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1600 AD - 2000 AD

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1600 A.D.

bulletPope Paul V governed the church for 16 years. (1603 A.D.)
bulletThe Dutch discovered Australia. (1606 A.D.)
bulletJamestown, Virginia became the first settlement of the "New World." (1607 A.D.)
bulletJohn Milton, a poet from England, was born. He lived 66 years. (1608 A.D.)
bulletThe Authorized King James Version of the Holy Bible was published. (1611 A.D.)
bulletWm. Harvey, M.D. of England discovered the double function of the heart in sending out blood from the left side, through the arteries, over the whole body, and in receiving it back by the veins to the right side, whence it is propelled into the lungs, and made pure and again fit for use. (1619 A.D.)
bulletPope Gregory XV governed the church for 2 years. (1621 A.D.)
bulletPope Urban VIII governed the church for 21 years. (1623 A.D.)
bulletThe first newspaper, The Gazette De France, was first issued. (It is still in circulation today.) (1631 A.D.)
bulletJohn Locke of England was born. He lived 72 years. Spinoza of Amsterdam was born. He lived 45 years. (1632 A.D.)
bulletSir Isaac Newton of England was born. He lived 85 years. He discovered the law of gravitation in 1666. (1642 A.D.)
bulletPope Innocent X governed the church for 11 years. (1642 A.D.)
bulletPope Alexander VII governed the church for 12 years. (1655 A.D.)
bulletPope Clement IX governed the church for 3 years. (1655 A.D.)
bulletPope Clement X governed the church for 6 years. (1670 A.D.)
bulletPope Innocent XI governed the church for 13 years. (1676 A.D.)
bulletGeorge Handel was born. He lived 75 years. (1684 A.D.)
bulletPope Alexas VIII governed the church for 2 years. (1689 A.D.)
bulletPope Innocent XII governed the church for 9 years. (1691 A.D.)
bulletThe Bank of England commenced business on January 1. (1695 A.D.)

1700 A.D.

bulletPope Clement XI governed the church for 21 years. (1700 A.D.)
bulletPope Innocent XIII governed the church for 3 years. (1721 A.D)
bulletPope Benedict XIII governed the church for 6 years. (1724 A.D.)
bulletWickliffe's New Testament was printed. (1731 A.D.)
bulletWM. Herschel was born in Hanover, Germany. He lived 84 years. (1738 A.D.)
bulletPope Benedict XIV governed the church for 18 years. (1740 A.D.)
bulletJames Watt discovered the power of steam. (1750 A.D.)
bulletBen. Franklin discovered the identity of lightening and electricity. Lightening rods were used thereafter. (1752 A.D.)
bulletAmadeus Mozart of Germany was born. He lived 36 years. (1756 A.D.)
bulletPope Clement XIII governed the church for 11 years. (1758 A.D.)
bulletPope Clement XIV governed the church for 6 years. (1763 A.D.)
bulletBeethoven was born. He lived 57 years, primarily in Vienna. (1770 A.D.)
bulletThe Constitutional Congress in America, led by Thomas Jefferson, restated a "Rule of Democracy." Pope Pius VI governed the church for 25 years. (1775 A.D.)
bulletThe United States of America was founded. (1776 A.D.)
bulletEngland loses the American Colonies. (1783 A.D.)
bulletThe first mail delivered by coaches left London for Bristol, August 2, 1784 A.D.
bulletNapoleon came to power and took the Pope prisoner. (February 15, 1798 A.D.)
bulletTippoo Saib, the last Sultan of India, was killed May 4. The English, after long wars, controled India. (1799 A.D.)

1800 A.D.

bullet?Pope Pius VII was head of the church for 23 years. (1800 A.D.)
bulletThe first passenger steamboat, The Clermont, performed its maiden voyage on the Seine River. (August 19, 1803 A.D.)
bulletNapoleon Bonaparte became Emperor of France. (1804 A.D.)
bulletGaslight was introduced in London on August 16, 1807 A.D.
bulletNobel invented dynamite. (1808 A.D.)
bulletNapoleon was banished from England after the Battle of Waterloo. (June 18, 1815 A.D.)
bulletJoseph Smith introduced the Book of Mormon. (1817 A.D.)
bulletPope Leo XII headed the church for 6 years. (1823 A.D.)
bulletThe first railway opened in England on September 27, 1825 A.D.
bulletPope Pius VIII headed the church for 2 years. (1829 A.D.)
bulletPope Gregory XIV headed the church for 15 years. He was known as "one of the greatest Pontiffs." (1831 A.D.)
bulletJoseph Smith founded The Mormon Church in Fayette, N.Y. (1830 A.D.)
bulletProtestants of various fellowships experienced the "Great Disappointment." They expected the Second Coming of Christ to occur. (October 22, 1844 A.D.)
bulletDaguerre took first photograph. (1839 A.D.)
bulletPope Pius IX headed the church. Wickliffe's Old Testament was printed. (1848 A.D.)
bulletThe first Atlantic cable was laid in 1858 A.D. (It became faulty and ceased to transmit messages. "The Great Easterb" successfully laid a new cable in 1866 A.D.
bullet????Victor Emanuel (1861 A.D.)
bulletThe Twentieth Council, First Vatican, met on Dec. 8, 1869.
bulletThe Suez Canal opened in November. (1869 A.D.)
bulletThe Italian Army, September 20, 1870 A.D, took Rome.
bulletD.E. Hughes invented the microphone. Professor A.D. Sell and T.E. Edison invented the telephone. Edison invented the phonograph. (1877 A.D.)
bulletLighting by electricity began to be used. (1878 A.D.)
bulletGottleb Daimer invented the internal combustion engine. Karl Benz pioneered the engine for automobiles. (1885 A.D.)
bulletThe Olympic games reappeared in the world. They had been absent since the Roman emperor, Theodosus, canceled them and closed their associated pagan temples in 396 A.D. (1500 years earlier) (1896 A.D.)

1900 A.D.

bulletTheodore Roosevelt became President of the United States. (1901 A.D.)
bulletOrville and Wilbur Wright made the first manned, powered flight on December 17, 1903 A.D.
bulletA comet struck Russia. Thousands of miles of forest were leveled. (1908 A.D.)
bulletGermany led the planet into World War I. (1914 A.D.)
bulletBritish, Allenby, captured Jerusalem. Islamic rule in Palestine ended as the Turkish Ottoman Empire was destroyed. The Balfour Treaty allowed Jews to return to the Holy Land ending an eighteen hundred year lockout. On May13, the first Fatima vision occurred. On Oct. 25, the Communists seized power in Russia and set up a secular, anti-Christ state. The United States of America declared war on Germany. (1917 A.D.)
bulletJohn Logie Baird demonstrated television. January 26, 1926 A.D.
bulletMussolini signed a treaty that officially separated church and state. It also secularized Italy and relegated the church to a tiny defined area of sovereignty in Rome. Thus Vatican City was formed. This action fundamentally cancelled the final remnants of Theodosus' decree, even in the Roman capitol itself. The
bulletGreat Depression swept the world. (1929 A.D.)
bulletAdolph Hitler led Germany and the world into the Second World War. The "Jewish Holocaust" began. Hitler and his forces systematically executed at least nine million Jews over the next 6 years. (1939 A.D.)
bulletJapan made World War II almost global by attacking the West at Pearl Harbor and assaulting Southeast Asia. This was the first major Eastern attack on Western civilization in almost a thousand years. The United States declared war on Germany and Japan. (1941 A.D.)
bulletThe Atom Bomb was invented and dropped on two Japanese cities by the United States. World War II and the Jewish Holocaust came to an end. (1945 A.D.)
bulletIn the battle for the secular post-war management of the world a "Cold War" began pitting communism against democracy. Atomic energy scientists alerted the world civilization to the "doomsday clock," with hands near midnight. (1947 A.D.)
bulletThe Jewish nation of Israel was founded by a United Nations' mandate. (1948 A.D.)
bulletThe Communists launched a war in Korea. (1950 A.D.)
bulletThe Hydrogen bomb was invented. Several bombs were exploded in the South Pacific. Thousands of bombs were stockpiled in underground silos as part of a massive arms race with the Soviet Union. (1953 A.D.)
bulletThe Bulletin of Atomic Scientists advanced the hands on its "doomsday clock" up to two minutes before midnight. (1953 A.D.)
bulletJohn F. Kennedy, President of the United States was assassinated. (November 22,1963 A.D.)
bulletThe Gulf of Tonkin incident led the United States into the Vietnam War. (1964 A.D.)
bulletA Drug crisis swept America. Millions of youth began using marijuana, heroin, LSD, etc. (1966 A.D.)
bulletU.S. astronauts land on the moon. (1969 A.D.)
bulletAn AIDS plague began. On May 13, a professional Turkish gunman shot and wounded the Pope in St. Peter's Square. (1981 A.D.)
bulletA world drug crisis continued to mount. "Crack" cocaine use and urban crime became rampant. (1981 A.D.)
bulletThe Gulf War broke out. (1991 A.D.)
bulletCommunism crumbled in the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union was dissolved and the struggle toward a stable democracy began. The Berlin Wall came down as Eastern Europe ended the Cold War. (1992 A.D.)
bulletThe United Nations' Science Council Report warned of catastrophic effects across the world during the next hundred years as global warming rapidly accelerates. Scientists said that advancing tides caused by polar ice cap melting during this period would inundate most of the world's coastal cities. Holes in the ozone layer continue to widen as sun-induced skin cancer reaches near-epidemic proportions worldwide. (1995 A.D.) The President of Russia led Easter mass in resurrected Moscow church. (April 14, 1996 A.D.)
bulletBelarus and Russia agreed to unite their countries into a single state. The Pacific Ocean's greatest "El Nino" current wreaked havoc on earth, producing mammoth fires, famine and drought in many places with huge floods in others. (1998 A.D.)
bulletThe world population topped 6 billion people. Hate crimes increased. Mass shootings occurred in schools, churches and synagogues. There were great earthquakes in Turkey and Taiwan that left thousands dead. Wars and rumors of war continued unabated that included Kosovo, Indonesia, Somalia, Chechnya and Iraq. On September 10, the year 5760 in the Jewish calendar began. (Two hundred and forty years remain until the year 6000 i.e., until the "seventh day" of Hebrew religious history, begins.) (1999 A.D.)
bulletA giant earthquake hit India killing tens of thousands. (February 2001 A.D.)
bulletTerrorists attack America. Thousands were killed as airliners were flown into the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon in Washington D.C. This led to a war against terrorism and a direct attack by the United States on Afghanistan who harbored the terrorists. (September 11, 2001 A.D.)

2000 A.D.

 
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