Millennium
Exhibit
Santa Barbara
January 1 - March 31, 2001
"The Most Significant Events of the Past 1000 Years"
What would you select as the 25 most significant events of the past 1000 years? If 1000 people were asked this question, one would probably get 1000 different answers.
Many responses of the 25 most significant events of the past 1000 years would include an over abundance of events from the 20th century and very few from the first few centuries of this millennium. The Karpeles Manuscript Library exhibit will attempt to avoid this tendency.
The choices of the 25 most significant events of the past 1000 years, as represented in this exhibit, will clearly create some major disagreements from each viewer, but they were chosen with much discussion and thought. Many of the most important names and events failed to make the list where others, seemingly (at first) less important, were included.
Thus the greatest inventor of all time, Thomas Edison, is not here included - yet
Heinrich Hertz (?!) is! The entire Second World War is ignored … yet one battle, The Battle of Poitiers in the Hundred Years War is included! If the number of events were to be expanded to 50, perhaps both of these would not have been eliminated.You are invited to disagree, complain, and argue about the choices made. And we may even make a change if we can be convinced that a change is warranted.
The Karpeles Manuscript Library "Millennium Exhibit" will be on tour:
October 1, 1999-December 31, 1999 Duluth, Minnesota
January 1, 2000-March 31, 2000 Jacksonville, Florida
April 1, 2000-June 30, 2000 Tacoma, Washington
July 1, 2000-September 30, 2000 Charleston, South Carolina
October 1, 2000-December 31, 2000 Buffalo, New York
January 1, 2001-March 31, 2001 Santa Barbara, California
April 1, 2001-June 30, 2001 Newburgh, New York
Exhibits include:
The Crusades & Richard the Lion Hearted
The Magna Carta
Theology in the Mediaeval Period
Thomas Becket
Hundred Years War, John the Good & The Black Prince
Charles VII & Joan D'Arc
Gutenbergh invention & Korean Printing in 1434
Columbus Discovery of The New World
Cortez & The Conquest of a Continent
Copernicus' Solar System
Armada & "God's Choice" of the True Religion
Galileo Announcement of The Science of Mechanics
The Birth of Libraries
John Locke & Human Understanding
The Declaration of Independence & John Hancock
The Abolition of the French Monarchy & the Execution of Marie Antoinette
Napoleon & The Conquest of Europe
Karl Marx & The New Economic Systems
Darwin & The Origin of Species
The Emancipation Proclamation
Hertz, Marconi and Radio Communication
Einstein's Theory of Relativity
The Indian Allegience Treaty
Ghandi & Non Violence
The Moon Landing