-6.0M Ground-dwelling apes and humans share last common ancestor
-5.5M Rift forms in east Africa
-5.5M 2,600-foot high waterfall near Gibralter forms Mediterranean Sea
-4.1M Australopithecus afarensis appears in east Africa
-4.1M Australopithecus (African Savanna) becomes bipedal
-2.7M Australopithecus garhi (east Africa) uses tools to cut food.
-2.5M Homo habilis appears in Ethiopia and Kenya
-2.5M Homo habilis learn to knapp flint
-1.6M Homo erectus appears in eastern Africa
-1.6M Homo erectus manufactures stone cleavers by bifacial flaking
-1.6M Homo erectus stampeded game over cliffs
-1.6M Homo erectus stoned or clubbed the young or crippled of game
-1.6M Homo erectus pursued some game until it dropped dead of exhaustion
-1.6M Homo erectus learns to make and control fire
-0.8M Homo antecessor flourishes in Iberia
-0.7M Homo neanderthalensis appears in central Europe and the Balkans
-0.5M Hominid skulls are turned into drums, drinking cups and bowls
-0.4M Digging sticks and spears are fire-hardened
-0.4M Huts with palisaded walls are built in France
-0.3M Homo sapiens sapiens appears in east Africa and southwest Asia
-0.3M Homo sapiens sapiens possessed vocal tract for sophisticated speech
-0.1M Oldest known common female ancestor documented
-0.1M Hominids became the first large placental mammals in Australia
-0.1M Neanderthals in northen Iraq are first hominids to bury dead
-90000 People living along coastal regions begin consuming spawning salmon
-80000 Stone Lamps fueled by animal fats used in Iraq and China
-80000 Human populations are large enough to force skirmishes for territory
-59000 Oldest known comman male ancestor documented
-50000 Homo sapiens sapiens starts spreading into southern Asia
-50000 Homo sapiens sapiens starts spreading into eastern Europe
-50000 Homo sapiens sapiens starts spreading into western Africa
-40000 Stone spearheads and hafted axes are developed in north-central Africa
-40000 Ferrous clays are mined in southern Africa for use as cosmetics
-40000 Aboriginal Japanese manufacture oldest known pottery for cosmetics
-35000 Twisted fiber thread, jewelry and clay fertility figurines developed
-35000 Tally sticks appear around Eurasia and Africa
-33000 Homo sapiens sapiens appears along the Pacific coast of South America
-33000 Homo sapiens neanderthalensis starts becoming extinct
-30000 San (!Kung Bushman) peoples settle Kalahar regions of south Africa
-30000 Slings (spear-throwers) appear in Iberia
-30000 Flint arrowheads appear in northwest Africa and Iberia
-30000 Development of self-bows
-29000 Cordage, nets and textiles made from woven cloth in central Europe
-25000 Cave paintings in France, Spain and Africa (planets, animals, people)
-25000 Fire-hardened J-curved throwing sticks appear in Australia
-22000 Humans appear in Japan (Caucasoid ancestors to Ainu)
-03100 First Egyptian Dynasty Begins (Old Kingdom)
-02890 First Egyptian Dynasty Ends (Old Kingdom)
-02181 Eighth Egyptian Dynasty Begins (Old Kingdom)
-02125 Eighth Egyptian Dynasty Ends (Old Kingdom)
-02125 Eleventh Egyptian Dynasty Begins (Middle Kingdom)
-01991 Eleventh Egyptian Dynasty Ends (Middle Kingdom)
-01650 Seventeenth Egyptian Dynasty Begins (Middle Kingdom)
-01550 Seventeenth Egyptian Dynasty Ends (Middle Kingdom)
-01550 Eighteenth Egyptian Dynasty Begins (New Kingdom)
-01479 Start of Egyptian Pharaoh Thutmose III reign
-01479 End of Egyptian Pharaoh Hatshepsut III reign
-01357 Start of Egyptian Pharaoh Hatshepsut III reign
-01425 End of Egyptian Pharaoh Thutmose III reign
-01390 Start of Egyptian Pharaoh Amenhotep III reign
-01352 End of Egyptian Pharaoh Amenhotep III reign
-01352 Start of Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten reign
-01336 End of Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten reign
-01290 Eighteenth Egyptian Dynasty Ends (New Kingdom)
-01279 Start of Egyptian Pharaoh Rameses II reign
-01213 End of Egyptian Pharaoh Rameses II reign
-01213 Start of Egyptian Pharaoh Merenptah reign
-01203 End of Egyptian Pharaoh Merenptah reign
-01200 Start of the Iron Age
-01187 Start of Egyptian Pharaoh Ramesses III reign
-01186 Twentieth Egyptian Dynasty Begins (New Kingdom)
-01156 End of Egyptian Pharaoh Ramesses III reign
-01069 Twentieth Egyptian Dynasty Ends (New Kingdom)
-00587 Nebuchadnezzar (King of Babylon) conquers Judah and takes Hebrews
captive, starting the Hebrew Babylonian Captivity
-00550 Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama) born
-00469 Birth of Socrates
-00428 Birth of Plato
-00399 Death of Socrates
-00399 Birth of Alexander the Great
-00347 Birth of Plato
-00343 Thirtyfirst Egyptian Dynasty Begins
-00343 Start of Egyptian Pharaoh Ochus (Artaxerxes III) Reign
-00338 Start of Egyptian Pharaoh Ochus (Artaxerxes III) Reign
-00332 Thirtyfirst Egyptian Dynasty Ends
-00323 Death of Alexander the Great
-00043 Birth of Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid)
+00000 Start of the Common Era
+00000 Birth of Jesus
+00017 Death of Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid)
+00033 Death of Jesus
+00040 Paul started writing epistles
+00060 Christian gospels started to be written
+00090 Rabban Johanon called a council to determine Hebrew canon of
religious texts
+00182 Birth of Origen
+00251 Death of Origen
+00259 Start of Dionysius Papacy (Rome)
+00260 Birth of Eusebius Pamphili, Bishop of Cesarea in Palestine, the
"Father of Church History";
+00268 End of Dionysius Papacy (Rome)
+00272 Birth of Roman Emperor Constantine
+00312 Roman Emperor Constantine sees the "sign of Christ" outside of
Rome and converts to Christianity
+00313 Roman Emperor Constantine issues "Edict of Milan", which grants
to Christians the freedom to practice their religion without
interference from the state
+00325 "Ecclesiastical History" is written by Eusebius
+00325 Council at Nicea
+00330 Constantine commissioned Eusebius to oversee the making of
fifty copies of what became the Christian canon of religious texts
+00337 Death of Roman Emperor Constantine
+00340 Death of Eusebius Pamphili
+00347 Birth of Jerome
+00354 Birth of Augustine
+00367 Orthodox authorities orderred all Gnostic gospels burned
+00380 Temple of Isis at Philoe was closed.
+00382 Jerome starts work on the Latin Vulgate translation of Hebrew and
Christian canons
+00390 A mob under the direction of Theophilus attacked and burned the
library in Alexandria because it contained pagan classics
+00391 Temple of Artemis at Ephesus was sacked
+00405 Jerome finishes the Latin Vulgate translation of Hebrew and
Christian canons
+00410 Sack of Rome by northern invaders
+00415 Hypatia, renowned woman mathematician and leading advocate of the
Orphic creed is stripped, spread-eagled and tortured to death by
Christian monks in Alexandria, Egypt
+00420 Death of Jerome
+00425 Theodosius II closed all the synagogues in Paelstine
+00419 Pelagius excommunicated from Roman Catholic church
+00431 Council of Ephesis condemned Pelagius' teaching that humans can
be "good"
+00476 The start of the "Dark Ages"
+00529 Justinian ordered the Academy of Athens disbanded
+00570 Birth of Muhammad "The Prophet"
+00575 Kitchen matches invented by Chinese, which are not adopted in
Europe until the eighteenth century
+00622 Muhammad's flight to Medina from Mecca (called the Hegira)
+00630 Death of Muhammad "The Prophet"
+00742 Birth of Charlemagne
+00814 Death of Charlemagne
+01027 Birth of William I (The Conquerer), King of England
+01066 Norman invasion of England, lead by William The Conqueror
+01068 Birth of Henry I, King of England
+01087 Death of William I (The Conquerer), King of England
+01095 Start of the First Crusade
+01099 End of the First Crusade
+01118 Start of the Knights Templars (Hugh de Payens and eight other knights)
+01122 Birth of Eleanor of Aquitaine
+01133 Birth of Henry II, King of England
+01135 Death of Henry I, King of England
+01146 Birth of William Marshal, Knight Errant
+01147 Start of the Second Crusade (after Christians lost Edessa [1144])
+01149 End of the Second Crusade (after Christians lost Edessa [1144])
+01152 Marriage between Eleanor of Aquitaine and Henry I, King of England
+01185 Start of William Marshal's time on Crusade
+01187 End of William Marshal's time on Crusade
+01189 Death of Henry II, King of England
+01189 Start of the Third Crusade (After Saladin captured [1187] Jerusalem)
+01192 End of the Third Crusade (After Saladin captured [1187] Jerusalem)
+01202 Start of the Fourth Crusade (diverted for the benefit of Venice)
+01204 End of the Fourth Crusade (diverted for the benefit of Venice)
+01204 Death of Eleanor of Aquitaine
+01207 Birth of Jelaluddin Rumi
+01219 Death of William Marshal, Knight Errant
+01212 Children's Crusade (children sold into slavery or starved)
+01217 Start of the Fifth Crusade (against Egypt - failed)
+01221 End of the Fifth Crusade (against Egypt - failed)
+01228 Start of the Sixth Crusade
+01229 End of the Sixth Crusade
+01252 Chinese magical powder formula appears in an essay written
by Friar Roger Bacon of England, introducing the phrase "gun powder"
+01273 Death of Jelaluddin Rumi
+01381 The burghers of Augsburg use man-portable cannon to scare their
enemies' war-horses.
+01382 Grand Duke Dmitri Donskoi equips Moscow’s forts with gunpowder
artillery.
+01392 The Spanish army starts issuing man-portable firearms having
curved rather than knobbed buttstocks.
+01411 The Spanish introduce serpentine musket fuses.
+01450 Johannes Gutenburg invents printing press
+01476 Pope Sixtus IV granted King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella permission
to establish their own Inquisitorial office answerable only to
themselves
+01480 Birth of Lucrezia Borgia (illegitimate child of Pope Alexander VI)
+01483 Torquemada (Domenican Friar) appointed Chief Inquisitor
by Ferdinand and Isabella
+01483 Birth of Martin Luther
+01491 Venetian army replaces its arbalests with firearms.
+01491 Birth of Henry VIII
+01508 Venetian army issued muskets to militia units.
+01509 Birth of John Calvin (Jean Cauvin)
+01517 Martin Luther nails 95 theses on the church door at
Wittenburg, October 31
+01519 Death of Lucrezia Borgia (illegitimate child of Pope Alexander VI)
+01530 Italians start constructing forts that use artillery for defense
+01533 Henry VIII rejects Pope and declares Thomas Cranmer archbishop
of Canterbury after Ann Boleyn becomes pregnant and the Pope
has not annulled his marriage to Catherine of Aragon
+01533 Birth of Queen Elizabeth I
+01536 Ann Boleyn is executed on May 19th, 8 o'clock in the morning
+01537 Dissolution of Monastaries on Britain by Henry VIII
+01543 First cannon cast in east Sussex at a furnace in Buxted by
Ralf Hogge (Huggett)
+01546 Death of Martin Luther
+01547 Death of Henry VIII
+01564 Death of John Calvin (Jean Cauvin)
+01564 Birth of William Shakespear
+01566 Birth of King James I of England
+01599 Birth of Oliver Cromwell
+01603 Death of Queen Elizabeth I
+01603 King James VI of Scotland becomes King James I of England
+01611 Publication of the King James or Authorized Version Of The Bible
+01616 Death of William Shakespear
+01625 Death of King James I of England
+01642 Birth of Isaac Newton
+01620 Voyage of the Mayflower to North America
+01627 Death of Isaac Newton
+01658 Death of Oliver Cromwell
+01692 Salem, Massachusetts Witch Trials
+01768 Birth of Napolean
+01792 Mary Wollstonescraft publishes "A Vindication of the Rights of Women".
Mary Shelley is her daughter.
+01797 Birth of Mary Shelley
+01803 Birth of Ralph Waldo Emerson
+01818 Mary Shelley writes "Frankenstein" novel
+01820 Birth of Friedrich Engels
+01821 Death of Napolean
+01831 Development of electric dynamo by Michael Faraday (1791-1867)
+01831 Introduction of the electric motor
+01837 Development of daguerrotype image technology by Jaques Mande' Daguerre
+01844 Introduction of electric turbines
+01844 Introduction of telegraph
+01851 Death of Mary Shelley
+01875 Introduction of the electric car
+01876 Introduction of batteries
+01876 Introduction of telephone by Alexander Graham Bell
+01876 Introduction of microphone
+01877 Introduction of phonograph
+01879 Introduction of the electric lamp
+01880 Introduction of electric elevator
+01882 Death of Ralph Waldo Emerson
+01884 Linotype (machine movable type for printing presses) intruduced
+01886 Introduction of X-Ray technology
+01886 Introduction of radio technology
+01895 Death of Friedrich Engels
+01928 Discovery of Ugarit (Bronze Age Canaanite) near Ras Shamra, Syria
