Cassell's Chronology of World History: Dates, Events and Ideas that made History

A large volume by its very nature, this Chronology inevitably contains only passing references to world history, but this does not detract from its purpose: to act as a singular reference source for world history. The book provides a year on year listing of all the key events of world history. It begins with the year 135,000BP (before present) and the date of the earliest fossils of anatomically modern humans in Sub‐Saharan Africa, and takes the reader through to the close of 2004 and an entry for Sub‐Saharan Africa and the devastating Tsunami of 26 December 2004 that killed some...