The Millennium Medal Collection. [1999].

Includes medals commemmorating:

A.D. The birth of Christ

476 A.D. The fall of the Roman Empire

1440-1550. The Renaissance - Michelangelo, Botticelli, Da Vinci

1492-1590 Exploration - Columbus, Magellan, Vasco da Gama

1712-1908 Transport - Wright, Stephenson, Ford

1760-1860 Industrial Revolution - steam changes the world

1770-1827 Beethoven

1775-1783 American Revolution - Birth of the USA

1789 French Revolution - Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite

1833-1926 Technology - Bell, Edison, Marconi, Baird, Babbage

1889-1977 Charlie Chaplin, the Little Tramp

1898-1903 Marie Curie investigated radioactivity

1910-1997 Mother Teresa of Calcutta

1914-1918 World War I - War in the trenches

1939-1945 World War II - Allies defeat Axis powers

1953 Sir Edmund Hillary conquered Mt Everest

1953 DNA, the secret of life and heredity

1969 First man on the moon, Neil Armstrong

1974 Muhammad Ali "Float like a butterfly"

1989-1993 Development of the Internet and the World Wide Web

1992 Nelson Mandela abolished apartheid

Quantity: 21 curio(s).

Physical Description: 21 metal medals/coins, diameter 27 mm.