History of the World

  • 3966 BCE

    God creates the Earth

    Genesis 1:1
  • 2310 BCE

    Sumerians and Egyptians

  • 2310 BCE

    The Great Flood

  • 2000 BCE

    Abraham born

  • 1950 BCE

    Beginning of the decline of Sumerians

    The Sumerians were attacked by Amorites and Elamites
  • 1918 BCE

    Issac born

    Genesis Chapter 21
    1 Now the LORD was gracious to Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did for Sarah what he had promised.
    2 Sarah became pregnant and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the very time God had promised him.
    3 Abraham gave the name Isaac [1] to the son Sarah bore him.
  • 1750 BCE

    Hammurabi's Code written

  • 1600 BCE

    Ancient China

  • 1500 BCE

    Ancient India

  • Period: 431 BCE to 404 BCE

    Peloponnesian War

    Two Greek city-states fought, Athens and Sparta
  • 395 BCE

    Start of the Fall of Rome

  • 285 BCE

    Roman Empire split east and west

  • 146 BCE

    Battle of Corinth -- Fall of Greece

  • 44 BCE

    Julius Caesar assassinated

  • 6 BCE

    Estimated time of Jesus' Birth

  • 33

    Jesus crucified

  • 313

    Christianity declared Rome's official religion

  • 476

    Roman Empire collapses, Dark Ages begin

  • 610

    Muhammad receives visions that started Islam

    Muhammad received visions that he claimed were from the angel Gabriel, though Christians believe that was false.
  • 988

    Christianity reaches Russia

  • 1086

    Domesday Book completed

  • Period: 1095 to 1271

    Crudades

  • 1206

    Mongol Empire formed

  • 1215

    Magna Carta signed by King John of England

  • 1337

    Start of the Hundred Years' War

    England and France
  • Period: 1347 to 1351

    Black Death sweeps across Europe

  • 1400

    Renaissance began

  • Period: 1450 to

    Age of Exploration

  • 1453

    Fall of Constantinople

  • 1453

    Byzantine Empire falls to the Turks

  • Jan 28, 1485

    Henry VII born

  • 1517

    Martin Luther's 95 Theses

  • 1558

    Queen Elizabeth 1

  • Mayflower Compact signed

  • Period: to

    Qing Dynasty in China

  • Period: to

    American Revolution

  • Period: to

    French Revolution

    Inspired by American Revolution
  • Period: to

    American Civil War

  • Boxer Rebellion begins in China

  • Chinese Revolution

  • Archduke Franz Ferdinand is assassinated

    Triggering the outbreak of WWI
  • Period: to

    World War I

  • Treaty of Versailles

  • Gandhi Salt March

  • Period: to

    Chinese Civil War

  • Period: to

    Great Depression

  • Period: to

    World War II

  • Attack on Pearl Harbor

  • Victory Over Europe

  • Anne Frank Diary Published

  • India gains independence

  • Period: to

    Cold War

  • China becomes Communist

  • Korean War Armistice

  • Period: to

    Vietnam War

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

  • Gulf of Tonkin

  • Six-Day War

  • Dissolution of the Soviet Union