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Pompeii: The Last Day, computer generated image.  This image is copyrighted. The copyright holder allows anyone to use it for any purpose.Media from the Discovery Channel's Pompeii: The Last Day, courtesy of Crew Creative, Ltd.

1200 BC – Fall of Troy

480 BC – Thermopolae

399 BC – Death of Socrates

September 30, 331 BC? Rise of Alexander the Great: Peace Offer

October 1, 331 BC – Rise of Alexander the Great: Battle for Asia

September, 326 BC – Rise of Alexander the Great: Mutiny in India

Pompeii with Vesuvius in the background, image published by S?ren Bleikertz under the GNU Free Documentation License, version 1.2 or later

August 26, 79 BC – The Last Day of Pompeii

December 5, 63 BC – The Conspiracy of Catiline

44 BC – The Assassination of Julius Caesar

December 25, 800 – Charlemagne

October 14, 1066 – The Battle of Hastings

June 15, 1215 – The Signing of the Magna Charta

Joan of Arc  by Sir John Everett Millais, public domain image

May 30, 1431 – Joan of Arc Burned at the Stake

April 7, 1498 – The Ordeal of Savonarola

June 15, 1520 – The Death of Montezuma

October 3, 1574 – The Siege of Leiden, Holland

February 8, 1587 – Execution of Mary Queen of Scots

Execution of Mary, public domain image

August 8, 1588 – Drake Defeats Spanish Armada

January, 1649 – The Trial and Sentencing of Charles I

September 5, 1670 – Trial of William Penn

May 23, 1701 – The Hanging of Captain Kidd

June 22, 1757 – The Battle of Plassey

July 14, 1789 – The Storming of the Bastille

Marie Antoinette Being Taken to her Execution, painting by William Hamilton, public domain image

October 16, 1793 – The Trial of Marie Antoinette

May 6, 1802 – Toussaint Louverture Liberates Haiti

March 7, 1815 – Napoleon Returns from Elba

July 31, 1815 – Napoleon Recaptured and Exiled

October 25, 1854 – The Charge of the Light Brigade

June 19, 1867 – The Execution of Maximillian

September 8, 1899 – The Dreyfus Case

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