History

This is the intro to history

Cosmological History

• -13.8bn - Big Bang (Big Bounce?)
• -4.5bn - Earth formed

Evolutionary History

• -4b - Single-celled life
• -3.5b - Photosynthesis
• -2b - Eukaryotes
• -1.6b - Multi-Celled Life
• -1.5b - Fungi
• -800m - Plants
• -700m - Animals
• -538m - Cambrian Explosion
• -518m - Vertebrates
• -390m - Tetrapods
• -243m - Dinosaurs
• -170m - Mammals
• -85m - Primates
• -2.3 - Homo Habilis
• -2m - Homo Erectus
• -300k - Homo Sapiens

See also The Ancestor's Tale.

Prehistory

• -130k-100k - Out of Africa
• - 11.7k - Neolithic/First Agricultural Revolution

Ancient History

• 4000 BCE - Development of City States
• 3000 BCE - Writing
• 427-348 BCE - Plato
• 384-322 BCE - Aristotle
• c300 BCE - Euclid
• 287-212 BCE Archimedes

Medieval History

• 476 - Fall of the Roman Empire
• 1347-1351 - Black Death

Modern History

• 14th-16th C - Renaissance
• 1450s - Gutenberg and moveable type
• 1473-1543 - Copernicus and Heliocentrism
• 1492 - Columbus' voyage to the Americas
• 1517 - Luther and the Reformation
• 1543 - Copernicus and the Scientific Revolution
• 1618-1648 - Thirty Years War
• 1687 - Newton's Principia Mathematica
• 1765–1783 - The American Revolution
• 1780s on - Industrial Revolution
• 1789-1799 - The French Revolution
• 1799-1815 - The Napoleonic Era