Key Dates
Persian Wars
499-478 BC (Ionian Revolt/Battle of Plataea)
Peloponnesian War
431-404 BC (Spartan Assembly votes for war/Battle of Aegospotamus)
Death of Alexander
323 BC
Roman Empire begins
27 BC - Octavian voted Augustus by the Senate
Fall of Rome
476
Muhammad
570-632
Great Schism
1054
First Crusade begins
1096
Saladin takes Jerusalem
1187
Black Death
1347
Fall of Constantinople
1453
Napoleon
1769-1821
Execution of Louis XVI
1793
18 Brumaire Coup
1799
Louis Napoleon's Coup
December 1851