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2,600,000 BC

First tools manufactured.stone tools

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 humansLink...

175,000 BC

'Mitochondrial Eve': She is the most-recent common ancestor of all humans alive on Earth todaylink

120,000 BC

Widespread use of pigments in Africa.......

100,000 BC

Proto-Language as a base for all current languages.linkopponent

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. link

76,000 BC

Clothing invented. Earliest beads used for decoration.Link

59,000 BC

Y-Chromosome Adam......

50,000 BC

Colonisation of Australia.......

35,000 BC

first cave paintings.......

30,000 BC

Neanderthals die out.Link...

20,000 BC

Ice age at its peak.......

25,000 BC

Oldest arrow heads discovered in Africa.Link...

16,000 BC

Scotland and Canada under a mile of ice.......

13,000 BC

Niagara Falls is created as the glaciers retreat north. Facts

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.Link

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.Tablet

3200 BC

Newgrange complex was built in Ireland.link

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.Chariot

1250-1200 BC

The oldest books of the old testiment written. (Genesis)Link...

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.Horseman...

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)link

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.Link

31 BC

Foundation of the Roman Empire.......

7 BC

Jesus is born.......
ADAD vs.CE

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.Link

132 AD

Bar Kochba revolt begins in Israel.......

240 AD

Sri Gupta becomes king, begining the Gupta dynasty lineage in India.Link...

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.Link

622 AD

First year of the Muslim calendar; Started when Muhammad and his closest companions moved from Mecca to Medina.Link...

625 AD

Mohammed began to dictate the Koran. (In 650, Caliph Othman divided the Koran into 114 chapters)Link...

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. Link

1095 AD

First Crusade starts.......

1211 AD

Waldenses heretics are burned at Strasbourg. Several centuries of persecution begin. Link...

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.Link

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.Link...

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.Link

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.Link...

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.Link

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 PCNews

1988 AD

Darya was born......


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