History Timeline

  • 4000 BCE

    Garden on Eden

    Garden on Eden
  • Period: 3500 BCE to 1900 BCE

    Sumer

  • Period: 3100 BCE to 2650 BCE

    Predynastic Period

  • Period: 2650 BCE to 2134 BCE

    Old Kingdom

  • 2500 BCE

    Flood

  • 2242 BCE

    Tower of Babel

    Tower of Babel
  • Period: 2040 BCE to 1640 BCE

    Middle Kingdom

  • 2000 BCE

    Abraham

  • Period: 2000 BCE to 800 BCE

    The early period

  • Period: 1900 BCE to 1300 BCE

    Babylonia

  • 1792 BCE

    Babylonian empire starts up

  • Period: 1550 BCE to 1070 BCE

    New Kindom

  • 1420 BCE

    Exodus

  • Period: 1330 BCE to 609 BCE

    Assyria

  • Period: 1070 BCE to 332 BCE

    Late Dynastic Period

  • 1000 BCE

    David

  • Period: 800 BCE to 480 BCE

    The early classical period

  • 753 BCE

    Rome is founded

  • Period: 609 BCE to 530 BCE

    Chaldea

  • 586 BCE

    Judah exiled by Babylonians

  • 539 BCE

    Babylonian empire ends

  • 537 BCE

    Return from exile - rebuild temple

  • Period: 480 BCE to 338 BCE

    Classical Greece

  • 356 BCE

    Alexander the Great is born

  • Period: 338 BCE to 27 BCE

    Hellenistic Age

  • Period: 332 BCE to 28 BCE

    Greek period

  • 323 BCE

    Alexander the Great dies

  • Period: 264 BCE to 241 BCE

    Punic War

  • 146 BCE

    Greek empire ends

  • Period: 146 BCE to 31 BCE

    The decline of the republic

  • 100 BCE

    Julius Caesar is born

  • Period: 48 BCE to 395

    Roman Period

  • 44 BCE

    Julius Caesar's death

  • Period: 31 BCE to 180

    Pax Romana

  • 5 BCE

    Christ's birth

  • 33

    Christ's death

  • Period: 96 to 180

    The 5 good emperors

  • 395

    Rome splits

  • 395

    Christianity becomes the official religion of Rome

  • 1453

    Byzantine and Roman empire end