It's worth pointing out here (before things degenerate into an argument about what events were significant etc

) that Events have Multiple Causes.
Some Causes may be large enough that they overshadow others - e.g. sudden death - and we like to take them as our PODs. Others tend to be of equal importance and it becomes obvious to us that there are many Causes that changing one won't significantly alter the outcome - would one less knifethrust have saved Caesar?
And each Cause is an Event itself.
History per se is made of the
combination and
interaction of Events.
But in
telling History we are telling a story (it's the same root word

) and we like to highlight the Events in that story that are meaningful
to us and to our audience.
The World is indeed a Stage, but each Performance differs
