Battles & Wars, Political Events, Economic and Social life, Cultural Events, Religions, Discoveries or Scientific Events… « *His Majesty, the Fact* » proclaimed the great historian Alfred Sauvy, throughout his brilliant career. These facts are military, diplomatic and political, economic and social, cultural, religious and scientific. They range from Greek Antiquity to the recent East-West confrontations in 2015. These facts are most often the fruit of an organized will, extended over time, renewed despite setbacks, by enlightened men and women, with the certainty that the desired goal will be achieved. Each of them, or each period, is precisely fixed in time and the responsible persons listed. In the period of organized confusion that we are living in, the object of this book is to recall that these facts make the glory of the West there, much more rarely its gray areas, have allowed it to dominate the world since the 15th century and that great prospects are always open to it...