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Period: 100,000 BCE to 3500 BCE
Prehistory
Prehistory is, according to the traditional definition, the period of time that elapsed from the appearance of the first hominins, ancestors of Homo sapiens, until we have evidence of the existence of written documents, something that occurred first in the Near East towards the 3 300 BC -
3500 BCE
Creation of writing
It is assumed that the first inventors of writing were the Sumerians, who lived in southern Mesopotamia. The first writing code appeared there in the year 3100 BC, and shortly after writing was invented again almost 1600 kilometers away, in Egypt. -
Period: 3500 BCE to 476
Ancient Age
Ancient Period, according to the context, is a historical period between the end of prehistory (generally with the invention of writing and with it written history) and a variable date depending on the geographical area in question. -
2630 BCE
Construction of the pyramids
There are very few theories about the construction of the Egyptian pyramids. Many hypotheses have arisen about the construction techniques of the Egyptian pyramids. techniques appear to have developed over time; The first pyramids were not built like the later ones. -
1750 BCE
The Code of Hammurabi
The Code of Hammurabi was a set of 282 laws inscribed on a stone by the Babylonian king Hammurabi (r. 1795-1750 BC), who conquered and later reigned in ancient Mesopotamia. Although this legal code was not the first, it was the most clearly defined and influenced the laws of other cultures. -
753 BCE
Founding of Rome
According to ancient Roman literary tradition it was April 21, 753 BC. when the twins Romulus and Remus founded the eternal city, Rome. The exact date was invented by the Roman historian Varro, who collected in his story the mixture of Greek and Roman legends about the origin of the city. -
449 BCE
The Persian wars
The Persian Wars were a series of conflicts between the Achaemenid Empire of Persia and the city-states of the Hellenic world that began in 492 BC. C. and extended until the year 449 BC. c -
322 BCE
Aristotle
Aristotle was a Greek philosopher, polymath and scientist born in the city of Stagira, north of Ancient Greece. He is considered, along with Plato, the father of Western philosophy. His ideas have exerted an enormous influence on the intellectual history of the West for more than two millennia. -
44 BCE
Julius Caesar
Gaius or Gaius Julius Caesar was a Roman politician and military man from the 1st century BC. C., member of the patricians Julius Caesars, who reached the highest magistrates of the Roman State and dominated the politics of the Republic after winning the civil war that pitted him against the most conservative sector of the Senate. -
476
Fall of the Western Roman Empire
Odoacer, king of the Heruli, overthrows the last emperor of Rome, Romulus Augustulus, on September 4, 476. This event marks the end of the Roman Empire: the western empire disappears while the eastern Byzantine empire survives until the fall of Constantinople. in 1453. -
Period: 476 to 1492
Middle Age
The Middle Age is the historical period of Western civilization between the 5th and 15th centuries. -
1184
Trojan War
In Greek mythology, the Trojan War was a military conflict in which a coalition of Achaean armies faced the city of Troy, located in Asia Minor, and its allies. Troy thought that the horse was a gift from the goddess Athena but when night came the Greek soldiers got off the horse, opened the city gates and sacked Troy. The Greeks took Helen, killed the king of Troy, and burned the city of Troy to the ground, ending the war. -
1453
Fall of the eastern roman empire
Odoacer, king of the Heruli, overthrows the last emperor of Rome, Romulus Augustulus, on September 4, 476. This event marks the end of the Roman Empire: the western empire disappears while the eastern Byzantine empire survives until the fall of Constantinople. in 1453. -
1492
Discovery of America
Discovery of America is the name given to the historical event that made known what happened on October 12, 1492, consisting of the arrival in America of an expedition from Castile, in the Iberian Peninsula, led by Christopher Columbus. mandate of the Catholic Monarchs, Isabel I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon. Columbus had left the Port of Palos two months and nine days before and, after crossing the Atlantic Ocean, he arrived at an island on the American continent. -
Period: 1492 to
Modern Age
The Modern Age is the third of the historical periods into which universal history is conventionally divided, between the 15th and 18th centuries. -
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet and actor. Sometimes known as the Bard of Avon, he is considered the most important writer in the English language and one of the most famous in world literature. -
United States independence
The American Revolutionary War was a war that pitted the original Thirteen British Colonies in North America against the Kingdom of Great Britain. It occurred between 1775 and 1783, ending with the British defeat at the Battle of Yorktown and the signing of the Treaty of Paris. -
French Revolution
The French Revolution was a social and political conflict, with various periods of violence, which convulsed the France of the Ancien Regime, and other countries by extension of its implications. -
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Contemporary Age
The Contemporary Age is the name given to the historical period between the Declaration of Independence of the United States, the French Revolution or the Spanish-American Wars of Independence, and the present day. -
Charles Darwin
Charles Robert Darwin (Shrewsbury, February 12, 1809-Down House, April 19, 1882), commonly known as Charles Darwin, also called Carlos Darwin in part of the Hispanic community, was an English naturalist, recognized for being the most famous scientist. influential (and the first, sharing this achievement independently with Alfred Russel Wallace) of those who raised the idea of biological evolution through natural selection, justifying it in his work On the Origin of Species (1859). -
Bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were two nuclear attacks ordered by Harry S. Truman, president of the United States, against the Empire of Japan. -
End of the Second World War
The Second World War was a global military conflict that took place between 1939 and 1945. Most of the nations of the world were involved in it. -
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein was a German physicist of Jewish origin, later nationalized as Swiss, Austrian and American. He is considered the most important, well-known and popular scientist of the 20th century. -
Moon Landing
Apollo 11 was the fifth manned mission of the United States Apollo Program and the first in history to land a human being on the Moon. -
The fall of the Berlin Wall
In November 1989, peacefully and without shedding blood or firing a gun, the German population tore down the Berlin Wall. This structure divided the German capital for almost three decades. -
Attack on the Twin Towers
The attacks of September 11, 2001 were a series of 4 suicide terrorist attacks committed in the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001, by the terrorist group Al Qaeda. -
Covid-19
In December 2019, there was an epidemic outbreak of pneumonia of unknown cause in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China; which, as Reporters Without Borders later stated, affected more than 60 people on the 20th of that month.