Chalk and Cheese

Attributes

  1. Absurd
  2. Beautiful
  3. Charismatic
  4. Complicated
  5. Corrupt
  6. Courageous
  7. Crazed
  8. Deplorable
  9. Depressing
  10. Devastating
  11. Enduring
  12. A failure
  13. Flamboyant
  14. Fragile
  15. Haunting
  16. An Imposter
  17. Influential
  18. Insane
  19. Inspirational
  20. Innovative
  21. Liberating
  22. Merciful
  23. Misunderstood
  24. Neglected
  25. Odious
  26. One of a kind
  27. An Original
  28. Overrated
  29. Powerful
  30. Principled
  31. Rational
  32. Realistic
  33. Repulsive
  34. Scientific
  35. Shocking
  36. Sneaky
  37. Spiritual
  38. Stereotyped
  39. Technological
  40. Tragic
  41. Transformational
  42. Ugly
  43. Unique
  44. Unscrupulous
  45. Victorious
  46. Weird
  47. Wired

Western Civ

  1. Hammurabi
  2. Moses
  3. Plato
  4. Plato
  5. Alexander the Great
  6. Julius Caesar
  7. Apostle Paul
  8. St. Augustine
  9. Mohammed
  10. Vladimir of Kiev
  11. Leif Eriksson
  12. Urban II
  13. Johann Gutenberg
  14. William of Occam
  15. Anselm of Canterbury
  16. Martin Luther
  17. Rene Descartes
  18. George Washington
  19. Napoleon
  20. Karl Marx
  21. Charles Darwin
  22. Louis Pasteur
  23. Charlie Chaplin
  24. Laurel and Hardy
  25. Adolph Hitler
  26. Winston Churchill
  27. Martin Luther King, Jr.
  28. Neil Armstrong
  29. Mother Teresa
  30. Bill Gates
  31. Nelson Mandela

Events

  1. 3650 BC - Wheeled vehicles appear in Mesopotamia
  2. 2400 - Babylonians invent the abacus
  3. 2000 BC - Abram born
  4. 1700 BC- Code of Hammurabi
  5. 1600 BC - Phonecians develop the first alphabet
  6. 1184 BC - Fall of Troy
  7. 1000 BC - David starts to reign in Jerusalem
  8. 776 BC - First Greek Olympics
  9. 753 BC - Rome founded
  10. 399 BC - Death of Socrates
  11. 330 BC - Alexander the Great conquers the Persian Empire
  12. 146 BC - Carthage is destroyed by Scipio
  13. 44 BC - Julius Caesar assassinated
  14. 27 B.C. - 180 A.D. - Pax Romana
  15. 2 BC - Jesus Christ born in Bethlehem
  16. 313 - Constantine issues Edict of Milan
  17. 325 - Council of Nicea organizes a formal, unified Christian doctrine
  18. 610 - Mohammed states he has a vision of the angel Gabriel
  19. 732 - Charles the Hammer (Martel) wins at the Battle of Tours/Poitiers
  20. 800 - Charlemagne crowned emperor
  21. 988 - Vladimir of Kiev converts to Christianity
  22. 1066  - Norman William defeats Harald at the Battle of Hastings
  23. 1093 - Anselm becomes Archbishop of Canterbury
  24. 1095 - Pope Urban II calls for a crusade to capture the Holy Land.
  25. 1202 - Fibonacci publishes Liber Abaci - popularizes Arabic numbers and the concept of zero.
  26. 1212 - Children's Crusade
  27. 1215 - King John signs the Magna Carta
  28. 1248 - Roger Bacon publishes formula for gunpowder, originally developed by the Chinese.
  29. 1280 - Roger Bacon "invents" gunpowder
  30. 1337 - Beginning of the Hundred Years War
  31. 1347 - William of Ockham/Occam dies
  32. 1347-1351 - Black Death
  33. 1348 - Black Death strikes Europe wiping out about a quarter of the population
  34. 1382 - John Wycliffe finishes his translation of the Bible
  35. 1440-1455 - Johann Gutenberg perfects his printing press using movable type.
  36. 1453 - Constantinople, and the Byzantine Empire, fall to the Ottoman Turks.
  37. 1469 - Ferdinand and Isabella marry and unite Spain
  38. 1492 - Christopher Columbus "discovers" America.
  39. October 31, 1517 - Martin Luther nails 95 Theses to a church door in Wittenburg 
  40. 1522 - Part of Ferdinand Magellan's expedition returns to Spain after circumnavigating the globe
  41. 1588 - Spanish Armada defeated by the English
  42. 1598 - Edict of Nantes gives religious toleration to the French Huguenots
  43. 1637 - Rene Descartes argues cogito, ergo sum
  44. 1648 - Peace of Westphalia, granting religious toleration in Germany.
  45. 1707 - Acts of Union unite England Scotland into Great Britain
  46. 1760 - Beginning of the Industrial Revolution in England
  47. July 4, 1776 - First Continental Congress signs Declaration of Independence
  48. 1776 - Adam Smith published The Wealth of Nations
  49. July 14, 1789 - Bastille stormed, which is considered to start the French Revolution
  50. 1796 - Edward Jenner develops the smallpox vaccine
  51. 1802 - Richard Trevithick patents the steam locomotive
  52. 1807 - British slave trade is ended
  53. 1809 - Braille invented
  54. 1814-1815 - Congress of Vienna
  55. 1815 - Battle of Waterloo
  56. 1836 - Samuel Colt invents the revolver
  57. 1837 - Samuel Morse patents the telegraph
  58. 1848 - Karl Marx publishes Communist Manifesto
  59. 1859 - Charles Darwin's Origin of the Species is published
  60. 1867 - Nikolaus August Otto develops the internal combustion engine
  61. 1869 - Opening of the Suez Canal
  62. 1876 - Alexander Graham Bell receives a patent for the telephone
  63. 1878 - Thomas Edison invents the incandescent light bulb
  64. 1881 - Louis Pasteur isolates anthrax virus, develops vaccine
  65. 1893 - New Zealand women get the right to vote
  66. 1896 - first modern Olympics
  67. 1903 - Wright Brothers take flight
  68. 1905 - Einstein publishes his theory of relativity
  69. 1914 - Archduke Franz Ferdinand assassinated, triggering First World War
  70. 1917 - Russian (October) Revolution establishes first Communist state.
  71. November 11, 1918 - Armistice ends First World War
  72. October 1929 - New York stock market crashes, beginning the Great Depression
  73. 1937 - The Hindenberg explodes while docking
  74. 1938 - Z1 created, a binary, digital computer using punch tape
  75. 1938 - Otto Hahn receives Nobel Prize for splitting the atom
  76. September 1, 1939 - Germany invades Poland, starting Second World War
  77. 1942 - "Final Solution" brought forward
  78. June 6, 1944 - Allies land on beaches at Normandy.
  79. August 6 and 9, 1945 - US drops atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  80. October 24, 1945 - Founding of United Nations
  81. 1957 - European Economic Community formed
  82. 1945-1989 - Cold War
  83. September 18, 1947 - CIA founded
  84. May 14, 1948 - Modern nation of Israel founded
  85. April 4, 1949 - Founding of NATO
  86. October 1, 1949 - Communists take over the government of China
  87. 1960 - Use of The Pill is approved.
  88. 1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis
  89. 1969 - Neil Armstrong becomes the first man to walk on the moon
  90. 1969 - Concorde jet breaks the sound barrier
  91. August 1969 - Woodstock music festival
  92. 1973 - U.S. Supreme Court legalizes abortion
  93. February 1, 1979 - Ayatollah Khomeini returns to Iran
  94. 1979 - Death of John Lennon
  95. 1982 - Commodore becomes the best selling computer of all time.
  96. 1989 - Fall of the Berlin Wall
  97. September 9, 2001 - Islamic fanatics attack New York and Washington with aircraft.
  98. 1991 - Fall of the Soviet Union
  99. 2004 - Facebook founded
  100. 2007 - First iPhone

Canadians

  1. John Cabot
  2. Jacques Cartier
  3. Samuel de Champlain
  4. Egerton Ryerson
  5. Queen Victoria
  6. John A Macdonald
  7. George Brown
  8. Thomas D'Arcy McGee
  9. Crowfoot
  10. Albert Lacombe
  11. Louis Riel
  12. Poundmaker
  13. Emily Stowe
  14. Adelaide Hunter Hoodless
  15. Clifford Sifton
  16. Fay Wray
  17. Emily Carr
  18. Lucy Maud Montgomery
  19. Alexander Graham Bell
  20. Wilfrid Laurier
  21. Nellie McClung
  22. Emily Murphy
  23. Tom Longbottom
  24. Robert Borden
  25. Percy Page
  26. Mary Pickford
  27. Frederick Banting
  28. William Lyon Mackenzie King
  29. Igor Gouzenko
  30. Jay Silverheels
  31. Lester Pearson
  32. Tommy Douglas
  33. Glen Gould
  34. Terry Fox
  35. Douglas Cardinal
  36. Pierre Trudeau
  37. Wayne Gretzky
  38. Brian Mulroney
  39. Marc Lepine
  40. Kim Campbell
  41. Ben Johnson
  42. Bertha Wilson

Events

  1. 1451 - Founding of Iroquois Confederacy
  2. 1497 - John Cabot reaches Newfoundland
  3. 1608 - Quebec City founded
  4. May 2, 1670 - HBC given a charter
  5. 1713 - Treaty of Utrecht gives Acadia to the British
  6. 1755 - Acadians expelled
  7. 1759 - Battle of the Plains of Abraham
  8. 1812-1814 - War of 1812
  9. June 22, 1813 - Laura Secord treks to warn the British
  10. 1821 - HBC and NWC merge
  11. 1857-1859 - Palliser's Triangle declared a "more or less arid desert"
  12. July 1, 1867 - Confederation
  13. 1867 - First version of the Indian Act passed
  14. 1869-1870 - Red River Resistance
  15. 1870 - Manitoba becomes a province
  16. 1871 - British Columbia joins Confederation
  17. August 1871 - Treaty 1 signed, paving the way for the settling of the West by immigrant farmers 
  18. 1873 - North West Mounted Police founded.
  19. August 3, 1876 - Alexander Graham Bell makes the first telephone call
  20. May 8, 1877 - Mountie James Walsh makes friends with Sitting Bull.
  21. 1885 - Riel Rebellion
  22. 1885 - WCTU set up nationally
  23. 1905 - Alberta and Saskatchewan join Confederation
  24. August 1914 - Start of First World War
  25. 1915 - Edmonton Grads founded
  26. February 4, 1916 - Fire partially destroys the federal Parliament building
  27. 1916 - Women get the vote in Manitoba, Alberta, Saskatchewan
  28. April 1917 - Battle of Vimy Ridge
  29. 1919 - Winnipeg General Strike
  30. December 6, 1921 - Agnes Macphail become first female MP
  31. May 3, 1922 - Banting and Best announce they've isolated insulin
  32. 1922 - Canadian Norther and Canadian Transcontinental Railways merge to form Canadian National
  33. 1928 - Ethel Catherwood and "the matchless six" win gold at the Olympics
  34. October 1929 - Women declared legal persons
  35. 1931 - Pablum becomes available in Canada
  36. July 18, 1932 - Legislation passed creating the CBC
  37. 1937 - Trans Canada Airlines formed
  38. September 1939 - Start of Second World War
  39. 1940 - Unemployment Insurance introduced
  40. December 25, 1941 - Fall of Hong Kong to the Japanese
  41. 1942 - Japanese Canadians interned
  42. August 19, 1942 - Heavy Canadian losses in a raid Dieppe
  43. 1946 - Oil discovered at Leduc Number 1 rig.
  44. 1948 - Barbara Ann Scott wins skating gold
  45. 1949 - Newfoundland joins Canada
  46. 1949 - Supreme Court becomes the last point of appeal
  47. December 18, 1950 - PPLI arrives in Korea
  48. 1959 - St. Lawrence Seaway opened
  49. 1960 - Beginning of the Quiet Revolution
  50. 1960 - Native Canadians given the vote
  51. February 15, 1965 - New flag flown for first time
  52. 1968 - Government run health care brought in
  53. October 1970 - October Crisis. War Measures Act invoked.
  54. 1972 - Canada beats the Soviet Union in the Summit Series
  55. June 22, 1976 - House of Commons abolishes death penalty
  56. November 15, 1976 - Parti Quebecois elected in Quebec
  57. 1976 - CN Tower is completed and is tallest free standng structure in the world
  58. May 27, 1980 - Quebecers vote 60-40 against sovereignty
  59. September 1, 1980 - Terry Fox's run comes to an end
  60. 1982 - Charter of Rights and Freedoms
  61. June 30, 1987 - The loonie introduced.
  62. January 2, 1988 - Canada- U.S. Free Trade Agreement signed.
  63. 1988 - Abortion law overturned by Supreme Court
  64. January 1, 1991 - GST introduced.
  65. 1992 - Toronto Blue Jays win the World Series
  66. April 1, 1999 - Nunavut created
  67. July 2005 - Same-sex marriage legalized.

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