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. Prehistory Division: 2,500,000 years B.C. up to 3,500 years B.C.
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It is estimated that it was around the year 500,000 B.C. when fire was discovered for the first time, in the sense that it was managed to be tamed, taking advantage of some hot branch after a fire to later maintain and preserve it. Fire in a cave by Vincent van der Pas -
Most of the authors estimate that the wheel was invented in the 5th millennium BC. C. in Mesopotamia, during the El Obeid period (circa 4500 BC), in the ancient region known as the Fertile Crescent, initially, with the function of a potter's wheel. -
The Antiquity starts in the year 4,000 BC, and ended in the year 476 AD
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Its beginning is located in the year 476 and its end in 1492,
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The invention of the printing press is attributed to the German, Johannes Gutenberg in the year 1440. Gutenberg is considered "the father of the printing press", after years trying to dispute the title between the French, Italians, Dutch and Germans. -
On October 12, 1492 Christopher Columbus arrived in what we know today as America when he met the Antilles and landed on the island of Guanahaní, which he named San Salvador (later he arrived in the current territories of Santo Domingo and Cuba ). -
Modern Age (1492 – 1789)
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The Contemporary Age lasts from 1789 to the present
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That December 17, 1903, the Flyer I (weighing 35 kilos, a 12-horsepower engine and Orville on board) was launched with a catapult and maintained for 12 seconds, covering 36 meters over Kitty Hawk Bay in Ohio, quite a success for the time.