Historian Patrick Boucheron revisits the most important dates in history through the prisms of memory and collective imagination.
33 ad: the crucifixion of jesus
24 september 622: the hegira
323 bc: death of alexander the great
1492: the new world
20 june 1789: the tennis court oath
11 february 1990: liberation of nelson mandela
24 august 79: destruction of pompeii
6 august, 1945: hiroshima
1347: the beginning of the black death
1431: the fall of angkor
April 21 -753 - the foundation of rome
-52 - the siege of alesia
315 - the donation of constantine
May 29 1453 - the fall of constantinople
-18000 - the lascaux cave
1911 - the conquest of the south pole
May 14 1610 - the assassination of king henry iv of france
-399 - the trial of socrates
August 25 1270 - king louis ix dies in carthage
October 17 1961 - the paris massacre
The revolutions of 1848
October 1860 - the sacking of the summer palace in beijing
July 4 1776 - the american declaration of independence
1000 - the millennium
-1348 – akhenaten's religious revolution
1324 - mansa musa's pilgrimage to mecca
751 - the battle of talas and height of the tang dynasty
April 21 1526 - babur takes over india at panipat
September 7 1812 - the battle of borodino
September 11 1973 - the other september 11 - the military coup d'etat against allende
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