World Timeline

By david.wang01
  • 1300 BCE

    Greece: Founding of Greece

  • 1250 BCE

    Greece: Trojan War

  • 776 BCE

    Greece: First Olympic Game

  • 753 BCE

    Rome: Rome Founded

  • Period: 700 BCE to 480 BCE

    Greece: Archaic Period

  • 551 BCE

    Chinese: Birth of Confucius

  • 509 BCE

    Rome: Rome becomes a Republic

  • Period: 497 BCE to 479 BCE

    Greece: Persian Wars

  • Period: 480 BCE to 323 BCE

    Greece: Classical Period

  • 479 BCE

    Chinese: Death of Confucius

  • 323 BCE

    Greece: Death of Alexander the Great

  • Period: 323 BCE to 146 BCE

    Greece: Hellenistic Period

  • Period: 221 BCE to 207 BCE

    Chinese: Qin Dynasty

  • Period: 220 BCE to 206

    Chinese: Han Dynasty

    Includes Western Han, Xin, and Eastern Han dynasty
  • Period: 146 BCE to 30 BCE

    Greece: Late Hellenistic Period

  • 44 BCE

    Greece: Assassination of Julius Caesar

  • 30 BCE

    Greece: Death of Cleopatra

    Cleopatra's death marked the end of the Ancient Greek empire
  • 27 BCE

    Rome: Roman Empire begins

  • 4 BCE

    Christianity: Birth of Jesus Christ

  • 30

    Christianity / Rome: First Pope

  • Period: 31 to 36

    Christianity: Conversion of St. Paul

  • 33

    Christianity: Death of Jesus Christ

  • 67

    Christanity: Death of St. Paul

  • 313

    Christianity / Rome: Christianity made legal in Rome

  • 380

    Rome: Christianity proclaimed as sole religion in Rome

  • 391

    Rome: Worship of other gods made illegal

  • 395

    Rome: Rome splits

  • 476

    Rome: End of the Western Roman Empire & fall of Ancient Rome

  • 570

    Islam: Birth of Muhammad

  • 610

    Islam: Muhammad received first vision

  • Jun 8, 632

    Islam: Death of Muhammad

  • Period: 960 to 1279

    Chinese: Song Dynasty

    Includes Northern and Southern Song
  • Period: 1368 to

    Chinese: Ming Dynasty

  • 1453

    Rome: End of Byzantine Empire

  • Period: to

    Chinese: Qing Dynasty

  • China: Republic Of China

  • China: People's Republic of China

  • Period: to

    China: Cultural Revolution