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Period: 200,000 BCE to 3500 BCE
Prehistory
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3500 BCE
The end of the Prehistory and the start of Ancient History
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Period: 3500 BCE to
History
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Period: 3500 BCE to 476
Ancient History
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3000 BCE
Cuneiform Writing
Cuneiform writing is developed in Uruk as a way to track commercial trade and taxes. -
2560 BCE
Great Pyramid of Cheops
The Egyptian architect Imhotep finishes the Great Pyramid of Cheops on the Giza Plateau. -
585 BCE
Thales of Miletus
Greek philosopher Thales of Miletus successfully predicts a solar eclipse on May 28. -
476
The end of Ancient History and the start of the Middle Ages
The fall of the Roman empire in the West -
Period: 476 to 1453
The Middle Ages
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528
Code of Justinian
Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I published the Code of Civil Law, a major body of legal writings -
610
Religion of Islam
Muhammad, an Arab trader, founds the new religion of Islam in the Arabian Peninsula. -
638
The Muslim army captures the holy city of Jerusalem.
In 637 or 638, Caliph Umar ( r. 634–644) traveled to Jerusalem in person to receive the submission of the city. The Patriarch thus surrendered to him. The Muslim conquest of the city solidified Arab control over Palestine, which would not again be threatened until the First Crusade in 1099. -
1453
The end of the Middle ages and the start of the Modern Ages
The fall of the Roman empire in the East -
Period: 1453 to
The Modern Age
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1490
The High Renaissance
High Renaissance, Mature Renaissance, Full Renaissance or Classical Renaissance is the culminating or apogee period of the Renaissance, which includes the final years of the 15th century and the first decades of the 16th century. -
Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution or First Industrial Revolution is the process of economic, social and technological transformation that began in the second half of the 18th century in the Kingdom of Great Britain, which spread a few decades later to a large part of Western Europe and Anglo-Saxon America. and which concluded between 1820 and 1840. -
The end of the Modern Age and the start of the Contemporary Age
The French Revolution -
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The Contemporary Age
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Discovery of Antartica
Antarctica is 'first sighted' by European explorers. The first person to actually see the Antarctic mainland has been debated: in the last week of January, Thaddeus von Bellingshausen reported seeing 'an ice shore of extreme height' during a Russian expedition to the Antarctic. -
World War I
The First World War, also called the Great War, was a global military conflict, although centered in Europe, that began on July 28, 1914 and ended on November 11, 1918, when Germany accepted the conditions of the armistice.+