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Before 12,000 BC: The Pleistocene Epoch, known today as the last major Ice Age, ends after ice sheets recede northward.

Perhaps 10,000 BC: Agricultural societies develop in an area called the Fertile Crescent in the Middle East.

About 2400 BC: The town of Babylon, between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, has grown into a city.

About 323 BC: Alexander the Great dies of a fever in the ancient city of Babylon.

27 BC: Augustus becomes the first Roman emperor.

962 AD: Otto the Great is crowned Holy Roman Emperor in Aix-la-Chapelle, Germany.

1535: Ottoman Turks conquer Baghdad.

1919: The Treaty of Versailles sets out terms of peace to officially end WWI.

1932: The Kingdom of Iraq wins its independence from British rule.

1947: The United Nations partitions what had been British Palestine into Jewish and Arab areas.

1965: The United States escalates its involvement in the Vietnam War by sending troops to fight on the side of the South Vietnamese government.

2001: Nineteen suicide terrorists hijack four commercial airlines and succeed in crashing two of them into New York City’s World Trade Center and a third into the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. The fourth plane crashes in Pennsylvania.

2003: The United States and the United Kingdom, along with small contingents of troops from other allied countries, invade Iraq.

2016: The United Kingdom votes in a referendum to separate from the European Union, a move known as Brexit.

2019: A previously unknown viral illness called COVID-19, arises in China, on its way to becoming the fastest-spreading pandemic the world has yet seen.

2021: President Joe Biden withdraws American troops from Afghanistan.