150,000 BC
Mitochrondial Eve
60,000 BC
Y-Chromosome Adam
15,000 BC
Dogs become Domesticated
7,000 BC
Corn Maize first domesticated
3946 BC
Adam & Eve
Be fruitful, increase in number;
fill the earth and subdue it.
~Genesis 1:28
2890 BC
Noah and the Arc 450x75x45ft
God destroys Earth
~3000 BC
King Menes Unites Eygpt
2400 BC
Nebhepetre-Mentuhotep held Egypt together against Herakleopolis
2300 BC
Sargon of Akkad
Conquered Summerieus
2000 BC
Abraham & Sari
Father of Nations & Regilion
1750 BC
Hammurabi - Babylonian Empire
1600 BC - 1400 BC
Mincan Civilization
1500 BC
Aryans invade India
1000 BC
Iron Age Begins,
King David Rules Israel
1000 BC
Latins & Etruscans settle
Italian peninsula
750 - 338 BC
Hellenic Age
Athens, Corinth, Sparta, Thebes, Troy, Greece
753 BC
Romulus & Remus Build Rome
Romulus kills Remus
546 BC
Persians conquered the Kingdom of Lydia
539 BC
Persians under Cyrus the Great take Babylonia
525 BC
Persian Cambysis II conquers Egypt
509 BC
Latins reblled against Etruscan
499 BC
Persian Darius the Great controls Ionian Greeks
431 BC
Peloponnesian War
Athens against Sparta and Syracuse
338 BC
Macedonia defeats Greeks
Macedonian Empire
331 BC
Alexander the Great defeat Persians
312 BC
Seleucus I takes the Kingdom of Babylon
322 - 185 BC
Maurya Empire India
264 - 241 BC
1st Punic War
Rome Captures Sicily
Archimedes Killed
218 - 202 BC
2nd Punic War
Hannibal
146 BC
Romans destroy Corinth
55 BC
Rome invades Britain
31 BC
Cleopatra VII is defeated by Rome
Year 0
Christ Crusified
70 AD
Romans destroy Jerusalem
78 - 200 AD
Kushan Empire
105 AD
Chinese invent paper
224 AD
Ardashir I reforms the Persian Empire
241 AD
Persian Shapur I takes Mesopotamia, Syria, and some of Asia Minor from the Roman Empire
293 AD
Rome under 2 Capitals
Rome Split in 4 parts
313 AD
Freedom of Religion
Empirior decrees end to Christian Persecution
320 AD
India Golden Age
330 AD
Romam Empire Capital moves to Constantinople
408 AD
Final withdrawal of Roman Legions from Britannia
424 AD
Orthodox Church breaks from Western Church
476 AD
Germanic Forces break from Rome
Cutting the West Rome Empire
534 - 565
Justinian I captures North Africa, Italy, Sicily, Sardinia, and Spain
597
1st English King to convert to Christianity
St. Augustine's mission from the Pope to Britain
622
Islam
628
Byzantinum Heraclius takes Syria from Persia
635
Arab Muslem's capture most of Bysantine Empire
638
Jerusalem controled my Arab Muslem's
656
1st Islamic Civil War
711
Spain under the Moors
Berber Muslim Army Conquere Iberian Peninsula
Moors were from Caliphate of Damascus in Northern Africa
732
France stops the Arab-Berber conquest of Europe
843
Chrlengee's Empire
Franks
Abbasid Caliphate-Omayyads
Franks-Moslem
Byzantine Empire
874
Vikings settle Iceland
930
Norse esablished world's 1st parliament
"Althing"
970
Byrantine Empire reoccupies Bulgaria and Syria
1003 -1010
Leif Eridsson goes to Nova Scotia, Thorfinn also settles Nova Scotia he has son Snorri the 1st European born in America with Gudrid
1014
Byzantinum Basil II expanded over Armenia and Georgia
1037
Seljuk Turks
1066
Willian I the conqueror
Normandy to England with 3000 men to claim the throne through his illegitimate birth
1071
Seljuk Turks Overrun most of Asia Minor
1096
1st Crusades
1148
2nd Crusades
1199
3rd Crusades but had almost no effect on Arab power
1204
Latin Empire takes Constantinople
1206
Genghis Khan Temujin comes to power over Mongolia
1228
4th Crusade
Negotiations with Egypt instead of Battle
1231
Mongols control Iran, Mesopotamia, Armenia, and Georgia
1240
Mongols take Poland, Hungary, and Danube River Valley but pull back in 1241
1258
Iraq falls to Mongols
1261
Michael VIII recapures Constantinople from Latins
1279
Kublai Khan defeats the Song Dynasty taking China
1298
Marco Polo accounts his 24 years of travel
1300
early small arms development
1335-1565
The Hundred Years War
England and France fight for ruler of France
Edward III inhearits France through Isabelle of Phillip IV
Joan of Arc 1430
1347-1351
Black Death or "Great Mortality" of Bubonic Plague
Death of 1/4 of Europe
1354
Ottoman Turks conquer Asia Minor
1368
Mongol's Lose China to Ming dynasty
1370
Turks reduse Mongols
1380
Russian Dmitry Donskoy Resists Mongols
1381
English Peasant Revolt in responce to Statute of Laborers
1450
Johnannes Gutenburg printing press
1453
Ottomen Turks take Balkans and Constantinople
1455-1485
War of the Roses
Heir to English Throne Questioned
1480
Ivan III ends Mongol rule of Russia
1482-1492
Reconquista
Spain pushes muslims back to Africa
Columbus Sails to America
1525
German Peasant Rebellion
1558-1588
Queen Elizabeth and King Philip II of Spain fight for English and Naval Control
1603
King James (VI of Scotland) I of England combines English and Scottish Thrones
1618-1648
Thirty Years War
Catholic vs. Protestant
War over political and territoral Powers
1665
London plague outbreak
1740-1748
War of the Austrian Succession
1754-1763
Seven Years War
French Indian War
France, Spain, Austria vs.
Englind and Prussia
1775
Adam Smith publishes "Wealth of Nations"
1775-1781
American Revolution
1789-1793
French Revolution
1791-1803
Haitian Revolution
1795-1815
Napoleonic War
War of 1812
1798
Malthus publishes "Essay of the Principle of Population"
1810-1821
Mexican War of Independence
1832-1836
Texas War of Independence
1845-1848
US-Mexican War
Texas joins the US
Mexico tries to retake Texas
Mexico loses Texas, New Mexico, and California
1847
"Communist Manifesto" by Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels
revised into "Critique of Political Economy" 1859
1854-1856
Crimean War
English with France
battle Russia for Holy Land
and Central Asia
1861-1865
American Civil War
War to end States Rights
End American Slavery
All men can vote
if afford poll tax
1866
Seven Weeks War
Austro-Prussian War
1867
"Das Kapital" volume 1 by Marx of 3 volumes
1870-1871
Franco_Prussian War
German Confederation form creating Germany
Establashes Germany as World Milatary Power
1894-1895
Sino-Japanese War
Japan vs. China for Korea
1898
Spanish American War
Teddy Roosevelt & Rough Riders
1899-1902
Anglo-Boer War
Lord Robert Baden-Powell gained his ideas for Scouts fighting in South Africa
1914-1918
The Great War
World War I
1936-1939
Spanish Civil War
1939-1945
World War II
1950-1953
Korean War
1954-1975
2nd Indochina War
Vietnam War 1961-1975
1979-1988
Soviet-Afghanistan War
US refuses 1980 Olympics in Moscow
1990-1991
Persian Gulf War
2001-20??
Afghanistan War on Terror
2003-20??
Operation Iraqi Freedom
Declared over May 2003
Saddam Hussein @ large until Dec 13 2003
2004
Tsunami stike in Southeast Asia
228,000 thought to be dead
2 8 150 -200 million people 500 - 600 million 900 million people 1 billion people 1.6 billion people 2.4 billion People 3billion-1960

4billion people
5 billion people 6.6 billion people




References:
Fact book CIA
Wikipedia Online Free Encyclopedia
History Channel
Smithsonian
PBS especially the program NOVA


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