Important Developments that have Shaped our Understanding of History.

By s.barber
  • Period: 11,000 BCE to 4000 BCE

    Agricultural Revolution: Humans Domesticate Plants and Animals:

    Humans domesticate animals and gain control of lands to farm and yield resources. Cultivation and trait selection start in Syria and domestication of many plants in Greece.
  • Archives are Recorded
    4000 BCE

    Archives are Recorded

    The first archives were created by the Sumerians in the middle of the fourth millennium B.C. These records took of the form of clay tablets with cuneiform characters. The archives were used to support commercial activity and property ownership.
  • Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE

    The First Cities Emerge in Mesopotamia

    400 BCE: According to legend, the Sumerians create their first settlement in Mesopotamia at Eridu. 4500 BCE: The Sumerian settlement of Uruk becomes the first city in Mesopotamia and the largest city in the world.
  • Invention of Writing
    3500 BCE

    Invention of Writing

    5,500 years ago in Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq). Early pictorial signs were gradually substituted by a complex system of characters representing the sounds of Sumerian and other languages.
  • The Ancient Egyptians Build the Great Pyramid of Giza for Pharaoh Khufu
    2560 BCE

    The Ancient Egyptians Build the Great Pyramid of Giza for Pharaoh Khufu

  • Period: 1850 BCE to 800 BCE

    The Origin and Development of Modern Alphabets

    1850 BCE (or 1550 BCE): First evid.ence of the Proto-Sinaitic/Proto-Canaanite script, which gives rise to the Phoenician alphabet
  • Babylonian King Hammurabi Issues the Code of Hammurabi, One of the Earliest Legal Codes
    1754 BCE

    Babylonian King Hammurabi Issues the Code of Hammurabi, One of the Earliest Legal Codes

    First laws.
  • The Life of the Buddha and Birth of Buddhism
    560 BCE

    The Life of the Buddha and Birth of Buddhism

  • 45 BCE

    The Birth of the Modern Calendar

  • 1 CE

    The Life of Jesus and the Birth of Christianity

  • 570

    The Life of Muhammad and the Birth of Islam

  • 1088

    The First University Is Established, at Bologna

  • 1320

    The Renaissance: A Rediscovery of Classical Knowledge Brings About Innovations and Achievements in Arts and Culture

  • 1492

    Christopher Columbus Arrives in the West Indies and Claims the Land for Spain; European Conquest of the Americas Begins

  • Period: to

    The early reform movement: the new educational philosophers

    The late 18th and 19th centuries represent a period of great activity in reformulating educational principles, and there was a ferment of new ideas, some of which in time wrought a transformation in school and classroom.

  • The Medical Revolution

  • Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species, which Proves that Natural Selection is the Mechanism of Biological Evolution

  • The Invention of Radio

  • The Suffrage Movement: Women Fight For the Right to Vote

  • Period: to

    World War I

  • Invention of the Television

    Invention of the Television

    Philo Taylor Farnsworth demonstrates the first electronic television in San Francisco.

  • Global Depression Follows Crash of US Stock Market

  • Period: to

    World War II

  • The Digital Revolution: The Invention of the Digital Electric Computer