100 Events That Changed the World

In 100 Events That Changed the World Series, we will learn about some of the most important events that affected history from discovering fire to WWII and beyond.

Listen to the first epsiode and check out the list of events covered in this series below.

Here’s a list of the 100 events included in this audio series:

1. Man Discovers the Use of Fire
2. The Emergence of the Wise Man
3. Invention of the Bow and Arrow
4. The Birth of Agriculture
5. Catal Huyuk The First City
6. Man Makes the Round Wheel
7. The Legendary Pyramids at Giza
8. The Code of Hammurabi
9. Creation of the First Alphabet
10. An Age Forged in Iron
11. The First Civilization in Mesoamerica
12. The Emergence of the Greek Culture
13. The First Use of Coins
14. The Canonization of Torah
15. The Tiger of Qin Unifies China
16. Invention of Concrete Revolutionizes Engineering
17. Connecting East and West Along the Silk Road
18. The Roman Empire is Born
19. The Foundation of Christianity
20. White Horse Temple is Built
21. Modern Medicine and the Hippocratic Oath
22. Augustine and His Just War Theory
23. Mathematicians Think up Zero
24. Boethius Devises Musical Scales
25. The Foundation of Islam
26. Charlemagne Father of Europe
27. Harnessing Horses Strengthens Feudalism
28. The Fall of The Maya Empire
29. The Search for America
30. An Amazing Literary Year
31. The Building of Angkor Wat
32. Marco Polo Links Asia and Europe
33. The Black Death
34. The Beginning of Modern Printing
35. The Mona Lisa and the Renaissance
36. Slavery Arrives in the New World
37. Potatoes and the Columbian Exchange
38. Martin Luther Launches Reformation
39. Copernicus and The Heliocentric Solar System
40. Discovery of Pulmonary Circulation
41. Mercator’s Projections Revolutionizes Navigation
42. The English Renaissance and the Bard
43. Counter Reformation and Rembrandt
44. Tea Arrives in Europe
45. The Royal Roots of Opera and Ballet
46. The New Translation of the Bible
47. The Taj Mahal
48. Galileo on Trial
49. Tasman Explores the Great South Land
50. Newton Publishes His Principia
51. Steam Engine and the Industrial Revolution
52. Chronometer Brings Safety to the High Seas
53. Old and New World Burst into Revolution
54. Russian Decembrists Threaten Tsarist Power
55. Cherokee Nation Suffers on Trail of Tears
56. Marx and Engels Spread Communism
57. Charles Darwin and the Theory of Evolution
58. The World’s Bloodiest Civil War
59. American Molds the First Plastic
60. Alexander Graham Bell Patents the Telephone
61. Women Get the Vote
62. Athens Holds the First Modern Olympics
63. Freud Jung and the Unconscious
64. Flight of Kitty Hawk Launches Aviation
65. Earthquake Advances Seismology
66. Archduke’s Assassination Sparks World War I
67. Einstein Attempts to Create the Theory of Everything
68. Balfour Declaration Creates Jewish Homeland
69. The Invention of Television
70. Energy Boom Begins with Iraqi Oil Strike
71. The Discovery of the Wonder Drug
72. Roosevelt’s New Deal Helps the Great Depression
73. Mao Takes Over the Communist Party
74. World War II Claims More than 50 Million Lives
75. The United Nations is Born
76. Nonviolent Gandhi is Assassinated
77. Sputnik Ignites the Space Race
78. Genetic Research Unleashed
79. Elvis Becomes King of Rock and Roll
80. Ray Crock Open First Fast-Food Joint
81. Dalai Lama Goes into Exile
82. The Cold War and the Berlin Wall
83. Kennedy Assassination Starts Civil Unrest
84. Apartheid Protestor Enters Prison
85. First Heart Transplant Success
86. ATM Leads to a New Way of Banking
87. Iranian Shah Throws a Bash for Ancient Monarchy
88. Pong Inventor Launches Video Game Craze
89. The Horror of Cambodia’s Killing Fields
90. The PC Revolution
91. The Birth of 24-Hour News
92. AIDS Becomes a Globally Feared Disease
93. The Soviet Union Comes to An End
94. The World Wide Web
95. 9/11 War on Terror
96. The Birth of Social Media
97. Katrina Destruction Points to Climate Change
98. The Great Recession
99. Humble Jesuit Elected Pope
100. Nobel Prize Awarded for Youth Advocacy