Timeline By jxns51 99,999 BCE Fire 25,000 BCE Pottery 8000 BCE Farming 6000 BCE irrigation 4000 BCE The Wheel 4000 BCE Iron working 3500 BCE Sailing 3400 BCE Writing 3000 BCE Bronze working 2560 BCE The Great Pyramid 1200 BCE Weaving 323 BCE Death of Alexander the Great 206 BCE Compass 150 BCE Roman Concrete 1 BCE Birth of Christ 105 Paper 476 Fall of the Roman Empire 600 Paper Currency 610 Islam founded 800 Gunpowder 800 Windmill 800 Windmill 1285 Mechanical Clock 1300 Eyeglasses 1492 Columbus sails to W. indies 1500 Printing Press 1620 Pilgrims Land Plymouth Rock 1776 American Independence 1800 Man Made Fertilizer 1804 Steam Locomotive 1817 Bicycle 1822 Photography 1831 Mechanical Reaper 1837 Deere Self-Scouring Plow 1844 Vulcanized Rubber 1859 Rechargeable Battery 1864 Pasteurization 1865 U.S. Civil War Ends 1867 Typewriter 1876 Telephone 1877 Phonograph 1879 Light Bulb 1886 Coca cola 1893 Diesel Engine (Patent Year) 1895 Motion Pictures 1903 Wright Bros. Fly 1908 Ford's Model T 1914 WW1 1916 First Radio Station 1919 Transatlantic Flight 1927 Television 1928 Penicillin 1935 Nylon 1939 WW2 1940 McDonald's 1945 A-Bombs Dropped On Japan 1948 Barcodes 1950 Transistor 1952 Polio Vaccine 1956 AI 1957 Smallpox Eradicated Worldwide 1957 Sputnik Launched 1969 Moonlanding 1970 Fordson Tractor 1972 Pong Debuts 1973 Motorola DynaTec Cell Phone 1977 Apple 2 Personal Computer 1977 VHS VCR 1979 CD 1983 Internet 1987 CRISPR 1991 Nanotubes 1994 Bluetooth 1996 Cloning of Dolly 1999 WiFi 1999 Sony Walkman 2001 iPod debuts(hard drive) 2003 Google Maps 2007 iPhone debuts 2007 Netflix Streaming 2009 Bitcoin 2023 Today