History Timeline from 13.7 Billion Years Ago to August 2013. 1 of 588 Pages This PDF History Timeline Has Been Extracted
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History Timeline from 13.7 Billion Years ago to August 2013. 1 of 588 pages This PDF History Timeline has been extracted from the History World web site's time line. The PDF is a very simplified version of the History World timeline. The PDF is stripped of all the links found on that timeline. If an entry attracts your interest and you want further detail, click on the link at the foot of each of the PDF pages and query the subject or the PDF entry on the web site, or simply do an internet search. When I saw the History World timeline I wanted a copy of it for myself and my family in a form that we could access off-line, on demand, on the device of our choice. This PDF is the result. What attracted me particularly about the History World timeline is that each event, which might be earth shattering in itself with a wealth of detail sufficient to write volumes on, and indeed many such events have had volumes written on them, is presented as a sort of pared down news head-line. Basic unadorned fact. Also, the History World timeline is multi-faceted. Most historic works focus on their own area of interest and ignore seemingly unrelated events, but this timeline offers glimpses of cross-sections of history for any given time, embracing art, politics, war, nations, religions, cultures and science, just to mention a few elements covered. The view is fascinating. Then there is always the question of what should be included and what excluded. I don't always agree with the timeline from that perspective but I think they mostly include all the important stuff. With a decent PDF viewer you should have no difficulty running queries and/or indexing the content. I use ez PDF Reader. This PDF is available free at World History Time-Line Of course, the timeline in its entirety is available at History World. Regarding updates – we will have to see. I hope this PDF makes the history timeline and history itself more accessible. Enjoy, John Barrington. This material is sourced at History World, & is available there in greater detail, with links History Timeline from 13.7 Billion Years ago to August 2013. 2 of 588 pages 2013 August 29 The House of Commons defeats David Cameron on his plan to support US military intervention in Syria 2013 August 21 Bradley Manning, to be known henceforth as Chelsea Manning, is sentenced to 35 years in prison for his leaking of government documents 2013 August 21 Syrian government and rebels blame each other when a nerve gas attack kills more than 600 people in Saqba, a suburb of Damascus 2013 August 15 Egyptian soldiers use live ammunition to disperse Muslim supporters of President Morsi, killing about 600 2013 August 14 The Egyptian army declares a state of emergency after continuing Muslim demonstrations and imposes a curfew 2013 August 1 The American whistleblower Edward Snowden is granted a one-year visa to live in Russia 2013 July 30 The first meeting in new Israel-Palestine peace talks takes place in Washington 2013 July 17 Same-sex marriage is legalized in England and Wales 2013 from July 17 Egyptian troops begin using live ammunition against Muslim Brotherhood demonstrators 2013 July 13 A jury in Florida sparks nation-wide outrage by their acquittal of George Zimmerman on the charge of murdering a black teenager, Trayvon Martin 2013 July 7 Andy Murray wins the Men's Singles at Wimbledon, becoming the first Briton to do so since Fred Perry in 1936 2013 July 3 After mounting chaos in Egypt the army arrests President Morsi, legitimately elected, and takes control 2013 July 1 Croatia joins the European Union, as the 28th member 2013 June 30 Violent clashes erupt throughout Egypt between Muslim Brotherhood supporters of President Morsi and those objecting to his Islamist policies 2013 June 26 Julia Gillard, Australia's first female prime minister, is rejected in Labour party vote and is replaced by Kevin Rudd 2013 June 15 A cleric with moderate views, Hassan Rowhani, wins Iran's presidential election, raising international hopes for dialogue 2013 June 14-30 Flash floods in India kill nearly 6000 people and isolate more than 20,000 This material is sourced at History World, & is available there in greater detail, with links History Timeline from 13.7 Billion Years ago to August 2013. 3 of 588 pages 2013 June 6 The Guardian, a UK newspaper, publishes the first of many scoops based on the secret files of the NSA and GCHQ, leaked by Edward Snowden 2013 June The Afghan Taliban project a new image, opening an office in Qatar 2013 May 27 The European Union lifts the ban on providing arms to the rebels in Syria 2013 May 22 In a London street two men hack to death a British soldier, Lee Rigby, and tell passers-by that they are avenging Muslims killed by the army 2013 April 24 The collapse of a jerry-built garment factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, results in massive casualties and more than 1000 deaths 2013 May 5 Israel makes the first of two air strikes into Syria, targeting arsenals of the terrorist group Hezbollah 2013 April 19 After the arrest of the second Boston suspect it emerges that the terrorists are two Muslim brothers, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. 2013 April 18 Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of the suspects in the Boston terrorist attack, is killed in a shoot-out with police 2013 April 15 Two pressure cooker bombs, planted near the finishing line of the Boston marathon, kill 3 and wound 264 spectators 2013 April 14 After the death of Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, Nicolas Maduro wins a close and stronngly disputed presidential election 2013 March 25 After a prolonged financial crisis Cyprus accepts stringent terms for a European Union €10 billion bailout 2013 March 14 Scientists at CERN announce that the recently discovered particle is beyond doubt the Standard Model of the Higg's boson 2013 March 14 Xi Jinping is elected the President of the People's Republic of China 2013 March 13 The Argentinian archbishop Jorge Bergoglio is elected pope and takes the name Francis in honour of St Francis of Assisi 2013 February 25 In the italian election Beppe Grillo's new Five Star Movement wins 25% of the votes but refuses to join any coalition 2013 February 28 Pope Benedict XVI resigns, the first pope to do so for 600 years 2013 February 15 A huge meteor enters the earth's atmosphere and explodes over Chelyabinsk in Russia, injuring more than 1000 people This material is sourced at History World, & is available there in greater detail, with links History Timeline from 13.7 Billion Years ago to August 2013. 4 of 588 pages 2013 February 14 Double-amputee Olympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius is charged with the murder of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp 2013 February 12 North Korea carries out its third underground nuclear test 2013 January 21 Scientists at Cambridge university prove that there is quadruple helix DNA in humans, promising potential protection against cancer 2013 January 25 Violent protests erupt in Egypt against President Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood 2013 January 22 Netanyahu wins the Israeli election, with second place taken by a moderate party,Yesh Atid, newly formed by Yair Lapid 2013 January 17 About forty foreign hostages and twenty-nine militants die when Algerian forces raid the In Amenas gas site 2013 January 11 Radical Islamists take more than 800 people hostage at the In Amenas Gas Project in Algeria 2013 January 11 French troops arrivee in Mali, at the government's request, to help in evicting radical Islamist groups from the north of the country 2012 December 14 Adam Lanza shoots and kills twenty children and six staff members in the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connnecticut 2012 December 8 At a UN Climate Change conference in Qatar there is agreement to extend the existing Kyoto Protocol to 2020 2012 November 29 The UN General Assembly, defying Israel, grants Palestine the status of a non-member observer state 2012 November 6 Barack Obama wins second term, defeating Republican Mitt Romney In US presidential election 2012 October 30 Superstorm Sandy, after devastating much of the Caribbean, reaches the east coast of the USA, killing more than 100 people 2012 October 22 Experts who gave tragically wrong earthquake advice at L'Aquila in 2009 are given six-year sentences for manslaughter 2012 October 14 Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner, jumping from a balloon 24 miles up, becomes the first man to break the speed of sound in freefall 2012 October 12 In a controversial decision, the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to the European Union 2012 October 9 A gunman severely wounds a 14-year-old Pakistani girl, Malala This material is sourced at History World, & is available there in greater detail, with links History Timeline from 13.7 Billion Years ago to August 2013. 5 of 588 pages Yousafzai, because of her protests against the Taliban suppression of girls' schools 2012 September 29 Burma's president Thein Sein says that he would accept Aung San Suu Kyi as his successor 2012 September 13 US embassies in Yemen and Egypt are attacked, as the protests against Innocence of Muslims spread 2012 September 11 The US ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens, is killed in a terrorist attack on the embassy in Benghazi 2012 September 11 Violent protests against the film Innocence of Muslims break out in Egypt and soon spread to other Muslim countries 2012 September 9 An excerpt of an anti-Islamic film made in the USA, Innocence of Muslims, is broadcast in Egypt on a Muslim TV channel 2012 December 12 North Korea successfully launches a powerful rocket, alarming the world with a new sign of military potential 2012