Time Machine

Travel Through History

Pick any year and discover what was happening around the world. Enter a year or use the timeline below.

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44 BCECaesar assassinated79 CEVesuvius erupts1066Norman Conquest1492Columbus sails1776US Independence1789French Revolution1865Civil War ends1914WWI begins1945WWII ends1969Moon landing1989Berlin Wall falls
1945 CE

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Atomic Bomb Dropped on Hiroshima

The US dropped "Little Boy" on Hiroshima, killing 80,000 people instantly. It remains the only nuclear weapon used in warfare.

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Auschwitz Liberated

Soviet soldiers discovered the Nazi death camp, where over 1.1 million people had been murdered. The world learned the full horror of the Holocaust.