User:GhostInTheMachine/Timeline

"Eras"

~500k BC — fire ~8k BC — crops and working animals ~6k BC — trade ~5k BC — metal ~4k BC — wheel

10k BC — last ice age ends in UK 10k–5k BC — Neolithic (New Stone Age) 5k–3k BC — Copper Age 3k–1k BC — Bronze Age 1k–0 BC — Iron Age

BC

• 2,570 BC — Great Pyramid of Giza completed
• the Greeks ...
  • Thales of Miletus (c. 624 – c. 545 BC)
  • Pythagoras (c. 570 – c. 495 BC)
  • Zeno of Elea (c. 495 – 430 BC)
  • Socrates (c. 470 – 399 BC)
  • Plato (427–347 BC)
  • Aristotle (384–322 BC)
  • Euclid (c. 325 – c. 265 BC)
  • Archimedes (c. 287 – c. 212 BC)
• 45 BC — Julian calendar

First millennium AD

• Hero of Alexandria (10-70)
• Hadrian (76–138)
  • 122 — starts a wall, probably had help
  • 126 — completes the Pantheon in Rome (nailed up the door number)
• Diophantus (c. 200 – c. 284)
• Hypatia (c. 370 – 415)
• Zu Chongzhi (429–500)
• Brahmagupta (598–668) — Zero
• Bede (672–735) — BC / AD
• Al Khwarizmi (c. 790 – c. 850) — "Arabic" digits

Second millennium AD — part 1

• Fibonacci (c. 1170 – 1250)
• 1204 — Sack of Constantinople — triggers decline of the Byzantine Empire (discuss ...)
• 1209 — University of Cambridge founded
• 1215 — Magna Carta

15th century

• Johannes Widmann (c. 1460 – after 1498) — first use of + and - symbols
• Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519)

16th century

• Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543) — heliocentrism — 1543
• John Napier (1550–1617) — Logarithms – 1614
• William Oughtred (1574–1660) — slide rule – 1622

17th century

• 1633 — trial of Galileo Galilei (1564–1642)
• 1636 — Harvard University is founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts
• 1637 — Discourse on the Method — René Descartes (1596–1650)
• 1649 — execution of King Charles I of England
• 1663 — discovery of cells using a microscope — Robert Hooke (1635–1703)
• 1687 — Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica — Isaac Newton (1642–1727)
• 1687 — Age of Enlightenment — maybe from 1687 to outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789

18th century

• 1718 — smallpox inoculations by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689–1762)
• 1737 — H1 ship's clock — John Harrison (1693–1776), prize eventually in 1773
• 1740–1741 — Famine in Ireland kills tenth of the population
• 1752 — Britain adopts the Gregorian calendar
• 1769–1770 — James Cook explores and maps New Zealand and Australia.
• 1771 — Richard Arkwright and his partners build the world's first water-powered mill at Cromford.
• 1775–1783 — American war of independence / American Revolutionary War
• 1783 — Hot air balloon — Montgolfier brothers
• 1787 — The United States Constitution is written
• 1789–1799 — French Revolution
• 1796 — smallpox vaccinations by Edward Jenner (1749–1823)

19th century

• 1802 — Coalbrookdale locomotive — Richard Trevithick (1771–1833)
• 1803 — "Pen-y-Darren" locomotive — Richard Trevithick
• 1805 — Battle of Trafalgar — allows for British dominance of the seas
• 1814 — George Stephenson's first locomotive
• 1815 — Battle of Waterloo
• 1818 — Frankenstein — Mary Shelley
• 1822 — difference engine — Charles Babbage
• 1829 — Rocket — Robert Stephenson
• 1829 — Electric motor
• 1937 — Electrical telegraph
• 1848 — Revolutions in Italy, France, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Poland, Moldavia, Wallachia
• 1851 — London Great Exhibition
• 1861 — American Civil War ends
• 1869 — Dmitri Mendeleev — first modern periodic table (66 known elements)
• 1870 — Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas — Jules Verne
• 1870 — Married Women's Property Act 1870 — money and inherited property
• 1879 — first radio transmission
• 1882 — Married Women's Property Act 1882 — buy and own property
• 1888 — Roundhay Garden Scene — oldest surviving film
• 1889 — Aspirin
• 1893 — Married Women's Property Act 1893 — tidying of 1882 act
• 1894 — Swiss Army knife
• 1895 — The Time Machine — H. G. Wells (1866–1946)
• 1898 — The War of the Worlds — H. G. Wells
• 1899–1902 — Boer War

20th century

• 1903 — First powered flight — Wright brothers
• 1905 — Special Theory of Relativity — Albert Einstein
• 1906 — Jules Bordet and Octave Gengou — whooping cough vaccine
• 1907 — Qualification of Women (County and Borough Councils) Act 1907
• 1909 — Model T Ford
• 1912 — Titanic encounters an iceberg
• 1914–1918 — World War I
• 1915 — General Theory of Relativity — Albert Einstein (1879–1955)
• 1915 — Zeppelins
• 1916 — Tanks
• 1918 — Women get the vote in UK
• 1918 — Russia adopts the Gregorian calendar
• 1925 — Television technology
• 1925 — Mein Kampf — Adolf Hitler (1889–1945)
• 1926 — Winnie-the-Pooh — A. A. Milne (1882–1956)
• 1933 — Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany
• 1939–1945 — World War II
• 1941 — Polyester
• 1944 — V-2 rockets
• 1946 — ENIAC
• 1952 — Jonas Salk — polio vaccine
• 1954 — McCarthyism
• 1957 — Sputnik 2
• 1960 — Measles vaccine
• 1961 — Berlin Wall up
• 1968 — The Mother of All Demos — Douglas Engelbart (1925–2013)
• 1968 — Apollo moon landing
• 1970 — Equal Pay Act 1970
• 1971 — Decimalisation in UK
• 1973 — Skylab
• 1973 — Roe v. Wade won
• 1975 — Microsoft
• 1976 — Apple
• 1976 — Colossal Cave Adventure – Crowther's original version
• 1989 — Berlin Wall down
• 1990 — WorldWideWeb: Proposal for a HyperText Project, 12 November 1990

21st century

• 11 September 2001 — 9-11
• 2007–2008 financial crisis
  • 14 September 2007 — Northern Rock baled out by Bank of England
  • 21 January 2008 — FTSE 100 Index crashes 5.5%
  • 17 March 2008 — Bear Stearns baled out by Federal Reserve
  • 11 July 2008 — IndyMac failed
  • 7 September 2008 — Federal takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
• 23 June 2016 — Brexit referendum
• 20 January 2017 — Trump elected
• 31 January 2020 — Brexit enacted
• 31 January 2020 — COVID hits Europe
• 11 March 2020 — WHO declares COVID a pandemic
• 20 January 2021 — Trump ejected
• 24 June 2022 — Roe v. Wade overruled
• 24 February 2022 — Russia invades Ukraine
• 7 October 2023 — Israel–Hamas war

See also

• List of English inventions and discoveries
• Timeline of computing hardware before 1950
• Timeline of historic inventions
• Timeline of scientific discoveries