TIMELINE By Alejandro Rodríguez Aguado 3500 BCE invention of writing Period: 3500 BCE to 472 Ancient age 3200 BCE invention of wheel Period: 3000 BCE to 30 BCE Ancient Egypt Period: 264 BCE to 143 BCE Punic wars Period: 27 BCE to 476 Roman empire Period: 469 to Jan 1, 1492 Middle ages 474 fall of rome Period: 700 to 1492 al-Andalus Period: 798 to 1080 vikings Period: 1095 to 1291 crusades Period: 1337 to 1455 hundred years´ war Period: 1347 to 1353 black death Period: 1360 to 1600 Renaissance 1440 printing press 1452 Fall of Constatinople 1492 Discovery of America Period: Jan 1, 1492 to Jan 1, 1777 Modern age Period: 1605 to 1641 thirty years´ war Period: 1769 to 1821 Napoleon Bonaparte Period: Jan 1, 1786 to Jan 1, 2025 Contemporany age 1787 French revolution Period: 1914 to 1918 | world war Period: 1936 to 1939 spanish civil war Period: 1939 to 1945 || world war Period: 1961 to 1989 Berlin wall Jul 20, 1969 The first man on the moon