All events, as a list
The same timeline, written as a list: 12 eras and 300 events in time order. Each title leads to its card.
Era 1 · The Earth before us from 13.8 billion to 7 million years ago
- about 13.8 billion years agoThe Big Bangscience and technology
- about 13.5 billion years agoThe first starsscience and technology
- about 13 billion years agoBirth of the Milky Wayscience and technology
- about 4.6 billion years agoFormation of the Solar Systemscience and technology
- about 4.5 billion years agoBirth of the Earthscience and technology
- about 4.5 billion years agoFormation of the Moonscience and technology
- about 4.4 billion years agoThe oldest pieces of Earthscience and technology
- about 4.3 billion years agoThe first oceansscience and technology
- about 3.5 billion years agoThe first life on Earthscience and technology
- about 2.7 billion years agoCyanobacteria and photosynthesisscience and technology
- about 2.4 billion years agoThe Great Oxidation Eventscience and technology
- about 1.8 billion years agoThe first complex cellsscience and technology
- about 1 billion years agoThe first many-celled living thingsscience and technology
- about 555 million years agoThe Ediacaran creaturesscience and technology
- about 539 million years agoThe Cambrian explosionscience and technology
- about 475 million years agoThe first plants on landscience and technology
- about 440 million years agoThe first fish with jawsscience and technology
- about 400 million years agoThe first insectsscience and technology
- about 375 million years agoThe first amphibiansscience and technology
- about 320 million years agoCarboniferous forestsdaily life
- about 252 million years agoThe great Permian extinctionscience and technology
- about 230 million years agoThe first dinosaursscience and technology
- about 225 million years agoThe first mammalsscience and technology
- about 150 million years agoThe first birdsscience and technology
- about 66 million years agoExtinction of the non-avian dinosaursscience and technology
Era 2 · Prehistory from 7 million years ago to about 3500 BC
- about 7 million years agoThe first homininspeople
- about 3.2 million years agoLucy the australopithecinepeople
- about 2.6 million years agoThe first stone toolsscience and technology
- about 2.4 million years agoHomo habilispeople
- about 1.9 million years agoHomo erectuspeople
- about 790,000 years agoTaming firescience and technology
- about 600,000 years agoHomo heidelbergensispeople
- about 400,000 years agoNeanderthalspeople
- about 300,000 years agoThe arrival of Homo sapienspeople
- about 100,000 years agoThe first deliberate burialsdaily life
- about 60,000 years agoHomo sapiens leaves Africapeople
- about 48,000 years agoThe needle with an eyescience and technology
- about 48,000 years agoThe first people in Australiapeople
- about 44,000 years agoThe cave art of Sulawesiart
- about 28,000 years agoThe Venus of Willendorfart
- about 19,000 years agoThe Lascaux caveart
- about 14,000 years agoThe first permanent villagesdaily life
- about 12,000 years agoThe Neolithic Revolutiondaily life
- about 11,000 years agoTaming the sheepdaily life
- about 10,300 years agoThe walls of Jerichodaily life
- about 9,000 years agoPottery spreadsscience and technology
- about 9,000 years agoÇatalhöyükdaily life
- about 7,000 years agoWorking with copperscience and technology
- about 5,500 years agoThe invention of the wheelscience and technology
- about 5,300 years agoThe Bronze Agescience and technology
Era 3 · River civilisations from about 3500 to 1200 BC
- about 4000 BCThe first Sumerian citiesdaily life
- about 3200 BCCuneiform writingscience and technology
- about 3200 BCEgyptian hieroglyphsscience and technology
- about 3100 BCThe unification of Egyptpolitics
- about 3000 BCUruk, the great citydaily life
- about 2800 BCThe Egyptian calendarscience and technology
- about 2650 BCThe Step Pyramid of Djoserart
- about 2600 BCThe Standard of Urart
- about 2600 BCEgyptian mummificationdaily life
- about 2560 BCThe Great Pyramid of Gizaart
- about 2500 BCThe cities of the Indus Valleydaily life
- about 2450 BCThe drains and baths of Mohenjo-daroscience and technology
- about 2334 BCSargon and the Akkadian Empirepolitics
- about 2300 BCTrade between the Indus and Mesopotamiadaily life
- about 2100 BCThe Epic of Gilgameshart
- about 2100 BCThe Ziggurat of Urart
- about 1800 BCBabylonian mathematicsscience and technology
- about 1754 BCThe Code of Hammurabipolitics
- about 1700 BCWar chariotsscience and technology
- about 1600–1046 BCThe Shang dynastypolitics
- about 1479–1458 BCHatshepsut, the woman pharaohpeople
- about 1353–1336 BCThe reign of Akhenatenpeople
- about 1279–1213 BCThe reign of Ramesses IIpeople
- about 1250 BCWriting on oracle bonesscience and technology
- about 1200 BCThe Bronze Age collapsepolitics
Era 4 · Sea civilisations from about 1200 to 800 BC
- about 2000 BCMinoan civilisation on Cretedaily life
- about 1900 BCThe palace of Knossosart
- about 1800 BCThe Proto-Sinaitic alphabetscience and technology
- about 1600 BCThe eruption of Therascience and technology
- about 1600 BCThe nuraghi of Sardiniaart
- about 1550 BCThe gold mask of Mycenaeart
- about 1450 BCLinear Bscience and technology
- about 1250 BCThe Lion Gate at Mycenaeart
- about 1200 BCThe Iron Age beginsscience and technology
- about 1200 BCThe Phoenicians spread outpolitics
- about 1100 BCPhoenician purpledaily life
- about 1050 BCThe Phoenician alphabetscience and technology
- about 1000 BCThe Kingdom of Israelpolitics
- about 1000 BCPhoenician seafaringscience and technology
- about 900 BCThe Villanovan culture in Italydaily life
- about 814 BCTraditional founding of Carthagepolitics
- about 800 BCThe Nora Stoneart
- about 800 BCAmphorae for oil and winedaily life
- about 750 BCHomer's poems are written downart
- about 750 BCGreek colonies in the Westpolitics
- about 700 BCThe Etruscans, lords of the Tyrrhenian Seadaily life
- about 600 BCPhoenician glass spreadsscience and technology
- about 600 BCCoins in the Mediterraneandaily life
- about 586 BCThe Babylonian Exilepeople
- about 500 BCSailing beyond Gibraltarscience and technology
Era 5 · Ancient Greece from 800 to 264 BC
- about 800 BCThe first Greek city-statespolitics
- about 776 BCThe ancient Olympic Gamesdaily life
- about 750 BCThe Greek alphabetscience and technology
- about 700 BCLife in Spartadaily life
- about 600 BCSappho, the poet of Lesbospeople
- about 594 BCThe reforms of Solonpolitics
- about 585 BCThales studies naturepeople
- about 530 BCPythagoras at Crotonpeople
- about 508 BCCleisthenes and democracypolitics
- 490 BCThe Battle of Marathonpolitics
- 480 BCThe Battle of Thermopylaepolitics
- 472 BCThe theatre of Aeschylusart
- 461–429 BCThe Age of Periclespeople
- 447–432 BCThe Parthenonart
- 431–404 BCThe Peloponnesian Warpolitics
- about 430 BCHerodotus writes the Historiespeople
- about 400 BCHippocrates and medicinescience and technology
- 399 BCSocrates is condemnedpeople
- about 387 BCPlato's Academypeople
- about 335 BCAristotle founds the Lyceumpeople
- 334–323 BCThe conquests of Alexanderpolitics
- about 300 BCEuclid writes the Elementsscience and technology
- about 295 BCThe Library of Alexandriaart
- about 250 BCArchimedes of Syracusescience and technology
- about 100 BCThe Antikythera mechanismscience and technology
Era 6 · Ancient Rome from 264 BC to AD 476 (with the founding in 753 BC)
- about 753 BCTraditional founding of Romepolitics
- about 509 BCBirth of the Roman Republicpolitics
- about 450 BCThe Laws of the Twelve Tablespolitics
- 312 BCThe Appian Wayscience and technology
- 264–241 BCThe First Punic Warpolitics
- 218 BCHannibal crosses the Alpspeople
- about 200 BCPlautus and comedyart
- about 150 BCRoman concretescience and technology
- 144–140 BCThe Aqua Marcia aqueductdaily life
- 73–71 BCSpartacus leads the revoltpeople
- 49 BCCaesar crosses the Rubiconpeople
- 46 BCThe Julian calendarscience and technology
- 44 BCThe murder of Julius Caesarpolitics
- 27 BCAugustus, the first emperorpolitics
- 27 BC – AD 180The Pax Romanadaily life
- 19 BCVirgil and the Aeneidart
- AD 79Pompeii buried by Vesuviusdaily life
- AD 80The Colosseum opensart
- AD 113Trajan's Columnart
- about AD 125The Pantheonart
- about AD 162Galen, a doctor in Romescience and technology
- AD 216The Baths of Caracalladaily life
- about AD 300The book with pages (the codex)science and technology
- AD 313The Edict of Milanpolitics
- AD 476Fall of the Western Roman Empirepolitics
Era 7 · Early Middle Ages from 476 to 1000
- about AD 480The Romano-Germanic kingdomspolitics
- AD 527Emperor Justinianpeople
- AD 529Justinian's Codepolitics
- about AD 529Benedictine monksdaily life
- AD 537Hagia Sophia in Constantinopleart
- AD 547The mosaics of San Vitale in Ravennaart
- AD 568The Lombards in Italypolitics
- AD 622Muhammad's Hijrapeople
- about AD 625Isidore writes the Etymologiesart
- AD 632–750The spread of Islampolitics
- about AD 751Paper reaches Samarkandscience and technology
- AD 768Charlemagne, King of the Frankspeople
- about AD 790The Carolingian Renaissanceart
- about AD 800The Book of Kellsart
- AD 800Charlemagne crowned emperorpolitics
- about AD 825Hindu-Arabic numerals head westscience and technology
- about AD 850Writing music down with neumesart
- AD 868The Diamond Sutra, oldest dated printed bookscience and technology
- AD 871Alfred the Greatpeople
- about AD 874The Vikings reach Icelandpeople
- about AD 900The feudal system spreadsdaily life
- about AD 950The Medical School of Salernoscience and technology
- about AD 985The Vikings in Greenlandpeople
- about 1000Leif Erikson in North Americapeople
- about 1000The heavy plough spreadsscience and technology
Era 8 · Late Middle Ages from 1000 to 1453
- about 1050The growth of medieval townsdaily life
- 1054The East–West Schismpolitics
- about 1070The Bayeux Tapestryart
- about 1088The University of Bolognaart
- 1096–1099The First Crusadepolitics
- about 1100The Italian communespolitics
- about 1100Romanesque cathedralsart
- about 1100Watermills and windmillsscience and technology
- 1144Gothic style at Saint-Denisart
- about 1150Hildegard of Bingenpeople
- about 1150Paper arrives in Europescience and technology
- 1155Frederick Barbarossapeople
- about 1182Francis of Assisipeople
- 1202Fibonacci and the Liber abaciscience and technology
- 1215Magna Cartapolitics
- 1252The gold florindaily life
- 1271Marco Polo sets off for Asiapeople
- about 1286Spectaclesscience and technology
- about 1300The Hanseatic League and northern tradedaily life
- about 1305Giotto paints in Paduaart
- about 1307Dante begins the Divine Comedyart
- 1337–1453The Hundred Years' Warpolitics
- 1347–1352The Black Deathdaily life
- about 1350Public mechanical clocksscience and technology
- 1429Joan of Arcpeople
Era 9 · Early modern age from 1453 to 1700
- about 1420Renaissance perspectiveart
- 1436Brunelleschi completes the domeart
- 1453The fall of Constantinoplepolitics
- about 1455Gutenberg prints the Biblescience and technology
- 1469Lorenzo de' Medici in Florencepeople
- about 1485Leonardo designs machinespeople
- 1492Columbus's voyagepeople
- 1498Vasco da Gama reaches Indiapeople
- 1504Michelangelo carves Davidart
- 1508Raphael paints the Vatican Roomsart
- 1517Luther and the Reformationpolitics
- 1521The conquest of Tenochtitlánpolitics
- 1522The first voyage round the worldscience and technology
- 1543Copernicus puts the Sun at the centrescience and technology
- 1545–1563The Council of Trentpolitics
- about 1550Tomatoes, maize and potatoes reach Europedaily life
- 1582The Gregorian calendarscience and technology
- about 1590Shakespeare's theatreart
- 1605Regular newspapersdaily life
- 1609Galileo turns his telescope to the skyscience and technology
- 1609Kepler describes the orbitsscience and technology
- about 1612Artemisia Gentileschipeople
- 1628Harvey studies the circulation of the bloodscience and technology
- 1660Scientific academiesscience and technology
- 1687Newton publishes the Principiascience and technology
Era 10 · Age of revolutions from 1700 to 1900
- 1712Newcomen's steam enginescience and technology
- about 1720The European Enlightenmentpeople
- 1751Diderot's Encyclopédieart
- 1769Watt's steam enginescience and technology
- 1776–1783The American Revolutionpolitics
- 1783The first hot-air balloon flightscience and technology
- 1789–1799The French Revolutionpolitics
- 1795The metric systemdaily life
- 1796Jenner's vaccinescience and technology
- 1800Volta's batteryscience and technology
- 1804Napoleon becomes emperorpolitics
- 1815The Congress of Viennapolitics
- 1825The first public steam railwayscience and technology
- about 1826Niépce's photographscience and technology
- 1827Manzoni's The Betrothedart
- 1844The electric telegraphscience and technology
- 1848The revolutions of 1848politics
- 1859Darwin publishes On the Origin of Speciesscience and technology
- 1860The Expedition of the Thousandpeople
- 1861The unification of Italypolitics
- about 1864The labour movementdaily life
- 1877Compulsory primary school (Coppino law)daily life
- 1879A practical electric light bulbscience and technology
- 1886The first modern motor carscience and technology
- 1895The Lumière brothers' cinemaart
Era 11 · Early 20th century from 1900 to 1950
- 1903The first powered flightscience and technology
- 1905Special relativityscience and technology
- 1907Maria Montessori's Children's Housedaily life
- about 1910Abstract artart
- 1911Marie Curie and her two Nobel Prizespeople
- 1914–1918The First World Warpolitics
- 1917The Russian Revolutionpolitics
- about 1920Radio for everyonedaily life
- about 1920Jazz spreadsart
- 1922Insulin against diabetesscience and technology
- 1922Totalitarian regimes in Europepolitics
- 1927Talking picturesart
- 1928The discovery of penicillinscience and technology
- 1929The Great Depressiondaily life
- 1937Picasso's Guernicaart
- 1939–1945The Second World Warpolitics
- about 1941–1945The Shoahpolitics
- 1942Anne Frank writes her diarypeople
- 1942Fermi and the first atomic pilescience and technology
- 1943–1945The Italian Resistancepolitics
- 1946The Italian Republic and votes for womenpolitics
- 1946The first general-purpose electronic computerscience and technology
- 1948The Italian Constitutionpolitics
- about 1948Post-war rebuildingdaily life
- about 1950Television spreadsdaily life
Era 12 · Today from 1950 to today
- 1953The double helix of DNAscience and technology
- 1955The polio vaccinescience and technology
- 1957Birth of the European Communitypolitics
- 1957The first artificial satellitescience and technology
- 1961The first human in spacepeople
- about 1962Pop artart
- 1963The Beatlesart
- 1963Martin Luther King and civil rightspeople
- 1969The Moon landingscience and technology
- 1969The internet's first ARPANET linksscience and technology
- 1970Earth Day and the environmental movementdaily life
- 1977The personal computerscience and technology
- 1989The fall of the Berlin Wallpolitics
- 1991The World Wide Webscience and technology
- 1993The European Unionpolitics
- 1994Nelson Mandela becomes presidentpeople
- 1998The International Space Stationscience and technology
- 2002Euro notes and coins arrivedaily life
- 2007The modern smartphonescience and technology
- 2008The global financial crisisdaily life
- 2014Malala wins the Nobel Peace Prizepeople
- 2015The Paris Agreement on climatepolitics
- 2019The first image of a black holescience and technology
- 2020The COVID-19 pandemicdaily life
- 2022The Webb telescope starts observingscience and technology
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