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