The American Declaration of Independence
The American Declaration of Independence
The facts
| Dates | AD 1776 |
|---|---|
| Source | Printed on the chart |
Where this sits on the chart
The American Declaration of Independence falls 5780 years out from Creation at the centre. On the printed chart you can put a finger here and read straight outward to see what the rest of the world was doing in the same moment.
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Who else was alive
The founding of the British East India CompanyAD 1600Galileo Galilei confirms the heliocentric theoryAD 1632The Industrial RevolutionAD 1760 – AD 1840The establishment of the United States Postal ServiceAD 1775The invention of the cotton ginAD 1793The discovery of the Rosetta StoneAD 1799The publication of Charles Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species”AD 1859The first transcontinental telegraph messageAD 1861
Now see where it sits
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