CC Timeline

By jdlindemulder
  • 9999 BCE

    Creation and the Fall

    Genesis 1-3
  • 3500 BCE

    Mesopotamia and Sumer

  • 3100 BCE

    Egyptians

  • 3000 BCE

    Indus River Valley Civilization

  • 2550 BCE

    Seven Wonders of Ancient World

  • 2500 BCE

    Minoans and Mycenaeans

  • 2166 BCE

    Patriarchs of Israel

  • 2000 BCE

    Hittites and Canaanites

  • 2000 BCE

    Kush

  • 1900 BCE

    Assyrians

  • 1900 BCE

    Babylonians

  • 1766 BCE

    China's Shang Dynasty

  • 1500 BCE

    Hinduism in India

  • 1500 BCE

    Phoenicians and the Alphabet

  • 1500 BCE

    Olmecs of Mesoamerica

  • 1446 BCE

    Israelite Exodus and Desert Wandering

  • 1406 BCE

    Israelite Conquest and Judges

  • 1200 BCE

    Mound Building Civilizations (hopewell & mississippi)

  • 1100 BCE

    Greek Dark Ages

  • 1051 BCE

    Israel's United Kingdom

  • 1000 BCE

    Early Native Americans

  • 931 BCE

    Israel Divides into Two Kingdoms

  • 800 BCE

    Home and Hesiod

  • 753 BCE

    Rome Founded

  • 722 BCE

    Israel Falls to Assyria

  • 612 BCE

    Assyria Falls to Babylon

  • 604 BCE

    Lao-Tzu, Confucius, Buddha

  • 597 BCE

    Judah Falls to Babylon, Temple Destroyed

  • 539 BCE

    Babylon Falls to Persia

  • 538 BCE

    Jews Return Rebuild Temple

  • 509 BCE

    Roman Republic

  • 479 BCE

    Golden Age of Greece

  • 450 BCE

    Tanglewood Tales

  • 431 BCE

    Peloponnesian Wars

  • 384 BCE

    Aristotle

    384-322 BC Philosopher who invented formal logic
  • 331 BCE

    Persia Falls to Alexander the Great

  • 321 BCE

    India's Mauryan Empire

  • 300 BCE

    Mayans of Mesoamerica

  • 264 BCE

    Punic Wars

  • 190 BCE

    Hipparchus

  • 146 BCE

    Rome Conquers Greece

  • 100 BCE

    Roman Dictator Julius Caesar

  • 63 BCE

    Caesar Agustus

  • 27 BCE

    Caesar Augustus and the Pax Romana

  • 5 BCE

    John the Baptist

  • 2 BCE

    The Flood and the Tower of Babel

    Genesis 6-8
  • Period: 1 BCE to 450

    Age of Ancient Empires (creation - 450 AD)

  • 4

    Jesus!

  • 30

    Pentecost and Early Church

  • 64

    Persecution Spreads the Gospel

  • 70

    Herod's Temple Destroyed By Titus

  • 100

    Ptolemy

    astronomer who made predictions of planetary motion
  • 286

    Diocletian Divides Roman Empire

  • 313

    Constatine Legalizes Christianity

  • 320

    India's Gupta Dynasty

  • 325

    Council of Nicea

  • 330

    Capital of Roman Empire moved

    Constantine moved it to Byzantium and renamed it Constantinople
  • 354

    Augustine of Hippo

  • 405

    Jerome Completes the Vulgate

  • 410

    Visigoths Sack Rome

  • Period: 450 to 1500

    The Middle Ages

  • 451

    Council of Chalcedon

  • 476

    Western Roman Empire Falls to Barbarians

  • 527

    Byzantine Emperor Justinian

  • 529

    Benedict and Monasticism

  • 590

    Pope Gregory compiles(?) the Gregorian chant

  • 622

    Muhammed Founds Islam

  • 700

    Zanj and Early Ghana in Africa

  • 732

    Franks Defeat Muslims at Battle of Tours

  • 750

    Golden Age of Islam

  • 793

    Vikings Raid and Trade

  • 794

    Japan's Heian Period

  • 800

    Charlemagne Crowned Emperor of Europe

  • 871

    Alfred the Great of England

  • 900

    Eric the Red/ Leif Eriksson, Norse Explorers

  • 958

    Vladimir I of Kiev

    brought christianity to Russia
  • 975

    Byzantine Emperor Basil II

  • 1054

    East/West Schism of the Church

  • 1066

    Norman Conquest/Feudalism in Europe

  • 1095

    The Crusades

  • 1100

    Zimbabwe and Early Mali in Africa

  • 1100

    Aztecs of Mesoamerica

  • 1175

    Berlinghero

  • Period: 1175 to 1236

    Byzantine Period

  • 1192

    Japan's Shoguns

  • 1200

    Incas of South America

  • 1206

    Genghis Khan Rules the Mongols

  • 1215

    England's Magna Carta

  • 1225

    Francis of Assisi & Thomas Aquinas

    1181-1225 AD
  • 1230

    Berlinghiero

    Italian artist, known for Madonna and Chid and a Crucifix piece which is where we got his name
  • 1250

    Ottoman Empire

  • 1271

    Marco Polo's Journey to China

  • 1337

    The Hundred Years' War & Black Death

  • 1350

    The Renaissance

  • 1368

    China's Ming Dynasty

  • 1390

    Jan Van Eyck

  • Period: 1390 to 1528

    Renaissance

  • Period: 1400 to

    Age of Exploration

  • 1419

    Prince Henry Founds School of Navigation

  • 1434

    Arnofini Portrait

    Painted by Van Eyck
  • 1440

    Slave Trade in Africa

  • 1452

    Leonardo Da Vinci

  • 1455

    Gutenberg's Printing Press

  • 1460

    Songhai in Africa

  • 1462

    Czar Ivan the Great of Russia

  • 1471

    Durer

  • 1473

    Nicolaus Copernicus

    1473-1543
    believed earth revolved around a stationary sun
  • 1475

    Michelangelo

  • 1478

    The Spanish Inquisition

  • 1492

    Columbus Sails to the Caribbean

  • 1499

    Amerigo Vespucci sailed to Americas

  • Period: 1500 to

    Age of Absolute Monarchs

  • 1517

    Protestant Reformation

  • 1519

    Spanish Conquistadors in Americas

  • 1536

    Calvin's Institutes of Christian Religion

  • 1545

    Council of Trent

  • 1564

    Galileo Galilei

    1564-1642
    invented the telescope
  • 1564

    Shakespeare born

  • 1571

    Johannes Kepler

    1571-1620
    developed theories explaining planetary motion

  • Baroque Period of the Arts

  • Period: to

    Baroque

  • Japan's Isolation

  • Rembrandt

  • Jamestown and Plymouth Colony Founded

    1607 and 1620

  • Giovanni Cassini

    1625-1712
    discovered 4 moons of Saturn and its rings

  • Vermeer

  • Sir Isaac Newton

    1642-1727
    discovered gravity and 3 laws of motion
  • Period: to

    Age of Enlightenment

  • Hudson's Bay Company

  • Johann Bach

  • Handel

  • Benjamin Franklin

    1706-1790
    American intellectual, inventor and politician

  • Handel's water music

  • Benjamin Banneker

    1731-1806
    invented first clock

  • George Washington

    1732-1799

  • Daniel Boone

    1734-1820
    explored Kentucky

  • First Great Awakening

  • Paul Revere

    1735-1818

  • Patrick Henry

    1736-1799
    argued against British rule of American colonies

  • Peale

  • Classical Period of the Arts

  • Period: to

    Classical

  • Mary Ludwig Hays (Molly Pitcher)

    1754-1832
    supplied men in combat with water

  • Mozart

  • Seven Years' War

  • Period: to

    Age of Industry

  • Eli Whitney

    1765-1825

  • Dolly Payne Todd Madison

    1768-1849
    Saved important government papers etc. during War of 1812

  • James Cook Sails to Australia & Antarctica

  • Beethoven

  • Boston Massacre

  • Period: to

    Early American Neoclassicism

  • Boston Tea Party

  • American Revolution / General George Washington

  • Caroline and William Herschel (siblings)

    Discovered Uranus
    Carolyn - 1st female astronomer

  • Madison's Constitution / Bill of Rights

  • Sacagawea

    1787-1812

  • French Revolution

  • George Washington

    1789-1797
    First U.S. President

  • Second Great Awakening

  • Samuel Houston

    1793-1863
    Helped secure Texas' independence

  • Cole

  • Thomas Jefferson

    1801-
    3rd President

  • Louisiana Purchase / Lewis & Clark

  • Napoleon Crowned Emperor of France

  • Robert E. Lee

    1807 - 1870
    Confederate General

  • Liberation of South America

  • Abraham Lincoln

    1809-1865

  • War of 1812

  • Battle of Waterloo

  • Maria Mitchell

    1818-1889
    Discovered a Comet

  • The Missouri Compromise

  • Immigrants Flock to America

  • Susan B. Anthony

    1820-1906
    Led women's suffrage movement

  • Harriet Tubman

    1820-1913
    Underground Railroad

  • Fanny Crosby

    1820-1915
    Wrote "Blessed Assurance"

  • Clarissa Harlowe (Clara Barton)

    1821-1912
    Founded the Red Cross

  • The Monroe Doctrine

  • Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson

    1824-1863
    Confederate General in The Battle of Bull Run

  • Romantic Period of the Arts

  • Period: to

    Romantic

  • Brahms

  • Winslow Homer

  • Battle of the Alamo

  • Cherokee Trail of Tears

  • Tchaikovsky

  • Monet

  • Period: to

    American Romanticism

  • Dvorak

  • U.S. Westward Expansion

  • Thomas Edison

    1847-1931
    American Inventor (light bulb + more)

  • Marx "Communist Manifesto"

  • Compromise of 1850/Dred Scott Decision

    1850 1857

  • U.S. Restores Trade w/ Japan

  • Theodore Roosevelt

    1858-1919

  • British Queen Victoria - rule over India

  • Charles Darwin "Origin of Species"

    published in 1859

  • Lincoln's War Between States - Civil War

  • Debussy

  • Henry Ford

    1863-1947
    Created Ford Motor Company

  • Gettysburg Address

  • George Washinton Carver

    1864-1943
    Black farmer and food scientist

  • Reconstruction of Southern States

  • Robert E Lee surrender at Appomattox, VA

    end of Civil War

  • Lincoln Assassination

  • Civil Rights Act

  • Dominion of Canada

  • Period: to

    Impressionism

  • Henrietta Leavitt

    1868-1921
    American astronomer who studied sun spots

  • Otto Von Bismarck unifies Germany

  • Helen Adams Keller

    1880-1968

  • Douglas MacArthur

    1880-1964
    U.S. commander in SW Pacific during WWII

  • Boer Wars in Africa

  • Stravinsky

  • Edwin Hubble

    1889-1953
    Discovered that Andromeda nebula was a galaxy
  • Period: to

    Modernism

  • Spanish-American War

  • The Progressive Era

  • Australia becomes a Commonwealth

  • Panama Canal opens

  • Setting for "Little Britches" novel

  • Mexican Revolution

  • Ronald Reagan

    1911-2004

  • Titanic Sank

  • World War I / President Wilson

  • German Uboats Sank Lusitania

  • Lenin / Bolshevik Revolution in Russia

  • U.S. Evangelist Billy Graham

  • Modern Period of the Arts

  • Setting "Where Red Fern Grows" novel

  • The Scopes Trial

  • The Great Depression / New Deal

  • Martin Luther King Jr.

    1929-1968

  • Dust Bowl

  • World War II / President Franklin D. Roosevelt

  • Stalin of USSR / Katyn Massacre

  • Setting "Hiding Place" novel

  • Stephen Hawking

    1942-2018
    British astronomer who studied black holes

  • The Cold War

  • United Nations Formed

  • Ghandi & India's Independence

  • Jewish State Established

  • Mao and Communist Victory in China

  • NATO (north atlantic treaty organization)

  • The Korean War

  • Martin Luther King Jr. / Civil Rights Movement

  • Jim & Elizabeth Elliot missionaries to Ecuador

  • The Antarctic Treaty

  • Fujimura

  • Setting "Phantom Tollbooth" novel

  • Vietnam War

  • U.S. Astronauts on Moon

    Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin
  • Period: to

    Age of Information and Globalization

  • Watergate / Nixon Resigns

  • Declaration of Independence

  • Fall of Communism in Eastern Europe

  • European Union Formed

  • Apartheid Abolished in South Africa

  • World Trade Center Terrorist Attack

  • Covid starts

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