“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.
H/T: Boredpanda