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About 4.5 billion BC: Earth forms.

Maybe 4 million BC: Early hominids (humanlike ancestors) walk on their hind legs. (Some evidence points to evidence of even earlier apelike bipeds.)

About 700,000 BC: Homo erectus walks out of Africa.

About 60,000 BC: Human beings leave behind early examples of art.

479–323 BC: The Classical Greek era gives rise to democracy.

1605: The Gunpowder Plot against England’s King James I is foiled when conspirator Guy Fawkes is caught with explosives below the assembly hall of Parliament.

1789: George Washington is elected president of the United States of America.

1948: An assassin kills Mahatma Gandhi.

1968: An assassin kills Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.