Philosophy • Learning • Innovation • Terror • Freedom • Drama • Travel • War • Entertainment • Glamor • Excess
“IT IS BETTER TO BE FEARED THAN LOVED, IF YOU CANNOT BE BOTH.” – NICCOLÒ MACHIAVELLI
526 Order of St. Benedict (Philosophy)
1018 Chola Invade Sri Lanka (War)
1021 Chola Invade Bengal (War)
1024 Paper-Printed Money (Innovation)
1027 Japan Civil War (War)
1027 The Book of Healing (Innovation)
1030 Famine of 1030 (Drama)
1264 Second Barons’ War (War)
1267 Roger Bacon’s Opus Majus (Philosophy)
1270 Eighth Crusade (War)
1271 Marco Polo in Asia (Travel)
1271 Ninth Crusade (War)
1274 Mongol Invasion of Japan (War)
1276 Anasazi Drought (Drama)
1513 Machiavelli’s The Prince (Philosophy)
1517 Martin Luther’s Protestant Reformation (Philosophy)
1519 Magellan Circumnavigates the Globe (Travel)
1520 Ottoman Empire (Excess)
1526 First English Translation of the New Testament (Learning)
1532 Spanish Conquer the Inca Empire (Excess)
