Spring Break Timeline

By DeedeeB
  • Period: 8000 BCE to

    Spring Break Timeline

  • Neolithic Rev
    7000 BCE

    Neolithic Rev

    Start of agriculture, pastoralism, specialization of labor, towns and cities, governments, and religion.
  • First tentative step out of the Stone Age
    7000 BCE

    First tentative step out of the Stone Age

    Neolithic communities in eastern Anatolia make implements of hammered copper- the first tentative step out of the Stone Age innovation
  • Sumer
    3100 BCE

    Sumer

    Squash and chili are the first plants to be cultivated in America, in the Tehuácan valley in modern Mexico
  • Oxen
    3000 BCE

    Oxen

    Used for heavy work as of pulling the plough, which was previously done by men's innovations.
  • Standing Stones
    2200 BCE

    Standing Stones

    Large circle of standing stones in England at Avebury and no one knows how men really got them up. One guess is by innovations to bring them over there and standing them up.
  • Abbasids establish new caliphate
    750 BCE

    Abbasids establish new caliphate

    The Abbasids massacre the Umayyads in Damascus and establish a new caliphate
  • Nebuchadnezzar takes over Jerusalem
    586 BCE

    Nebuchadnezzar takes over Jerusalem

    After a long siege Jerusalem is taken by Nebuchadnezzar and the city, including Solomon’s Temple.
  • Hanging Gardens
    580 BCE

    Hanging Gardens

    Hanging Gardensis in Babylon and it was created by Nebuchadnezzar to comfort a homesick wife.
  • Zodiakos Kyklos
    550 BCE

    Zodiakos Kyklos

    The Greeks develop the Babylonian theme of the zodiac, naming it the the zodiakos kyclos or circle of animals.
  • Persian Wars
    500 BCE

    Persian Wars

    Conflict between Greece and Persia which involved two invasions. Several of the most famous and significant battles in history were fought during the Wars.
  • Alexander the Great
    330 BCE

    Alexander the Great

    Alexander begins two years moving with his army through his vast new territories establishing Greek settlements.
  • Great Wall of China
    221 BCE

    Great Wall of China

    To stop invasions from northern invaders the Qin emperor joins up earlier fortifications to create the Great Wall.
  • Defeat of Ptolemy XIII
    47 BCE

    Defeat of Ptolemy XIII

    The combined forces of Caesar and Cleopatra defeat Ptolemy XIII in a battle fought in the Nile delta
  • Spread of Buddhism
    100

    Spread of Buddhism

    Arriving with the trade along the Silk Road from India, puts down form roots in China
  • Potato
    200

    Potato

    It was cultivated in the Peruvian Andes.
  • Jews Spread to Roman empire
    300

    Jews Spread to Roman empire

    The Jews of the Diaspora have by now spread through much of the Roman Empire, where they were tested with tolerance.
  • Decline of Mayan Civilization
    900

    Decline of Mayan Civilization

    The abandonment of Maya cities in the southern Maya lowlands of Mesoamerica between the 8th and 9th centuries
  • First reference to compass for sea navigation
    1119

    First reference to compass for sea navigation

    The magnetic compass was first invented as a device for divination as early as the Chinese Han Dynasty
  • Marco Polo
    1217

    Marco Polo

    Only 17 years old des off from Venice on his journey to the east.
  • Marco Polo narrates his adventures
    1298

    Marco Polo narrates his adventures

    Marco Polo, in prison in Genoa , is persuaded by a fellow prisoner to narrate his adventures
  • Black Death
    1346

    Black Death

    This is called the bubonic plague and it devastated Europe. It later became known as the Black Death.
  • Black Death spreading to Europe
    1348

    Black Death spreading to Europe

    Making its way through Europe, is described in vivid detail by Boccaccio who sees its devasting effect in person.
  • Peasants Rev
    1381

    Peasants Rev

    A poll tax imposed in England provokes widespread unrest, which flares up in the Peasants’ Rev
  • The Caravel
    1450

    The Caravel

    A sailing ship developed in the Mediterranean and used spent the west coast of Africa.
  • Christopher Columbus
    1492

    Christopher Columbus

    Together with the brothers Martin and Vicente Pinzón, sails west from Palos in Spain.
  • Jamestown

    Jamestown

    Colonists establish the first lasting British settlement in the new world, at Jamestown
  • Galileo

    Galileo

    Galileo, with his new powerful telescope , observed the moon of Jupiter and spots moving on the surface of the sun.
  • Pocahontas

    Pocahontas

    Pocahontas is a baptized Christian and marries John Rolfe, one of Jamestown colonists
  • Thirty Years War

    Thirty Years War

    The Thirty Years' War was a war fought primarily in Central Europe between 1618 and 1648.
  • Plymouth

    Plymouth

    The pilgrims on the Mayflower select a place for their settlement , and give it the name of Plymouth.
  • Qing conquest of Mongolia

    Qing conquest of Mongolia

    Qing victories ultimately led to the incorporation of Outer Mongolia, Tibet and Xinjiang into the Qing Empire that was to last until the fall of the dynasty in 1911–1912
  • 7 Years' War

    7 Years' War

    The Seven Years' War was a global conflict fought between 1756 and 1763. It involved every European great power of the time and spanned five continents, affecting Europe, the Americas, West Africa, India, and the Philippines.
  • American Revolution

    American Revolution

    The American Revolution was a colonial revolt that took place between 1765 and 1783.
  • Spinning Jenny

    Spinning Jenny

    The spinning jenny is a multi-spindle spinning frame, and was one of the key developments in the industrialization of weaving during the early Industrial Revolution.
  • Common Sense

    Common Sense

    In Common Sense, an anonymous pamphlet English immigrant Thomas Paine is the first to argue that the American colonies should be independent
  • George Washington elected president

    George Washington elected president

    Unanimously elected first president of the United States and is inagurated on Wall Street, New York
  • First political Parties

    First political Parties

    The first political parties , Hamilton’s Federalists and Jefferson’s Republicans, emerge in the USA
  • Louisiana Purchase

    Louisiana Purchase

    The Louisiana Purchase was the acquisition of the Louisiana territory by the United States from France in 1803.
  • Haiti’s Independence

    Haiti’s Independence

    The independence of Haiti from France is proclaimed by a new native ruler calling himself the emperor Jacques
  • Muhammed Ali rules Egypt

    Muhammed Ali rules Egypt

    Self-declared Khedive of Egypt and Sudan with the Ottomans' temporary approval.
  • Bolivar the Liberator

    Bolivar the Liberator

    Bolivar defeats the Spanish forces in Venezuela and is welcomed in Caracasas the Liberator
  • Industrialization in US

    Industrialization in US

    The industrial growth that began in the United States in the early 1800's continued steadily up to and through the American Civil War.
  • WW1 begins

    WW1 begins

    World War I, also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918
  • Russian Rev

    Russian Rev

    The Russian Revolution was a pair of revolutions in Russia in 1917 which dismantled the Tsarist autocracy and led to the rise of the Soviet Union.
  • Women's Suffrage

    Women's Suffrage

    The right for women to vote
  • WW2 begins

    WW2 begins

    A global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although related conflicts began earlier.
  • 9/11

    9/11

    September 11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington D.C
  • Osama bin Laden

    Osama bin Laden

    The founder of the islamist group Al-Qaeda was killed in Pakistan on May 2, 2011
  • Obama’s second inauguration

    Obama’s second inauguration

    Marked the commencement of the second term of Barack Obama’s presidency.