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1750 BCE
Shang Dynasty
Ended in 1110BC after being defeated by the Chou. -
1096 BCE
Crusaders
They fought in the Crusades for the suppression of paganism and heresy along with other reasons. There were 9 crusades total. -
625 BCE
Thales
He was called the First Philosopher and First Sceintist. -
484 BCE
Herodotus
Born in 484 BC and died in 425 BC. Before Herodotus no one had ever written a coherent story with a beginning, middle, and end and with an explanation of why things happened the way they did. -
460 BCE
Democritus
Born in 460 BC. He was supposed to have written some 70 books but none survive. Plato wanted to burn all of them. -
428 BCE
Plato
Born roughly around 428/427 or 424/423 BC and died roughly around 348/347 BC. -
384 BCE
Aristotle
Greek Philosopher and Scientist. Aristotle died in 322 BC. -
356 BCE
Alexander the Great
Born in 356 BC and died in 323 BC. He was tutored by Aristotle until age 16. He spent most of his ruling years on an unprecedented military campaign through Asia and Northeast Africa and he created one of the largest empires of the ancient world. -
354 BCE
Augustine
Born in 354 BC and died in 430 BC. He was a North African Christian Theologian and philosopher whose influenced the development of Western Christianity and Western Philosophy. -
272 BCE
Constantine
Born in 272 BC and died in 337 BC. He was the first Roman emperor to convert to Christianity. -
106 BCE
Cicero
Born in 106 BC. He was murdered in 43 BC. -
100 BCE
Julius Caesar
Born in 100 BC and died in 44 BC. -
63 BCE
Augustus
Born in 63 BC and died in 14 AD. -
37 BCE
Nero
Born in 37 BC and died in 68 BC. He was the last Roman emperor of the Julio-Claudian Dynasty. -
4 BCE
Jesus
Born around 4 BC to a virgin named Mary. He is the Son of God. He lived on the Earth for 33 years teaching people about God, performing miracles and discipling. His death took place on the cross between 30-36 BC but then he rose. He ascended back into Heaven after living on the earth 3 more years after his death on the cross telling people who He was and telling them His last commands before He went back to Heaven. -
1400
Johann Gutenberg
Born c. 1400 and he died in 1468. Gutenberg in 1439 was the first European to use movable type. -
1451
Columbus
Born in 1451 and died in 1506. He was an Italian explorer, navigator, and colonizer. He saw an opportunity to trade spices with Asia and began to sail. During his first voyage he ended up at the New World instead of Japan. He then voyaged back to the New World and to the Caribbean and Central America. -
1452
Leonardo di Vinci
Born in 1452 and died in 1519. He has been called the father of paleontology, iconology, and architecture. Many historians and scholars call him the prime example of the "Renaissance Man". -
1473
Copernicus
Born in 1473 and died in 1543. By 1500 he was said to have mastered all scientific knowledge of his time. He formulated the model that placed the Sun instead of Earth at the center of the universe. -
1483
Martin Luther
Born in 1483 and died in 1546. He was the founder of Protestantism and fomenter of the Reformation. He became a lawyer and became an Augustinian monk. He became a professor of theology in 1510. -
1533
Michel de Montaigne
Born in 1533 and died in 1592. He was one of the most significant philosophers of the French Renaissance. -
1564
Galileo
Born in 1564 and died in 1646. He held to heliocentrism and Capernicanism during his lifetime and was met with opposition from other astronomers because of it. He has been called the "Father of the observational astronomy". -
1571
Kepler
Born in 1571 and died in 1630. He argued that the planets moved freely in space. His greatest contribution was three laws of planetary motion that solved the problem of epicycles and eccentric orbits. -
Newton
Born in 1642 and died in 1726. He formulated the laws of motion and the universal gravitation. -
Thomas Jefferson
Born in 1743 and died in 1826. He was one of the Founding Fathers of America. He was the third president of the United States. He was also the primary author of the Declaration of Independence. -
Nicephore Niepce
Born in 1765 and died in 1833. He was a French Lithographer. The first successful photograph was made by him n 1826. -
Thomas Moore
Born in 1779 and died in 1852. He was a famous author, politician, and martyr. -
William H. F. Talbot
Born in 1800 and died in 1877. He was the inventor of the negative-positive system now in use. -
Abraham Lincoln
Born in 1809 and died in 1865. He was the 16th president of the United States. He also lead the US through the Civil War. He put into place the Emancipation Proclamation. -
Charles Darwin
Born in 1809 and died in 1882. He began to develop the theory of evolution and the origin of species and published it in 1859. -
Matthew Brady
Born in 1823 and died in 1896. He is best known for the photographs he took during the Civil War. He was determined to make a photographic record of the war. -
George Eastman
Born in 1854 and died in 1932. In 1888 he introduced the first box camera with a handy roll of negative film and with a promise of cheap and widely available film processing. -
Albert Einstein
Born in Ulm, Germany in in 1879. Einstein discovered one of the most important pieces of new knowledge in the twentieth century. A formula most people know. In a 4 page paper he wrote in 1905 Einstein went further in solving the riddle of the world then anyone else. In the third and fourth papers the Special Theory of Relativity and the General Theory of Relativity came to be. He won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921. In 1905 another paper was written about mass and energy. -
Neil Armstrong
Born in 1930 and died in 2012. He along with Edwin Aldrin and Michael Collins were the first men to step foot on the moon. -
Adolf Hitler
Took over Germany in 1933.