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[onepence]

would like input into what might be considered as

the top 5 greatest events in History

we will start

The Birth of Jesus

The printing of the Bible

Columbus voyage into the uncharted waters of the Atlantic

Invention of the cotton gin

The Signing of The Universal House of Justice Constitution

*smile*

[samcheokguy]

Obama doesn't count.

[RACETRAITOR]

-invention of the printing press (which probably coincided with the printing of the Bible but was a greater event)
-first flight by humans
-discovery of penicillin
-Industrial Revolution

and the most important:

-Agricultural Revolution/invention of beer

[sojourner1]

Edison's invention of the light bulb.

Dropping the bomb on Hiroshima.

Man going to the moon.

My college graduation day.

[RACETRAITOR]

[onepence]

nice

we like them all

please keep them coming

an interesting read

thank you

[onepence]

[Ya-ta Boy]

Agricultural Revolution freed us from hunting and let us grow to more than 6 billion.

Writing/Printing Press/Computers freed us from relying on human memory.

The Black Death may have killed 1/3 of us. What discoveries, what achievements, did we lose because of that (and the other plagues that used to kill so many)?

The Light Bulb (and electronics in general) freed us from relying on muscle power and going to bed with the chickens.

Flight (1903) led to landing on the moon in July 1969 and opened the universe to us. 66 years. Awesome.

[jvalmer]

transistor - without it, nothing digital can be made like cell phones, computers, etc...

[ursus_rex]

1. Battle of Salamis... protected Greece, the cradle of western culture
2. Christianity becoming state religion of Roman Empire under Emperor Constantine
3. The rapid spread of Islam in the 7th century
4. Discovery of the New World
5. American Revolution

[ChopChaeJoe]

invention of the integrated circuit (robert noyce)
solving the longitude problem (john Harrison)
rock and roll hits the air (Alan freed, Bil Haley, Buddy Holly, et al)
Harrison Act (drug prohibition begins in US)
Boston Tea Party

well, my totally random, America-centered list

[Justin Hale]

* isolation of morphine from opium (and the creation of LSD)

* Henry VIII's break with Rome (but I'm anti-theistic)

* Dawkins and Hitchens

* port and brandy

* discovery of Uranium

[ChopChaeJoe]

I should have added the stock market crash of 1929 and the Great Depression...

[VanIslander]

if you love the world we live in then you gotta see the wisdom of events having happened just the way they have, however terrible they may seem with a myopic glance...

"greatest" moments:

(1) - sometime 23,000 years ago Qi broke up his father's dynasty-forming merit based system of determining who ascends to the throne and instead followed the later Kim Jong Il approach of making himself the leader, setting a long tradition of hereditary ascendency to the throne of the thereafter perpetually oppressive dynasties of what has come to be known as China.

(2) - in 186 the Roman army killed the emperor (beginning a practice which continued and contributed a lot to the fall of the Roman Empire)

(3) - in 1476 Leonardo da Vinci was acquitted of sodomy and allowed to continue his works

(4) - the German invasion of France in 1870 (seeting the stage for WWI & WWII & thus U.N. human rights)

(5) - the first atomic blast on July 16, 1945 in New Mexico (framing the cold war instead of a WWIII)

[jajdude]

Making the wheel, fire, and clothing were all good ideas. I guess the beginning of the universe might be counted as well. And let's not forget decent beer.