Timeline of Everything
- 100,000 - 200,000 years ago → Homo Sapiens evolve
- 50,000 years ago → Humans acquire language
- 10,000 years ago → Agriculture develops
- 3300 BCE → Start of the bronze age
- 2600 BCE → Great Pyramid at Giza built
- 1325 BCE → Death of King Tutankhamun
- 1200 BCE → End of bronze age / start of the iron age
- 957 BCE → Jewish First Temple (King Solomon)
- 586 BCE → First Temple destroyed by the Babylonians
- 516 BCE → Jewish Second Temple period
- 356 BCE → Birth of Alexander the Great (Hellenism)
- 323 BCE → Death of Alexander the Great
- 48 BCE → Destruction of the Library of Alexandria
- 30 BCE → Death of Cleopatra; Egypt becomes a province of the Roman Empire
- 30 CE → Crucifixion of Jesus Christ
- 70 CE → Second Temple destroyed by the Romans
- 380 CE → Christianity becomes the official religion of the Roman Empire
- 570 CE → Birth of prophet Muhammad
- 1096 → Oxford university founded
- 1206 → Genghis Khan made first Mongol Emperor
- 1400 → Geoffrey Chaucer publishes The Canterbury Tales
- 1597 → William Shakespeare publishes Romeo and Juliet
- 1600-12-31 → East India Company founded
- 1610-01-07 → Galileo first observes the moons of Jupiter
- 1620-11-21 → Mayflower lands at Cape Cod
- 1687-07-05 → Isaac Newton publishes the Principia
- 1774-11-22 → Death of Robert Clive (Clive of India)
- 1776-07-04 → Founding of the USA
- 1789-07-14 → Storming of the Bastille (beginning of the French Revolution)
- 1791-08-22 → Haitian slave revolt led by Toussaint L'Ouverture
- 1793-01-21 → Execution of Louis XVI
- 1804-12-02 → Coronation of Napoleon Bonaparte
- 1818-01-18 → Mary Shelley publishes Frankenstein
- 1821-05-17 → Erie canal first opened
- 1821-09-03 → Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetism
- 1851-10-18 → Herman Melville publishes Moby Dick
- 1854-09-03 → John Snow demonstrates that Cholera spreads through contaminated water
- 1861-04-12 → Start of American civil war
- 1865-05-09 → End of American civil war
- 1869-02-?? → Mendeleev proposes the Periodic Table
- 1869-11-17 → Suez canal first opened
- 1879-01-?? → The Brothers Karamazov published serially by Dostoyevsky
- 1886-05-08 → Coca-Cola invented
- 1897-??-?? → JJ Thompson discovered the electron
- 1903-12-17 → Wright brothers achieve first powered flight
- 1905 → Einstein's 'Annus Mirabillis' year
- 1909-??-?? → Haber-Bosch process invented
- 1914-07-28 → Beginning of WWI
- 1917-03-08 → Russian Revolution
- 1918-11-11 → End of WWI
- 1919-04-13 → Jallianwala Bagh massacre
- 1922-12-30 → Formation of the USSR
- 1928-09-28 → Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin
- 1936-05-28 → Alan Turing proposes universal computation
- 1939-09-01 → Beginning of WWII
- 1945-04-30 → Death of Adolf Hitler
- 1945-08-06 → Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima
- 1945-08-09 → Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki
- 1945-09-02 → End of WWII
- 1947-08-14 → Pakistani independence
- 1947-08-15 → Indian independence
- 1948-01-30 → Mahatma Gandhi assassinated
- 1953-04-25 → Watson and Crick discover double-helix of DNA
- 1962-08-05 → Nelson Mandela imprisoned
- 1963-08-28 → Martin Luther King delivers 'I have a dream' speech
- 1965-02-21 → Malcolm X assassinated
- 1966-??-?? → The Cultural Revolution starts in China
- 1966-07-30 → England with the FIFA world cup
- 1967-06-05 → Start of the Arab-Israeli 6-day war
- 1968-04-04 → Martin Luther King Jr Assassinated
- 1968-12-09 → "The Mother of All Demos" by Doug Englebart
- 1971-03-08 → Ali vs Frazier; Fight of the Century
- 1974-10-30 → Ali vs Foreman; Rumble in the Jungle
- 1976-04-01 → Apple Computer founded
- 1976-09-09 → Death of Mao Zedong
- 1979-07-19 → Saddam Hussein revolution in Iraq
- 1979-12-03 → Ayatollah Khomeini revolution in Iran
- 1986-01-28 → Challenger space shuttle disaster
- 1986-04-26 → Chernobyl nuclear disaster
- 1989-11-09 → Fall of the Berlin Wall
- 1990-02-11 → Nelson Mandela Released from Prison
- 1994-07-05 → Amazon Founded
- 1997-08-31 → Death of Princess Diana
- 1997-09-16 → Steve Jobs returns to Apple
- 1998-09-04 → Google founded
- 2001-09-11 → Fall of the Twin Towers in NYC
- 2004-02-01 → Facebook founded
- 2007-06-29 → iPhone launched
- 2022-11-30 → ChatGPT released