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• s  highly significant or important especially bringing about or marking the beginning of a new development or era
  an epoch-making discovery

• Next day the Russians released a picture of Lunik III and a fairly detailed explanation of how it took its epoch-making pictures.
• But despite all the foofaraw, the Congressmen's ride was less epoch-making than it seemed.
• Official sources say that earlier that same morning, Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu had himself embarked upon an epoch-making visit to Syria, touching down in Damascus .

• epochal

News & Articles

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• Putin drops Khodorkovsky bombshell in informal chat
  After a four-hour marathon press conference, journalists could have been forgiven for assuming that President Vladimir Putin had said all we wanted to say. But characteristic for a leader known for stunning reporters with out-of-the-blue statements, Putin had one epoch-making surprise up his sleeve. The press conference was already over, hundreds of reporters had begun to pack their belongings ...
  Dec. 19, 2013 - AFP via Yahoo! News

Quotes

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• chairman Prachanda in Reuters UK
  This is an epoch-making event that has become possible after a long struggle of the Nepali people,Maoist chief Prachanda said, referring to a decade-long insurgency that began in 1996 in which more than 13,000 people died.
• Han Duck-soo in France24
  The leaders "made epoch-making agreements for peace and prosperity on the Korean peninsula so we should see very good results at the meeting," Han told Kim. "We must make detailed and proper agreements in this round of talks and carry them...
• Girija Prasad Koirala in Reuters India
  We are passing through epoch-making times in the history of our country. Therefore, everyone must contribute to make free, fair and peaceful elections possible,Koirala said.