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5000-3500 BC: The first city states being to develope in souhern Mesopotamia.
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3200 BCE: The first form of written writing the Cuneiform is invented by the Sumerian people of Mesopotamia.
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1750 B.C: First code of laws was written by the sixth Babylonian King of Mesopotamia, Hammurabi.
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2700 B.C: Age of the pyramids. More than 20 major pyramids were built at this time.
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1323 B.C: King Tutankhamun dies of a leg infection. His tomb would later be discovered in 1922 and is one of the greatest archeological discoveries in history.
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30 B.C: Queen of Egypt, Cleopatra kills herself using a venomous cobra, which led to the fall of Egypt to the Romans.
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776 B.C: First Olympic Games are played in Athens. The games were played in honour of the god Zeus, it consisted of 6 different events and was played by representatives of different city states.
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431-404 B.C: The Peloponnesian war was a battle between Athens and Sparta to take control over Greece. Athens lost the battle in 404 B.C. and fell to the Spartans.
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146 B.C: Romans conquer Greece and end the empire. This came following the Roman victory in the Battle of Corinth.
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509 B.C: The last king is expelled and Rome is now ruled by senators. There is a constitution with laws and Rome becomes a complex republican government.
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45-44 B.C: Julius Caesar becomes dictator of Rome. This marks the end if the Roman Republic. In 44B.C. Julius Caesar in assassinated in hopes to bring back the Republic, civil war broke out instead.
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The last Roman Emperor Romulus Augustus is defeated by the German Goth Odoacer. Thus marking the beginning of the dark ages in Europe.
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1066 A.D: William of Normandy invades England; the Battle of Hastings takes place.
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1431 A.D: Joan of Arc is executed by the English after leading the French recovery during the Hundred Years’ War.
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1492 A.D: Christopher Columbus discovers America. He intended to sail to Asia for the gold and spices, but accidentally discovered the Americas.
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1,500,000 B.C: First evidence of Homo erectus in Africa: they were taller humans with bigger brains and better tools, and lived in small hunter-gatherer societies.
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13,000 B.C: First evidence of humans migrating to the Americas.
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10,000 B.C: Agriculture begins, better tools are developed, people begin to settle in villages in some areas.
