2nd millennium AD
(1st millennium AD - 2nd millennium AD - 3rd millennium AD - other millennia)
Events:
Significant persons:
- Thomas Aquinas, theologian
- Genghis Khan, Mongolian conqueror
- Christopher Columbus, explorer
- Martin Luther, religious reformer
- René Descartes, philosopher and mathematician
- Nicholas Copernicus, astronomer and mathematician
- Galileo Galilei, scientist
- Isaac Newton, scientist
- Charles Darwin, natural scientist
- Benjamin Franklin, American founding father and scientist
- Thomas Jefferson, American founding father and president
- Napoleon Bonaparte, French conqueror and emperor
- Abraham Lincoln, American president
- Otto von Bismarck, German chancellor
- Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher
- Karl Marx, political philosopher
- Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin, Soviet leaders
- Franklin D. Roosevelt, American president
- Adolf Hitler, German dictator
- Winston Churchill, British prime minister
- Albert Einstein, physicist
Inventions, Discoveries, Introductions:
Centuries and Decades