10 memorable years in world history
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Always a subjective issue and free for you to stretch your imagination here are a few choicest picks from Will DurantTRANSCRIPT
10 Memorable Years in World History
4241 BC -Introduction of the Egyptian Calendar
It divided the year into 12 months of thirty days each with five intercalary days at the end of roistering
543 BC-Death of Buddha
The spirit of India lies in
contemplation and not application of mathematics in artillery or chemistry to bombs
The death of Buddha is the beginning of a civilisation that has seen every injustice,slavery and in the midst of it produced geniiuses and saints like Buddha ,Ashoka,Gandhi and Tagore
478 BC -Death of Confucius
Poise of soul ,simple dignity, quite understanding ,depth of character , infinite courtesy
Never has a man so written a name on the face and spirit of its people as Confucius has done in China
399 BC -Death of Socrates
For the first time a whole civilization liberated itself from superstition and created science, drama,democracy, liberty and passed to Rome and Europe half of its intellectual and aesthetic heritage
44 BC-Death of Caesar Greatest blunder in
history-assassination of Caesar
Events after his death-reconstruction of roman law and order by augustus caesar,poetry of Virgil and Horace,prose of Pliny and Tacitus,philosophy of Epitectus and Aurelius
?BC-Birth of ChristMost important date
of all as it divides all history in the West and gives one of our greatest heroes and models
AD 632-The bereavement of Prophet Mohammed
1294 AD-The death of Roger Bacon It was gunpowder that gave to
the rising bourgeoise of late medieval Europe the means of overthrowing the feudal baron by bombarding from a distance his once impregnable castle
It was gunpowder that turned war from a gentleman’s game occasionally fatal to a form of standardized mass destruction
Most important date in the story of the fall of man
1492-Columbus discovers AMERICA!!Put an end to the
Italian Renaissance by changing trade routes from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic
The New World opened up a vast market for European goods and a vast area for Europe’s surplus population
1789-The French Revolution It was the peak of
human history greater than Periclean Greece, Augustan Rome, or Medicean Italy
Never had men thought so bravely, spoken so brilliantly or lifted themselves to a greater height of culture and courtesy
Afterword ……Thoughts have been shared from the writings
of Will Durant
One man’s meat is another’s poison
Each of you in different corners of the planet can identify your own exciting years and welcome to share your thoughts with us