World History Timeline By Lilly23! Period: 4000 BCE to 500 World History Period: 3500 BCE to 1700 BCE Mesopotamia Period: 3100 BCE to 671 BCE Ancient Egypt Period: 2800 BCE to 750 BCE Early Greeks Period: 2500 BCE to 1000 BCE Eastern River Valley Civilizations 1800 BCE Development of Judaism Begins Period: 1401 BCE to 570 BCE Military Empires 1400 BCE Development of Iron Smelting Period: 1200 BCE to 510 BCE Phoenicians and Hebrews 800 BCE Rome is Founded 750 BCE Homer Writes The Iliad and The Odyssey Period: 750 BCE to 200 BCE Greek Culture Period: 700 BCE to 335 BCE Greek City-States Period: 509 BCE to 30 BCE Roman Rebuplic 500 BCE Gautama Founds Buddhism 450 BCE Pericles Creates Golden Age in Athens 400 BCE Socrates and Plato Period: 335 BCE to 145 BCE Hellenistic Period Period: 264 BCE to 146 BCE Punic Wars Period: 27 BCE to 476 BCE Roman Empire 30 Jesus founds Christianity 330 Capital of Roman Empire moved to Constantinople 476 Fall of Rome 622 Muhammad founds Islam 800 Charlemagne temporarily reverses decline of Western Europe Period: 850 to 1250 Golden Age of Islam Period: 1095 to 1291 Crusades Period: 1100 to 1350 Development of Major European Trading Centers 1200 Venetians and Arabs Monopolize European Spice Trade 1215 English Nobles Force King John to Sign Magna Carta 1290 Development of Parliamentary Government in England 1300 End of Middle Ages in Italy Period: 1305 to 1550 Renaissance in Italy 1400 End of Middle Ages Elsewhere in Europe 1450 Development of Moveable Type and Printing Press 1450 Prince Henry Develops Marine Technologies Period: 1450 to 1600 Renaissance elsewhere in Europe 1453 Fall of Constantinople--end of Byzantine Empire 1492 Discovery and exploration of the New World begins 1498 Da Gamma reaches India Period: 1500 to 1800 Search for practical NW passage 1506 Da Vinci Paints the Mona Lisa 1517 Luther Posts 95 Theses Period: 1519 to 1522 Magellan expedition circumnavigated the globe 1534 Henry VIII Heads Church of England 1543 Copernicus proposes sun-centered solar system 1588 England Defeats the Armada Period: 1618 to 1648 Thirty Years' War 1688 Glorious Revolution in England 1700 Isaac Newton describes force and motion in math terms 1733 John Kay invents the flying shuttle 1769 James Watt perfects the steam engine 1776 U.S. Declaration of Independence 1789 U.S. Constitution goes into effect
