Chinese printing press

0868-12-01 00:00:00 Nearly 600 years before Gutenberg, Chinese monks were setting ink to paper using a method known as block printing, in which wooden blocks are coated with ink and pressed to sheets of paper.[…]

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Invention of Gunpowder

0850-12-01 00:00:00 Chinese scientists had been playing with saltpeter — a common name for the powerful oxidizing agent potassium nitrate — in medical compounds for centuries when one industrious individual thought to mix it with[…]

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Charlemagne – Emperor

0800-12-01 00:00:00 Charlemagne, also known as Charles the Great or Charles I, was King of the Franks who united most of Western Europe during the Middle Ages and laid the foundations for modern France and[…]

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Vikings raid England

0793-12-01 00:00:00 In the summer of the year 789 AD, while “the Innocent English people, spread through their plains, were enjoying themselves in tranquillity and yoking their oxen to the plough”, new was carried to[…]

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