1. 4241 B.C. — The Introduction of the Egyptian Calendar
2. 543 B.C. — The Death of Buddha
3. 478 B.C. — The Death of Confucius
4. 399 B.C. — The Death of Socrates
5. 44 B.C. — The Death of Caesar
6. ? B.C. — The Birth of Christ
7. A.D. 632 — The Death of Mohammed
8. 1294 — The Death of Roger Bacon
9. 1454 — The Press of Johannes Gutenberg [at Mainz on the Rhine] Issues the First Printed Documents Bearing a Printed Date
10. 1492 — Columbus Discovers America
11. 1769 — James Watt Brings the Steam Engine to Practical Utility
12. 1789 — The French Revolution
* According to Will Durant in The Greatest Minds And Ideas of All Time
