The first Winter Olympics
The first Winter Olympics
The facts
| Dates | AD 1924 |
|---|---|
| Source | Printed on the chart |
Where this sits on the chart
The first Winter Olympics falls 5928 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 discovery of radioactivity by Marie CurieAD 1898The invention of the airplane by the Wright BrothersAD 1903The sinking of the TitanicAD 1912The start of commercial radio broadcastingAD 1920The invention of the televisionAD 1927The discovery of penicillin by Alexander FlemingAD 1928The discovery of PlutoAD 1930The detonation of the first atomic bombAD 1945
Now see where it sits
Everything on this page has a place on one 45×37″ chart — and once you can see what came before and after it, it stops being a fact and starts being a story you can follow.