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TIMELINE
Events in history listed by WHEN they happened. Events are listed with the most recent historically at the TOP and the earliest at the BOTTOM.
(It's not complete yet!)
NOW! * The moment you read this.
2000 July : The first publication date of this site. See What's new index
2000 - decoding of the human genome
1979 - Voyager pictures of Jupiter
1969 - first manned lunar landing
1939-1945 - Second World War
1914-1918 - First World War
1816 The year without Summer (Tambora)
1800 Start of the industrial age
1666 - Great Fire of London
1630 - Pilgrim Fathers sail to America
1512-1594 - Gerhardus Mercator
1485 - Battle of Bosworth Field (August 22)
1480 - Leonardo DaVinci designs first parachute
1456 - plus and minus introduced
1445 - Johannes Gutenberg develops movable metal type
1424 - Publication of pi to 16 decimal places
1392 - invention of Korean movable metal type
1341 - Black Death in China
1230 - Explosives and rockets used by Chinese defenders against the Mongols
1228 - Florence becomes a democracy
1202 - Fibonacci publishes first book of modern numerals in Europe
1099 - first crusade captures Jerusalem
1066 - Battle of Hastings
850 - invention of gunpowder
756 - Papal states start
675 - invention of flame-thrower
650 - invention of Chinese block print
622 - Muhammad and his followers flee Mecca and start the Islamic calendar
600 - invention of windmills
525 - Mathematician Dionysus Exiguus invents Christian date system
476 - fall of the last Roman Emperor
415 - Christian mob kills Hypatia of Alexandria and burns down the library
321 - 7 day week introduced
312 - Emperor Constantine converted to Christianity
121 - Hadrians Wall
114-116 - Roman Empire reaches its height
105 - invention of paper
100 - invention of the wheelbarrow
79 - Vesuvius erupts destroying Pompeii and Herculaneum
37 - Emperor Nero born
10 - Greek Geographer Strabo makes reasonably accurate map of the Roman world
6 BC - Jesus born
211 BC - Hannibal fails to capture Rome using elephants
325 BC - The number ZERO invented
336 BC - Alexander the Great becomes king
343 BC - Rome fights first Samnite war
390 BC - Rome sacked during Celtic raid
461 BC - Pericles leads democratic revolution in Athens
480 BC - Carthaginians invade Sicily and are defeated by the Greek forces led by Gelon of Syracuse
621 BC - Draco introduces strict (hence "Draconian") law
814 BC - Carthage founded
2100 BC - Stonehenge built
2100 BC - invention of the 360o degree circle
2250-2225 BC - Building of the great pyramid of Cheops
2300 BC - Start of the Bronze Age in central Europe
2300 BC - invention of drains
2350 BC - earliest known law code
2700 BC - Reign of Gilgamesh, Sumerian king of Uruk
3500 BC - Start of the Ancient Egyptian civilisation
3500 BC - first pictographic writing
3800 BC - invention of the wheel
4500 BC - invention of accounting
7000 BC prehistory
7500 BC - invention of beer
8500 BC - end of the Stone Age
10,000 BC - first intensive hunter-gatherer culture
11,000 BC - earliest known fired vessels
15,000 BC - end of the previous Ice Age
30,000 BC - earliest known cave-paintings
35,000 BC - Neanderthals extinct
150,000 BC - modern homo sapiens
250,000 BC - archaic homo sapiens
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2 million years ago - humans evolved
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65 million years ago - dinosaurs extinct
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220 million years ago - mass-extinction wiped out 90% of species
400 million years ago - life on land
development of eyes and jointed legs in animals
560 million years ago - beginning of the Cambrian period
600 million years ago - multiple-celled plants and animals
1200 million years ago - single-celled plants & animals
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3800 million years ago - single cell life
Life evolved
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4600 million years ago - the Earth formed
5000 million years ago - the Sun formed
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* 12,000-15,000 million years ago - The Big Bang
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