World Timeline

  • 60,000 BCE

    First wave of Indigenous Australians crosses into Australia

  • 35,000 BCE

    Homo sapiens replace Neanderthal man in Europe

  • 10,000 BCE

    Last ice age

  • 8000 BCE

    Indochina settled

  • 6000 BCE

    Wheat and barley crops in Egypt

  • 4000 BCE

    Mesopotamian cities emerge

  • 2500 BCE

    Stonehenge constructed in England

  • 2000 BCE

    Middle East and China societies use bronze

  • May 24, 1000

    Vikings discover Greenland

  • Apr 17, 1096

    English crusades begin

  • Feb 7, 1450

    Printing press invented

  • Jun 21, 1533

    British reformation

  • Spanish armada defeated by British