A Sense of Time-Timeline

  • 3250 BCE

    Writing

  • 2540 BCE

    The Great Pyramid

    2560 to 2540 BCE
  • 323 BCE

    Death of Alexander the Great

  • 4 BCE

    Birth of Christ

    6-4 BCE
  • 142

    Gunpowder

  • 476

    Fall of the Roman Empire

  • 610

    Islam Founded

  • 1450

    Printing Press (Gutenberg)

  • 1492

    Columbus sails to W. Indies

  • Pilgrims Land Plymouth Rock

  • American Independence

  • Steam Locomotive

  • U.S. Civil War Ends

  • Typewriter

  • Telephone

  • Phonograph

  • Light Bulb

  • Coca-Cola

  • Diesel Engine

  • Wright Bros. Fly

  • Ford’s Model T

  • World War I

  • Motion Pictures: Birth of a Nation debuts

  • Transatlantic Flight

  • First Radio Station

  • Television (Philo F.)

  • World War II Begins

  • A-Bombs dropped on Japan

  • Polio Vaccine (Salk)

  • McDonald’s

  • Sputnik Launches

  • Moonlanding

  • Pong Debuts

  • Betamax

  • VHS

  • PC wins Time Magazine “Man of the Year”

  • CD

  • Motorola DynaTec Cell Phone

  • World Wide Web

  • Nanotubes

  • Cloning of Dolly

  • Netflix Streaming

  • iPod debuts (hard drive)

  • iPhone debuts

  • Today