History Timeline

By Adriana J 6-7-09
  • Period: 250,000 BCE to 3500 BCE

    Prehistory

    Prehistory is the time that goes from the appearance of the first human beings to the invention of writing.
  • 10,000 BCE

    Comienzo del Neolítico

    The Neolithic (referring to New Stone) was a term coined by J. Lubbock in 1865 to refer to the cultural stage that developed from about 12,000 years ago to 5,000 BC. about.
  • 4000 BCE

    Beginning of the Metal Age

    The Age of Metals succeeds the Stone Age in the evolution of humanity, and constitutes the final stage of Prehistory.
  • Period: 3500 BCE to 476

    Antiquity

    The Antiquity begins in the year 4,000 BC, with the birth of writing, and ends in the year 476 AD, with the fall of the Western Roman Empire, an event with which the Middle Ages began.
    The three-age system periodizes ancient history into the Stone Age, Bronze Age, and Iron Age, with recorded history generally considered to begin with the Bronze Age. The beginning and end of the three ages varies between regions of the world.
  • Period: 1194 BCE to 1184 BCE

    Trojan War

    In Greek mythology, the Trojan War was a war in which a coalition of Achaean armies faced off against the city of Troy, located in Asia Minor, and its allies.
  • 476

    The fall of the Western Roman Empiere

    Traditionally, the year 476 after Christ has marked the end of the Roman Empire and the beginning of the Middle Ages. In that year, the last Roman emperor of the West, Romulus Augustulus, was deposed, marking this event, for many historians, the end of the Roman Empire as such.
  • Period: 476 to 1492

    Middle Ages

    The Middle Ages or Medieval is the historical period of Western civilization between the fifth and fifteenth centuries. Its beginning is in the year 476, the year of the fall of the Western Roman Empire, and its end in 1492, the year in which Columbus arrived in America.
  • May 29, 1453

    The fall of the Orient Roman Empire

    The fall of Constantinople into the hands of the Ottoman Turks, which occurred on May 29, 1453, was a historical event that put an end to the last vestige of the Eastern Roman Empire and which, in classical periodization and according to some historians, also marked the end of of the Middle Ages in Europe.
  • Period: 1492 to

    Modern age

    The Modern Age is the historical stage that takes place between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries. In contrast to the Middle Ages, the Modern Age is characterized by cultural progress, discoveries, the creation of States, the development of the economy worldwide and a greater weight of reason over faith.
  • Oct 12, 1492

    Discovery of America

    The four voyages of Columbus. Christopher Columbus, representing the Catholic Monarchs of Castile and Aragon, Spanish kingdoms, made four famous voyages from Europe to America in 1492, 1493, 1498 and 1502. In the first of them he arrived in America on October 12, 1492, to an island in the Bahamas called Guanahani
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    Contemporary Age

    The Contemporary Age is the name by which 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 is designated. The Contemporary Age was a period of great advances and scientific discoveries.
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    French Revolution

    The French Revolution was a social and political conflict, with various periods of violence, that convulsed France and, by extension of its implications, other European nations that faced supporters and opponents of the system known as the Old Regime.
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    The World War I

    World War I, formerly called the Great War, was a warlike confrontation centered in Europe that began on July 28, 1914, and ended on November 11, 1918, when Germany accepted the terms of the armistice of November 11, 1918.
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    The Holocaust

    The Holocaust—also known by its Hebrew term, Shoah—is the genocide carried out by the regime of Nazi Germany against the Jews of Europe during the course of World War II. The murders took place in all German-occupied territories in Europe.
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    The World War II

    World War II was a global military conflict that took place between 1939 and 1945. Most of the nations of the world were involved in it, grouped into two warring military alliances: the Allies, on the one hand, and the Axis powers, on the other. for another.

  • Present

    Present
    The Contemporary Age is the historical period that covers from the year 1789, with the French Revolution, to the present. However, some consider that this period goes back to the 20th century and call the most current period the Late Modern Age, characterized by globalized societies.