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43 AD

London (Latin: Londinium) is established by the Romans.

1799 AD

Humphrey Davy discovers nitrous oxide (laughing gas).

1979 AD

Shah of Iran leaves and exiled religious leader Ayatollah Khomeini returns.

814 BC

Carthage is founded by the Phoenicians, not far from Utica.

1830 AD

Lawn mower invented by Edwin Beard Budding.

Battle of Waterloo. A French army under the command of Napoleon Bonaparte is defeated by two armies of the Seventh Coalition: a British-led Allied army commanded by the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army commanded by Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Prince of Wahlstatt.

1839 AD

Vulcanization of rubber invented by Charles Goodyear.

1885 AD

Motor cycle invented by Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach.

2400 BC

The abacus, the first known calculator, invented in Babylonia

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Set 11

268 AD