10 Memorable Years in World History

4241 BC -Introduction of the Egyptian Calendar

It divided the year into 12 months of thirty days each with five intercalary days at the end of roistering

543 BC-Death of Buddha

The spirit of India lies in

contemplation and not application of mathematics in artillery or chemistry to bombs

The death of Buddha is the beginning of a civilisation that has seen every injustice,slavery and in the midst of it produced geniiuses and saints like Buddha ,Ashoka,Gandhi and Tagore

478 BC -Death of Confucius

Poise of soul ,simple dignity, quite understanding ,depth of character , infinite courtesy

Never has a man so written a name on the face and spirit of its people as Confucius has done in China

399 BC -Death of Socrates

For the first time a whole civilization liberated itself from superstition and created science, drama,democracy, liberty and passed to Rome and Europe half of its intellectual and aesthetic heritage

44 BC-Death of Caesar Greatest blunder in

history-assassination of Caesar

Events after his death-reconstruction of roman law and order by augustus caesar,poetry of Virgil and Horace,prose of Pliny and Tacitus,philosophy of Epitectus and Aurelius

?BC-Birth of ChristMost important date

of all as it divides all history in the West and gives one of our greatest heroes and models

AD 632-The bereavement of Prophet Mohammed

1294 AD-The death of Roger Bacon It was gunpowder that gave to

the rising bourgeoise of late medieval Europe the means of overthrowing the feudal baron by bombarding from a distance his once impregnable castle

It was gunpowder that turned war from a gentleman’s game occasionally fatal to a form of standardized mass destruction

Most important date in the story of the fall of man

1492-Columbus discovers AMERICA!!Put an end to the

Italian Renaissance by changing trade routes from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic

The New World opened up a vast market for European goods and a vast area for Europe’s surplus population

1789-The French Revolution It was the peak of

human history greater than Periclean Greece, Augustan Rome, or Medicean Italy

Never had men thought so bravely, spoken so brilliantly or lifted themselves to a greater height of culture and courtesy

Afterword ……Thoughts have been shared from the writings

of Will Durant

One man’s meat is another’s poison

Each of you in different corners of the planet can identify your own exciting years and welcome to share your thoughts with us

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