History in 100 Movies
Period: 300'000 years ago
Event: The control of fire by early humans Historical Figure: - Period: 2560 B.C.
Event: Building of the Pharaoh's Great Pyramid of Giza Historical Figure: Pharaoh Cheops coroner's rating:
Period: 1275 B.C.
Event: The Exodus Historical Figure: Moses coroner's rating:
Period: 1275-1240 B.C.
Event: Troy War Historical Figure: Atreus, Menelaus, Agamemnon, Helen, Achilles, Priam, Paris coroner's rating:
First story:
Period: 539 B.C. Event: Fall of Babylon Historical Figure: Belshazzar, Nabonidus, Cyrus coroner's rating:
Period: 480 B.C.
Event: Battle of Thermopylae Historical Figure: King Leonidas, Xerxes I coroner's rating:
Period: 356-323 B.C.
Event: Fall of the Achaemenid Persian Empire, Invasion of India Historical Figure: Alexander, Philip coroner's rating:
Period: 221 B.C.
Event: Unification of China Historical Figure: Ying Zheng coroner's rating:
Period: 216-201 B.C.
Event: Second Punic War Historical Figure: Hannibal, Scipio Africanus, Archimedes Period: 73-71 B.C.
Event: Gladiatorial War Historical Figure: Spartacus, Crassus coroner's rating:
Period: 43-27 B.C.
Event: Africa made a Roman Province, Second Triumvirate, Battle of Actium Historical Figure: Cleopatra, Marc Anthony, Julius Caesar, Octavian coroner's rating:
Period: 0-33
Event: Foundation of Christianity Historical Figure: Jesus Christ, Pontius Pilate, Herod Antipas Period: 54-68
Event: Persecution of the Christians, Great Fire of Rome Historical Figure: Nero coroner's rating:
Period: 180-192
Event: Conspiracies and Decline of the Roman Empire Historical Figure: Commodus coroner's rating:
Period: 526-548
Event: Ostrogothic Kingdom Historical Figure: Belisarius, Justinian, Athalaric Period: 570-633
Event: Conquest of Arabia, Foundation of the Islamic Faith Historical Figure: Muhammad Period: around 835-865
Event: Viking Age, Invasion of England Historical Figure: Ragnar, Aelle coroner's rating:
Period: around 987
Event: Mayans Pursued by Toltec Invaders Historical Figure: - coroner's rating:
Period: 1094
Event: Moors Invasion of Spain Historical Figure: El Cid, King Ferdinand coroner's rating:
Period: 1154-1189
Event: Reign of Henry II Historical Figure: Henry II coroner's rating:
Period: 1178-1187
Event: The Third Crusade, Siege of Jerusalem Historical Figure: Saladin coroner's rating:
Period: 1192-1206
Event: Rise of the Mongol Empire Historical Figure: Genghis Khan coroner's rating:
Period: 1242
Event: Battle of the Ice Historical Figure: Alexander Nevsky coroner's rating:
Period: 1291-1305
Event: Wars of Scottish Independence Historical Figure: William Wallace, Edward I coroner's rating:
Period: 1413-1422
Event: Battle of Agincourt Historical Figure: Henry V coroner's rating:
Period: 1429-1431
Event: Hundred Years' War, Siege of Orleans Historical Figure: Joan of Arc, Charles VII, Henry VI coroner's rating:
Period: 1491-1502
Event: The Discovery of the New World Historical Figure: Columbus, Queen Isabella coroner's rating:
Period: 1501
Event: Story of Landsknechts Historical Figure: - coroner's rating:
Period: 1505-1530
Event: Protestant Reformation Historical Figure: Martin Luther, Pope Leo X, Emperor Charles V, Frederick the Wise, Johann Tetzel Period: 1533-1537
Event: Separation from Rome Historical Figure: Henry VIII, Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn coroner's rating:
Period: 1536-1561
Event: The Conquest of the Americas by Spain, Search for El Dorado Historical Figure: Lope de Aguirre, Gonzalo Pizarro, Brother Gaspar de Carvajal coroner's rating:
Period: 1542-1587
Event: Religious Divide, Battle of Langside Historical Figure: Mary Stuart Queen of Scots, Queen Elizabeth I coroner's rating:
Period: 1547-1562
Event: The Great Fire of Moscow, Conquest of Kazan Historical Figure: Tsar Ivan IV Vasilyevich coroner's rating:
Period: 1558-1559
Event: Revolt of the Northern Earls, Act of Supremacy Historical Figure: Queen Elizabeth I, Mary of Guise coroner's rating:
Period: 1563
Event: Persecution of the Boyars Historical Figure: Tsar Ivan IV Vasilyevich coroner's rating:
Period: 1572-1574
Event: The Massacre of St. Bartholomew Historical Figure: Marguerite de Valois, Henri de Navarre, Charles IX, Caterina de' Medici Period: around 1575
Event: Sengoku Period, Battle of Nagashino Historical Figure: Lord Takeda Shingen, Tokughawa Ieyasu, Oda Nobunaga coroner's rating:
Period: 1585-1599
Event: Anglo–Spanish War Historical Figure: Queen Elizabeth I, King Philip ll of Spain, Mary Stuart Period: 1640-1653
Event: English Civil Wars, Establishment of the Commonwealth, Irish Campaign Historical Figure: Oliver Cromwell, King Charles I Period: 1719
Event: Cellamare Conspiracy, War of the Quadruple Alliance Historical Figure: Philippe II, Duke of Orléans Period: 1757
Event: French and Indian War, Battle of Fort William Henry Historical Figure: Col. Munro coroner's rating:
Period: 1777-1781
Event: American Revolutionary War, Battle of Yorktown Historical Figure: George Washington coroner's rating:
Period: 1789-1792
Event: French Revolution, Storming of the Bastille, Battle of Valmy Historical Figure: Louis XVI, Marie-Antoinette, La Rochefoucauld Period: 1793-1794
Event: French Revolution, Reign of Terror Historical Figure: Danton, Robespierre Period: 1792-1796
Event: Reign of Terror, First Italian Campaign Historical Figure: Napoleon Bonaparte, Robespierre, Marat, Danton, Saint-Just coroner's rating:
Period: 1812
Event: Invasion of Russia, Battle of Borodino Historical Figure: Napoleon Bonaparte, General Mikhail Kutuzov, Czar Alexander I Period: 1812
Event: Battle of New Orleans Historical Figure: Jean Lafitte, General Andrew Jackson coroner's rating:
Period: 1836
Event: Texas Revolution, The Battle of Alamo Historical Figure: Antonio López de Santa Anna, Davy Crockett coroner's rating:
Period: 1839-1842
Event: Abolitionism in the USA Historical Figure: John Quincy Adams, Queen Isabella II, Secretary of State John Forsyth coroner's rating:
Period: 1853-1856
Event: Crimean War Historical Figure: Earl of Cardigan, Lord Raglan |
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