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Period: 200,000 BCE to 3500 BCE
Prehistory
prehistory is the longest stage of history. -
35,000 BCE
Manufacture of the first utensils
According to prehistorians, the first utensils manufactured by humans were pieces of wood, bone or stone, roughly sharpened or accommodated by hand, breaking or splintering them. -
10,000 BCE
Discovery of fire
The discovery of fire and its application in cooking is attributed to Homo Erectus (successor of Homo Habilis) -
Period: 4000 BCE to 476
Antiquity
Thus, the Ancient Age began in the year 4,000 BC, with the birth of writing, and ended in the year 476 AD, with the fall of the Western Roman Empire, an event with which the Middle Ages began. -
Period: 3500 BCE to 2100 BCE
Mesopotamia
The name Mesopotamia, in Greek, means 'land between two rivers', and it is due to the fact that this civilization developed between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, in the area where Iraq and Syria are currently located. It was the first civilization that, along with the Egyptians, developed writing. Mesopotamia is considered the cradle of civilization, since it is where the first organized political forms were created. -
Period: 3150 BCE to 31 BCE
Egypt
Egypt. It developed along the lower course of the Nile River in the area now occupied by Egypt. With the first pharaoh there was the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt in the year 3,150 BC. Its most outstanding elements were hieroglyphic writing and the construction of the pyramids. -
3000 BCE
The appearance of writing
The appearance of writing As we have anticipated, the birth of writing marks the beginning of the Ancient Age. Each culture develops particular types of writing, such as the Egyptian, which represents objects through symbols, or the Greek, which creates the first alphabet. -
1250 BCE
The first laws
Hammurabi's code. Drafted by Hammurabi, King of Babylon. The Law of Retaliation appears for the first time -
46 BCE
The Julian calendar
The Julian calendar, introduced by Julius Caesar in 46 B.C. C. (708 AUC; ab Urbe condita; that is, from the founding of Rome), resulted from a reform of the Roman calendar.1 -
Period: 27 BCE to 476
Rome
Rome. The Roman civilization has undoubtedly been one of the most important in history. The Roman Empire spanned the entire Mediterranean coast, the United Kingdom, and Mesopotamia. Its architecture, its form of organization and its laws have left a very important legacy throughout Europe. -
19 BCE
aqueduct
aqueduct, (from Latin aqua + ducere, “to lead water”), conduit built to convey water. In a restricted sense, aqueducts are structures used to conduct a water stream across a hollow or valley -
476
the fall of the Roman empire
Odoacer, king of the Heruli, overthrows the last emperor of Rome, Romulus Augustulus, on September 4, 476. This event marks the end of the Roman Empire: the western empire disappears while the Byzantine eastern empire survives until the fall of Constantinople, in 1453 -
Period: 476 to 1492
Middle Ages
La Edad Media es el período histórico que abarca desde la caída del Imperio Romano de Occidente (476) hasta el Descubrimiento de América (1492). Este largo período histórico, conocido también como feudalismo, era una organización social, política y económica basada en la tierra y en el vasallaje -
1440
The invention of the printing press
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. -
Period: 1492 to
modern age
The Modern Age is the historical stage that takes place between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries. In contrast to the Middle Ages, the Modern Age is characterized by cultural progress, discoveries, the creation of States, the development of the economy worldwide and a greater weight of reason over faith. -
Aug 12, 1492
eddiscovery of america
In this way, 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 baptized with the name of San Salvador (later he arrived in the current territories of Santo Domingo and Cuba) -
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The French Revolution
The French Revolution was the first to create a state based on the ideas of the Enlightenment. All the people who supported the French Revolution shared the same ideas about the system of government that should replace absolutism. -
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The Contemporary Age
The Contemporary Age is the historical period between the French Revolution (1789) and the present. It is a time characterized by revolutions and by great artistic, demographic, social, political, technological and economic transformations. -
the computer
The first mechanical computer or automatic computing engine concept. In 1822, Charles Babbage conceptualized and began to develop the difference engine. It was considered the first automatic computing machine capable of calculating various sets of numbers and making hard copies of the results. -
typewriter
In 1829, William Austin Burt patented a machine called a typesetter. Like many of the other early machines, it is often cited as the "first" typewriter. -
The telegraph
The telegraph was the first technology that literally allowed the transmission of data, and the electrical telegraph made use of the electrical signal for the first time for the same purpose. It may seem strange today, but the ability to radically speed up data transmission was not immediately appreciated. -
the telephone
For a long time, Alexander Graham Bell was considered the inventor of the telephone, but only because he was the first to patent the device in 1854 . It wasn't until 2002 that the United States Congress approved recognition of Antonio Meucci as the inventor of the telephone. . -
Radio
The history of radio began in 1887, when the German physicist Heinrich Hertz detected electromagnetic radiation (predicted twenty-four years earlier by Jaime Clerck Maxwell) from powerful electrical charges. But the development of radio was due to other men -
Television
The first successful television experience occurred in 1925, when the Scotsman John Logie Baird managed to synchronize two Nipkow records, attached to the same axis. Using one as a transmitter and one as a receiver, he effectively transmitted the image of a mannequin head at 14 frames per second. -
ARPANET
On December 5, 1969, the first ARPANET interconnection was established between nodes located at the University of California at Los Angeles, the Stanford Research Institute, the University of California at Santa Barbara, and the University of Utah.