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The Great Pyramid (about 2560 BC) came before the first recorded Olympics (776 BC).
Magna Carta (1215) came before the Gutenberg Bible (about 1455).
Caesar was assassinated in 44 BC; the Colosseum opened in AD 80.
Columbus reached the Americas in 1492; Shakespeare was born in 1564.
1776 came before 1789.
The telephone was patented in 1876; the Wright brothers flew in 1903.
The Titanic sank in April 1912; World War I began in 1914.
The Beatles' first album came out in 1963; the Moon landing was in 1969.
The Berlin Wall fell in 1989; the first iPhone came out in 2007.
Teaching at Oxford existed by 1096; Tenochtitlan was founded around 1325.

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