When, where, why & how it happened / [electronic resource] [editor: Michael Worth Davison].

Includes index.

Special feature : before history began -- 2500 BC the birth of history -- 1250 BC Israelites return to Canaan -- 1250 BC the sack of Troy -- 1190 BC Egypt defeats the invaders -- 1000 BC the birth of Hinduism -- 539 BC the fall of Babylon -- 528 BC the birth of Buddhism -- 480 BC the battle of Salamis -- 326 BC Alexander the Great -- 204 BC the Great Wall of China -- 44 BC the murder of Julius Caesar -- Special feature : the seven wonders of the ancient world -- AD 33 the Crucifixion -- 312 the conversion of Constantine -- 410 the sack of Rome -- 622 the birth of Islam -- 800 Charlemagne's coronation -- 1066 the Battle of Hastings -- 1095 the First Crusade -- 1206 Genghis Khan's conquests -- 1215 Magna Carta -- 1347 The Black Death -- 1431 Joan of Arc burnt at the stake -- Special feature : the arts of the renaissance -- 1453 the fall of Constantinople -- 1492 Columbus reaches America -- 1517 Martin Luther's challenge -- 1519 Cortés meets Montezuma -- 1526 the birth of Mughal India -- 1547 Ivan the Terrible's rule -- 1572 St Bartholomew's Day -- 1588 defeat of the Armada -- Special feature : the world of the theater -- 1610 the discoveries of Galileo -- 1618 The defenestration of Prague -- 1620 the voyage of the Mayflower -- 1649 the execution of Charles I -- 1661 Louis XIV, the 'Sun King' -- 1683 Turks at the gates of Vienna -- 1703 the building of St Petersburg -- 1756 the Black Hole of Calcutta -- 1757 the Battle of Leuthen -- Special feature : the industrial revolution -- 1759 the fall of Quebec -- 1768-71 Captain Cook's voyage -- 1776 Declaration of Independence -- 1789 the fall of the Bastille -- 1805 America's west explored -- 1812 the retreat from Moscow -- 1819 the Battle of Boyacá -- 1827 the birth of photography -- 1831 Faraday's electric dynamo -- 1838 the Battle of Blood River -- Special feature : the transport revolution -- 1846 the first anaesthetics -- 1848 the Communist Manifest -- 1851 the Great Exhibition 1853 Japan meets the West -- 1857 the siege of Lucknow -- 1859 Darwin's Origin of Species -- 1860 the unification of Italy -- 1862 the American Civil War -- 1871 the Paris Commune -- 1871 Stanley finds Livingstone -- 1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn -- 1892 Ellis Island opened -- Special feature : arts for a new century -- 1900 the Boxer Rebellion -- 1901 Marconi's first message -- 1903 the first powered flight -- 1905 Russia's 'Bloody Sunday' -- 1908 the Model T Ford -- 1913 the suffragettes' first martyr -- 1914 assassination at Sarajevo -- 1916 the Easter Rising in Dublin -- 1916 The Battle of the Somme -- 1917 The Russian Revolution -- Special feature : the golden years of Hollywood -- 1928 the discovery of penicillin -- 1929 the Wall Street Crash -- 1932 the golden years of radio -- 1933 Hitler becomes Chancellor -- 1934 the Long March -- 1937 the bombing of Guernica -- 1940 the Battle of Britain -- 1941 Pearl Harbor -- 1942-3 the Battle of Stalingrad -- 1945 Hiroshima -- Special feature : the wonders of the modern world -- 1948 the assassination of Gandhi -- 1948 the birth of Israel -- 1948 the Berlin airlift -- 1953 DNA's structure discovered -- 1953 the early days of television -- 1961 Wind of Change in Africa -- 1963 President Kennedy shot 1964 the Beatles in the USA -- 1969 man on the Moon -- 1989 the collapse of Communism -- Special feature : highlights of history.