3500, BC
In ancient Mesopotamia, the wheel is invented by an enterprising group of potters.
March 15, 44 BC
A meeting with the Senate in ancient Rome results in a quick and deadly resolution in a conflict with Julius Caesar.
105, AD
Emperor He of China meets with Cai Lun, who shows the emperor his new invention – paper.
1221, AD
Venice signs a trade treaty with the Mongol Empire.
April 17, 1492
Genoese explorer Christopher Columbus meets with Queen Isabella and convinces her to fund his attempt at a new route to the Indies.
April 22, 1625
Willem Verhulst leads a small fleet to the island of Manhattan, forming the colony of New Amsterdam. 19 years later, it is renamed New York.
March 14, 1794
Eli Whitney receives his patent for a machine that separates seeds from cotton from Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson. Farmers everywhere rejoice.
July 4, 1776
Fifty six delegates sign an eloquent document penned by Thomas Jefferson and a nation stemmed int eh belief of “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” is born.
July 11, 1804
Aaron Burr meets with his political rival, Alexander Hamilton over their difference of opinion. The conflict is quickly resolved.
April 9, 1865
General Robert E. Lee meets face-to-face with General Ulysses S. Grant to sign the surrender papers that immediately put an end to the most bloody conflict in US History.
December 24, 1883
Paul Nipkow sends images to his friends over wires using a rotating metal disk technology with 18 lines of resolution. The creation of the couch potato soon follows.
December 17, 1903
Orville and Wilbur Wright of Kittyhawk, NC decided that they might be able to get their failed glider in the air if they only improve the plane’s lift-to-drag ratio.
1907, AD
A young artist from Spain and his contemporary from France meet in Paris to work on a new form of avant-garde impressionism – and Cubism is created
January 3, 1920
The owners of a New York baseball team meets with the owners of a Boston baseball team and complete the trade for a young pitcher (and occasional outfielder) who would go on to change the game forever.
March 12, 1930
Mohandas Gandhi leads the non-violent Satyagraha movement in the Declaration of the Independence of India.
March 4, 1933
U.S. President Roosevelt initiates a widespread social welfare strategy called the “New Deal” to combat the economic and social devastation of the Great Depression
February 4, 1945
Prime Minister Winston Churchill, President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Josef Stalin gather together to reshape Europe after World War II.
April 12, 1955
Jonas Salk meets with his staff to discuss his polio vaccine, reducing the worldwide incidence from 350,000 cases to virtually none today.
May 25, 1961
President John F. Kennedy meets with Congress, urging the U.S. to commit to landing a man on the moon. They listened.
August 15, 1969
500,000 people gather together on a dairy farm in upstate NY for the greatest and muddiest – gathering in rock music history.
October 9, 1972
A man disseminates information to two reporters from a famous Washington newspaper in an empty garage late at night and brings down a corrupt US President.
October 9, 1972
A man disseminates information to two reporters from a famous Washington newspaper in an empty garage late at night and brings down a corrupt US President.
April 26, 1977
Two guys from Brooklyn decide to open a dance club in midtown Manhattan, and disco is born. However, they can’t be held responsible for bellbottoms.
April 1, 1976
Two friends meet in the small town of Los Altos, CA and set to work creating the most innovative personal computer company ever.
January 22, 1985
Twenty-five pop musicians from all around the globe gather together in one recording studio and record a song, which raised more than $63 million to raise money for African famine relief.
1989, AD
Mixing a poodle and a Labrador retriever, a man hopes to create an allergy-free seeing-eye dog hybrid. A short while later, the world has its first Labradoodle.
October 3, 1990
Germany is reunified with the fall of the Berlin wall.
August 6, 1991
The World Wide Web becomes publicly available on the Internet, greatly accelerating the expansion of public use of the Internet and making this website much easier to access.
January 1, 1994
Canada, Mexico and the U.S. agree to the enactment of the North American Free Trade Agreement.
January, 1996
Two students pursuing the same PhD meet and discuss a revolutionary idea of how to search for anything on the internet faster and better. 25 trillion clicks later…
March 1, 1999
The European Union begins circulation of their newest currency, The Euro.
August 4, 2009
Two foreign reporters held hostage in North Korea, only to be saved by a meeting between the North Korean government a certain former president and unofficial U.S. ambassador.