World of Memoris

Also known as the World of Memories. A living archive of the moments that shaped history, culture and human achievement. 330 moments, each with its story, photographs, films, music and original footage.

• The Great Pyramid Rises: Giza, Egypt (2560 BC)
• The Stones That Remember the Sun: Stonehenge (2500 BC)
• The Code of Hammurabi: The First Written Law (1754 BC)
• The Trojan War: Legend and Ruin (1200 BC)
• The Birth of Democracy: Athens (508 BC)
• The Battle of Marathon: Greece Defies an Empire (490 BC)
• The Stand at Thermopylae: 300 Against an Empire (480 BC)
• The Death of Socrates: Athens (399 BC)
• The Library of Alexandria: The Ancient World’s Mind (283 BC)
• The Building of the Great Wall: China (220 BC)
• The Nazca Lines: Drawings for the Sky (200 BC)
• The Birth of the Silk Road: East Meets West (130 BC)
• The Crossing of the Rubicon: The Die Is Cast (49 BC)
• The Assassination of Julius Caesar: The Ides of March (44 BC)
• The Battle of Actium: The Birth of an Empire (31 BC)
• The Birth of Jesus: Bethlehem (1)
• The Crucifixion of Jesus: Golgotha (33)
• The Eruption That Buried Herculaneum: 79 AD (79)
• The Day Pompeii Froze in Time: Eruption of Vesuvius (79)
• The Colosseum Opens: Rome (80)
• The Fall of the Western Roman Empire: 476 AD (476)
• The Fall of the Roman Empire (476)
• Hagia Sophia: Istanbul (537)
• The Founding of Islam: The Hijra (622)
• The Battle of Tours: Europe Holds (732)
• The Viking Age Begins: Lindisfarne (793)
• The Crowning of Charlemagne: Christmas Day, 800 (800)
• The Battle of Hastings: 1066 (1066)
• The Norman Conquest: England Changes Forever (1066)
• The First Crusade: Jerusalem (1099)
• The Mongol Empire: The World on Horseback (1206)
• The Signing of the Magna Carta: Runnymede (1215)
• The King Signs Beneath the Law: Magna Carta (1215)
• Marco Polo Reaches China: The Silk Road (1275)
• The Pilgrimage of Mansa Musa: Mali to Mecca, 1324 (1324)
• The Black Death: The Great Mortality (1347)
• The Voynich Manuscript: A Book Nobody Can Read (1420)
• Joan of Arc at Orléans: 1429 (1429)
• The Last Day of Rome: Fall of Constantinople (1453)
• Gutenberg’s First Bible: Knowledge Set Free (1455)
• The Fall of Granada: The End of Al-Andalus (1492)
• Two Worlds Meet: Columbus Reaches the Americas (1492)
• Da Vinci Paints The Last Supper: Milan (1498)
• The Smile That Never Left: Leonardo Paints the Mona Lisa (1503)
• The Sistine Chapel Ceiling: Michelangelo Finishes (1512)
• Luther’s 95 Theses: The Reformation Begins (1517)
• The Fall of Tenochtitlan: 13 August 1521 (1521)
• Magellan Circles the Globe: The First Circumnavigation (1522)
• Copernicus Moves the Earth: On the Revolutions (1543)
• The Defeat of the Spanish Armada: 1588 (1588)
• Shakespeare’s Globe Opens: London (1599)
• The Gunpowder Plot: Remember, Remember (1605)
• The Mayflower Lands: Plymouth, 1620 (1620)
• Galileo Faces the Inquisition: 1633 (1633)
• The Execution of Charles I: A King Beheaded (1649)
• The Taj Mahal: A Monument to Love (1653)
• The Great Plague of London: 1665 (1665)
• London Burns: The Great Fire of 1666 (1666)
• Newton’s Principia: The Laws of the Universe (1687)
• The Salem Witch Trials: 1692 (1692)
• The Lisbon Earthquake: All Saints Day, 1755 (1755)
• The Boston Tea Party: 1773 (1773)
• The American Declaration of Independence: 1776 (1776)
• The People Take the Fortress: Storming of the Bastille (1789)
• The First Vaccination: Edward Jenner, 1796 (1796)
• The Discovery of the Rosetta Stone: A Lost Language Returns (1799)
• The Louisiana Purchase: A Nation Doubles (1803)
• The Coronation of Napoleon: Emperor of the French (1804)
• The Haitian Revolution: Independence, 1804 (1804)
• The Battle of Trafalgar: Nelson’s Victory (1805)
• The Battle of Austerlitz: Napoleons Masterpiece (1805)
• The Abolition of the Slave Trade: Britain, 1807 (1807)
• Waterloo: An Empire Ends: The Last Battle of Napoleon (1815)
• Frankenstein: Mary Shelley, 1818 (1818)
• Postojna Cave: The Underground World of Slovenia (1818)
• The First Railway: The Age of Steam (1825)
• The First Photograph: A Window at Le Gras (1826)
• The Voyage of the Beagle: Darwins Great Journey (1831)
• The California Gold Rush: Fortune in the Hills (1848)
• The First Transatlantic Telegraph: The World Shrinks (1858)
• Darwin Publishes On the Origin of Species: 1859 (1859)
• The Emancipation Proclamation: Freedom Declared (1863)
• The Founding of the Red Cross: A Promise of Mercy (1863)
• The Gettysburg Address: Four Score and Seven Years (1863)
• The Assassination of Lincoln: Fords Theatre (1865)
• The Meiji Restoration: Japan Opens a New Era (1868)
• The Transcontinental Railroad: A Nation Joined (1869)
• The Opening of the Suez Canal: Two Seas Joined (1869)
• Mendeleev Draws the Periodic Table: 1869 (1869)
• The Mary Celeste: A Ship Without Her Crew (1872)
• The Telephone: Bell’s First Words (1876)
• The Krakatoa Eruption: The Day the World Heard (1883)
• Pasteur and the Rabies Vaccine: 6 July 1885 (1885)
• The First Modern Car: Benz Patents the Automobile (1886)
• The Statue of Liberty: A Gift Arrives (1886)
• The Iron Lady of Paris: The Eiffel Tower Opens (1889)
• The Wounded Knee Massacre: 1890 (1890)
• The Ljubljana Earthquake: Easter Sunday, 1895 (1895)
• Röntgen Discovers X Rays: 8 November 1895 (1895)
• The Games Return: First Modern Olympics, Athens (1896)
• Marie Curie and the Discovery of Radium: 1898 (1898)
• Marconi’s First Radio Signal: Across the Atlantic (1901)
• The Antikythera Mechanism: A Computer from the Ancient World (1901)
• Taking Flight: The Wright Brothers' First Flight (1903)
• The San Francisco Earthquake: 1906 (1906)
• The Tunguska Event: Siberia, 1908 (1908)
• Blériot Crosses the Channel: 25 July 1909 (1909)
• The Discovery of Machu Picchu: The Lost City (1911)
• Amundsen Reaches the South Pole: 14 December 1911 (1911)
• The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire: New York, 1911 (1911)
• The Unsinkable Ship That Sank (1912)
• The Assassination of Franz Ferdinand: Sarajevo, 1914 (1914)
• The Panama Canal Opens: Oceans United (1914)
• The Christmas Truce: December 25, 1914 (1914)
• The Sinking of the Lusitania: 1915 (1915)
• The Battle of the Somme: 1916 (1916)
• Shackleton and the Endurance: A Rescue Against All Odds (1916)
• The Storming of the Winter Palace: The Russian Revolution (1917)
• The Battle of Kobarid: The Isonzo Front, 1917 (1917)
• The Hindenburg Line Falls: The End Approaches (1918)
• The Guns Fall Silent: Armistice Day (1918)
• The Invisible Enemy: The 1918 Influenza Pandemic (1918)
• The Treaty of Versailles: A Fragile Peace (1919)
• Women Win the Vote: Suffrage (1920)
• The Discovery of Insulin: 1921 (1921)
• The Discovery of King Tut: Wonderful Things (1922)
• Wonderful Things: The Tomb of Tutankhamun Opens (1922)
• The Great Kanto Earthquake: Tokyo and Yokohama, 1923 (1923)
• Battleship Potemkin: Eisenstein, 1925 (1925)
• The First Television: Baird’s Moving Image (1926)
• Lindbergh Crosses the Atlantic: Spirit of St. Louis (1927)
• The Mould That Saved Millions: Discovery of Penicillin (1928)
• The Wall Street Crash: Black Tuesday (1929)
• The Problem of Space Travel: Herman Potočnik Noordung, 1929 (1929)
• The Salt March: Gandhi Walks to the Sea (1930)
• The Empire State Building Rises: 1931 (1931)
• The Long March: The Birth of a Revolution (1934)
• The Hoover Dam: Taming the Colorado (1936)
• Jesse Owens in Berlin: Four Gold Medals, 1936 (1936)
• The First Hundred Metre Ski Flight: Planica, 1936 (1936)
• The Hindenburg Disaster: 1937 (1937)
• The Hindenburg Falls: Oh, the Humanity (1937)
• The Golden Gate Bridge Opens: 1937 (1937)
• The Last Flight of Amelia Earhart: The Pacific, 1937 (1937)
• Kristallnacht: The Night of Broken Glass (1938)
• The Battle of Britain: 1940 (1940)
• The Miracle of Dunkirk: Operation Dynamo (1940)
• A Date Which Will Live in Infamy: Pearl Harbor (1941)
• The Battle of Midway: The Tide Turns in the Pacific (1942)
• The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: 1943 (1943)
• Stalingrad: The Turning Point: The Battle That Broke an Army (1943)
• Operation Overlord: The Longest Day (1944)
• The Warsaw Uprising: 63 Days, 1944 (1944)
• The Liberation of Auschwitz: 1945 (1945)
• The United Nations Is Born: 1945 (1945)
• The Manhattan Project: Trinity (1945)
• The Nuremberg Trials: Justice for the Holocaust (1945)
• The Day the World Changed: Hiroshima (1945)
• Victory in Europe: VE Day (1945)
• The Bermuda Triangle: A Map of Missing Things (1945)
• The Wilhelm Gustloff: The Deadliest Night at Sea (1945)
• The Partition of India: 1947 (1947)
• The Roswell Mystery: 1947 (1947)
• The Discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls: 1947 (1947)
• The Everest of the Sea: The Kon-Tiki Voyage (1947)
• The Diary Speaks: Anne Frank's Diary Published (1947)
• The Invention of the Transistor: Bell Labs, 1947 (1947)
• Breaking the Sound Barrier: Mach 1, 1947 (1947)
• The Founding of the State of Israel: 1948 (1948)
• The Marshall Plan: Rebuilding Europe (1948)
• The Berlin Airlift: A City Fed from the Sky (1948)
• Bicycle Thieves: De Sica, 1948 (1948)
• The Founding of the Peoples Republic of China: 1949 (1949)
• Superga: The Loss of Il Grande Torino (1949)
• The Korean War: 1950 (1950)
• The Coronation of Elizabeth II: 1953 (1953)
• Because It Is There: First Ascent of Everest (1953)
• The Secret of Life: The DNA Double Helix (1953)
• The Four Minute Mile: Oxford, 1954 (1954)
• The Miracle of Bern: The 1954 World Cup Final (1954)
• The First Ascent of K2: The Savage Mountain, 1954 (1954)
• Rosa Parks Takes Her Seat: Montgomery, 1955 (1955)
• The Conquest of Polio: Salk’s Vaccine Works (1955)
• The Hungarian Uprising: 1956 (1956)
• The Beep Heard Round the World: Sputnik Opens the Space Age (1957)
• The Munich Air Disaster: 1958 (1958)
• Things Fall Apart: Chinua Achebe, 1958 (1958)
• The Dyatlov Pass Incident: The Northern Urals, 1959 (1959)
• A Timeless Classic: To Kill a Mockingbird Published (1960)
• Trieste Reaches the Challenger Deep: The Deepest Place on Earth (1960)
• The Year of Africa: Seventeen Nations, 1960 (1960)
• The Bay of Pigs: 1961 (1961)
• The Building of the Berlin Wall: 1961 (1961)
• Poyekhali!, Off We Go!: Gagarin, First Human in Space (1961)
• The Cuban Missile Crisis: Thirteen Days (1962)
• The March on Washington: 1963 (1963)
• The Day America Wept: JFK Assassination (1963)
• I Have a Dream: March on Washington (1963)
• The Skopje Earthquake: A City the World Rebuilt (1963)
• The First Woman in Space: Valentina Tereshkova, 1963 (1963)
• The Vajont Dam Disaster: A Mountain Falls into a Lake (1963)
• The Beatles Conquer America: 1964 (1964)
• Beatlemania Arrives: The Ed Sullivan Show (1964)
• The Vietnam War: A Generation Divided (1965)
• Judas! Dylan Goes Electric at Newport (1965)
• The First Spacewalk: Voskhod 2, 1965 (1965)
• The Aberfan Disaster: A Welsh Village, 1966 (1966)
• The Summer of Love: 1967 (1967)
• The Apollo 1 Fire: 1967 (1967)
• The Six-Day War: 1967 (1967)
• A New Heart: First Human Heart Transplant (1967)
• The Velvet Underground and Nico: 1967 (1967)
• The Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.: 1968 (1968)
• The Prague Spring: 1968 (1968)
• Earthrise: Christmas Eve, 1968 (1968)
• The Stonewall Uprising: 1969 (1969)
• The Concorde Takes Flight: Supersonic (1969)
• One Small Step for Man (1969)
• Three Days of Peace and Music (1969)
• The First Message on ARPANET: 29 October 1969 (1969)
• The Beatles Play the Rooftop: Savile Row, 1969 (1969)
• The Kent State Shootings: 1970 (1970)
• Houston, We've Had a Problem: Apollo 13 (1970)
• The Concert for Bangladesh: Madison Square Garden, 1971 (1971)
• The Soyuz 11 Crew: A Silent Return, 1971 (1971)
• The Munich Olympics Tragedy: 1972 (1972)
• The Watergate Scandal: 1972 (1972)
• The Andes Survivors: Seventy Two Days in the Cordillera (1972)
• Pong: The Game That Started an Industry (1972)
• The First Mobile Phone Call: New York, 1973 (1973)
• The Discovery of Lucy: Our Ancient Ancestor (1974)
• The Discovery of the Terracotta Army: Xian, 1974 (1974)
• Dungeons and Dragons: The First Roleplaying Game (1974)
• The Rumble in the Jungle: Kinshasa, 1974 (1974)
• The Fall of Saigon: The End of the Vietnam War (1975)
• The Perfect Ten: Montreal, 1976 (1976)
• The Tangshan Earthquake: China, 1976 (1976)
• The Voyager Golden Record: A Message to the Stars (1977)
• The Tenerife Airport Disaster: Los Rodeos, 1977 (1977)
• The First Test-Tube Baby: Louise Brown, 1978 (1978)
• The Jonestown Tragedy: 1978 (1978)
• Everest Without Oxygen: Messner and Habeler, 1978 (1978)
• The One Love Peace Concert: Kingston, 1978 (1978)
• The Iranian Revolution: 1979 (1979)
• The West Ridge of Everest: The Yugoslav Expedition of 1979 (1979)
• The Death of John Lennon: 1980 (1980)
• The Eruption of Mount St. Helens: 1980 (1980)
• The Disease That Died: Smallpox Eradicated (1980)
• The Gdansk Shipyard Agreement: Solidarity Is Born, 1980 (1980)
• The Assassination Attempt on the Pope: 1981 (1981)
• The Falklands War: 1982 (1982)
• Thriller: The Music Video That Changed Everything (1983)
• The Moonwalk at Motown 25: 25 March 1983 (1983)
• The Bhopal Disaster: 1984 (1984)
• The Discovery of the Titanic Wreck: 1985 (1985)
• The Day Rock Saved the World: Live Aid (1985)
• The Greatest 20 Minutes: Queen at Live Aid (1985)
• Japan Airlines Flight 123: Mount Osutaka, 1985 (1985)
• The Chernobyl Disaster (1986)
• Seventy-Three Seconds: The Challenger Disaster (1986)
• Graceland: Paul Simon, 1986 (1986)
• Maradona at the 1986 World Cup: Mexico City (1986)
• Lockerbie: A Town and a Winter Sky (1988)
• The Tiananmen Square Protests: 1989 (1989)
• The Fall of the Berlin Wall (1989)
• The World Wide Web is Born (1989)
• The Baltic Way: Two Million Hands, 1989 (1989)
• The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill: Prince William Sound, 1989 (1989)
• The Hillsborough Disaster: Sheffield, 1989 (1989)
• The Velvet Revolution: Prague, 1989 (1989)
• Nelson Mandela Walks Free: 1990 (1990)
• The Launch of the Hubble Telescope: 1990 (1990)
• Freedom at Last: Nelson Mandela's Release (1990)
• The Pale Blue Dot: A Portrait from Six Billion Kilometres (1990)
• The Three Tenors in Rome: 7 July 1990 (1990)
• The First Website: The Web Goes Live (1991)
• The Dissolution of the Soviet Union: An Empire Ends (1991)
• The Gulf War: Desert Storm (1991)
• Slovenia Declares Independence: June 25, 1991 (1991)
• The Ten Day War: Slovenia Defends Its Independence (1991)
• The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert: Wembley, 1992 (1992)
• The Siege of Sarajevo: 1425 Days (1992)
• The End of Apartheid: South Africa Votes (1994)
• The Rwandan Genocide: 1994 (1994)
• The Sinking of the Estonia: The Baltic Sea, 1994 (1994)
• Ayrton Senna at Imola: 1 May 1994 (1994)
• The Oklahoma City Bombing: 1995 (1995)
• Srebrenica: Never Again, Again: July 11, 1995 (1995)
• The Human Cloning of Dolly: Dolly the Sheep (1996)
• The Handover of Hong Kong: 1997 (1997)
• The Death of Princess Diana: 1997 (1997)
• Deep Blue Defeats Kasparov: New York, 1997 (1997)
• The International Space Station Begins: Zarya, 1998 (1998)
• The Night the Calendar Turned: Millennium Eve, 2000 (2000)
• The Loss of the Kursk: The Barents Sea, 2000 (2000)
• A Day That Changed Everything (2001)
• The Space Shuttle Columbia: 2003 (2003)
• The Iraq War: Shock and Awe (2003)
• The Book of Us: The Human Genome Sequenced (2003)
• The Indian Ocean Tsunami: Boxing Day 2004 (2004)
• The Great Enlargement of the European Union: 1 May 2004 (2004)
• Hurricane Katrina: 2005 (2005)
• The Day Everything Changed - iPhone Launch (2007)
• The Large Hadron Collider Starts: 2008 (2008)
• Usain Bolt in Beijing: The Fastest Man Alive (2008)
• The Chilean Miners Rescue: 2010 (2010)
• The Deepwater Horizon Spill: 2010 (2010)
• The Arab Spring: A Region Rises (2010)
• The Haiti Earthquake: Port-au-Prince, 2010 (2010)
• The Royal Wedding of William and Kate: 2011 (2011)
• The Death of Osama bin Laden: 2011 (2011)
• The Wave: Tōhoku Earthquake & Tsunami (2011)
• The Fukushima Daiichi Accident: Japan, 2011 (2011)
• The Curiosity Rover Lands on Mars: 2012 (2012)
• The Higgs Boson Discovery: The God Particle (2012)
• The Rosetta Comet Landing: 2014 (2014)
• The Disappearance of Flight MH370: The Indian Ocean, 2014 (2014)
• The Discovery of Gravitational Waves: Einstein Confirmed (2015)
• New Horizons Reaches Pluto: 14 July 2015 (2015)
• AlphaGo and Lee Sedol: Seoul, 2016 (2016)
• The Grand Finale of Cassini: Saturn, 2017 (2017)
• Slovenia Wins EuroBasket: Istanbul, 2017 (2017)
• The Grenfell Tower Fire: London, 2017 (2017)
• The First Image of a Black Hole: 2019 (2019)
• The Notre-Dame Fire: 2019 (2019)
• Parasite: Bong Joon Ho, 2019 (2019)
• The COVID-19 Pandemic (2020)
• The Perseverance Rover Lands: Mars, 2021 (2021)
• The James Webb Telescope: Looking Back to the Dawn (2022)
• The Turkey and Syria Earthquakes: February 2023 (2023)

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