SortStack #1206 — 2029-09-27
By year · Order from earliest to most recent.
- Temujin unites the Mongol tribes and takes the name Genghis Khan 1206
His empire became the largest contiguous land empire in history, and genetic studies suggest millions of men today descend from his male line.
- King John seals the Magna Carta at Runnymede 1215
John never intended to honor it — the Pope annulled the charter within ten weeks — yet it became a foundation stone of constitutional law anyway.
- Abraham Lincoln is shot at Ford's Theatre 1865
General Grant declined an invitation to join Lincoln in the box that night. Booth, a famous actor, knew the play well enough to time his shot to a big laugh line.
- Reactor four explodes at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant 1986
The Soviet Union stayed silent until radiation set off alarms at a Swedish plant over 1,000 km away — workers' shoes triggered the detectors.
- Lehman Brothers collapses, deepening the global financial crisis 2008
With over $600 billion in assets, it remains the largest bankruptcy filing in American history.
- Queen Elizabeth II dies after seventy years on the throne 2022
She appointed her fifteenth prime minister, Liz Truss, just two days before her death — having started with Winston Churchill.