Title: 15 Most Important Historical Events That Changed The World Forever
Headings: 15 Most Important Historical Events That Changed The World Forever
15 Most Important Historical Events That Changed The World Forever
15 The Black Death (1346-53)
14 Pax Romana (27 BC-180 AD)
13 Fall of Constantinople (1453)
12 Civil War in the United States (1861-65)
11 Protestant Reformation (1517-1750)
10 Medical Revolution (19th-20th century)
9 Industrial and Technological Revolution (1760-1914)
8 American Revolution (1765-1783)
7 Gutenberg Printing Press (1440)
6 Renaissance (14th-17th century)
5 Colonialism (16th-20th century)
4 4, World War II (1939-45)
3 October Revolution (1917)
2 Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand II (1914)
1 French Revolution (1789-94)

Content: The conquest of Constantinople heralded not just the collapse of the Byzantine Empire and thus the “final” end of the Roman Empire after 1,500 years, and the rise of the Ottoman Empire, but also marked the end of the Middle Ages. Constantinople was renamed Istanbul and became the capital of Turkey until 1923. 12 Civil War in the United States (1861-65)
Via marxists
Many people think the American Civil War between the Union and the Confederacy merely had implications for the continental United States, but the success of a slaveholding Confederacy stretching across a territory larger than that of any European power would have been a major setback to the world anti-slavery movement, to say nothing of republican democracy. Remember that the world wasn’t exactly safe for Enlightenment ideas in the mid-1800s. Monarchy had been advancing in Europe and democratic ideals had been on the retreat since the failed revolutions of 1848. Napoleon III reigned as Emperor in France. Slavery still existed in countries like Cuba and Brazil, and the European imperial project started in 1492 was still ongoing in the Western Hemisphere. All that changed when the Union won, the republic was restored, and slavery was made illegal, delivering a crushing blow to the global slave trade and absolute monarchies. To this day, it remains the deadliest war the U.S. ever fought. It’s difficult to comprehend how different the last 150 years would have been had the Union not won.