History

Nomads Roam Fertile Crescent

7000 BCE

Jericho Walls Built

6800 BCE

Start of Sumerian Civilization in Mesopotamia

4000 BCE

Cuneiform Created

3200 BCE

Epic of Gilgamesh

3000 BCE

3000-1200 BC

Old Kingdom - Egypt

3000 BCE

3000-2100 BC

King Namar unites Upper & Lower Egypt

3000 BCE

Huang Di rules China

2690 BCE

Great Pyramid Built

2550 BCE

burial place of Cheops

Sargon - King of city-state Kish

2334 BCE

Peak Minoan Civilization

2200 BCE

2200-1450 BC

Middle Kingdom - Egypt

2040 BCE

2040-1720 BC

Harappan Civilization Peak

2000 BCE

2000-1750 BC

Abraham Alive

2000 BCE

Amenhemet pharoah

1980 BCE

1980-1926 BC

American Civil War

1861 BCE

1861-1865 AD

Hammurabi inherits throne of Babylon

1792 BCE

T'ang - King of China

1766 BCE

Leaving Indus Valley

1750 BCE

Mohenjo-Daro

1750 BCE

Joseph Alive

1600 BCE

Ahmose expels Hyksos from Egypt

1567 BCE

Thutomse I pharaoh of Egypt

1524 BCE

Aryan people enter India

1500 BCE

Hatshepsut Pharaoh of Egypt - woman!

1473 BCE

female Pharaoh!

Mycenaeans in Crete

1450 BCE

Moses

1450 BCE

Tutankhamen (King Tut) born

1357 BCE

became king around 9 years old! 1357-1339 bc (18 yrs old)

Queen Tiye reigns Egypt

1353 BCE

Spread of Assyrian Empire

1300 BCE

1300-1200 BC

Olmec Civilization of Mexico

1200 BCE

1200-900 BC

Phoenician Civ. Peak! & (Greek Dark Ages)

1200 BCE

1200-700 BC

Carthage first settled

814 BCE

Homer alive

800 BCE

Greek Olympics

776 BCE

Greek City States Begin

750 BCE

Tiglath - Pileser III rules Assyria

745 BCE

745-727 BC

Earliest Persians

700 BCE

Ashurbanipal's reign of Assyria

668 BCE

668-627 BC

Nebudchadnezzar King Babylon

605 BCE

605-561 BC

Buddha Alive

563 BCE

563-483 BC

Cyrus the Great rules Medes & Persians

559 BCE

559-525 BC

Confucius Lives

551 BCE

551-479 BC

Babylon Falls to Persians

539 BCE

Peak Aryan Empire in India

500 BCE

War against Persia by Greece

500 BCE

Period of warring states in China begins

500 BCE

First Marathon run - Greece beats Persia

490 BCE

Battle of Salmis

480 BCE

Greece defeats Persia in large navy battle

Peloponnesian War begins

431 BCE

431-404 BC

Macedonia's King Philip defeats Greece city-states

338 BCE

Alexander the Great rule begins (Macedonia)

336 BCE

336-323 BC

Mauryan Empire of India begins

321 BCE

321-233 BC

Asoka rules India (Mauryan done after his death)

268 BCE

268-233 BC

Punic Wars Begin

264 BCE

264-146 BC (first of several)
Rome vs. Carthage (Carthaginian Wars)

Shi Huangdi unites China warring states

221 BCE

also called Qin Zheng; started in 230 BC

Hannibal invades Italy

218 BCE

elephants / Alps

China Great Wall Begins

214 BCE

Qin Zheng burns books

212 BCE

Nazca civilization peak

200 BCE

Peru
large line drawings

Julius Caesar born

100 BCE

Cleopatra born

69 BCE

Caesar attacks Britain

55 BCE

55-54 BC

Romulus & Remus - Rise of Rome

53 BCE

Caesar assassinated

44 BCE

The Ides Of March

Caesar Augustus begins rule of Rome

27 BCE

formerly known as Octavian
joined Counsel in 43 BC

Jesus born

3 BCE

probable year

Caesar Augustus dies

14

Attila the Hun dies

52

Nero rule of Rome begins

54

54-68 AD

Boadicea rebels against Rome (2 years)

61

61-63 AD

Temple in Jerusalem destroyed

70

Yamato Dynasty unites Japan

258

Diocletian splits Roman empire with Maximian

286

286-305 Roman Empire Split

Constantine reign begins

312

312-337 AD

Roman Empire Splits into 2

395

Visigoths sack Rome

410

Anglo Saxon invasion of England

449

Skandagupta rules Gupta Empire of India

455

455-467 AD

Romulus Augustus rules Western Roman Empire

475

475-476 AD

Clovis unites the Franks/ Gaul

481

became a Christian mid-battle

Justinian I rules Byzantine Empire

482

482-565 AD

Prophet Mohammed Alive

570

570-632 AD

Yang Chien Unites North and South China

581

St. Augustine of Canterbury alive

596

Christianity brought to England

Yangdi killed / Sui dynasty over after 2 generations

617

Golden Age of China - Li Yuan - Tang Dynasty

618

began golden age of China - over 300 years

Spread of Islamic Empire

632

632-661 AD

Tariq / Islam takes over Spain (Moors)

715

Charles Martel wins battle of Tours against Muslim invaders

732

the Hammer!

Charlemagne Rules

771

Charles the Great

Viking Invasion / Normandy

887

Leif Ericson comes to North America

989

First Crusade

1096

Magna Carta

1215

bubonic plague / black death

1346

1346-1353

Joan of Arc

1412

War of Roses

1455

Nicholaus Copernicus

1473

figured out we revolve around the sun, not earth

Tree in the Trail Cottonwood

1610

Slavery begins in America

1619

George Washington

1732

start of Shang Dynasty (-1122)

1766

1766-1122 BC

Abraham Lincoln Born

1809

David Livingstone born

1813

Harriet Tubman born

1822

Gladys Aylward

1902

Rosa Parks born

1913

King Tut's tomb discovered

1922

Martin Luther King Jr. born

1929

Montgomery Civil Rights Bus Boycott

1955

1955-1956 AD

First Human Orbits Earth

1961

Civil Rights Act Passed

1964

First Moon Landing

1969

2020

2020

George Floyd Died