Dossier №226

2,007 AD

Apple unveils the first iPhone, combining a phone, music player, and web browser.

The multi-touch screen helped redefine what a personal computer could be.

Steve Jobs introduced the device in January, and it went on sale in June. The iPhone’s software-centered design accelerated the shift toward app ecosystems, touch interfaces, and always-connected mobile computing.

1,556 AD

Akbar becomes Mughal emperor while still a teenager.

This question uses 1556 AD as its sourced chronological anchor.

His long reign expanded the empire and developed durable systems of administration, taxation, and religious accommodation.

1,947 AD

British colonial rule ends and India becomes independent amid partition.

Freedom arrived together with displacement and communal violence.

The British Raj was divided into the new states of India and Pakistan. Independence fulfilled a long anticolonial struggle, while partition forced millions across new borders and caused vast loss of life.

264 BC

Rome and Carthage begin their first great war over influence in Sicily.

This question uses 264 BC as its sourced chronological anchor.

Two land powers improvised an enormous naval contest whose outcome made Rome a major western Mediterranean power.

879 BC

Kalhu, now known as Nimrud, begins serving as the imperial capital of Assyria.

This question uses 879 BC as its sourced chronological anchor.

Ashurnasirpal II rebuilt the city; its palaces, reliefs, gardens, and later inauguration banquet projected renewed imperial power.