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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

Contemporary History

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