When, Where, Why, and How It Happened

A decade-by-decade chronology of more than 3000 historical milestones includes the murder of Julius Caesar and the collapse of Communism.

This is a different kind of history book. It focuses on the world’s great events, stretching back to the beginnings of recorded history in the ancient world.

They were all events that changed the world, although they changed it in very different ways, some dramatically and at once, some slowly and unpredictably.

There were often surprises: history never quite repeated itself.