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Date | Event description | Link | Picture |
2,600,000 BC | First tools manufactured. |  | |
540,000 BC | First evidence of fireplace. | ... | ... |
300,000 BC | First graves. Existance of graves shows signs of religion. | ... | ... |
200,000 BC | First anatomically modern humans | ... | |
175,000 BC | 'Mitochondrial Eve': She is the most-recent common ancestor of all humans alive on Earth today |  | |
120,000 BC | Widespread use of pigments in Africa. | ... | ... |
100,000 BC | Proto-Language as a base for all current languages. | ||
95,000 BC | Qafzeh (Jebel) Cave in Israel where layer with Neanderthal remains covers the near-modern African human type remains. The fragments of red ochre - a form of iron oxide that yields a pigment when heated - were found alongside bones in the cave. The ochre is only found alongside the bones. Symbolic thought - the ability to let one thing represent another - was a giant leap in human evolution. |  | |
76,000 BC | Clothing invented. Earliest beads used for decoration. |  | |
59,000 BC | Y-Chromosome Adam | ... | ... |
50,000 BC | Colonisation of Australia. | ... | ... |
35,000 BC | first cave paintings. | ... | ... |
30,000 BC | Neanderthals die out. | ... | |
20,000 BC | Ice age at its peak. | ... | ... |
25,000 BC | Oldest arrow heads discovered in Africa. | ... | |
16,000 BC | Scotland and Canada under a mile of ice. | ... | ... |
13,000 BC | Niagara Falls is created as the glaciers retreat north. |  | |
10,000 BC | Scotland becomes ice-free. Signs of deer, elk and reindeer inhabiting the area. | ... | ... |
10,000 BC | Domestication of the dog. First pottery made in the Jamon period of Japan. | ... | ... |
8075 BC | First sighting posts establish at Stonehenge. | ... |  |
8000 BC | First known fortified city - Jericho. |  | |
8000 BC | Mammoths go extinct on the Siberian mainland. | ... | ... |
7500 BC | Agriculture begins. | ... | ... |
5000 BC | Earliest known writing. (Balkan-Danube script) | ... | ... |
3300 BC | Sumerians arrive in Sumer. The earliest continuous writing known: receipt on clay tablet. |  | |
3200 BC | Newgrange complex was built in Ireland. |  | |
3150 BC | Some evidence of Comet impact known as a world flood. | ... | ... |
3020 BC | Henge is started at Stonehenge. | ... |  |
3000 BC | Bronze Age begins | ... | ... |
2700 BC | First ziggurat is built in Iraq. | ... |  |
2650 BC | First pyramid of Djoser is built at Saqqara in Egypt | ... |  |
2638 BC | Khufu becomes king of Two Lands of Egypt. Pyramid of Khufu was built | ... |  |
2600 BC | First large temple mounds are built in Peru | ... | ... |
2570 BC | Great Pyramid of Giza completed. | ... | ... |
2100 BC | First appearance of the horse in Greece comes with the arrival of the Indo-European Hittites. | ... | ... |
2000 BC | Abraham lives in Canaan. | ... | ... |
1715 BC | First Military horse based Chariot arrival in Egypt comes with the invasion of the Hyksos or Amorites. |  | |
1250-1200 BC | The oldest books of the old testiment written. (Genesis) | ... | |
1224 BC | death of Rameses the Great. | ... | ... |
1200 BC | Iron Age begins | ... | ... |
1200 BC | Population of Scotland declines. Possibly because of the plague. | ... | ... |
1002 BC | David King of Israel. (second king after King Saul) | ... | ... |
972 BC | King Solomon builds his temple. (Destroyed later in 586 BC) | ... | ... |
776 BC | First Olympic Games in Greece. | ... | ... |
750 BC | Marked a turning point in the use of the horse. Hunting as well as military actions were now on horseback instead of chariot. | ... | |
700 BC | The first historical record of the Celts by the Greeks. The Celts were a loose grouping of tribes that lived in an area north of the Alps around the Danube river in central Europe. Around 500 BC they appeared in Ireland. | ... | ... |
600 BC | First coin is the Lydian third stater (trite) likely minted by King Alyattes in Sardis (Lydia, Asia Minor - present-day Turkey) |  | |
323 BC | Death of Alexander The Great in Babylon. | ... | ... |
262-257 BC | Exceptionally cruel and ruthless Indian prince Ashoka (?-233BC) had many of his brothers killed as well as millions from conquered countries in order to seize the throne. Ashoka widely propagated Buddhism from Afghanistan to Sri Lanka. | ... | ... |
200-100 BC | Nazca Lines created in the dry deserts of Peru. |  | |
31 BC | Foundation of the Roman Empire. | ... | ... |
7 BC | Jesus is born. | ... | ... |
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70 AD | Destruction of Jerusalem and its temple by roman army. | ... | ... |
80 AD | The Great Colosseum ("Coliseum") is built in Rome. A vast ellipse covering about 6 acres and seating 50,000 spectators. |  | |
132 AD | Bar Kochba revolt begins in Israel. | ... | ... |
240 AD | Sri Gupta becomes king, begining the Gupta dynasty lineage in India. | ... | |
569 AD | The Temple of the Dwarf, or the Casa del Anano (House of the Dwarf), or the Pyramid of the Magician was created as a key structure of mayan Uxmal city. |  | |
622 AD | First year of the Muslim calendar; Started when Muhammad and his closest companions moved from Mecca to Medina. | ... | |
625 AD | Mohammed began to dictate the Koran. (In 650, Caliph Othman divided the Koran into 114 chapters) | ... | |
1008 AD | What is thought to be the first psychological novel ever written. The Tale of Genji by japanese aurthor Murasaki Shikibuc. | ... | ... |
1050 AD | Maya invented a calendar of remarkable accuracy and complexity. The pyramid in Chichen Itza was used as a calendar: four stairways, each with 91 steps and a platform at the top, making a total of 365, equivalent to the number of days in a calendar year. |  | |
1095 AD | First Crusade starts. | ... | ... |
1211 AD | Waldenses heretics are burned at Strasbourg. Several centuries of persecution begin. | ... | |
1258 AD | Mongols overrun Baghdad, burning it to the ground and killing 10,000 citizens. Agriculture was prohibited and irrigation system destroyed. | ... | ... |
1307 AD | Templar order is officially destroyed in France. | ... | ... |
1431 AD | On May 30th, Joan of Arc was burned at the stake in Rouen. | ... | ... |
1492 AD | Christopher Columbus discovers southeastern North America, mistaking it for India. |  | |
1707 AD | The Kingdom of Great Britain was created by the merger of the Kingdoms of Scotland and England (Union Flag from 1606). | ... | ... |
1725 AD | Formation of First National Freemason Grand Lodge in Ireland. | ... | ... |
1736 AD | Grand Lodge of Scotland is formed. | ... | ... |
1756-1763 AD | The Seven Years' 1st World War pitted Great Britain, Prussia and Hanover against France, Austria, Russia, Sweden, and Saxony. It was the first "world war"; most major European nations were involved, and the conflict spanned the globe with different theaters on the European continent, as well as in present day Canada, the United States, India, and the Caribbean. | ... | ... |
Feb. 1763 AD | French and Indian War: Treaty of Paris ends the war and France cedes Canada and India to Great Britain. Preferring to keep Guadaloupe, in the Caribbean Sea. Spain ceded Florida to the British but gained New Orleans, Louisiana, Cuba and Philippines back. | ... | |
1793 AD | last witch to be burned in europe. | ... | ... |
1795 AD | British East India Company begins occupation of Dutch Ceylon. | ... | ... |
1850-1868 | Convicts sent to West Australia from Sydney. | ... | ... |
1920 AD | Joan of Arc declared a saint. | ... | ... |
1932-1933 AD | Stalin used starvation as a Political Weapon in the great artificial famine of Ukraine: over 7.5 million men, women and children died of starvation. It was more than 20 percent of the Ukrainian population. |  | |
1939-1945 AD | World War II. Total Deaths: min. 37,215,153 Wounded and Missing: min. 19,714,763. The War Financial cost (in $$ 1990s) was B$15,655 (billions) for USA only. | ... | |
Aug. 1945 AD | First Atomic bombs were used over Hiroshima and Nagasaki. These cities had not previously been bombed, and thus the bombs' damage could be accurately assessed. U.S. estimates put the number killed in Hiroshima at 80,000 and in Nagasaki at 40,000. |  | |
1957 AD | First artificial satellite - Sputnik | ... | ... |
1961 AD | First cosmonaut - Y. Gagarin. | ... | ... |
1969 AD | First Microprocessor from INTEL as a start point for the first PC |  | |
1988 AD | Darya was born |
