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1705 AD

Steam piston engine invented by Thomas Newcomen.

1909 AD

Bakelite invented by Leo Baekeland.

1608 AD

Telescope invented by Hans Lippershey.

1804 AD

Locomotive invented by Richard Trevithick.

1500 AD

Ball bearing invented by Leonardo Da Vinci together with flying machines, including a helicopter, the first mechanical calculator and one of the first programmable robots.

2500 BC

First written legal codes — The Code of Hammurabi.

6000 BC

First beer is brewed from grain in the Near East.

3100 BC

Egypt’s 1st Dynasty created by the joining of the upper and lower kingdoms of Egypt.

1907 AD

Color photography invented by Auguste and Louis Lumiere.

303 AD

Christians are persecuted by Diocletian.

1108 AD

Louis VI becomes the new king of France.

1905 AD

Albert Einstein publishes his theory of special relativity.

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