Posted by beckyclay | April 17, 2009

Dates are obviously approximate. Biblical references noted in blue.

BC (BCE)

??? - Creation (undated)

4,500,000,000 – Earth Forms

500,000,000 – First plants appear

400,000,000 – First fish appear

200,000,000 – Dinosaurs appear

150,000,000 – Birds appear

65,000,000 – Mammals appear

??? – Noah Builds Ark (undated)

2500 – Egyptians discover ink, paper, and manufacture iron objects

2300 – Horses domesticated in Egypt, chickens domesticated in Babylon

2100 – Abraham born

2100 – Glass made by Mesopotamians, earliest discovered drug, alcohol used for pain

2000 – Abraham enters Canaan

2000 – Isaac born

2000 – Jacob and Esau born

2000 - Stonehenge

1900 – Joseph born

1900 – Spoked wheels invented, irrigation systems

1700 – Babylonians understand mathematics (cube and square root)

1500 – Sundials used in Egypt

1500 – Moses born

1400 – Moses writes Genesis, Exodus, Numbers, Deuteronomy (1st four books of Bible)

1400 – Exodus from Egypt, Crossing of Red Sea

1400 – 10 Commandments given (God tells Moses, Moses gives to people of Israel)

1400 – Intricate clock used in Egypt

1300 – Judges rule Israel

1300 – King Tut born

1200 – Silk fabrics manufactured in China, first Chinese dictionary

1100 – Samuel born

1000 – Greek mythology fully developed

1000 – Chinese mathematics uses multiplication, geometry, proportions, theory of motion

900 – Temple completed in Jerusalem

900 – Israel kingdom divides

800 – Chinese astronomers understand planetary movements

800 – Caste system developed in India

800 – Homer (first “philosopher”)

800 – Isaiah born

700 – City of Rome founded

700 - Earliest music notation written in Greece

700 – False teeth invented in Italy

700 – Thales (Greek philosopher)

700 – First known date of Olympic games

600 – Temple of Artemis (one of the 7 wonders of the world)

600 – Anaximander (Greek philosopher)

600 – Pythagoras (Mathematics - Pythagorean Theorem)

500 – Xenophanes (Greek philosopher)

500 – Heraclitus (Greek philosopher)

500 – Parmenides (Greek philosopher)

500 – Gautama Buddha (founder of Buddhism)

500 – Confucious (famous Chinese scholar)

500 – Origin of Halloween (a Celtic festival)

400 – Greeks get short haircuts

400 – Zeno of Elea

400 – Protagoras

400 – Gorgias

400 – Socrates (Plato’s teacher)

400 – Democritus (atomic theory – bodies are made of invisible atoms)

400 – Plato (Aristotle’s teacher)

300 – Aramaic replaces Hebrew for Jewish language

300 - Romans build first paved road

300 – Aristotle (Greek philosopher)

300 – Epicurus (Greek philosopher)

200 – Hebrew Old Testament translated into Greek

200 – Great Wall of China built

100 – Julius Cesar (first emperor of Rome)

100 – Cicero (politician, philosopher, lawyer, public speaker)

30 – Cleopatra and her lover commit suicide

25 – Mary born (Jesus' mother)

5 – Jesus born

5 – Saint Paul born

AD (CE)

26 – John the Baptist begins his ministry

26 – Jesus begins his ministry

30 – Jesus dies on cross, ascends to heaven

30 – early church beginnings, pentecost

43 – First definite reference to diamonds

57 – Paul writes book of Romans

75 – Rome builds Colosseum

95 – Apostle John writes Revelation (last book in Bible)

100 – Sextus Empiricus (Physician / philosopher)

300 – Ambrose (Bishop of Milan, influenced Augustine)

300 – Augustine (first Christian philosopher)

1000 – Medieval Times begin (approx.)

1200 - Gothic Art Movement (Lasts about 200 years)

1200 – Thomas Aquinas

1200 – Dante

1400 – Renaissance Cultural Movement (lasts approx. 300 years)

1500 – Martin Luther

1500 – Galileo Gallilei (astronomer, philosopher, mathematician)

1600 – John Locke (philosopher, politician)

1600 – Medieval Times End (approx.)

1700 – Berkely

1700 – David Hume (politician, economist, philosopher, conservative)

1700 – Immanual Kant

1800 – John Stuart Mill

1800 - Karl Marx

1800 – Fredrick Nietzsche

1800 – Ludwig Wittgenstein

