GLCEvent(Alexandrian Library is destroyed by firev AlexandriaCNoteQThis Library was said to have the greatest collection of books in the ancient world. It was founded by an Egyptian, King Ptolemy I in the city of Alexandria. Acording to one historian the main library was said to contain over 500,000 volumes. The library was partially destroyed by a fire in 47 B.C. and was burned completely in 641 A.D.http://encarta.msn.comBar code mail printerlUSAlSydnor received patent 3,955,497 for a printer for putting bar codes on letters to assist mail distribution. www.uspto.govColor television9 United StatesVPeter Carl Goldmark (1906-1977) demonstrates first successful color television system.YJohn W. Wright (ed.) The Universal Almanac 1996 (Kansas City : Andrews and McMeel, 1995)Credit card readerlItaly9DeSandre, et al for Olavetti Co received patent 3,947,663 www.uspto.govDecleration of IndependenceOO PhiladelphiaWritten by Thomas Jefferson between June 11 and June 28, 1776, it was signed by fifty-six people from thirteen states Signees North Carolina William Hopper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn South Carolina Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr.,Arthur Middleton. Massachusetts John Hancock, Samuel Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry. Earthquake in Great Britain Great BritainaGrun, Bernard, " The TimeTables of History". Touchstone Books, Simon and Schuster, New York,1982.Earthquake in Portugal1Lisbon, PortugalGIn 1755 a devastating earthquake in Lisbon, Portugal kills over 60,000.-http://infoplease.lycos.com/ipa/A0001196.htmlFirst Movable Printing PressThe first movable printing press was invented in 1452 by Johann Gutenberg, with this invention the first mass production of the bible was achieved in 1455 in Mainz, Germany. This invention revolutionized the printing world and made mass production of printed books possible.bGrun, Bernard, " The TimeTables of History". Touchstone Books, Simon and Schuster, New York, 1982. Floppy diskd United StatesIBMrRobert Famighetti (ed.) The World Almanac and Book of Facts 1997 (Mahwah, NJ : K-III Reference Corporation, 1996)Gutenberg Bible?The Gutenberg Bible was the first mass produced book ever made by a printing press. It was printed by Johann Gutenberg in Mainz, Germany.AMachlis, Joseph, The Enjoyment of Music, (NY 1984, WW Norton Co.) Irish Famine`Ireland The Irish Famine Began with a blight of the potato crop which left virtually every acre of Irish farmland covered with black rot. Poor Irish farmers found their food stores rotting, and the crops that they relied on to pay the rent destroyed. Entire villages were wiped out from disease and starvation. Ireland's population went from 8 million in 1845 to 5 million in 1850. One reason for this huge loss of population was that the famine started the mass imigration of the Irish to England and Europe but mostly to America.wMachlis, Joseph, The Enjoyment of Music, (NY 1984, WW Norton Co.) Liz Szabo or avery.med.virginia.edu/~eas5e/home.htmlKrakatoa Erupts IndonesiaThis volcano is located on Rakata, an island near Indonesia. When it erupted in 1883 it was one of the most catastrophic eruptions ever witnessed. A black cloud of ash rose 17 miles high, the explosion that followed was heard 2,200 miles away in Australia. The eruption caused numerous tidal waves that reached as far away as Hawaii and South America. The eruption and the chaos that followed killed over 36,000 people.=www.britannica.com/bcom/eb/5/0,5716,47265 + 1 + 46188,00.html Magna Cartag/EnglandIssued by King John of England because of the pressure put on him by certain barons. The pupose of the document was to garantee feudal rights as well as to ensure that the King could not interfere with baronial priveleges. The document also ensured the freedom of the church and laws of the town. It also implied laws protecting the rights of subjects, which the King was forced to observe.www.encyclopedia.comMona Lisa Is PaintedL2Mona Lisa is painted by Leonardo da Vinci in 1503./http://infoplease.lycos.com/cgi-bin/id/CE030275Plague in Constantinople7ohEuropeThe plague began in Constantinople, it had been imported by rats from Egypt and Syria, soon it had spread to all of Europe, ending in 594 it had nearly halved Europe's population.bGrun, Bernard, " The TimeTables of History". Touchstone Books, Simon and Schuster, New York, 1982.Plague In LondonoLondon-In 1665 a great plague in London kills 75,000-http://infoplease.lycos.com/ipa/A0001196.htmlPlague in RomeSj Roman Empire`Grun, Bernard, " The TimeTables of History" Touchstone books, Simon and Schuster;Ney York, 1982.Public Education FoundedԦBostonHorace Mann (1796-1858) spent 11 years as secretary and member of the new state board of education and started free public education system.Clark, Judith Freeman, Massachusetts, Colony to Commonwealth, an Illustrated History, (Northridge, CA, Windsor Publications, Inc.) San Fransisco Earthquake of 1906San Fransisco, California`At 5:12 AM on April 18, 1906, one of the biggest earthquakes in recorded U.S. history hit the San Fransisco area. The actual earthquake lasted some 45 to 60 seconds, it was estimated to have registered between 7.7 and 7.9 on the Richter scale. An estimated 3,000 people died along with 28,000 buildings destroyed and more than $400 million in damages./http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/QUAKES/FactSheets/WhenStamp Act of 1765@American ColoniesiThis Tax was placed on the American colonies by the British to pay for some of the costs of the French and Indian War. All printed materials were taxed, the colonists protested this act from the beginning, saying that taxation without representation violates their basic civil rights. This was the beginning of the resistence that started the revolutionary war.9www.goecities.com/Heartland/Ranch/9198/revwar/various.htmSumbawa Volcano eruptsp IndonesiaQin 1815 the Sumbawa volcano erupts in Indonesia, killing more than 50,000 people._Grum, Bernard, "The TimeTables of History" TouchstoneBooks, Simon and Schuster, New York, 1982.Telephone is inventedy;The telephone is invented in 1876 by Alexander Graham Bell.Funk and Wagnall's EncyclopediaThe Black DeathEurope"The first recorded out break of the plague was in the 1330's in China. Then in October of 1347 several Italian ships returning from China docked in Sicily, many of the ship's crew were already dying of the plague. Soon the entire city was infected and the Black Death was loose in Europe. By august of 1348 it had reached England and during the next five years it would kill 25 million people, nearly one-third of Europe's population. Then around 1352 the plague started to recede, but it didn't disappear from Europe completly until the 1600's.*Aaron Rice The Black Death: Bubonic PlagueThe First Printed NewspaperPekingbGrun, Bernard, " The TimeTables of History". Touchstone Books, Simon and Schuster, Ney York, 1982.The Monroe DoctrineuWestern HemisphereFThe Monroe Doctrine was a policy established on Dec. 2, 1823 by the United States to limit European influence in the Western Hemisphere. It basically said that U.S. would consider an attack on any country in the America's a threat to it's own safety. In return the U.S. stated that it would not interfere in European affairs.http://www.gi.grolier.comU.S. Postal Service established15The first U.S. Postal Service is established in 1755.-http://infoplease.lycos.com/ipa/A0001196.html