World History
Time
Rise of the Egyptian solar calendar
3000 b.c.Babylonian lunar calendar
432 B.C.Julian calendar
46 b.c. - 1582Council of Nicea
325 A.D.First sand-filled hourglasses
800Chinese aromatic, "fire-clock"
1073Su Sung's Heavenly Clockwork
1090Creation of the modern hour
1330Pope Gregory adjusts Julian calendar
1582Robert Hooke invents spring-driven clock
1658Timepieces increase in accuracy
1670John Harrison wins British Parlaiment contest for most accurate portable clock
1714America & England accept Gregorian calendar
1752People
King David of Israel
1040 B.C. - 970 B.C.Homer
770 B.C. - 700 B.C.Hesiod
750 B.C. - 650 B.C.Simonides of Ceos
556 B.C. - 468 B.C.Hecaetus of Miletus
550 B.C. - 489 B.C.Herodotus
480 B.C. - 425 B.C.Thucydides
460 B.C. - 400 B.C.Aristotle
384 B.C. - 322 B.C.Eratosthenes
276 B.C. - 194 B.C.Ssu-ma Ch'ien
145 B.C. - 87 B.C.Chinese historian
Julius Caesar
100 B.C. - 44 B.C.Jesus Christ
4 B.C. - 28 A.D.Seneca
4 B.C. - 65 A.D.Persius
34 A.D. - 62 A.D.Quintilian
35 A.D. - 95 A.D.Developed the "architectural technique" for memory.
Plutarch
46 AD - 120 ADMarinus of Tyre
80 A.D. - 150 A.D.Ptolemy
90 A.D. - 168 A.D.Galen
130 - 200Origen
185 A.D. - 254 A.D.Greek theologian.
Eusebius of Caesarea
260 A.D. - 340 A.D.Origen's "successor".
St. Augustine
354 - 430St. Augustine (Aurelius Augustinius)
354 A.D. - 430 A.D.St. Benedict of Nursia
480 A.D. - 543 A.D.Dionysus Exiguus
500 A.D. - 560 A.D.Muhammad
570 A.D. - 632 A.D.Alcuin
732 A.D. - 804 A.D.Charlemagne
742 A.D. - 814 A.D.Alexander Neckham
1157 - 1217Roger Bacon
1220 - 1292St. Thomas Aquinas
1225 - 1274Marco Polo
1254 - 1324Fransesco Petrarch
1304 - 1374Yung Lo
1359 - 1424Johann Gutenberg
1394 - 1468Pope Nicholas V
1397 - 1455Lorenzo Valla
1407 - 1457William Caxton
1422 - 1491Ambrogio Calepino
1440 - 1510Aldus Manutius
1450 - 1515John Cabot
1450 - 1498Christopher Columbus
1451 - 1506Leonardo da Vinci
1452 - 1519Amerigo Vespucci
1454 - 1512Martin Behaim
1459 - 1507Vasco de Gama
1460 - 1524Pope Paul III
1468 - 1549Nicolaus Copernicus
1473 - 1543Bartolome de Las Casas
1474 - 1566Rabelais
1483 - 1553Paracelsus
1493 - 1541King Francis I
1494 - 1547Leonhart Fuchs
1501 - 1566John Calvin
1509 - 1564Erasmus Reinhold
1511 - 1553Gerardus Mercator
1512 - 1594Andreas Vesalius
1514 - 1564Rheticus (Georg Joachim)
1514 - 1574Konrad Gesner
1516 - 1565Joachim du Bellay
1522 - 1560Pierre de Ronsard
1524 - 1585Joseph Justus Scaliger
1540 - 1609Leonardo Salviati
1540 - 1589Tycho Brahe
1546 - 1601Simon Stevin
1548 - 1620Matteo Ricci
1552 - 1610Santorio Santorio
1561 - 1636Galileo Galilei
1564 - 1642Heribert Rosweyde of Utrecht
1569 - 1629Dissolved the legend of St. George.
Johannnes Kepler
1571 - 1630Dr. Robert Fludd
1574 - 1637Wiliam Harvey
1578 - 1657Marin Mersenne
1588 - 1648Henry Oldenburg
1617 - 1677Gabriel Mouton
1618 - 1694Fransesco Redi
1626 - 1697John Ray
1627 - 1705Marcello Malpighi
1628 - 1694Antoni van Leewenhoek
1632 - 1723Jean Mabillon
1632 - 1707Opened the sciences of handwriting.
Francis Willughby
1635 - 1672Robert Hooke
1635 - 1703Isaac Newton
1642 - 1727Baron Leibniz
1646 - 1716Edward Tyson
1651 - 1708Giambattista Vico
1668 - 1744Carolus Linnaeus
1707 - 1778Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
1707 - 1788Johann Joachim Winckelmann
1717 - 1768...If you know what I mean.
Thomas Jefferson
1743 - 1826Valentin Hauy
1745 - 1822Talleyrand
1754 - 1838Thomas Robert Malthus
1766 - 1834Napoleon Bonaparte
1769 - 1821Christian Jurgensen Thomsen
1788 - 1865John Stevens Henslow
1796 - 1861Charles Lyell
1797 - 1875Sir Anthony Panizzi
1797 - 1879Charles Darwin
1809 - 1882Louis Braille
1809 - 1852Karl Marx
1818 - 1883Lewis Henry Morgan
1818 - 1881Jens Jacob Worsaae
1821 - 1885Heinrich Schliemann
1822 - 1890Louis Pasteur
1822 - 1895Alfred Russell Wallace
1823 - 1913William James
1842 - 1910Hermann Ebbinghaus
1850 - 1909Sigmund Freud
1856 - 1939Other
Ptolemy's Almagest, Geographia & Tetrabiblos
150Sung Dynasty
960 A.D. - 1127 A.D.Legend of Prester John
1100 - 1573Protestant Reformation
1517 - 1648Portuguese Inquisition in Goa
1560Thirty Years' War
1618 - 1648Opium War
1839 - 1842Earth & Seas
The Periplus of the Indian Sea
80 ADByzantines retake Alexandria
645Arab fleet defeats Byzantines
655Vikings settle Faroe Islands
700Vikings settle Iceland
770Viking Exploration
780 - 1070Vikings found Dublin
841Vikings given Normandy
911Bjarni Herjolfsson sights North America
986Eric the Red settles Greenland
986First magnetized compass used in China
1000Leif Ericsson sails for and camps in Vinland (Newfoundland)
1001Viking settlements in Vinland
1001 - 1020William of Normandy invades England
1066Decline of Viking voyages
1200 - 1300Direct trade between Europe & Asia
1250 - 1350Catalan Atlas
1375Age of the Portuguese Explorer
1400 - 1550Cheng Ho's voyages
1405 - 1433D'Ailly's Imago mundi
1410Giraffe from Bengal arrives in China
1414China's Great Withdrawal
1433Fra Mauro's map
1459King John II send Dias around Africa
1468Toscanelli's letter
1474Pope Pius II's Historia... gestarum
1477Cohiva sent by King John II to find Prester John
1487Idn Majid's Nautical Directory
1490Columbus' voyages to the New World
1492 - 1504Treaty of Tordesillas
1494King Manuel I sends Vasco de Gama around Africa to India
1497Vasco de Gama starts Portuguese-Orient trade
1498Nature
Dioscorides' De materia medica
77 A.D.Age of Galen
200 - 1600Eyeglasses become common
1300Vesalius' Six Anatomical Tables
1538Fuch's De Historia Stirpum
1542Copernicus' De Revolutionibus
1543Vesalius' Structure of the Human Body
1543Stevin introduces the decimal system in "The Tenth"
1585Kepler discovers symmentry of planetary orbits
1595Kepler's Mysterium Cosmographicum
1596Fludd invents the thermometer
1600Tycho Brahe's Progymnasmata
1602Galieo's discoveries reach Asia
1610 - 1635Galileo's Starry Messenger
1610Santorio's Ars de Medicina Statica
1612Harvey's On the Motion of the Heart & the Blood in Animals
1628Galileo stands before the Inquisition
February, 1633 - June, 1633Gesner's Historia Animalium (English)
1658Royal Society of London established
1660Hooke's Micrographia
1665Oldenburg begins his scientific journal, "Philosophical Transactions"
1665Tyson's Anatomny of a Porpess
1680Ray's Methodus Plantarum
1682Newton's Principia I
1686Ray's Historia Plantarum
1686 - 1704Newton becomes president of the Royal Society
1703Newton's Principia II
1713Newton's Principia III
1726Linnaeus' Sponsalia Plantarum
1729Linnaeus' System Naturae
1735Buffon's Histoire Naturelle
1749 - 1785Buffon's Theory of the Earth expounded
1749 - 1779Linnaeus' Species Plantarum
1753the invention of binomial nomenclature
Malthus' Principles of Population
1798Talleyrand creates the metric system
1799Lyell's Principles of Geology
1830Darwin journeys on the Beagle
1832 - 1835First public statement on the modern theory of evolution
July 1, 1858Darwin's Origin of Species
1859Lyell's Antiquity of Man
1863Tyson & Cowper's Orang-Outang, sive Homo Sylvestris
1894Society
Herodotus' History of the Persian Wars
430 B.C.Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian Wars
404 B.C.Ad Herrenium, a Roman treatise on Memory
84 B.C.Paper invented by Ts'ai Lun
105 A.D.Augustine's The City of God
415 A.D.If you want to go to college, you must speak Latin.
500 A.D. - 1600 A.D.Exiguus corrects Pope Hilarius' calendar, adds Anno Domini
540 A.D.Alcuin reforms the Urbs Regale
782 A.D. - 796 A.D.Carolingian Miniscule calligraphy font dominates libraries
800 A.D. - 1500 A.D.Diamond Sutra (oldest surviving printed book)
868 A.D.Gutenberg invents the printing press
1439Valla's Treatise on the Donation of Constantine
1440Gutenberg's Bible
1454Caxton establishes first printing press in England
1473Aldine Press established
1494Moveable type introduced to Japan, book culture flourishes
1500 - 1650Aldus develops octavo book
1501Aldus' italic font first used
1501Calepino's Latin-Italian Dictionary
1502Valla's Annotations on the New Testament
1505Pope Paul III's Sublimis Deus
1537Francis I's Edict of Villers-Cotterets
1539Officialized Parisian French as the national language
"Battle of Valladolid"
1550Las Casas defends the Indians.