Introduction 011
2800 BC: I Ching 014
1754 BC: Code of Hammurabi 016
c. 750 BC: Homer's The Iliad and The Odyssey 018
512 BC: The Art of War 020
408 BC-AD 318: Dead Sea Scrolls 022
c. 400 BC: Mahabharata 024
400 BC-AD 200: Kama Sutra 026
c. 380 BC: Plato's Republic 028
AD 50: Gandharan Buddhist Texts 030
AD 609-632: The Quran 032
1215: The Magna Carta 034
1252: Ad Extirpanda 036
1265-74: Summa Theologica 038
1280-1300: Hereford Mappa Mundi 040
1450s: Gutenberg Bible 042
1478-1519: Leonardo da Vinci's Notebooks 044
1492: Alliambra Decree 046
1493: Christopher Columbus's Letter 048
1501: Petrucci's Harmonice Musices Odbecaton A 050
1517: Martin Luther's Ninety-Five Theses 052
1521: Edict of Worms 054
1522-25: Journal of Magellan's Voyage 056
1542: Destruction of the Indies 058
1582: Gregorian Calendar 060
1611: King James Bible 062
1620: Mayflower Compact 064
1623: Shakespeare's Firs: Folio 066
1632: Galileo's Dialogue 068
1649: Execution Warrant of Charles 1 070
1660-69: Samuel Pepys's Diary 072
1660s-1727: Isaac Neuron Papers 074
1665: First Printed Newspaper in English 076
1689: English Bill of Eights 078
1755: Samuel Johnson's Dictionary 080
1776: Declaration of Independence 082
1776: The Wealth of Nations 084
1787: Constitution of the United States 086
1789: Declaration of the Rights or Man and of the Citizen 088
1791: Declaration of the Eights of Woman and of the Female Citizen 090
1803: Louisiana Purchase 092
1803: Meriwether Lewis's List of Expenses 094
1804: Napoleonic Code 096
1822: Deciphering the Rosetta Stone 098
1826: First Photograph 100
1833: Slavery Abolition Act 102
1837-59: Charles Darwin on Natural Selection 104
1844: First Telegram 106
1848: The Communist Manifesto 108
1852: Roger's Thesaurus 110
1854: John Snow's Cholera Map 112
1854-63: First Underground Train System 114
1861: Tort Sumter Telegram 116
1863: Emancipation Proclamation 118
1868: Alaska Purchase Check 120
1809: War and Peace 122
1878: Phonograph 124
1899: The Interpretation of Dreams 126
1912: Sinking of the Titanic 128
1916: Sykes-Picot Agreement 130
1917: Balfour Declaration 132
1917: The Zimmermann Telegram 134
1918: Wilson's Fourteen Points 136
1919: Nineteenth Amendment 138
1919: Treaty of Versailles 140
1920: Hitler's Twenty-Five-Point Program 142
1922: Uncovering Tutankhamun's Tomb 144
1929-31: Empire State Building 146
1936: Edward VIII's Instrument of Abdication 148
1936: Television Listings 150
1938: Munich Agreement 152
1939: The Hitler-Stalin Non-Aggression Pact 154
1941: Declaration of War Against Japan 156
1942: Manhattan Project Notebook 158
1942: Wannsee Protocol 160
1942-44: Anne Prank's Diary 162
1945: Germany's Instrument of Surrender 164
1945: United Nations Charter 166
1946-49: George Orwell a 1984 168
1947: Marshall Plan 170
1948: Universal Declaration of Human Rights 172
1949: Geneva Convention 174
1950: Population Registration Act 176
1953: DNA 178
1957: Treaty of Rome 180
1961: John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address 182
1962: Beatles' Recording Contract with EMI 184
1963: Martin Luther King, Jr., "I Have a Dream" 186
1964: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung 188
1964: Gulf of Tonkin Resolution 190
1969: Apollo II Flight Plan 192
1976: Apple Computer Company 194
1981: Internet Protocol 196
1990: Two Plus Four Treaty 198
1991: First Website 200
2001: “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in US" 202
2002: Iraq War Resolution 204
2006: First Tweet 206
2007: WikiLeaks 208
2011: 3-D Map of the Universe 210
2013: Edward Snow den Files 212
Acknowledgments 215
Index 219