|
3000000 |
Paleolithic Age begins |
|
1750000 |
First groups of people appear in Africa |
|
1500000 |
Homo habillis appears |
|
1200000 |
Homo erectus appears |
|
750000 |
Fire discovered |
|
100000 |
Homo sapiens appears |
|
70000 |
weapons used |
|
60000 |
Neanderthais appear |
|
40000 |
Cro-Magnons appear |
|
8000 |
Neolithic Age begins |
|
7500 |
Farming and village develop |
|
6500 |
Pottery used |
|
4500 |
Writing develops |
|
3100 |
Egypt Civillazation |
|
3000 |
Ur is a major Sumerian city |
|
2800 |
Minoan civillization begins |
|
2700 |
Old Kingdom begins in Egypt |
|
2500 |
Copper used for weapons and tools |
|
2500 |
Harappan (Indus) civillization develops in Indus River
valley |
|
2500 |
Sumerian Civillazation |
|
2300 |
Sargon I creates world's first empire |
|
2060 |
Midle kingdom begins in Egypt |
|
2020 |
Minoans control Mediterranean trade Myceneans move
into Balkan peninsula |
|
2000 |
Yellow River Civillization in China, Dynasty Shia |
|
2000 |
Persians settle in Iran |
|
1900 |
Abraham leads Hebrews into Canaan |
|
1830 |
Phoenicians settle in northern Canaan |
|
1800 |
Hebrews migrate to Egypt |
|
1800 |
Hammurabi establishes Babylonian Empire |
|
1600 |
New Kingdom begins in Egypt |
|
1523 |
Shang Dynasty begins in China |
|
1500 |
Indus Civillization Mohenjo-daro and Harappa begin to
decline |
|
1480 |
Thutmose III expands Egyptian control into Syria and
Palestine |
|
1400 |
Hities refine iron ore |
|
1400 |
Myceneans capture Crete |
|
1370 |
Amenhotep IV becomes pharaoh of Egypt |
|
1240 |
Moses leads hebrews out of Egypt |
|
1200 |
Phoenicians develop alphapet |
|
1200 |
New Kingdom ends in Egypt |
|
1200 |
Dorians invade Greece |
|
1200 |
Latins settle on Palatine hill |
|
1185 |
Trojan war |
|
1100 |
Shang Civillization in China |
|
1100 |
Assyrians Kingdom expands |
|
1028 |
Chou Dynasty begins in China |
|
1000 |
David rules Hebrews |
|
969 |
Phoenician trade increases |
|
922 |
Hebrews establish two kingdoms |
|
900 |
Hebrews and Phoenicai Kingdoms |
|
814 |
Phoenicians found carthage |
|
808 |
Etruscans settle in Etruria |
|
800 |
Assyrians conquer Mesopotamia |
|
760 |
First Olympic games |
|
753 |
Romulus found Rome |
|
750 |
Hoener writes lliad and Odyssey |
|
722 |
Assyrians conquer Isreal |
|
672 |
Assyrians conquer Egypt |
|
612 |
Ninevah falls to Chaldeans |
|
600 |
Medes defeat Persians |
|
600 |
Etruscans rule central Italian peninsula |
|
580 |
Philosophy and science begin |
|
550 |
Cyrus founds Persian Empire |
|
539 |
Persians capture babylon |
|
521 |
Darius's regin begins in Persia |
|
509 |
Romans set up republic |
|
500 |
Sparta becomes military power |
|
490 |
Persians wars begin |
|
462 |
Golden Age of Athens |
|
450 |
Twelve Bronze Tablets become basis of Roman law |
|
338 |
Philip II of Macedonia conquers Greece |
|
336 |
Alexander the Great begins rule ( Alexander Empire ) |
|
300 |
Civil war occurs in Persian Empire |
|
264 |
Punic wars begin |
|
146 |
End of 3rd Punic War |
|
134 |
Gracchi reforms introduced |
|
107 |
Gaius Marius becomes consul |
|
81 |
Lucius Sulla becomes dictator of Rome |
|
46 |
Julius Caesar appointed dictator of Rome |
|
44 |
Death of Cresar |
|
27 |
Octavian takes title of Augustus , Pax Romana begins |
|
0 |
|
|
14 |
To death of Augustus |
|
31 |
Jesus is crucified |
|
180 |
To death of Marcus Aurelius |
|
313 |
Edict of Milan |
|
324 |
Constantine I becomes emperor |
|
330 |
Constantine moves capital from Rome to Constantinople |
|
330 |
Constantinople becomes capital of roman Empire |
|
378 |
Battle of Adrianople |
|
392 |
Christianity becomes official religion of Roman Empire |
|
410 |
Alaric conquers Rome |
|
410 |
Goths attack Rome, Angles, Saxons and Jutes enter
Britian |
|
455 |
Vandals sack Rome |
|
476 |
Roman Empire ends in West |
|
481 |
Clovic becomes king of Franks |
|
500 |
First Slavic settlements develop in Eastern Russia. |
|
527 |
Justinian I becomes emperor of Byzantine Empire |
|
529 |
Benedictine Rule |
|
571 |
Mohammad born in Mecca |
|
597 |
Christian missionaries arrive in Britian |
|
600 |
Archbishop of rome takes title of pope |
|
622 |
Hegira |
|
632 |
Rule of Rightly Guided Caliphs begins |
|
633 |
Muslim conquests begin |
|
661 |
Mu'awiyah founds Umayyad dynasty |
|
711 |
Arab muslim conquer Spain |
|
726 |
Emperor Leo III forbids use of icons in worship |
|
732 |
Battle of Tours |
|
732 |
Charles Martel establishes fief system |
|
750 |
Abasids become new rulers of Arab Empire |
|
762 |
Baghdad becomes capital of Arab Empire |
|
800 |
Charlemagne crowned emperor |
|
800 |
Charlemagne crowned emperor |
|
811 |
Alfred becomes King of Wessex |
|
814 |
Charlemagne's empire to decline |
|
843 |
Treaty of Verdun |
|
843 |
Icons used again in worship |
|
862 |
Rurik becomes prince of Novgorod |
|
900 |
Vikings invade western Europe Feudalism begins |
|
911 |
Normans settle in Normandy |
|
936 |
Otto I becomes king of germany |
|
950 |
Monks Of Cluny support church reform. |
|
962 |
Otto I crowned Holy Roman Emperor |
|
987 |
Hugh Capet becomes king of France |
|
988 |
Vladimir I makes Eastern Orthodoxy official religion
of Russia |
|
1000 |
Vikings explore North Atlantic |
|
1000 |
First castle built |
|
1000 |
Towns and trade routes begin to develop in Europe |
|
1036 |
Yaroslav becomes grand prince of Kiev |
|
1042 |
Edward the Confessor becomes King of England |
|
1054 |
Latin and Greek Crurches separate |
|
1055 |
Seljuk Turks capture Baghdad |
|
1066 |
William the Conquror wins battle of Hastings |
|
1070 |
Seljuk Turks capture Palestine |
|
1070 |
Italian coastal towns control Mediterranean trade |
|
1077 |
Pope Gregory VII and King Henry IV meet at Canossa |
|
1086 |
Domesday Book |
|
1095 |
Pope Urban II calls first crusade. |
|
1099 |
Crusaders capture Jurusalem |
|
1100 |
First guilds formed Flanders becomes important trade
center |
|
1108 |
Louis VI becomes king of France |
|
1122 |
Concordat of Worms |
|
1123 |
Roman Inquisition established |
|
1152 |
Frederick I becomes Holy Roman Emperor |
|
1166 |
Henry II becomes King of England |
|
1174 |
Saladin comes to power in Egypt |
|
1180 |
Philip Augustus begins rule in France |
|
1188 |
Crusade of kings |
|
1189 |
Richard the Lionheart becomes king of England |
|
1199 |
John becomes King of England |
|
1200 |
New farming methods introduced on manors Friars preach
reform in cities. |
|
1204 |
Crusaders capture Constantinople |
|
1209 |
Frederick II becomes Holy Roman Emperor |
|
1212 |
Children's Crusade |
|
1215 |
Magna Charta |
|
1216 |
Henry III becomes King of England |
|
1226 |
Louis IX becomes King of France |
|
1240 |
Mongols conquer Russia |
|
1243 |
Mongols defeat Seljuk Turks |
|
1260 |
Mameluke Baybars takes over throne of Egypt |
|
1272 |
Edward I calls meeting of Parliament |
|
1275 |
Universities develop in Western Europe |
|
1280 |
Marco Polo travels throughout Asia |
|
1285 |
Philip IV begins rule in France |
|
1291 |
Christian rule ends in Palestine. |
|
1300 |
Scholars promote classical learning |
|
1320 |
Black Death sweeps through Europe |
|
1339 |
Hundred Years' War begins |
|
1347 |
Battle of Crecy |
|
1378 |
Prince Dmitry of Moscow defeats Mongols |
|
1417 |
Battle of Agincourt |
|
1418 |
Prince Henry of Portugal starts school for navigators |
|
1429 |
Joan of Arc fights for France |
|
1440 |
Johann Gutenberg develops printing press |
|
1450 |
Merchants challenge power of guilds |
|
1453 |
Hundred Years' War ends |
|
1453 |
Ottoman Turks capture Constantinople |
|
1469 |
Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella of castile marry |
|
1469 |
Lorenzo de Medici rules Florence |
|
1485 |
Henry VII establishes Tudor dynasty in England. |
|
1485 |
Henry IV starts Tudors dynasty in England |
|
1487 |
Dias sails around southern tip of Africa |
|
1492 |
Columbus lands at San Salvador Renaissance comes to
France |
|
1492 |
Moors surrender Granada to Spain |
|
1493 |
Maximilian I becomes Holy Roman Emperor |
|
1493 |
Treaty of Tordesillas |
|
1496 |
Savonarola overthrows Medicis |
|
1498 |
Da Gama arrivesin India |
|
1500 |
Cabral claims Brazil |
|
1509 |
Henry VIII becomes King of England |
|
1517 |
Martin Luther posts 95 theses |
|
1519 |
Magellan begins voyage to Pacific |
|
1521 |
Cortes conquers Aztecs |
|
1532 |
Pizarro conquers incas |
|
1532 |
Portuguese establish first permanent settlement in
Brazil |
|
1534 |
Henry VIII becomes head of England Chruch Cartier
claims eastern Canada. |
|
1535 |
Spain becomes leading colonial power in Americas |
|
1539 |
De Soto discovers Mississippi River |
|
1540 |
Society of Jesus founded |
|
1541 |
John Calvin brings reformation to Geneva |
|
1543 |
Council of Trent |
|
1543 |
Copernicus states that planets revolve around sun |
|
1555 |
Peace of Augsburg |
|
1558 |
Elizabeth I becomes queen of England |
|
1562 |
French religious wars begin |
|
1576 |
Frobisher searches for northwest passage |
|
1580 |
Portugal claimed by Philip II of Spain. |
|
1585 |
Sir Walter Raleigh founds English colony in North
Carolina |
|
1588 |
England defeats Spanish Armada |
|
1588 |
England defeats Spanish Armada |
|
1598 |
Edict of Nantes |
|
1603 |
James I becomes King of England |
|
1607 |
First permanent English settlement at Jamestown |
|
1608 |
Samuel de Champlain establishes French colony at
Quebec |
|
1609 |
Henry Hudson claims New York for the Netherlands |
|
1618 |
Thirty Years' war begins |
|
1619 |
Virginia House Burgesses meets |
|
1620 |
Pilgrims settle at Plymouth Mayflower |
|
1625 |
Charles I becomes king of England |
|
1628 |
Petition of Right |
|
1630 |
Puritans |
|
1634 |
Establish Massachusetts Bay Colony English Catholics
found Maryland |
|
1642 |
English civil war begins |
|
1642 |
Ivan III becomes prince of Moscow |
|
1648 |
Peace of Westphalia. |
|
1649 |
Oliver Cromwell rules England |
|
1660 |
Charles II becomes king of England |
|
1682 |
William Penn founds Pennsylvania la Salle claims
Mississippi. |
|
1688 |
Glorious Revolution |
|
1712 |
Thomas Newcomen develops first pratical steam engine. |
|
1733 |
John Kay invents flying shuttle |
|
1763 |
Treaty of Paris |
|
1764 |
Sugar Act |
|
1765 |
Stamp Act Congress |
|
1767 |
Townshed Acts |
|
1769 |
James Watt perfects steam engine |
|
1770 |
Boston Massacre |
|
1773 |
Boston Tea Party |
|
1774 |
First Continental Congress |
|
1775 |
Second Continental Congress |
|
1776 |
Declaration of independence |
|
1779 |
James Hargreves invents spinning jenny |
|
1789 |
U.S Constitution french Revolution begins |
|
1791 |
First French Republic |
|
1793 |
Reign of Terror, Eli Whitney invents cotton gin |
|
1798 |
First use of mass production |
|
1800 |
Thomas Jefferson becomes president of United States |
|
1803 |
Louisiana Purchase |
|
1804 |
Haiti becomes independent Napoleon becomes emperor of
France |
|
1812 |
Napoleon invades Russia |
|
1814 |
Congress of Vienna |
|
1815 |
Napoleon defeated at Waterloo Louis XVIII becomes king
of France |
|
1816 |
Argentina becomes independent |
|
1818 |
Chile becomes independent |
|
1822 |
Mexico becomes independent |
|
1822 |
Brazil becomes independent |
|
1823 |
Monroe Doctrine Uruguay becomes independent |
|
1829 |
George Stephenson builds locomotive |
|
1830 |
July Revolution in France Greece becomes independent
French occupy Algeria |
|
1831 |
Belgium declares independence |
|
1831 |
Michael Farraday discovers properties of magnet |
|
1839 |
Opium War |
|
1840 |
American settlers head for Oregon David Livingstone
goes to Africa. |
|
1841 |
Pedro I rules Brazil |
|
1845 |
United States annexes Texas California becomes
independent. |
|
1846 |
War between Mexico and the United States begins |
|
1847 |
Republic of Liberia founded |
|
1848 |
Second French Republic |
|
1852 |
Napoleon III rules France |
|
1853 |
Perry goes to Japan Gadsden Purchase |
|
1854 |
Crimean War begins |
|
1856 |
Henry Bessemer makes steel from iron |
|
1858 |
England takes full control of India |
|
1860 |
Lincoln elected president of United States |
|
1861 |
American Civil War begins. |
|
1861 |
Victor Emmanuel II becomes king of Italy |
|
1862 |
Bismarck becomes prime minister of Prussia |
|
1867 |
English working-class males gain vote |
|
1867 |
Austria-Hungary establishes dual monarchy |
|
1867 |
Benito Juarez becomes president of Mexico |
|
1869 |
Suez Canal Opens |
|
1870 |
Italy Unites |
|
1871 |
Germany unifies |
|
1874 |
England takes control of Suez Canal |
|
1874 |
Henry Stanley explores Congo |
|
1877 |
Queen Victoria becomes empress of India |
|
1878 |
Henry Stanley serves Leopoid II |
|
1882 |
Britain occupies Egypt |
|
1884 |
Berlin Confenrce |
|
1885 |
Portuguese East Africa established |
|
1888 |
William II becomes kaiser of Germany |
|
1889 |
Brazil becomes Republic |
|
1894 |
Sino Japanese war begins |
|
1895 |
British establish colony in East Africa |
|
1895 |
Rhodesia becomes British colony |
|
1895 |
French set up colony in West Africa |
|
1896 |
Ethiopia defeats Italy |
|
1898 |
Open Door Policy |
|
1898 |
Spanish American War |
|
1899 |
Boer War begins |
|
1900 |
Boxer Rebellion breaks out in China |
|
1904 |
Russo-Japanese War begins |
|
1908 |
Belgium establishes control over Congo |
|
1910 |
French Equatorial Africa set up |
|
1910 |
Union of South Africa formed |
|
1912 |
United States marines land in Nicaragu |
|
1914 |
Panama Canal opens |
|
1903 |
First successul airplane flight made by Wright
Brothers |
|
1905 |
Theory of relatively advanced by Albert Einstein |
|
1905 |
Revolution of 1905 |
|
1911 |
Chinese Revolution |
|
1912 |
Sun Yat-Sen becomes president of China |
|
1914 |
World War I begins |
|
1917 |
Russian Revolution |
|
1917 |
Bolsheviks under Lenin take power |
|
1917 |
United States declares war on Germany |
|
1919 |
Treaty of Versailles |
|
1922 |
Mussolini becomes dictator of Italy |
|
1922 |
Soviet Union formed |
|
1925 |
Chiang Kai-Shek takes control of Nationalists |
|
1926 |
Television successfully demonstrated by John Baird |
|
1926 |
First liquid-fuel rocket successfully launched by
Robert Goddard |
|
1928 |
First antibiotic drug, penicilin, discovered by Sir
Alexander Fleming |
|
1928 |
Joseph Stalin becomes leader of Soviet Union |
|
1929 |
Great Depression begins |
|
1931 |
Japan takes over Manchuria |
|
1933 |
Hitler becomes leader of Germany |
|
1934 |
Long March begins |
|
1939 |
World War II begins in Europe |
|
1940 |
Use of blood plasma for transfusion introduced by Dr.
Charles Drew |
|
1941 |
Japanese attack Pearl Harbour |
|
1942 |
First nuclear chain reaction produced by Enrico Fermi |
|
1944 |
First automatic digital computer completed at Harvard
University |
|
1945 |
United States drops atomic bomb on Japan |
|
1945 |
United Nations is formed |
|
1947 |
Marshall Plan |
|
1947 |
India becomes independent |
|
1947 |
Nehru becomes prime minister of India |
|
1948 |
Berlin bloskade begins |
|
1948 |
Israel becomes Jewish state |
|
1949 |
People's Republic of China is proclaimed under Mao
Tse-Tung |
|
1949 |
Chiang Kai-Shek sets up Republic of China on Taiwan |
|
1950 |
Korean War begins |
|
1955 |
Warsaw Pact |
|
1956 |
Suez Crisis |
|
1957 |
First artificial earth satelite, Sputnik I, launched
by Russia |
|
1957 |
Sputnik I |
|
1957 |
Vietnam War begins |
|
1958 |
Ninitqa Khrushchev becomes leader of Soviet Union |
|
1958 |
Great Leap Forward announced in China |
|
1960 |
"Year of Africa" |
|
1961 |
Berlin Wall built |
|
1962 |
Cuban missile crisis |
|
1964 |
Leonid Brezhnev and Aleksei Kosygin becomes Soviet
leaders |
|
1965 |
Great Cultural Revolution |
|
1967 |
Arab Israeli War |
|
1968 |
American and Solveits agree to limit weapons |
|
1969 |
Border clashes between China and Soviet Union |
|
1969 |
First lunar landing made by Neil Armstrong and Edwin
Aldrin, Jr. |
|
1971 |
People's Republic of China admitted to United Nations |
|
1972 |
Americans and Soviets agree to limit weapons |
|
1973 |
Arab-Israeli War |
|
1976 |
Chou En-Lai and Mao Tse-Tong die |
|
1977 |
First manned flight of new space transportation system
made by U.S. space shuttle Enterprice |
|
1977 |
Laser beam used to remove destroyed body tissue of
burn patients |
|
1978 |
China begins "four modernisms" |
|
1979 |
U.S surgeons use microsurgery to perform first
successful reattachment of major limb to body |
|
1979 |
United States recognizes People's Republic of China |