Timeline By ianmeyer1 100,000 BCE Fire Realistically as old as time Period: 100,000 BCE to Sep 21, 2021 A sense of Time 25,000 BCE Pottery 12,000 BCE Farming 10,000 BCE Weaving 6000 BCE Irrigation 4000 BCE Ironworking 4000 BCE The wheel 4000 BCE Sailing 3400 BCE writing 3000 BCE Bronze working 2550 BCE the great pyramids 323 BCE death of alexander the great 300 BCE roman concrete 206 BCE compass 4 BCE birth of christ 105 paper 476 fall of the roman empire 610 islam founded 645 windmill 900 gunpowder 1100 paper currency 1100 A-bombs dropped on Japan 1268 Eyeglasses 1270 Mechanical clock 1436 Printing press 1492 Colombus sails to w. Indies 1620 Pilgrims land plymouth rock 1776 American independance 1796 smallpox eradicated worldwide 1804 steam locomotive 1817 bicycle 1822 photography 1831 mechanical reaper 1837 deere self scouring plow 1839 vulcanized rubber 1839 rechargable battery 1862 pasteurization 1865 U.S. civil war ends 1868 typewriter 1876 telephone 1877 phonograph 1879 light bulb 1886 coca cola 1893 diesel engine 1895 motion pictures 1903 wright bros. fly 1905 first radio station 1908 ford's model t 1913 man made fertilizer 1914 World war 1 1916 fordson tractor 1919 transatlantic flight 1927 television 1927 television 1928 penicillin 1935 nylon 1939 world war 2 begins 1940 Mcdonald's 1947 transistor 1950 AI 1952 barcodes 1955 polio vaccine 1956 VHS vcr 1957 Sputnik launched 1969 Moonlanding 1972 pong debuts 1976 Apple II personal computer 1979 Sony walkman 1979 CD 1983 Internet 1987 Crispr 1991 Nanotubes 1994 Bluetooth 1996 Cloning of dolly 1997 Wifi 2005 google maps 2007 iphone debuts 2009 bitcoin 2010 ipod debuts Sep 21, 2023 Today