Subcategories - Cities, Urbanization

  1. The Arroyo Seco Freeway Opens in Los Angeles
  2. Battle of Baghdad
  3. Battle of Baltimore
  4. Battle of Berlin
  5. Battle of Camden
  6. Battle of Corinth
  7. Battle of Kars
  8. Battle of Kiev
  9. Battle of Megiddo, 1469 b.c.e.
  10. Battle of Monterrey
  11. Battle of Stalingrad
  12. Battle of Warsaw
  13. Battles of Moscow
  14. Berlin Blockade
  15. Bombing of Guernica
  16. Bookchin Publishes Crisis in Our Cities
  17. Brooklyn Bridge Opens
  18. Campaign in Savannah
  19. Canaanites Inhabit the Levant
  20. Çatalhüyük Flourishes as Center of Anatolian Culture
  21. Celtic Hill Forts Are Replaced by Oppida
  22. Charter of Lorris
  23. Chavín de Huántar Is Peru’s Urban Center
  24. Cities and Civic Institutions Are Invented in Mesopotamia
  25. The City Initiates the Study of Urban Ecology
  26. City-State of Yeha Flourishes in the Ethiopian Highlands
  27. Civil War Battles of Atlanta
  28. Commercial City of Jenne Is Founded on Niger River
  29. Constantinople Is Founded
  30. Construction of Monumental Architecture at Caral in Peru
  31. Construction of the Pyramids of the Sun and Moon at Teotihuacán
  32. Daniel Hudson Burnham
  33. Development Begins at Teotihuacán
  34. Early Dynastic Period Flourishes in Southern Mesopotamia
  35. East African Trading Port of Rhapta Flourishes
  36. The Empire State Building Opens as the World’s Tallest Building
  37. Ezana Expands Aksum, Later Converts to Christianity
  38. Fall of Babylon
  39. Fall of Rome
  40. Founding of Alexandria
  41. Frederick Law Olmsted
  42. George Rogers Clark
  43. Giant Stelae Are Raised at Aksum
  44. Gothic Armies Sack Rome
  45. Great Fire of London
  46. The Great Swamp Wildlife Refuge Is Dedicated
  47. Halafian Culture Flourishes in Northern Mesopotamia
  48. Hull House Opens
  49. I. M. Pei
  50. Indus Valley Civilization Begins in South Asia