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Timeline Figures H
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Over 120 Timeline Figures for Sonlight H on self-adhesive heavy card stock. Just cut them out, color, and stick them in your Timeline Book.


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Over 120 Timeline Figures for Sonlight H on self-adhesive heavy card stock. Just cut them out, color, and stick them in your Timeline Book.

Sonlight's Timeline Book paired with program-specific Timeline Figures make creating your own timeline easy and delightful.
Figures included in this Timeline Figures set are:
- Philip II (1527-1598) rules wealthy Spain
- William I of Orange (William the Silent) (1533-1584) fights Spain for Dutch independence (1568-1584)
- James VI of Scotland and I of England (1566-1625) pursues Divine Right of Kings
- Guy Fawkes (1570-1606) plans Gunpowder Plot to rid England of James I and Protestants
- James I commissions a new English version of the Bible (published 1611)
- Colonists establish Jamestown (1607)
- Samuel Champlain (1567-1635) establishes Quebec in New France
- Pilgrims arrive in Plymouth (1620)
- Shah Abbas I a Safavid (1571-1629) rules a strong and prosperous Persia (1588-1629)
- Murad IV (1612-1640), a strong and cruel ruler, regains Ottoman Empire's power (1623-1640)
- In the Thirty Years War (1618-1648), Protestants and Catholic nations fight for power
- Shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu (1604-1651) closes Japan and prohibits Christianity (1633-1639)
- Manchu conquer China; create large and wealthy nation (1644-1680)
- Indian Moghul, Nuruddin Jahangir (1569-1627), establishes trade with England (1605-1627)
- Shah Jahan (1592-1666) builds Taj Mahal to honor his wife (1630-1653)
- Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658) beheads Charles I, ending the Divine Right of Kings in England (1649)
- Sun King Louis XIV (1638-1715) is absolute ruler of France (1661-1715)
- Frederick I (1657-1713) forms new nation of Prussia; begins nationalism or loyalty to state
- King Philip's War; Indians fight colonists (1675-1676)
- William Penn (1644-1718) establishes Pennsylvania based on Quaker beliefs (1681)
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) uses observation as basis of scientific method
- Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) writes laws of gravity and Principia Mathematica (Principles of Mathematics)
- Peter the Great (1672-1725) pushes Russia into the modern era; founds St Petersburg
- Boston rebels stage the "Tea Party" in protest of English taxes (1773)
- American Constitution is signed (1787); Bill of Rights is added (1791)
- Captain James Cook (1728-1779) explores the South Seas and charts Australia (1769-1770)
- Catherine the Great (1729-1796) rules Russia; writes laws, builds schools and hospitals
- James Watt (1736-1819) invents steam engine; Industrial Revolution begins
- Napoleon (1769-1821) rules as first consul of France (1799-1804); Rules as Emperor Napoleon I (1804-1814)
- Admiral Nelson (1758-1805) wins the Battle of Trafalgar (October 21, 1805), prevents Napoleon from attacking England
- Lewis and Clark explore the Louisiana Territory (1803-1806); Meriwether Lewis (1774-1809), William Clark (1770-1838)
- Napoleon conquers Austria, Russia, Spain, and seeks Portugal (1798-1801)
- Napoleon attacks Russia; six hundred thousand men die due to weather (1812)
- Americans fight Britain in War of 1812 due to impressment and Indian aid (1812-1815)
- Napoleon is defeated at Waterloo; is sent to St. Helena (1815)
- Simón Bolívar (1783-1830) liberates South America from Spanish rule
- William Wilberforce (1759-1833) moves Parliament to outlaw slavery
- Andrew Jackson (1767-1845) signs Indian Removal Act (1830); results in the Trail of Tears (1838)
- Inequitable Treaty of Nanjing signed and gives Britain many rights in China (1842)
- California Gold Rush (1849)
- Queen Victoria (1819-1901) rules British Empire where "the sun never sets" (1837-1901)
- Powerful British East India Company rules through trade (1600-1858)
- Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry (1794-1858) opens Japan to U.S. (and world) trade
- Dr. David Livingstone (1813-1873) explores Africa; fights slave trade; serves as missionary
- Livingstone meets Stanley (Sir Henry Stanley 1841-1904): "Dr. Livingstone, I presume"
- Emancipation Proclamation (1863); Lincoln's assasination (1865); Reconstruction Act (1867-1868)
- Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec and Ontario become the Dominion of Canada, a "Confederation" (1867)
- France moves through monarchies, empires, and republics, but settles as a republic (1792-1870)
- Bismarck (1815–1898) influences Prussian ruler, Kaiser Wilhelm, to unify German states into one country (1871)
- Meiji Restoration "restores" power to Japanese Emperor; daimyos embraces western ideas (1866-1869)
- Russia attacks Ottoman Empire; wins land; Ottoman Empire is weakened (1877-1878)
- Suez Canal opens (1869)
- Australia joins British Commonwealth (1901)
- Scramble for Africa (1877-1914)
- Irish Potato Famine (1845-1850)
- English refuse Irish Home Rule; leads to years of violence in Ireland (1886-present)
- British claim Cape Town and prohibit slavery; Boers leave and move north (1814-1840)
- Britsh-Boer War (1899–1902)
- Ottoman Ruler Abdulhamid II (1842-1914) orders Turkish soldiers to put an end to the Armenian Revolt by killing Armenians wherever they are found. 100,000-300,000 are killed (1894-1897)
- China and Japan fight over Korea in the ongoing Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895)
- Japan occupies and rules Korea (1910-1945)
- U.S. battleship USS Maine explodes; U.S. declares war on Spain (1898)
- The Spanish-American War (1898)
- Teddy Roosevelt (1858-1919) leads Rough Riders up San Juan Hill in Cuba (1898)
- Filipino soldiers fight U.S. troops for freedom; they lose; Philippines becomes a U.S. Protectorate (1898-1946)
- At the Battle of Little Bighorn, General George Armstrong Custer (1839-1876) fights Crazy Horse and loses (1876)
- Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919) works hard, builds a steel company, and gives away millions
- The Boxer Rebellion in China protests western rule and Christianity (1900)
- Empress Dowager Tzu Hsi (1835-1908) supports the Boxers (1900)
- Russia, Japan, the U.S., Britain, and France send troops to China and successfully quell the Boxer Rebellion (1900)
- Russia builds railroad through Manchuria and China to Port Arthur (1897-1901)
- Japan attacks Russia; Japan wins; Russia gives Port Arthur to Japan (1904-1905)
- Shah Mozaffar al-Din (1853-1907) of Persia sells permission to seek oil to an Englishman (1901)
- A Serb kills heir to Austrian throne and triggers First World War (1914)
- Sun Yat-sen (1866-1925) establishes Nationalist Party and forms the Chinese Republic
- The sinkinking of the RMS Lusitania by German submarines plays a role in U.S. involvment in World War I (1915)
- The Great War or World War I (1914-1918)
- Russian Czar Nicholas (1868-1918) abdicates; a Provisional government remains in World War I (1917)
- Vladimir Lenin (1870-1924), a Bolshevik, overthrows the Russian government (1917)
- In England and America, women gain the right to vote (1918, 1920)
- Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1948) preaches nonviolent noncooperation for Indian Independence (1947)
- W. Wilson, G. Clemenceau, and David George write Treaty of Versailles (1919)
- Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) inspires the creation of the League of Nations to resolve world issues (1918)
- Joseph Stalin (1879-1953), the man of steel, rules Russia with an iron hand (1922-1953)
- Prime Minister Benito Mussolini, Il Duce (1883-1945), rules Italy as Dictator
- Emperor Hirohito (1901-1989) rules Japan (1926-1989)
- Mao Tse-tung (1893-1976) forms Chinese Communist Party (1921)
- Charles Lindbergh (1902-1974) flies solo over the Atlantic Ocean (1927)
- The Great Depression (1929-1930s)
- Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), German dictator, appointed Chancellor of Germany (1933)
- Civil war breaks out in Spain between Monarchists, Republicans, and independence fighters (1936-1939)
- German troops gain control of Czechoslovakia and then Poland (1939)
- Allies and Axis powers fight in World War II (1939-1945)
- Japan attacks U.S. at Pearl Harbor (1941)
- On Kristallnacht, German mobs destroy homes and shops owned by Jews (1938)
- The Holocaust (1935-1945)
- In the Battle of Britain, British aviators protect England from German bombers (July 10, 1940-October 31, 1940)
- On D-Day, Allied forces land on French beaches to push Germans back (June 6, 1944)
- The U.S. drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan (August 6, 1945)
- United Nations is formed after World War II with the purpose of world peace (1945)
- India gains freedom from Britain (August 15, 1947)
- Israel declares independence (May 14, 1948)
- Brother Andrew (1928–Present)
- Cultural Revolution (1966-1978)
- Communists control the People's Republic of China with Mao as chairman (October 1, 1949)
- Korean War (1950-1953)
- Fascist Juan Peron (1895-1974) rules Argentina with an iron fist (1946-1955)
- U.S. Soviet Cold War (1945-1991)
- Soviets launch first satellite, Sputnik I, into space; the Space Race begins (1957)
- Apollo 11 (1969) carries Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong to the moon and back
- American Cubans invade Cuba at the Bay of Pigs; Castro wins (1961)
- During the Cuban Missile Crisis, Soviet Union and U.S. come to the edge of war (1962)
- While campaigning for a second term, popular John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) is assassinated (November 22, 1963)
- Brown v. Board of Education: Supreme Court rules that racially segregated schools violate the Constitution (1954)
- Vietnam War (1954-1975)
- Israel wins the Six-Day War against Arab attackers; takes land from defeated foes (1967)
- The Oil Embargo - OPEC stops selling oil to countries that supported Israel (1973)
- Khomeini creates Iranian Islamic state (1979)
- Iraq invades Iran; Iran-Iraq War; oil wells are destroyed (1980-1988)
- Chernobyl power plant explodes; nuclear disaster worst in history (1986)
- Mikhail Gorbachev (1931-present) introduces "perestroika," "glasnost," and economic restructuring
- Chinese "Red Guards" purge all "intellectuals" and "imperialists" in the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1966-1976)
- Tiananmen Square massacre kills students protesting for freedom (1989)
- The Berlin Wall is torn down (1989)
- Demise of the Soviet Union (1991)
- First Persian Gulf War (1991)
- Decolonization of the various African countries (1952-1975)
- Nelson Mandela (1918-2013) is elected as the first black president of South Africa (1994)


100% MONEY-BACK GUARANTEE
Take up to one year to use your curriculum. If you don’t love it, return it! Complete details here.

