Wikipedia:E3e2
This is an experiment in indexing Wikipedia using a logarithmic timeline approach.
I'm taking the 2nd millennium as a startingplace. The title "e3e2" means the span from 10e3 years ago to 10e2 years ago.
[section dates are approximate]
1000-1200
edit11th century | 1000s | 1010s | 1020s | 1030s | 1040s | 1050s | 1060s | 1070s | 1080s | 1090s |
12th century | 1100s | 1110s | 1120s | 1130s | 1140s | 1150s | 1160s | 1170s | 1180s | 1190s |
- 2.99: Avicenna; Al-Biruni; Alhazen; magnetic compass
- 2.98: Lady Godiva; Lady Murasaki's "Tale of Genji"
- 2.97: troubadors; Domesday Book (English tax census)
- 2.96 = 1100: Crusades; Omar Khayyám; scholasticism
- 2.95: Abelard castrated for affair with Heloise
- 2.94: Cistercians; checkers; coal for smelting iron
- 2.93: Notre Dame's gothic architecture; murder of Becket
- 2.92: Averroes, Maimonides; Little Ice Age; Genghis Khan
- 2.91 = 1200: Fibonacci; Magna Carta; St Francis
- 2.90: Oxford University, Grosseteste; sitar
1200-1400
edit13th century | 1200s | 1210s | 1220s | 1230s | 1240s | 1250s | 1260s | 1270s | 1280s | 1290s |
14th century | 1300s | 1310s | 1320s | 1330s | 1340s | 1350s | 1360s | 1370s | 1380s | 1390s |
- 2.89: Inquisition; Frederick II
- 2.88: Albertus Magnus; Rumi; Roger Bacon
- 2.87: Thomas Aquinas; kabbalah
- 2.86: Marco Polo; Jews expelled from England & France; Braveheart
- 2.85 = 1300: Raymond Lully; Giotto; madrigals
- 2.84: Dante’s Divine Comedy; Tenochtitlan
- 2.83: spinning wheel; Ockham's razor
- 2.82: Petrarch; cannon warfare
- 2.81: Black Death; Boccaccio’s ‘Decameron’
- 2.80: Wycliffe; Noh drama; Oresme
1400-1500
edit15th century | 1400s | 1410s | 1420s | 1430s | 1440s | 1450s | 1460s | 1470s | 1480s | 1490s |
- 2.79: Great Schism in papacy; Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales”
- 2.78 = 1400: tarot
- 2.77: Jan Hus burned; Chinese naval conquests
- 2.76: Thomas a Kempis's "Imitation of Christ”; Joan of Arc burned
- 2.75: Nicholas of Cusa; Leone Battista Alberti
- 2.74: Gutenberg’s printing press
- 2.73: Francois Villon; Thomas Malory’s “Morte d'Arthur”
- 2.72: Botticelli’s The Birth Of Venus
- 2.71: Christopher Columbus; Sikhism; Borgias
- 2.70 = 1500: Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo
1500-1600
edit16th century | 1500s | 1510s | 1520s | 1530s | 1540s | 1550s | 1560s | 1570s | 1580s | 1590s |
- 2.69: Erasmus; Machiavelli’s ‘The Prince’
- 2.68: Luther’s 95 theses; Little Ice Age
- 2.67: Paracelsus, Rabelais; Mennonites; Jesuits; Calvin
- 2.66: Petrus Ramus, Dürer, Mercator
- 2.65 = 1550: Vesalius, Copernicus; Queen Elizabeth
- 2.64: John Dee, Giambattista della Porta; Huguenots killed
- 2.63: Montaigne; Giordano Bruno; Simon Stevin
- 2.62: Spanish Armada; Vieta’s algebra; Edict of Nantes
- 2.61 = 1600: Bruno burned; Shakespeare’s Hamlet; Kepler
- 2.60: Francis Bacon; telescope; Ben Jonson; King James Bible
1600-1700
edit17th century | 1600s | 1610s | 1620s | 1630s | 1640s | 1650s | 1660s | 1670s | 1680s | 1690s |
- 2.59: Rosicrucians; Cervantes; Napier’s logarithms
- 2.58: Pilgrims on Mayflower; John Donne
- 2.57 = 1625: Burton’s “The Anatomy of Melancholy”
- 2.56: Galileo’s trial; Jacob Boehme; Descartes's 'cogito'
- 2.55: English Civil War; Taj Mahal; Rembrandt
- 2.54 = 1650: Herrick’s ‘Lovers’; Hobbes; Quakers
- 2.53: Boyle; Royal Society; Vermeer; London plague and fire
- 2.52: Milton's “Paradise Lost”; Wilkins's thesaurus
- 2.51 = 1675: Spinoza’s Ethics Geometrically Demonstrated; microscope; calculus
- 2.50: Newton’s Principia Mathematica
1700-1750
edit18th century | 1700s | 1710s | 1720s | 1730s | 1740s | 1750s | 1760s | 1770s | 1780s | 1790s |
- 2.49: Amish; Locke; Leibnitz
- 2.48 = 1700: Newton’s Optics
- 2.47: piano; Berkeley
- 2.46: Marten’s masturbation-taboo; Freemasons; Bach
- 2.45: Defoe’s “Robinson Crusoe”; South Sea Bubble; Hasidism
- 2.44 = 1725: Vico’s “New Science”; Swift’s “Gulliver's Travels”
- 2.43: looms driven by punched cards; rice-futures exchange
- 2.42: Linnaeus; Euler; Hume; Swedenborg
- 2.41: Voltaire; Saudis adopt Wahhabism; 1st symphonies
- 2.40 = 1750: Rothschild banking dynasty; French Encyclopedie
1750-1800
edit- 2.39: sextant; chronometer; Laurence Sterne’s “Tristram Shandy”
- 2.38: Rousseau’s “The Social Contact”
- 2.37:
- 2.36: Watt’s steam engine; Shakers; Messier’s catalog
- 2.35 = 1775: Smith’s “Wealth of Nations”; American Revolution
- 2.34: Shakers; Gibbon’s “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”
- 2.33: Uranus; mesmerism; Kant; Mozart; Lavoisier
- 2.32: Blake’s “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell”
- 2.31: French Revolution; Bentham; Malthus; Rosetta Stone
- 2.30 = 1800: Laplace; Louisiana Purchase
1800-1850
edit19th century | 1800s | 1810s | 1820s | 1830s | 1840s | 1850s | 1860s | 1870s | 1880s | 1890s |
- 2.29: Napoleon proclaimed emperor; Goethe's 'Faust'
- 2.28: John Dalton's atomism; Jane Austen
- 2.27: Scott’s ‘Waverly’
- 2.26: Battle of Waterloo
- 2.25: Byron; railroad; electric motor
- 2.24 = 1825: Beethoven’s 9th; photography
- 2.23: Pushkin’s “Eugene Onegin”; Mormons; Robert Owen
- 2.22: Patrick Matthew’s natural selection
- 2.21: Babbage designs Analytical Engine; Battle of the Alamo
- 2.20: telegraph; Poe; Bolzano; Baháʼí Faith; Neptune; Victoria of the United Kingdom
1850-1875
edit- 2.19: Opium War; Joule; potato famine; Pre-Raphaelites
- 2.18 = 1851: goldrush; Moby-Dick; Peter Mark Roget’s Thesaurus
- 2.17: Thoreau’s Walden; Whitman’s Leaves of Grass
- 2.16: Flaubert’s “Madame Bovary”; Neanderthal skeletons
- 2.15: Baudelaire’s “Les Fleurs du mal”; Darwin; “Great Expectations”
- 2.14: US Civil War; “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland”
- 2.13: Mendel; Marx’s “Das Kapital”; Suez Canal
- 2.12: Mendeleev; Chicago fire
- 2.11: Tolstoy’s “Anna Karenin”; Dewey Decimal System
- 2.10 = 1876: Bell Telephone Laboratories’s telephone; Custer’s last stand; Swan Lake
1875-1900
edit- 2.09: Edison’s phonograph, lightbulb; Ibsen’s “A Doll's House”
- 2.08: Twain’s “Huck Finn”; Krakatoa; Maxim gun; Mikado
- 2.07: Statue of Liberty; Peirce’s electrical logical machine
- 2.06 = 1889: Kodak; Coca-Cola; Jack the Ripper; Nietzsche goes mad
- 2.05: William James's Psychology; van Gogh dies; Gauguin to Tahiti
- 2.04: Charles Proteus Steinmetz; Universal Decimal Classification; electron
- 2.03: trial of Oscar Wilde; Nobel prizes; Congo genocide
- 2.02: Dreyfus affair; zionism; Hearst’s Spanish-American War
- 2.01: fauvism; Georges Polti’s “36 Dramatic Situations”
- 2.00 = 1901: Sigmund Freud’s “The Interpretation of Dreams”