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  Prehistoric - 5000B.C. 5000B.C. - 1000B.C. 1000B.C. - 1000A.D. 1000A.D. - 1200A.D. 1200A.D. - 1400A.D. 1400A.D. - 1600A.D. 1600A.D. - 1700A.D. 1700A.D. - 1800A.D. 1800A.D. - 1900A.D.   1900A.D. - Present  
  • Pottery invented c. 7900 B.C.
  • Man learns how to use fire.
  • Wheel invented c. 3200 - 3500 B.C.
  • The first "cities" appear in Mesopotamia
  • c. 3100 B.C. the first form of writing appears in Sumeria and hieroglyphics appear in Egypt
  • The Chinese make silk
  • Hammurabi's Code
  • Potter's wheel invented
  • Papermaking introduced from China (c. 600A.D.)
  • 4236 B.C. is the earliest recorded year
  • First magnetic compass used in China (c. 100A.D.)
  • 3000 - 2000 B.C. banking is developed in Mesopotamia
  • 300 B.C. first kite is made in China
  • Mathematical concept of "pi" discovered
  • Lever and compound pulley first used
  • Musical notes are first named by Guido d'Arrenzo c1026
  • The great age of Cathedral and castles begin in Europe
  • Eyeglasses invented
  • Abacus invented
  • Watch invented
  • Columbus reaches America
  • Printing Press invented
  • First toilet
  • First printed music sheets appear
  • The + and - signs are added to mathematics
  • Modern Pencil invented
  • Telescope c.1608
  • Microscope c. 1674
  • First forks are used in Italy
  • Steam engine invented
  • First vaccinations
  • First glue patented c.1750
  • First mercury thermometer is invented
  • Seismograph is invented c. 1788
  • First sandwich is made c.1762
  • Diderot's first encyclopedia
  • Photography
  • Watercolors invented
  • Tube paints invented
  • Airbrush is patented in England
  • First bicycle patented
  • Telephone,musical recordings and lightbulb invented
  • First blue jeans were made in 1874
  • Suez Canal built
  • Velcro c. 1940s
  • The Internet
  • The great cinema age begins
  • Atomic Bomb
  • Polio Vaccine
  • Computer invented
  • Eli Olds and the Oldsmobile Co. market the first commercially successful automobile (1901)
  • Plastic invented c. 1907
  • Penicillin c. 1929
  Prehistoric - 5000B.C. 5000B.C. - 1000B.C. 1000B.C. - 1000A.D. 1000A.D. - 1200A.D. 1200A.D. - 1400A.D. 1400A.D. - 1600A.D. 1600A.D. - 1700A.D. 1700A.D. - 1800A.D. 1800A.D. - 1900A.D.   1900A.D. - Present  

  • Stone Age
  • The Bronze Age
  • Amenhotep IV
  • Nefertiti
  • Tutankamun
  • Rameses II
  • Asian migration across the Bering strait into North America
  • Indus Valley Civilization
  • "Gilgamesh" first writing
  • Roman Empire (c. 509 B.C. - 256 A.D.)
  • Anasazi Culture
  • First Olympic games held c. 776 B.C.
  • Democracy is "born"
  • Aesop writes his famed fables c. 600 B.C.
  • Birth of Buddha c 580 B.C.
  • Pythagoras
  • Great Wall of China is built c. 215 B.C.
  • In India, the Mahararta is written
  • Byzantine Empire (c. 400 - 1453 A.D.)
  • Mayan Civilization (c. 300 - 1500 A.D.)
  • Inca Civilization (c. 1100-1532 A.D.)
  • Pompeii erupts
  • Beowulf
  • Aztec Civilization
    (c. 1350 - 1520 A.D.)
  • Marco Polo
  • The Hundred Years' War
  • Chaucer writes the Canterbury Tales
  • The Black Plague
  • Chaucer
  • Benin Civilization
    (c. 1550-1680 A.D.)
  • Ming Dynasty
    (c. 1368-1644 A.D.)
  • William Shakespeare
  • King Henry VIII
  • Queen Elizabeth
  • Edo Period (c. 1615 - 1868 A.D.)
  • Barometer invented in 1643
  • Australia is discovered
  • Cervantes
  • Galileo
  • The Great Plague strikes Europe
  • European settlements appear in North America
  • Spanish Inquisition
  • Pilgrims settle Plymouth
  • American Revolution
  • French Revolution
  • Napolean Bonaparte
  • Mozart
  • American Civil War
  • Ludwig von Beethoven composes the 5th and 6th Symphonies (1808)
  • Tchaikovsky creates "The Nutcracker" ballet (1982)
  • Herman Melville publishes "Moby Dick" (1851)
  • President Lincoln is assassinated
  • 5.5 million immigrants travel to the United States in the 1880's
  • 1827 First book of Braille published
  • First Impressionist Exhibit in France
  • September 11, 2001
  • AIDS virus
  • Persian Gulf War
  • Man walks on the moon
  • United Nations founded
  • Russian Revolution
  • Robert Peary reaches the North Pole in 1909
  • Great Depression
  • WW I
  • WW II
  • Vietnam War
  • Korean War