Timeline: Northern China

By erocks2
  • 5000 BCE

    Cities first emerge.

  • Period: 5000 BCE to

    Timeline: Northern China

  • 1300 BCE

    Writing first emerges.

  • 550 BCE

    Confucius philosophizes.

  • 125 BCE

    Silk Road is established.

  • 105

    Paper is invented.

  • 132

    Earthquake detector is invented.

  • 220

    Great Wall of China is built.

  • 540

    Buddhism spreads.

  • 725

    Mechanical clock is invented.

  • 1000

    Gunpowder is invented.

  • 1100

    Compass is invented.

  • 1100

    Neo-confucianism spreads.

  • 1100

    Utilized paper currency.

  • 1557

    China trades with Europe.

  • Period: to

    The First Opium War.

  • Period: to

    The Taiping Rebellion.

  • Period: to

    The Second Opium War.

  • Independence declared from Qing Dynasty.

  • Communist Party of China is formed.

  • Period: to

    Civil War.

  • Cultural Revolution.

  • Terracotta Army was discovered.

  • Tianamen Square protests.

  • Olympics hosted in Beijing, China.