THE Timeline By pgabriellini 570 BCE Pythagoras born 540 BCE Heraclitus born 500 BCE Anaxagoras born 497 BCE Pythagoras died 495 BCE Empedocles born 490 BCE Protagoras born 480 BCE Heraclitus died 435 BCE Empedocles died 428 BCE Plato born 428 BCE Anaxagoras died 420 BCE Protagoras died 348 BCE Plato died 339 BCE Zeno born 316 BCE Arcesilaus born 262 BCE Zeno died 240 BCE Arcesilaus died 204 Plotinus born 270 Plotinus died 322 Aristotle died 354 Augustine of Hippo born 384 Aristotle born 430 Augustine of Hippo died Jan 1, 1225 Thomas Aquinas born Mar 7, 1274 Thomas Aquinas died Aug 3, 1492 Columbus's First Voyage May 11, 1502 Columbus's last voyage Feb 7, 1519 Cortes stats invasion of Mexico Aug 13, 1521 Cortes conquers Mexico Dec 13, 1521 Sexts Empiricus born Aug 7, 1585 Roanoke Island Founded Aug 7, 1590 Roanoke Island Colony Disappears Aug 27, 1590 Sextus Empiricus died Mar 31, 1596 René Descartes born May 14, 1607 Jamestown Virginia Founded Jul 30, 1619 Virginia House of Burgesses Formed Aug 7, 1619 First Africans Arrived in Virginia Nov 11, 1620 Pilgrims Found Plymouth Colony Jul 7, 1629 Massachusetts Becomes Royal Colony Mar 7, 1630 Puritan Migration to Massachusetts Jun 20, 1632 Calvert found Maryland Aug 29, 1632 John Locke born Jul 7, 1636 Start of Pequot Indian War (Massachusetts) Aug 7, 1638 Anne Hutchinson Convicted of Heresy Sep 7, 1638 End of Pequot Indian War (Massachusetts) Jan 15, 1639 The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut Apr 7, 1642 Start of English Civil War Jul 1, 1646 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz born Feb 11, 1650 René Descartes died Oct 7, 1651 First Navigation Act Dec 7, 1651 End of English Civil War Aug 27, 1664 English Conquers New Netherlands Jun 7, 1675 Start of King Philip's War Mar 14, 1676 Bacon's Rebellion (Virginia) Aug 7, 1676 End of King Philip's War Jan 24, 1679 Christian Wolff born Mar 4, 1681 Pennsylvania Settled Mar 12, 1685 George Berkeley born May 7, 1688 Start of English Glorious Revolution Dec 7, 1689 End of English Glorious Revolution Feb 7, 1692 Start of Salem Witch Trials May 7, 1693 End of Salem Witch Trials Jun 7, 1702 Queen Anne's War started Oct 28, 1704 John Locke died May 1, 1707 United Kingdom Founded May 7, 1711 David Hume born Sep 14, 1713 Queen Anne's War ended Oct 5, 1713 Denis Diderot born Aug 1, 1714 King George I Ascended Nov 14, 1716 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz died Dec 8, 1723 Paul-Henri Dietrich born Apr 22, 1724 Immanuel Kant born Jun 11, 1727 King George I Died Jun 11, 1727 King George II Ascended Jan 22, 1729 Gotthold Ephraim Lessing born Jun 9, 1733 Georgia founded Feb 16, 1734 Start of First Great Awakening Aug 4, 1735 John Peter Zenger trial Jun 21, 1740 Start of King George's war Oct 20, 1741 End of First Great Awakening Sep 7, 1748 End of King George's war Jan 14, 1753 George Berkeley died Apr 9, 1754 Christian Wolff died May 28, 1754 Start of French and Indian war Jun 19, 1754 Albany Congress established Jul 11, 1754 Albany Congress disbanded Oct 25, 1760 King George II died Oct 25, 1760 King George III Ascends Feb 10, 1763 End of French and Indian war Oct 7, 1763 Proclamation of 1763 Mar 22, 1765 Stamp act Mar 5, 1770 Boston Massacre Aug 27, 1770 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel born May 10, 1773 Tea act Dec 16, 1773 Boston Tea Party Mar 24, 1774 Introlerable acts Sep 4, 1774 First Continental Congress Apr 19, 1775 Battles of Lexington and Concord Jun 15, 1775 Washington Appointed Commander in Cheif Feb 14, 1776 Thomas Paine's Common Sense Aug 3, 1776 Declaration of Independence fully signed Aug 25, 1776 David Hume died Sep 19, 1777 Battle of Saratoga Feb 6, 1778 Franco-American alliance Feb 15, 1781 Gotthold Ephraim Lessing died Mar 1, 1781 Articles of Confederation ratified May 26, 1781 Congress Establishes Bank of North America Oct 19, 1781 Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown Mar 1, 1783 Newburgh Conspiracy Sep 3, 1783 Treaty of Paris Apr 23, 1784 Ordinance of 1784 Jul 31, 1784 Denis Diderot died May 20, 1785 Land Ordinance of 1785 Aug 29, 1785 Jay-Gardoqui Treaty rejected Jan 26, 1786 Virginia Religious Freedom act Aug 7, 1786 Indian Ordinance of 1786 Aug 29, 1786 Shays Rebellion Started Sep 11, 1786 Annapolis Convention Feb 27, 1787 Shays Rebellion Ended May 25, 1787 Constitutional Convention Started Jul 13, 1787 Northwest Ordinance Sep 17, 1787 Constitutional Convention Ended Oct 27, 1787 The Federalist Papers Jun 1, 1788 Constitution Ratified Jan 21, 1789 Paul-Henri Dietrich died Feb 4, 1789 Washington elected Mar 4, 1789 Government Under the U.S. Constitution would begin May 5, 1789 Start of French Revolution Jan 9, 1790 Report on Public Credit Jul 16, 1790 Washington D.C. Became the Capital Feb 25, 1791 First Bank of United States established Mar 4, 1793 Washington's second term Apr 22, 1793 Proclamation of Neutrality Mar 14, 1794 Cotton Gin Patented Aug 20, 1794 Battle of Fallen Timbers Aug 26, 1794 Whiskey Rebellion Nov 19, 1794 Jay's Treaty Oct 27, 1795 Pinckney's Treaty Sep 17, 1796 Washington's Farewell Address Mar 4, 1797 Inauguration of John Adams Jul 1, 1797 XYZ Affair Jun 18, 1798 The Alien and Sedition Acts Jul 27, 1798 Start of Quasi-War Dec 24, 1798 Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions Nov 9, 1799 End of French Revolution Sep 30, 1800 End of Quasi-War Mar 3, 1801 Adam Appoints "Midnight" judges Mar 4, 1801 First inauguration of Thomas Jefferson Period: Jan 1, 1802 to Dec 31, 1802 Congress recalls most of the "midnight" judges Feb 24, 1803 Marbury v. Madison Apr 30, 1803 Louisiana Purchase Feb 12, 1804 Immanuel Kant died May 14, 1804 Start of Lewis and Clark Expedition Jul 11, 1804 Aaron Burr kills Alexander Hamilton in a duel Jul 18, 1804 Ludwig Feuerbach born Dec 5, 1804 Jefferson Wins Re-Election Sep 23, 1806 End of Lewis and Clark Expedition Sep 1, 1807 Burr acquited for treason Dec 22, 1807 Embargo Act Jan 1, 1808 African slave trade ends May 5, 1813 Søren Kierkegaard born May 5, 1818 Karl Marx born Jan 29, 1820 King George III died Nov 14, 1831 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel died Oct 15, 1844 Friedrich Nietzsche born Nov 11, 1855 Søren Kierkegaard died Sep 13, 1872 Ludwig Feuerbach died Mar 13, 1883 Karl Marx died Aug 25, 1900 Friedrich Nietzsche died Jun 21, 1905 Jean-Paul Sartre born May 22, 1922 Wilhelmus Luijpen born Apr 15, 1980 Jean-Paul Sartre died Sep 29, 1980 Wilhelmus Luijpen died