History Timeline By aj6 4004 BCE Creation 3200 BCE Sumerian society starts Period: 3100 BCE to 1000 BCE Ancient Egyptian Kingdom 2448 BCE Noah Called to Build an Ark 2349 BCE The Flood Starts Period: 2000 BCE to 338 BCE Greece Empire 1920 BCE Abram Called 1707 BCE The great famine during Joseph's life starts 1491 BCE Parting of the Red Sea 1451 BCE Conquest of Jericho 1063 BCE David Anointed King 1005 BCE Temple Completed 975 BCE Israel Divided Period: 911 BCE to 612 BCE Assyrian Empire 753 BCE Rome Founded 721 BCE Israel Taken into Captivity Period: 612 BCE to 539 BCE Babylonian Empire 588 BCE Judah Taken into Captivity Period: 550 BCE to 330 BCE Persian Empire Period: 490 BCE to 479 BCE Persian Wars Period: 431 BCE to 404 BCE Peloponnesian War Period: 356 BCE to 323 BCE Alexander the Great's life 338 BCE Philip Conquers Greece Period: 337 BCE to 31 BCE Hellenistic Kingdoms Period: 264 BCE to 241 BCE First Punic War Period: 218 BCE to 201 BCE Second Punic War 166 BCE Maccabean Revolt Period: 149 BCE to 146 BCE Third Punic War 146 BCE Macedonia and Greece become Roman Provinces Period: 100 BCE to 44 BCE Julius Caesar Period: 31 BCE to 410 Roman Empire Period: 27 BCE to 180 Pax Romana Period: 27 BCE to 14 Augustus' (Octavian) Reign 4 BCE Jesus is Born 27 Jesus is Baptized--Earthly Ministry Begins Period: 27 to 33 Jesus Earthly Ministry 31 Disciples Called 33 Jesus' Betrayal, Crucifixion, Burial, Resurrection, and Ascension 35 Conversion of Saul Period: 54 to 68 Reign of Nero 65 Paul is Martyred 66 Peter is Martyred Period: 69 to 81 Reign of Vespasian 70 Destruction of Jerusalem by Titus Period: 81 to 96 Reign of Domitian Period: 96 to 180 Five Good Emperors Period: 249 to 251 Reign of Decius Period: 285 to 305 Diocletian Reign Period: 285 to 305 Reign of Diocletian 313 The Edict of Milan 330 Constantinople Built 385 Christianity official Religion of Rome Period: 400 to 1000 Byzantium Empire Period: 418 to 711 Visigothic Kingdom of Spain Period: 485 to 750 Merovingian Dynasty of France Period: 500 to 1500 Middle Ages 622 Muhammad Flees Mecca Period: 672 to 735 The Venerable Bede Period: 752 to 987 Carolingian Dynasty Period: 871 to 901 Reign of Alfred the Great 1000 Leif Erikson travels to North America Period: 1096 to 1291 The Crusades 1206 Genghis Khan Unites Military 1215 Magna Carta Signed Period: 1225 to 1274 Thomas Aquinas Period: 1254 to 1324 Marco Polo Period: 1300 to 1566 Ottoman Empire Period: 1300 to 1640 The Renaissance Period: 1320 to 1384 John Wycliffe Period: 1337 to 1453 The Hundred Years' War 1348 The Black Death Begins Period: 1483 to 1546 Martin Luther 1492 Columbus Discovers North America Period: 1509 to 1564 John Calvin 1517 Luther's Ninety-five Theses 1521 Luther at the Diet of Worms 1522 Cortés Conquers the Aztec Empire 1532 Inca Empire Falls to Francisco Pizarro 1534 Act of Supremacy (The English King is the Head of the English Church) 1539 de Soto lands in Florida 1543 Capernicus Publishes views of Heliocentric Model Period: 1558 to 1603 Queen Elizabeth of England's Reign Period: 1562 to 1598 French Wars of Religion Period: 1564 to 1616 William Shakespeare Period: 1564 to 1642 Galileo Galilei 1572 Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre 1588 Spanish Armada Destroyed 1600 English East India Company Founded 1602 Dutch United East India Company Founded Period: 1603 to 1625 King James I of England's Reign 1609 The Bank of Amsterdam is Founded Period: 1618 to 1648 Thirty Years' War Period: 1625 to 1649 Charles I of England's Reign Period: 1628 to 1688 John Bunyan Period: 1642 to 1727 Isaac Newton 1657 The Bank of Sweden is Founded Period: 1660 to 1685 Charles II of England's Reign 1694 The Bank of England is Founded Period: 1694 to 1778 Voltaire Period: 1706 to 1790 Benjamin Franklin Period: 1712 to 1778 Jean-Jacques Rousseau Period: 1714 to 1727 George I of England's Reign Period: 1729 to 1797 Edmund Burke Period: 1732 to 1799 George Washington Period: 1737 to 1809 Thomas Paine Period: 1743 to 1826 Thomas Jefferson Period: 1776 to 1783 American Revolution Jul 4, 1776 Declaration of Independence Period: 1780 to 1850 Industrial Revolution Jun 20, 1789 Tennis Court Oath Jul 14, 1789 Storming the Bastille 1793 Reign of Terror 1799 Rosetta Stone Found Period: 1809 to 1865 Abraham Lincoln Period: 1809 to 1882 Charles Darwin 1815 Napoleon Defeated at Waterloo Period: 1820 to 1895 Karl Marx 1844 Samuel Morse Sends Message by Telephone Wire Period: 1844 to 1890 Friedrich Nietzsche 1848 The Communist Manifesto is Written 1859 Origin of Species Written Period: 1861 to 1865 U.S. Civil War 1876 Telephone Invented 1889 Socialists form the Second International Period: 1889 to 1945 Adolf Hitler 1914 Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand Period: 1914 to 1918 World War 1 1918 Spanish Flu Period: 1920 to 1991 Soviet Union 1926 Mussolini's Italian office turned into Dictatorship Period: 1929 to 1939 Great Depression 1933 Nazis Gain Power Period: 1939 to 1945 World War 2 Dec 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor Jun 6, 1944 D-Day 1945 United Nations Founded Period: 1945 to 1991 Cold War 1961 Berlin Wall Built 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis 1969 Americans Land on the Moon 1986 Chernobyl Accident 1994 NAFTA Signed Period: 2001 to 2021 War in Afghanistan Sep 11, 2001 9/11 Terrorist Attacks