Historian Patrick Boucheron revisits the most important dates in history through the prisms of memory and collective imagination.
E1: 33 AD: The Crucifixion of Jesus▶ PLAY
E2: 24 September 622: The Hegira▶ PLAY
E3: 323 BC: Death of Alexander the Great▶ PLAY
E4: 1492: The New World▶ PLAY
E5: 20 June 1789: The Tennis Court Oath▶ PLAY
E6: 11 February 1990: Liberation of Nelson Mandela▶ PLAY
E7: 24 August 79: Destruction of Pompeii▶ PLAY
E8: 6 August, 1945: Hiroshima▶ PLAY
E9: 1347: The Beginning of the Black Death▶ PLAY
E10: 1431: The Fall of Angkor▶ PLAY
E1: April 21 -753 - The Foundation of Rome▶ PLAY
E2: -52 - The Siege of Alesia▶ PLAY
E3: 315 - The Donation of Constantine▶ PLAY
E4: May 29 1453 - The Fall of Constantinople▶ PLAY
E5: -18000 - The Lascaux Cave▶ PLAY
E6: 1911 - The Conquest of the South Pole▶ PLAY
E7: May 14 1610 - The Assassination of King Henry IV of France▶ PLAY
E8: -399 - The Trial of Socrates▶ PLAY
E9: August 25 1270 - King Louis IX Dies in Carthage▶ PLAY
E10: October 17 1961 - The Paris Massacre▶ PLAY
E11: The Revolutions of 1848▶ PLAY
E12: October 1860 - The Sacking of the Summer Palace in Beijing▶ PLAY
E13: July 4 1776 - The American Declaration of Independence▶ PLAY
E14: 1000 - The Millennium▶ PLAY
E15: -1348 – Akhenaten's Religious Revolution▶ PLAY
E16: 1324 - Mansa Musa's Pilgrimage to Mecca▶ PLAY
E17: 751 - The Battle of Talas and Height of the Tang Dynasty▶ PLAY
E18: April 21 1526 - Babur Takes Over India at Panipat▶ PLAY
E19: September 7 1812 - The Battle of Borodino▶ PLAY
E20: September 11 1973 - The Other September 11 - The Military Coup D'Etat Against Allende▶ PLAY
