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A JOURNEY THROUGH TIME1215 — 2026
A parchment charter and hanging wax seal lie before a king and barons in a medieval tent.Before 1500Before 1500Magna Carta at Runnymede on 15 June 1215Published Medieval scholars and clergy gather with manuscripts and candlelight for a university opening service.Before 1500Heidelberg University opens on the Paris model in 1386Published An Indian rhinoceros stands beside its keeper on a Lisbon quay, watched by early-sixteenth-century dockworkers.1500–17991500–1799A rhinoceros arrives in Lisbon as a royal gift in 1515Published A Renaissance scholar studies a book, a celestial globe and brass astronomical instruments beside an autumn garden.1500–1799Gregorian calendar reform takes effect in October 1582Published Printers operate a wooden hand press and lift a fresh sheet in an early nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro workshop.The 19th centuryThe 19th centuryThe Gazeta do Rio de Janeiro launches under royal censorshipPublished A hand rests beside a quill and a founding document on a table stacked with books in early-nineteenth-century Lima.The 19th centurySan Martín's decree creates the National Library of PeruPublished A young giraffe and its keepers walk through a Paris garden gate as visitors watch in early nineteenth-century clothing.The 19th centuryThe giraffe's arrival in Paris on 30 June 1827Published A woman addresses attentive women in bonnets and shawls inside a modest nineteenth-century chapel.The 19th centuryOpening of the Seneca Falls Women’s Rights ConventionPublished Black Brazilian residents share news from an unlettered paper on a nineteenth-century Rio street.The 19th centuryBrazil’s Golden Law Abolishes Slavery on 13 May 1888Published An imagined 1893 suffrage petition table with women’s hands, ink pens and a white camellia.The 19th centuryWomen win the vote in New Zealand: September 19, 1893Published Natural salt, an earthenware bowl, handwoven cloth and a wooden staff lie beside a quiet Indian shore at dawn.1900–19451900–1945Gandhi breaks the salt law at Dandi on 6 April 1930Published An Indian family listens closely to a wooden valve radio in a home doorway at dawn.1946–19991946–1999India becomes an independent dominion on 15 August 1947Published Women carrying bundles of petitions gather peacefully in the gardens below Pretoria's Union Buildings.1946–1999The 1956 Women's March against pass laws in PretoriaPublished Ghanaians celebrate independence in Accra in 1957, beneath their new national flag, with period buildings and palm trees in the background.1946–1999Ghana's independence and Commonwealth membership in 1957Published A diverse crowd celebrates in a stadium as a speaker in white raises his hand from the platform.1946–1999The Federation of Malaya declares independence in 1957Published Illustration of Ruby Bridges and her mother approaching a school entrance with four suited federal marshals.1946–1999Ruby Bridges enters William Frantz Elementary SchoolPublished Illustration of Gambian families watching their red, white, blue and green national flag being raised near the waterfront.1946–1999The Gambia becomes independent on 18 February 1965Published Illustration of Aboriginal Australian voters and other citizens at a school-hall polling place.1946–1999Australia's 1967 referendum on Aboriginal people and the ConstitutionPublished A woman examines a small copper coin with a magnifying glass at a 1960s New Zealand bank counter.1946–1999New Zealand's decimal currency launch and the Bahamas mule coinsPublished Migratory ducks fly over a reed-fringed Iranian wetland with mountains beyond.1946–1999Adoption of the Ramsar Convention on WetlandsPublished Two young pandas in wooden transport crates receive bamboo from an airfield keeper at dawn.1946–1999Ling-Ling and Hsing-Hsing arrive in Washington in 1972Published Whina Cooper walks with Māori land marchers carrying a petition toward Wellington's Parliament buildings.1946–1999Whina Cooper and the Māori Land March reach ParliamentPublished Women in wool coats and knitted sweaters stand together at an autumn outdoor rally in Reykjavik.1946–1999Iceland’s Women’s Day Off on October 24, 1975Published Adults in 1970s winter clothes walk together along a lamplit Sydney street behind a loudspeaker truck.1946–1999Sydney’s first Mardi Gras parade and civil-rights campaignPublished Zimbabwean spectators watch a national flag above an illuminated stadium during independence celebrations.1946–1999Zimbabwe gains internationally recognized independence, 18 April 1980Published A Māori elder and preschool children share a conversation on a woven mat in a modest early-1980s room.1946–1999Opening of Pukeatua, the first kōhanga reoPublished An aerosol can and refrigerator components sit before an imagined 1980s international conference.1946–1999The Montreal Protocol is adopted, 16 September 1987Published An imagined nighttime crowd celebrating at an opened border checkpoint in 1989.1946–1999The fall of the Berlin Wall: November 9, 1989Published An imagined scene of a couple leaving open prison gates as a hopeful crowd looks on.1946–1999Nelson Mandela leaves prison: February 11, 1990Published Women delegates wearing translation headphones discuss papers around a conference table.1946–1999Beijing Declaration adopted on 15 September 1995Published A customer and baker exchange small coins over a bread-filled bakery counter.Since 2000Since 2000Euro banknotes and coins enter circulation on 1 January 2002Published An open document on a carved desk overlooks a forested Bhutanese mountain valley.Since 2000Bhutan adopts a constitution with a permanent forest-cover requirementPublished A king penguin stands on a path between a keeper and Norwegian ceremonial guards.Since 2000Nils Olav the penguin is knighted at Edinburgh ZooPublished Two people and a wooden canoe beside a misty bend of the Whanganui River.Since 2000Royal Assent to the Te Awa Tupua Whanganui River Settlement ActPublished A sea turtle and schools of fish swim beneath sunlit waves in the open ocean.Since 2000The High Seas Treaty Enters into ForcePublished
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