What are 5 historical events which contributed to the development of the humanities?

They can be any event, from any time period, as long as it is related to the emergence of the humanities. Please provide dates for the events and a short description/explanation of the event. Thank you in advance.

What are 5 historical events which contributed to the development of the humanities?
1. The invention of the incandescent light bulb. Until that time, available light sources consisted of candles, oil lanterns, and gas lamps. In 1809, an English chemist, Humphrey Davy used a high power battery to induce current between two charcoal strips. The current flowing through the two charcoal strips produced an intense incandescent light, creating the first arc lamp.





2. The American Civil War (1861–1865) was a civil war between the United States of America (the "Union") and the Southern slave states of the newly formed Confederate States of America under Jefferson Davis. The Union included all of the free states and the five slaveholding border states and was led by Abraham Lincoln and the Republican Party. Republicans opposed the expansion of slavery into territories owned by the United States, and their victory in the presidential election of 1860 resulted in seven Southern states declaring their secession from the Union even before Lincoln took office.The Union rejected secession, regarding it as rebellion.





3. The discovery of penicillin by Scottish scientist Sir Alexander Fleming in 1928 and the development of penicillin for use as a medicine.





4. German engineer Konrad Zuse invented the world's first functional program-controlled computer, the Z3, in 1941 (the program was stored on a punched tape).





5. All of the war(s) in the "middle east":





1948 Arab-Israeli War


1956 Suez War


1967 Six Day War


1970 War of Attrition


1973 Yom Kippur War


1982 Lebanon War


1987-1993 First Intifada


1982-2000 South Lebanon conflict


2000-2007 al-Aqsa Intifada


2006 Lebanon War


.... I'm not into politics, but we are all heavily effected by the U.S. militatry's involvement in the middle east.





I could have used events like... the first known stone tools made in Kenya 2.4 Ma, or other boring ancient stuff like that but I chose to use more pertainent and relatively recent events.
Reply:Discovering Fire stone age?





the Wheel pre historic man?





Sails and the use of Wind





Medicines





Steam
Reply:Invention of electricity


Invention of telecommunication


Invntion of penicillin


World War I and II


Industrial Revolution