30 Witty Posters That’ll Give You A History Lesson In The Most Creative Way

“A Picture is worth a thousand words”

This apt quotation is beautifully depicted in these posters by Levan Patsinashvili in which he has described major historical events of the world by adding a twist to the way their year is written. Take a look at these amusing creations.

1. 776 BC- First Olympiad in Greece

 

2. 44 BC- Assassination of Gaius Julius Caesar

 

3. 1616- William Shakespeare and Miguel de Cervantes died

 

4. 1666- Great fire of London

 

5. 1773- Boston Tea Party

 

6. 1863- Slavery abolished in USA

 

7. 1879- Invention of lightbulb

 

8. 1883- Coco Chanel was born

 

9. 1883- The Adventures of Pinocchio was published

 

10. 1889- Adolf Hitler was born

 

11. 1912- Sinking of the Titanic

 

12. 1920- Penicillin was discovered

 

13. 1940- McDonald’s was founded

 

14. 1945- Hiroshima and Nagasaki were bombed

 

15. 1947- AK-47 was manufactured

 

16. 1953- Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay were first to reach the summit of Mount Everest

 

17. 1953- First Playboy magazine was published

 

18. 1960- The Beatles was formed

 

19. 1963- John F Kennedy was assassinated

 

20. 1969- US became the first country to land on moon

 

21. 1972- Zinedine Zidane was born

 

22. 1974- Barcode was first used on a Wrigley chewing gum

 

23. 1975- Microsoft was founded

 

24. 1975- Tiger Woods was born

 

25. 1977- First Star Wars movie was released

 

26. 1980- Pac-man was released

 

27. 1984- Tetris was released

 

28. 1996- First successful cloning of a mammal

 

29. 1997- Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone was published

 

30. 2016- Donald Trump becomes the 45th President of the United States

I wish they taught History like this when I was in school.

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