Key history events

This set includes 18 key History Timeline Cards designed to support children’s understanding of significant historical events. A perfect classroom resource to help pupils sequence the past and visualise key moments in history.

1. Sumerians invent writing — 3200 BCE
2. Great Pyramid of Giza built — 2560 BCE
3. Code of Hammurabi created — 1754 BCE
4. First Olympic Games — 76 BCE
5. Life of Jesus Christ — 4 BCE – 30 CE
6. Battle of Hastings — 1066
7. Columbus reaches the Americas — 1492
8. Steam engine invented (James Watt) — 1765
9. American Declaration of Independence — 1776
10. French Revolution begins — 1789
11. World War I begins — 1914
12. World War II — 1939–1945
13. United Nations founded — 1945
14. Internet becomes public — 1991
15. Fall of the Berlin Wall — 1989
16. Moon landing — 1969
17. Global financial crisis — 2008
18. COVID-19 pandemic — 2020