I. The Ancient World, 250 BC-500 AD -- 218 BC : Hannibal Crosses the Alps -- 44 BC: The Assassination of Julius Caesar -- 476 AD: The Fall of the Roman Empire -- 2. The Middle Ages and Renaissance, 1000-1500 -- 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 -- 3. The Early Modern Era, 1500-1900 -- 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 -- 4. A World at War, 1900-1950 -- 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 -- 5. The Cold War and Beyond, 1950-2001 -- 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.