For what it covers it does a great job

The Ancient World 250 BC–500 AD
218 BC: Hannibal Crosses the Alps
44 BC: The Assassination of Julius Caesar
476 AD: The Fall of the Roman Empire
The Middle Ages and Renaissance 1000—1500
1066: The Battle of Hastings
1095–1291: The Crusades
1215: Magna Carta
1347–1349: The Black Death
1415: The Battle of Agincourt
1431: The Execution of Joan of Arc
1478–1530: The Spanish Inquisition
1492: Columbus Arrives in the Americas
The Early Modern Era 1500 –1900
1588: The Defeat of the Spanish Armada
1666: The Great Fire of London
1759: The Battle of Quebec
1776: Washington Crosses the Delaware
1789: The Storming of the Bastille
1815: The Battle of Waterloo
1845–1849: The Irish Potato Famine
1854: The Charge of the Light Brigade
1863: The Gettysburg Address
1876: Custer’s Last Stand
A World at War 1900—1950
1915: The Battle of Gallipoli
1916: The Battle of the Somme
1917: The October Revolution
1929: The Wall Street Crash
1940: The Battle of Britain
1941: The Attack on Pearl Harbor
1944: D-Day
1944: The Battle of the Bulge
1945: The Bombing of Hiroshima
The Cold War and Beyond 1950–2001
1962: The Cuban Missile Crisis
1963: The Assassination of President Kennedy
1967: The Six-day War
1968: The Tet Offensive
1969: The First Moon Landing
1989: The Fall of the Berlin Wall
2001: 9/11

It leaves out the Greeks, and all of Asia before World War II, it covers mostly the events I learned in a western middle school but adds enough details that I've either forgotten being taught or actual new material, like how current historians dispute the motivations of the perpetrators of the Assassination of Julius Caesar

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Most of the comments are "great book" about "important events". Well, if the only important events in the world were Euro-American. Pretty one-sided and while a good read, calling it "History's Greatest Hits" shows the western prejudice. Of the 37 events described, one concerned Russia, two Japan (both in the context of WWII), and one Vietnam (again, only because of the US involvement). There are so many events of significance to cull, yet the author called these 37 the "greatest" - sad commentary. ( )