what the greatest event in history?

Answer 1

The birth of me.

Answer 2

I expect you are thinking of a large event involving millions of people or something of that sort.

I would nominate moments when one single mind, mine or someone else's, came up with great idea that went on affecting people for centuries.

Aristotle's defining of fiction in the 300s BC.
The Ionian who persuaded city rulers to allow every adult
to vote even earlier.
Abraham Lincoln's speech where he talked about a house
divided against itself cannot stand.
Ayn Rand's definition that in architecture, rather than
design, "Form follows function".
My definition of the genetic conceptual link through Postmodernism of all forms of totalitarian and fantasized
evasions of the real.
James Madison's definition of the 3 marketplaces on which
the sustaining of a democratically elected government
would depend.
Alcibiades being arrested and told the state run by
pseudo-religious tyrants demanded his death, replying,
"Then I must show them I am still alive".
Albert Einstein's equation, "E=mc squared".
Or Shakespeare's line "There is a tide in the affairs of men".
Of these genius-level insights millions of other human achievements, experiences and joy are made.

Answer 3

Montreal Canadiens winning the Stanley Cup

Answer 4

Man Walks On Moon, July 21, 1969.

Answer 5

The Black Death pandemic in the 14th century.

An estimated 75 million people dead worldwide. It killed between a third and two-thirds of Europe's population.

It changed Europe's social structure. It was a serious blow to the Roman Catholic Church, resulted in widespread persecution of minorities such as Jews, Muslims, foreigners, beggars and lepers,and it led to peasant uprisings in many parts of Europe.

"In Western Europe, the sudden scarcity of cheap labour provided an incentive for landlords to compete for peasants with wages and freedoms, an innovation that, some argue, represents the roots of capitalism, and the resulting social upheaval caused the Renaissance and even Reformation."

"Social mobility as result of the Black Death has been postulated as most likely cause of the Great Vowel Shift, which is the principal reason why the spelling system in English today no longer reflects its pronunciation."

"Traditionally a lightning rod for Christian anger and unease, Jews were charged with having provoked the Plague through their unbelief and sinfulness. Differences in cultural and lifestyle practices between Jews and Christians also led to persecution. Because Jews had a religious obligation to be clean, they did not use water from public wells. Thus Jews were suspected of causing the plague by deliberately poisoning wells. Typically, comparatively fewer Jews died from the Black Death, in part due to rabbinical laws that promoted habits that were generally cleaner than that of a typical medieval villager. Jews were also socially isolated, often living in Jewish ghettos. This isolation may have caused differences in mortality rates which raised suspicions of people who had no concept of bacterial transmission."

"Christian mobs attacked Jewish settlements across Europe; by 1351, sixty major and 150 smaller Jewish communities had been destroyed, and more than 350 separate massacres had occurred. This persecution reflected more than religious hatred. In many places, attacking Jews was a way to criticize the monarchs who protected them (Jews were under the protection of the king, and often called the "royal treasure"), and monarchic fiscal policies, which were often administered by Jews. An important legacy of the Black Death was to cause the eastward movement of what was left of north European Jewry to Poland and Russia, where it remained until the twentieth century."

"The practice of alchemy as medicine, previously considered the norm for most doctors, slowly began to wane as the citizenry began to realize that it seldom affected the progress of the epidemic and that some of the potions and "cures" used by many alchemists only served to worsen the condition of the sick. Liquor, originally made by alchemists, was commonly applied as a remedy for the Black Death, and, as a result, the consumption of liquor in Europe rose dramatically after the plague"

"In 2006 a scientific study by Dr Thomas van Hoof of Utrecht University suggests that the Black Death contributed to the Little Ice Age. Pollen and leaf data, collected from lake-bed sediments in the southeast Netherlands, supports the idea that millions of trees sprang up on abandoned farmland soaking up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and thus cooling the planet."

And strangest of all, there is still uncertainty of what exactly the "Black Death" was. Bubonic Plague? TB? Some other viral disease? We don't know.

Answer 6

July 20th, 1969

Answer 7

The invention of language.
Printing presses and computers are useless without language itself to use on them.

Answer 8

Invention of the moveable type printing press.

Answer 9

The invention of the computer

Answer 10

The emergence of HOMO SAPIENS (modern man) from a primate that was the common ancestor of man and monkeys.


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Answer 11

The day I was born