Note: I do't really know why i set this page up but i like to collect data. Collecting historic data is interesting but major, it take lots of reading [which i hate] an lots of time [which i "seem" to be short off]. Time flies, ducumenting and reviewing it crawls.

People influential/importand/intersting ...

• http://www.chromehorse.net/rants/rants98/100most.htm
• http://www.kidinfo.com/American_History/Twentieth_Century.html
• http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/peoplescentury/
• http://www.adherents.com/largecom/influ_mil100.html

If you search for more lists on the web then be carefull with US-Centric visions!

What abouth events???

What abouth monumental achievements?

This can be tricky. Should there always be people involved? Should they actually be recognised "monuments"? Should it be tangible? Damn, this could get big, maybe the title is wrong?

• So, lets start BIG and make the rest insignificant : the galaxy. Space is a huge place, there is lots of stuff to learn!
• 7 wonders of the world.
• Think "Extreme Sience".
• electric networks, (rail)roads, satelite networks, ...
• DNA sequencing - does this belong here? It's more of a milestone then an achievement ... Other milestones: in space exploration, in scientific research, in political and conceptual debate, ... Hmm, debate. That could be another path history can teach us : cycles. Natural, political, ICT, ...

a start...

  
1337-1453 w - 100 year war between england and france
1488-1580 e - great sea explorations (Vasco Da Gama - Francis Drake)
1800-1815 w - napoleonic wars
1861-1865 w - american civil war
1879-1955 p - albert einstein
1903      e - first "modern" flight by wright brothers
1914-1918 w - world war 1
1939-1945 w - world war 2
1946      e - eniac computer
1947      e - first supersonic flight (X-1-1)
1948      e - transistor (pantented)
1951      e - name computer bug established
1953      e - dna discovered
1957      e - first satellite transmission (sputnik beeps), 1 year before US
1958      e - first IC
1960      e - pdp1 computer is out
1961-1975 w - vietnam war
1969      e - man on the moon
1969      e - birth of unix
1972      e - the game of pong
1975      e - first ibm portable computer
1980      e - computers like altair, trs-80, appleII, lisa and pdp11 are out
1981      s - first ibm pc
1988      e - internet worm (morris)  jams 6000 military computers 
1988      e - foundation of CERT (computer security incident response and coordination)
1989      e - creation www by Tim Berners Lee (weaving the web)
1990-1991 w - gulf war
2000      e - dna sequencing of human genome completed

w = war (period)
p = person
e = event

http://pw2.netcom.com/~rogermw/index.html
http://www.sbrowning.com/whowhatwhen/
http://www2.canisius.edu/~emeryg/time.html
http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/
http://www.mediahistory.umn.edu/time/century.html