top 5 most important dates in human history?

I think these things are important. Most are 'inventions'. They all occured at one date/time or another, so I think they count as events.

1. Spoken Language
2. Written Language
3. Soap
4. Development of alloys
5. Discovery of DNA and it's significance.

 

Beat me to it, I think this discovery and the continuation of researching DNA, genes, etc. will prove to be the most beneficial to humanity in the future.

 

i'd say the rise of the roman empire was a much greater tragidy then its fall.

hiroshima chainged the world. i think that's the most recent thing to do so signifigantly.

the invention of capitolism was a very mixed blessing if blessing at all, even if it did make it possible for tecnology to make up for time it had previously lost to other forms of fanatacism.

if it wasn't for (ancient) greece and rome, would they (fanatacism in any form) even have existed at all?

the invention of the village community larger then a single kinship, something that can be assigned no one date was probably almost the first.

the invention of language, that or the use of fire, may either or both have predated it.

that's my five then.
language
fire
village
city-state
heroshima

mining, metalurgy and agriculture are all in there and important too.
perhapse agriculture more then the city-state and it's armies.
the two are connected though and the latter unambiguously unfortunate.
mostly because it gave rise to the erronious notion that anyone is better off to robb others of their calmness then we would all be if no one ever did.

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Hmm, very tough question... It's impossible to pick the 5 MOST important dates in history.. I don't think it's possible to narrow it down to just 5 choices.

But, my 2c worth, I'd say:

31BC - Roman Empire founded
33BC - Death of Jesus
+/- 1250AD - Discovery of Gunpowder
French Revolution - 1789
Industrial Revolution, starting about 1780

Damn, not enough room for discovery of penicillin..

 

9/11 and 2012

 

1) 1000000 bce invention of fire.

2) Approx.1250 ce the invention of gun powder...chemical fire.
3) 1750 ce - 1900 ce invention of electricity...electronic fire.
4) 1945 ce the invention of nuclear fire.
5) the mid 1980's and the internet...the invention of knowledge fire.

Each one of these has lead to positive and negative counter forces in our civilization, the last might be the most dangerous or the most rewarding.

 

i think this is about right. though there is one more, the invention of agriculture which falls somewhere between your 1 and 2. may even be a replacement for your invention of gunpowder in terms of real and generality of signifigance.

so maybe the're not all "fire" after all. although there may be some sense in which agriculture could be expressed as a form of "fire" too.

hierarchal soverignty certainly fears the internet and it is by no means certain wich will likely kill the other first. though even if today's soverignties succeed in doing so, something similar or analagous to today's internet will eventualy re-emerge and replace them entierly. i believe that to be a near certainty, even if the immediate future is not.

all the idiologies, economic theories, and beliefs, are not the mechanism, but attempts to manipulate perception and understanding of it.

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July 1-3,1863. Battle of Gettysburg. This battle marked the begining of the end of The Confederacy.

 

1. Big Bang
2. Formation of stars and planets
3. Formation of the earth
4. I am born
5. I die (future event).

Everything that happens after I die is simply irrelevant

 

1. Circa 100,000-200,000 years ago -- anatomically modern humans evolved
2. Development of language (experts are unable to reliably date this)
3. Circa 8,000 years ago -- development of agriculture
4. Circa 5,000 years ago -- development of wet rice agriculture
5. I forget the date -- domestication of animals

 

1969- Woodstock Music Festival. Duh!

1967- Release of Seargent Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
1964- The Beatles come to America
1995- Jerry Garcia dies
1980- John Lennon dies

 

when humans stood on 2 feet becuase this changed us physicall and mentally

spoken language

first civilization off the coast of some asian country recently found. artifacts date back to 10,000 years ago. many believe this was the "atlantis" of legend because it was extremely advanced for its time.

written language

agriculture

 

Not the oldest civilisation. Australian Aboriginals 40,000 years ago.

 

o shit, i never heard of that

 

Well, it is debatable, depending on your definition of 'civilisation'. When Australia was invaded (they call it settlement) by the British, they declared terra nullius (that the land was owned by no one) and by implication they were saying that there was no such thing as Aboriginal civilisation.

I quickly found a website on Australian rock art that might shed some more light on the topic. http://www.aboriginalartonline.com/art/rockage.php

 

i diddnt mean art and human settleing. i meant a government and stuff like that not just tribes. these people buillt great stone platforms for religious occasions and carved massive faces and had laws and shit. but then a major earthquake happened and the island sank. thats where the legend of atlantis comes from

 

August 15-17 1969 was the most important date Duh.

 

1. The end of whatever was before the universe began.
2. The development of agriculture.
3. The development of marijuana and sacred drugs.
4. The development of science.
5. The development of the electric guitar.

 

535ad volcanic explosion in the far east (near krakatoa) that precipitated the collapse of the remnants of the roman empire.
1450 volcanic explosion that destroyed thera and wiped out the minoan civillisation
1066 invasion of britain and the end of the dark ages
circa 800bc the greeks are given and develop a written language
circa 100bc fall of the roman republic
circa 1900's the fall of the american republic
the renaissance 1300's to 15/1600 (i corrected this bit, it went on for a bit longer than i thought!!)

 

1. March 10th, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone
2. October 4th, 1957, Sputnik Is Launched
3. April 2nd, 1961, Yuri Gagarin becoems the first man in space
4. August 6th, 1945, United States uses the Atom Bomb as a Weapon
5. September 1st, 1939, Nazi Germany invades Poland igniting World War II