congress fails to resolve slavery and tension between states |
| 1853-56: |
Crimean war-Russia fights Britain, Turkey, France, and Sardinia Jeans invented in California
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| 1861-1865 |
American Civil War |
| 1870: |
Ghettos abolished in Italy |
| 1876: |
In US Alexander Bell invents telephone |
| 1877: |
Thomas Edison invents record-player |
| 1878: |
Romania recognized as an independant state by the Great Powers |
| 1893: |
Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois
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| 1896: |
Theodore Herzl publishes—The Jewish State (Zionism) |
| 1897: |
First Jewish Zionist congress |
| 1898: |
Spanish-American War |
| 1899-1902: |
second Boer War in South Africa |
| 1900: |
Boxer Rebellion in China |
| 1909: |
Founding of Tel Aviv as Hebrew speaking Jewish city |
| 1912: |
Alaska granted territorial status by US
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| 1914: |
Panama Canal opens |
| 1914: |
As World War I, Romania declares it's neutrality |
| 1916: |
Romania declares war on Austria-Hungary |
| 1918: |
Romania is defeated and negotiates the Treaty of Bucharest with Germany |
| 1918: |
Romania joined World War I again |
| 1914-1918: |
World War I |
| 1919: |
Treaty of Versailles ends World War I |
| 1919: |
Ernest Rutherford splits atom for first time |
| 1919-1920: |
US Congress refuses to recognize League of Nations |
| 1929: |
Stock Market crash |
| 1929-late 1930s |
The Great Depression |
| 1941: |
Romania, ruled by Ion Antonescu, entered WWII on the side of the Axis powers |
| 1944: |
King Michael I of Romania overthrew Antonescu and Romania joined the Allies and declared war on Germany |
| 1939-1945: |
World War II |
| 1945 |
United States drops 2 atomic bombs on Japanese cities |
| 1948: |
Independent State of Israel founded |
| 1950-1953: |
Korean War
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| 1954-1975: |
Vietnam War in Southeast Asia |
| 1967 |
6-Day Israeli-Arab War |
| 1973 |
Yom Kippur Israeli-Arab War |
| 1974: |
President Nixon resigns from office after Watergate scandal |
| 1990-1991: |
Persion Gulf War, Operation Desert Storm |
| 2001 |
September 11th attacks, Terrorists destroy World Trade Center in New York City |
| 2003-2011 |
Iraq War |
