13 days that shook the world

13 days that shook the world

Our trips are shaped by history. She dictates where we are allowed to go and where not, and has done this for the explorer of past centuries. Large events in the course of history have changed and defined the world that we inhabit and research today. Here we take a look at some of the days that shook the world and remarkable and sustainable effects that are still noticeable and visible today.

about 66 million years ago died out in the chalk territor time, Mexico

This is of course a theoretical event. About 66 million years ago, however, there was almost certainly a mass extinction of around 75 % of plant and animal species on earth. This could have been a huge asteroid that or not the Yucatán peninsula in today's Mexico. If so, then this day deleted almost all dinosaurs in such a (geologically) short period of time that he initiated the Känozoikum that we (humans) enjoy today. It literally shaken the world and paved the way to humanity.

around 1800 BC Chr. The life of Abraham, Iraq

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11. December 1241tod of Ödei Khan, Austria

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The Mongolian warrior Batu Khan was about to conquer Vienna and destroy the Holy Roman Empire. The 13th century Europe was about to collapse. But the death of Ödei Khan, the second Großkhan of the Mongolian Empire, forced Batu Khan to return to Mongolia in order to decide who would be the lawful legacy of the empire. Had Ödädi Khan only died for a few months or weeks later, European history, as we know it, would have been completely different.

around 1439 finding the book pressure, Germany

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Johannes Gutenberg was the first European to print with movable letters. It is largely responsible for the creation of a practical system that enabled mass production printed books that were economically profitable for both printer and readers and that opened mass communication for the coming centuries. The The exact date of Gutenberg's press is discussed, but W without him and you might not read these words today.

12. October 1492 Rodrigo de Triana Sights Land in America, the Bahamas

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Today Christopher Columbus gets all the fame, but Señor Triana was actually the first European after the Vikings who saw America. He is said to have called: "¡Tierra! ¡Tierra!" (Land! Land!) And informed Columbus and the rest of the crew that a new continent had been discovered. The discovery of the new world changed the old world forever.

21. April 1503 The French punch the French in the Battle of Cerignola, Italy

so? First, who the hell are the Aragonese and what is so special that the French lose another military battle? Well, you see it was the first battle that could be obtained with the use of gunpowder in small weapons (weapons). The Aragonese (Spanish) had about a thousand Arkebusiers who were the predecessors of the Muskete. Thanks to this, the warfare would never be the same again and paved the way for some of the most destructive and bloodthirsty battles in history. Wonderful.

30. January 1649 king Karl I of England is executed, UK

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The first monarch to be charged with treason and executed showed the royal world that monarchies do not have to be the only form of rule. At that time, democracies and parliaments were not as common as it is today. Instead, emperors, kings, sultans and Khans were rather the norm. Thank God things have changed, right?

4. July 1776 officially accepted, USA

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A dark day in British history would mean the wax release, so to speak. A new nation, the United States of America, would be the most powerful and most influential nation in the history of the world. The country would finally defeat communism, bring a man to the moon, dominate global sport and give the world Coca-Cola, McDonalds and Starbucks.

28. June 1914 Murder of Archduke Ferdinand, Bosnia and Herzegovina

The murder of the archduke in Sarajevo would be the ultimate catalyst for the great war and would cause the bloodiest period in the history of mankind. Four years later, there were over 16 million deaths on the many battlefields. The socio -political effects were even greater because the war triggered revolutions and other conflicts in an even larger area, which would eventually lead to the greatest conflict in human history: the Second World War. The possible costs of this day are practically immeasurable. To mention that things were never the same as before.

22. June 1941hitler comes up in Russia, Russia

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It looked as if dictators and militarists could soon master the whole world practically. But Operation Barbarossa, Hitler's decision to send three million German soldiers across the Soviet border, would finally lead to Hitler's defeat and the destruction of National Socialism. A year earlier, Great Britain and thus Europe's last defense were on the verge of defeat. Hitler, who was not aware of the deeply fragile position of Great Britain, began to change tactics and strategy, which ultimately led to his decision to attack Russia. He wrongly believed that he could be successful where countless others had failed in the course of history.

6. August 1945 The United States Throw an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan

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The atomic age was heralded the day on which the first atomic bomb was dropped on Japan, and the world has been changed forever. On August 9, a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. The two bomb attacks, in which at least 129,000 people were killed, remain the only use of nuclear weapons for warfare in history.

In a television program from 1965 about the moments after the first successful nuclear test, J. Robert Oppenheimer, the scientific director of the US program for the development of the first nuclear weapons: we knew that the world would no longer be the same. Some of them were crying, most of them were silent. became the destroyer of the worlds. ’"

9. November 1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall, Germany

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If the murder of Archduke Ferdinand in 1914 was the trigger for almost a century of bloodshed, the case of the Berlin Wall might mean that. That would not be the solution to all the problems in Europe, but it heralded a new, modern era. The cold war was over, Europe was no longer divided and families were reunited. "Only today", a Berliner sprayed on a piece of wall, "the war is really over."

9. September 2001 September 11, USA

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The pictures of these attacks could definitely determine the third millennium. Four kidnapped passenger planes were specifically flown in targets in the United States. Above all, the North and south tower of the World Trade Center complex in New York City were destroyed. The attacks killed 2,996 people and should influence foreign policy around the world for the coming years. The waves of this global event can still be felt today and will still take decades, maybe centuries.

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