top 5 most important dates in human history?

5.480 bc - battle of salamis
4. 476 ad- fall of the roman empire
3. 1456 ad- printing press
2. 1776 ad- declaration of independence
1. 1969 ad- first man on the moon


those are what i think of off the top of my head...and yours?

 

dates aren't what is important at all. trends reaching critical mass is. and that generaly isn't something that happens in an instant, let alone one that can be tied to a prticular day but only to a year or a decade of a general time fraime.

the onlything that happens on a particular date is some politician taking credit for what some populist movement has already made defacto reality

i'd say the building of the knossos palace on crete, or the stockton and darlington steam trials, the publication of p josiphus agricola's in re mechanibus, the unification of nepal, the letters of the living discouvering the gate i suppose, ghandi's ashram, aknaton's sunrise, the building of the first crannoc and the first broc, the emergance of vertibrate life onto dry land, one as 'important' as another. and a zillion more.

i refuse to render positive credit to infamy's like the burning of the library at alexandria or wars and the dying of cultures and other such calamities, or even the births of what sowed the seeds of them.

though i suppose the invention of cuniform and the rise of mohenjo daro are interesting moments in retrospect

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I disagree that it is always the case.

Man on the moon for example. The buildup is not what mattered. It was proving that man is not bound to earth. The space race + cold war makes for a nice story, but what really matters happened on july 20th 1969.

Now i'd agree for something like the assassination of archdudke franz ferdinand starting world war 1....there is so much more that needs to be said.

 

man on the moon is a fine example indeed. do you think it could even have happened without the decades of previous work that went into making it possible, or that the signifigance of the moment, however notable, outweighs the tecnological spinoffs of the effort?

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i ranked it as the most important date in human history. Yes, i think the significance of the moment outweighs everything else. Human history up until that moment was earth-based. We are no longer bound to earth. That is what the moment symbolizes.

I'd revise my list actually and include some inventions like harnessing fire and the wheel though.

 

well i can see what you're gettin at and it did prove we COULD do it. but the idea that the overwhelming majority of us are any less 'earthbound' then we were before, while certainly a romantic one, remains something of a fantasy.

that is the symbol. everything that was learned in making the effort is the real substance. and yes part of what was learned was one way or several in which it could be done.

the moment will regain a more substantive signifigance, if and when, manned missions beyond earth orbit are ever resumend.

i personaly hope they are, but there are also other things more important.

like figguring out that education is more important then war and things like that.

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To me the dates as follows:
10/03/1969 I was born
07/04/1982 First scored (truth or dare game, glad I picked dare that day)
05/10/1987 Very dear person was born
06/20/1988 I graduated
10/19/1989 My son was born

Of coarse this is to my human history.

 

haha, excellent answers

 

yes, we can read what someone else's vested intrests want to tell us what was important that happened, or we can live what is important to us. that may be what it comes down to.

although i think important things have happend before i was born. they helped shape the world i was born into. and i'm not so much my own ego to immagine important things won't happen after i'm no longer living on this world.

but the dates we are taught things supposedly happened and what those things supposedly were, in school, well i just don't see that at all.

there is a history i would like to know. the kind of history every child is born wanting to know maybe a little something about. and that is the history of what happened right on the spot where i'm standing or sitting. hundreds and even thousands of years ago. before curent cultural dominance began. not generaly. or the history of THAT culture, the one that's been superimposed on it. but of THIS actual spot. and the people who, at that time, actualy lived HERE.

that is the history schools and politicians and preachers DON'T want you to know. and don't even want you to know WHY they don't want you to know.

and that IS the history i DO care about.

THIS is sacred ground. all ground is sacred ground.

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you have way overanalyzed what was meant to be a simple question. I was just curious what other people thought....

 

Men never went on the moon. SO much bullshit, that has been made up by holywood. Thre is no air, so there would be no wind. How would the flag be moving???

 

The day i was born and the day i die.

 

You dont have d-day on that list, ya know june 6, 1944. That would have to be one of the bigger dates in our history.

 

why?.

 

Why you ask. Because on that day the biggest invasion ever in the history of warfare took place during world war 2. The united states, canada, and britain all came together and created an invasion force large enough to handle the so called atlantic wall which was built by the german forces and thought to be inpenetrable. That day decided the fait of world war 2 and put the advantage on the allies which now encircled the germans. The russians were closing in on the east as the americans, british and canadiens fought on the western side. They were closing in on the german war machine and the security and freedom in the world.

 

General Dwight D. Eisenhower:



You are about to embark upon the great crusade towards which we have striven these many months.



The eyes of the world are upon you, the hopes and prayers of liberty loving people everywhere march with you.



In company with our brave allies and brothers in arms on other fronts, you will bring about the destruction of the german war machine, the elimination of nazy tyranny over the opressed peoples of europe and security for ourselves and a free world.



Your task will not be an easy one, your enemy is well trained, well equipped and battle hardened. He will fight savagely.



I have full confidence in your courage and devotion to duty and skill in battle. We will accept nothing less than full Victory! Good luck! And let us beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.

 

oh, its definitely up there...it is probably the most important battle fought in the Cold War. Yes, i said cold war...

 

1485: Bosworth Field & the consolidation of The Tudon Dynasty
1465: Bubonic Plauge
1492:Consolidation of Spain, discovery of New world.
1688: Glorious Revolution. onset of war of the Leauge of Ausberg.
1759: Miracle Year, Seven Years War.

 

33 a.d. Death of Jesus Christ.
1456 Invention of the printing press.
1492 Discovery of the New World
1517 Beginning of the Protestant Reformation
1789 Beginning of the French Revolution.

 

If I were to give 5 others it would be:
313 The conversion of Constantine and the legalization and institutionalization of Christianity.
1776 The Declaration of Independence
1917 The Russian Revolution
1945 The end of World War II and the beginning of the Cold War
1989 The fall of the Soviet Union, the End of the Cold War, and the beginning of the New World Order