Wikipedia:GLAM/NHMandSM/NHM Galleries/Giant Sequoia

← Back  Risafura (Sequoiadendron giganteum) 2weeks.jpg| 557 Our sequoia is a seedling File:Allah-eser-green.png| 600 Start of Islam File:Columba at Bridei's fort.jpg| St Columba founds mission on Iona File:Kamakura-buddha-2.jpg| 650 Buddhism spreads in Japan File:StJohnsAshfield_StainedGlass_GoodShepherd_Portrait.jpg| 700 First English missionaries go to the Continent File:Coat of arms of the Vatican City.svg| 750 Papal states established in Italy File:Charlemagne denier Mayence 812 814.jpg| 750 Charlemagne crowned Emperor in Rome File:Wikinger.jpg| Viking raids in Europe File:Bamboo book - binding - UCR.jpg| 800 Earliest printed book in China File:Uxmal, Nunnery Quadrangle.jpg| 900 Mayan civilization declines; Ghana Empire flourishes in Africa File:Scandinavia M2002074 lrg.jpg| 950 Christianity spreads in Scandinavia and Eastern Europe File:Viking at MN Capitol.jpg| 1000 Leif Ericsson reaches North America File:UnopenedMalePollenConesGiantSequoia.jpg| 1050 Our sequoia is 500 years old File:Bayeuxtapestrydeathofharold.jpg| Norman Conquest in England File:ChristianStatesInTheLevant.jpg| 1100 - 1150 Crusades from England to the Middle East File:Joao sem terra assina carta Magna.jpg| 1200 Magna Carta granted File:Marco Polo portrait.jpg| 1250 Marco Polo born File:YuanEmperorAlbumKhubilaiPortrait.jpg| 1300 Mongol Dynasty grows in China under Kublai Khan File:Burying Plague Victims of Tournai.jpg| 1350 Black Death in England File:Joan of arc miniature graded.jpg| 1400 Chaucer and Joan of Arc die File:Christopher Columbus.PNG| 1450 Columbus sails to West Indies and America File:Design for a Flying Machine.jpg| 1500 Leonardo da Vinci designs flying machine File:Mariposa Grove Squoias.JPG| 1550 Our sequoia is 1000 years old File:Justus Sustermans - Portrait of Galileo Galilei, 1636.jpg| William Shakespeare and Galileo born File:Landing of the Pilgrims by Cornè - circa 1805.jpg| 1600 Pilgrim Fathers settle in New England File:GodfreyKneller-IsaacNewton-1689.jpg| 1650 Sir Isaac Newton discovers laws of gravity File:Bach face.jpg| Johann Sebastian Bach born File:Captainjamescookportrait.jpg| 1750 Captain Cook lands at Botany Bay, Australia File:Writing the Declaration of Independence 1776 cph.3g09904.jpg| Declaration of American Independence File:Volta A.jpg| 1800 Alessandro Volta intents the chemical battery File:Darwin tree.png| 1850 Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species File:MKGandhi.jpg| Mahatma Ghandhi born File:1886 bas obispo.jpg| 1892 Panama Canal started File:Sequoia sempervirens.001 - Natural History Museum of London.JPG| Our sequoia is felled at the age of 1335 years