The greatest event in history was the coming of the Son of God, Jesus Christ. He is the reason we divide time by his birth into BCE and CE, originally BC and AD. The second greatest was the Industrial Revolution because through it humans escaped millennia of mass starvation from famines. The Nobel committee summarized what it accomplished:
Over the last two centuries, for the first time in history, the world has seen sustained economic growth. This has lifted vast numbers of people out of poverty and laid the foundation of our prosperity. This year’s laureates in economic sciences, Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt, explain how innovation provides the impetus for further progress.
