Top 10 most important events in History

9 and 10 shouldn't be on the list. The invention of Zero, language, penicillin, calculus, electricity, the Canon/rocket, car, radio, fire are all more important than those two.

Subway Surfers wrote:

9 and 10 shouldn't be on the list. The invention of Zero, language, penicillin, calculus, electricity, the Canon/rocket, car, radio, fire are all more important than those two.

Zero is literally nothing

Half of OPs top ten "events" are not even events, let alone top ten events.

I would add in no particular order

1. Apollo 11 mission that put mankind on the moon - the culmination of worldwide science and technology up to that point

2. The Resurrection of Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Sure the crucifixion is important but if there was no resurrection then Christianity is literally dead.

3. The Bolshevik Revolution - how many people it affected, how many it killed, how it tied up resources of other countries preparing to defend against it.

4. The domestication of the first animal and the planting of the first crop - agriculture dominated the whole world until about 150 years ago and still dominates many cultures

5. The day TnFMedia died and letsrun took over - enuf said

Singularity

SkyNet

Add founding of letsrun.com

Columbus landing in Hispaniola is obviously on the list. Think of all the good and terrible things that caused.

It's a good list, OP. I don't have time to put a ton of thought into it, but the top 3 - in no particular order - have to be:

Fire

Wheel

Moveable Type (Printing Press)

If anyone wants to convince me that another invention/event in human history should bump one of those from the top three, I'd be willing to listen.

The tipping point at which man-made global warming irreversibly destroyed life on earth.

Religions are certainly important, but something reported by the religion itself is technically not history. The reporting that triggers a group of believers is the historical event.

Canonization of the Bible is historical, for example, but the birth, death, and resurrection of Christ is not - unless you truly believe what the Bible says. Same thing applies to other religions.

Gravy wrote:

The tipping point at which man-made global warming irreversibly destroyed life on earth.

Adding to this a related event whose inventor was instrumental in both ... the invention of the internet.

So we are counting as “an event” disparate themes which happened across multiple decades or centuries? Why not just the “event” of life on earth then? That was a pretty big important event.

Battle of Tours.

Ummm....ever heard of the Big Bang?

here are mine...all are discoveries

1. making fire

2. Inventing the wheel.

3. Agriculture

4. Writing

5. Forging Metal

6. Combustion

7. Drilling

8. Gun powder

9. Thermodynamics

10. Hydraulics

EngineerRunner wrote:

here are mine...all are discoveries

1. making fire

2. Inventing the wheel.

3. Agriculture

4. Writing

5. Forging Metal

6. Combustion

7. Drilling

8. Gun powder

9. Thermodynamics

10. Hydraulics

Pretty good list. I would be hard-pressed to top that.

Those would make a great top 10 inventions or discoveries list

dbsquirtNXC21 wrote:

Those would make a great top 10 inventions or discoveries list

Youre very first one was the Agriculture Revolution. I can rewrite the whole list and put revolution if you want.

OP - the top 3 are kind of "eras" and not what I would call "events" but whatever - splitting hairs.

I'd add the inventions of the incandescent light bulb and telephone to that list. And maybe internal combustion engine. Helped us get a flying start (pun intended) as we headed into the 20th century.

Great book to read: The Rise & Fall of American Growth