AD/CE

800s

-860s

--862

--- 862, The Rurik dynasty is founded by Rurik, the first prince of Novgorod.

-880s

--882

--- 882, Kyiv, an Eastern European city, is conquered and made the capital of the Rurik dynasty, now ruled by Oleg the Wise, and pushing south along a water route from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea. By many definitions, this is the begining of the Kievan Rus'.

900s

-960s

--965

--- 965, The Kievan Rus', ruled by Svyatoslav I Igorevich, launch a campaign against the neighboring Khazar Khagnate.

--969

--- 969, With the destruction of the Khazar capital of Atil, the Rus' conquest of Khazar Khaganate ends, resulting in a major hit to Khazar power and influence as well as the Kievan Rus' taking control of parts of it's territory.

1900s

-1900s

--1900

--- 2 July, LZ 1 (Luftschiff Zeppelin, "Airship Zeppelin" in English), the first successful rigid airship, is flown in southern Germany.

--1901

--- 22 January, Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom dies on the Isle of Wight, ending the Victroian era. Her son, Edward VII, becomes King of the United Kingdom and British Dominions and the Emperor of India. This begins the Edwardian Era.

--1902

--- 2 June, Leap-The-Dips, a side friction roller coaster and, as of 2025, the oldest standing roller coaster, is opened in Lakemont Park in Altoona, Pennsylvania.

--1903

--- 17 December, Orville and Wilbur Wright achieve the first manned flight with a motorized airplane with the Wright Flyer, a biplane, at Kitty Hawk, South Carolina.

-1910s

--1916

--- 13 January, The flood of 1916, an overnight flood in the Netherlands along the Zuiderzee coast, occurs. This, combined with the effects of the ongoing First World War, will go on to cause a lack of food in the country.

-1920s

--1920

--- 29 June, Construction of the Zuiderzee Works, a project in the Netherlands to reclaim large amounts of land using dikes and dams, begins.

--1927

--- January, Construction of the Afsluitdijk, the main dam in the Zuiderzee Works, begings.

-1930s

-1940s

-1950s

--1951

--- 1951, Construction of the Chicago Pedway proper begins.

-1960s

-1970s

--1972

--- 27 June, Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney create Atari, Inc. in Sunnyvale, California.

--- 29 November, Pong, the first commercially successful video game, is released into arcades by Atari, inc.

--1977

--- 11 September, The Atari Video Computer System (VCS, later renamed to the Atari 2600), the first major video game home console, is released by Atari, inc. It is a part of the second generation of consoles and will go on to sell over 30 million units.

--1978

--- 19 April, Space Invaders, a shoot 'em up game and one of the earliest major successes in video games, is released to arcades in Japan by the Taito Corperation. It will soon become the best-selling game as well as the highest-grossing entertainment product of it's time and highest-grossing video game of all time.

--1979

--- 1 October, Activision, Inc., the first third-party video game developer for consoles and a major developer going foreward, is founded in Sunnyvale, California by former Atari 2600 game developers unhappy with their treatment and lack of recognition.

-1980s

--1980

--- Late 1980, Atari files a lawsuit against Activision. It will end up being settled out-of-court with Activision agreeing to pay royalties.

--1982

--- September, Activision, Inc. releases their breakout title Pitfall!, developed by David Crane.

--1983

--- Summer, After Coleco shows the ADAM computer playing Donkey Kong, Atari threatens to sue Nintendo, who threaten to sue Coleco, causing the deal for Atari to sell the Famicom system in the U.S. to be delayed and ultimately fall through.

--1986

--- 1 January, Flevoland, the reclaimed land formed from the Zuiderzee Works, becomes a Dutch province.

-1990s

--1991

--- June, A team led by James Gosling called the Green Team begins development of the Oak programming language (later renamed Java) at Sun Microsystems.

--1994

--- 15 December, Netscape Navigator, a major early internet browser and later the de facto and, for a time, most used browser, is released by the Netscape Communications Corporation.

--1995

--- 24 August, Microsoft releases Internet Explorer, a competitor to Netscape Navigator that would go on to overtake it as the used browser of its time.

--1996

--- 23 January, The Java programming language is released with JDK 1.0.

--1998

--- 31 October, Eric S. Raymond leaks the Halloween Documents, internal Microsoft memorandums on strategies against open source software, in particular Linux.

--1999

--- 3 November, Hazmat workers first show up to clean the biohazardous Mexia grocery store, which owners had abanonded without cleaning out earlier in the year. The store is labled a biohazard due to its severely rotted food and dangerous air and becomes infamous.

-2000s

--2001

--- 28 June, The United States v. Microsoft Corp. court case ends with Microsoft being ordered to split into two different sections in response to its tactics used against Netscape. After a later appeal, Microsoft is no longer required to split, but only to modify business practices.

--2003

--- 7 January, Apple releases Safari, an internet browser built into their operating systems.

--2004

--- 9 November, The Mozilla Foundation, a nonprofit organization, releases Firefox, an open-source browser and spiritual successor to Netscape Navigator.

--2008

--- 2 September, Google releases the Chrome internet browser as a public beta. Chrome is built off of Chromium and will eventually become the most used and the de-facto browser.

-2010s

--2010

--- 27 January, Sun Microsystems is acquired by Oracle Corporation for $7.4 billion USD.

--2014

--- September, The Dinosaur Game, a side-scrolling browser game, is released on Google Chrome.

--2015

--- 9 July, Microsoft replaces the outdated and infamously slow Internet Explorer browser with Microsoft Edge. Edge is built off of and keeps much of the branding of Internet Explorer.

-2020s

--2020

--- 15 January, A fully rebuilt version of Microsoft Edge is released, replacing the previous browser, which is rebranded as Edge Legacy. The new browser is built with Chromium and has new branding, including a new logo.