218 BC, Hannibal crosses the Alps. 44 BC, the assassination of Julius Caesar. 476 AD, the fall of the Roman Empire. 1066, the Battle of Hastings. 1095-1291, the Crusades. 1215, Magna Carta. 1347-1349, the Black Death. 1415, the Battle of Agincourt. 1431, the execution of Joan of Arc. 1478-1530, the Spanish Inquisition. 1492, Columbus arrives in the Americas. 1588, the defeat of the Spanish Armada. 1666, the great fire of London. 1759, the battle of Quebec. 1776, Washington crosses the Delaware. 1789, the storming of the Bastille. 1815, the battle of Waterloo. 1845-1849, the Irish potato famine. 1854, the charge of the Light Brigade. 1863, the Gettysburg address. 1876, Custer's last stand. 1915, the Battle of Gallipoli. 1916, the Battle of the Somme. 1917, the October Revolution. 1929, the Wall Street crash. 1940, the Battle of Britain. 1941, the attack on Pearl Harbor. 1944, D-day. 1944, the Battle of the Bulge. 1945, the bombing of Hiroshima. 1962, the Cuban missile crisis. 1963, the assassination of President Kennedy. 1967, the Six-day War. 1968, the Tet Offensive. 1969, the first moon landing. 1989, the fall of the Berlin Wall. 2001, 9/11
