List people/events that changed the course of humanity? Recent and AllTime.?

Question

For example:

People - Hitler, Bill Gates, Gandhi

Events - Colonization, WWII, 9/11, Plague

Answer 1

Jesus Christ of Nazareth --  his birth, followed by His teachings, and concluding with his crucifixion and resurrection -  influenced some of the people from ALL of the nations in the world.  Gave many people a purpose for their lives, and a sense of hope through their faith in Jesus' promise.

Answer 2

nelson mandela - he got rid of apartheid :)

Answer 3

20th Century - Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Mao Tse-Tung, Franklin D Roosevelt, Martin Luther King, Che Guevara, Malcolm X, Nelson Mandela, Ghandi, Abbie Hoffman/Black Panthers/SDS/Anti-War Protesters, Haile Selassie, Kwame Nkrumah, Bill Wilson, geez there are just too many to name

All Time - Abraham, Jesus, Mohammed, Buddha, Confuscious, Aristotle, Socrates, Plato, Hobbes, Locke, George Washington, Napoleon, Genghis Khan, Pope John Paul II, Nietzsche, Karl Marx, Constantine, too many to name

Events - French Revolution, American Revolution, First stone/iron/bronze/steel tool, first language, Egyptian pyramids, Aztec and Mayan pyramids, Egyptian Empire, Persian Empire, Roman Empire, Ottoman Empire, British Empire, American Empire, Mongolian Empire, Enlightenment Industrial Revolution, WWI and WWII, end of apartheid, end of colonialism, various assasinations, Crusades/Dark Ages, Classical Greco-Roman Period, Renaissance, and on and on