History Timeline

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  • Period: 1789 BCE to

    Contemporary Age

    Contemporary age
    (1789 – present):
    since the revolution
    French until
    present.
  • 1700 BCE

    Baroque

    Baroque
    The Baroque was a cultural period of the
    Modern Age that developed between the
    Renaissance and the Enlightenment in Western Europe and
    in the Latin American colonies.
  • 1555 BCE

    Invention of writing

    Invention of writing
  • Period: 1555 BCE to 476

    Antiquity

    Ancient Age begins with the birth of writing, and ends in the year 476 AD, with the fall of the Western Roman Empire.
  • Period: 1492 BCE to 1789 BCE

    Modern Age

    It is about the year 1453, in which two events take place that will radically transform the Old World: the fall of Constantinople into the hands of the Ottomans and the first publications of Gutenberg through his printing press
  • 1300 BCE

    Mesopotamia

    Mesopotamia
    The name Mesopotamia, in Greek, means 'land between two rivers', and it is due to the fact that this civilization developed between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, in the area where Iraq and Syria are currently located. It was the first civilization that, along with the Egyptians, developed writing.
  • 1300 BCE

    India

    India
    The Indus Valley Civilization was born between 3300 and 1300 B.C. This was succeeded by the Vedas, in whose era the original texts of Hinduism and the caste-based social stratification that still marks Hindu society were composed. The Vedic period ended in 500 B.C.
  • 1250 BCE

    Romanesque

    Romanesque
    Romanesque art was the first unified art of the Western Christian world and developed in the 11th and 12th centuries, reaching in some areas until the year 1250. It is characterized by wide pillars composed of prismatic cores, semicircular arches, buttresses on walls that they support vaults and covers, domes on tubes, semicircular apses, bent arches, crypts, bell towers, decorative friezes and the inclusion of sculptures.
  • 1200 BCE

    Renaissance

    Renaissance
    The Renaissance began the
    Modern age. It was a time marked by
    renewal of thought that put reason first,
    science and mathematics in order to achieve
    new knowledge. This led to important
    cultural, social, political and scientific changes.
  • 1155 BCE

    Egypt

    Egypt
    The Ancient Period of Egypt goes from the year 2635 to 2155 B.C. This period, known as the "era of the pyramids."
  • 1012 BCE

    Gothic

    Gothic
    Already in the Renaissance, period in which
    who turned his gaze towards Greece and Rome,
    the artists called this style “Gothic” in a
    clear reference to the Gothic peoples who provoked
    the fall of Rome, considering it crude and
    inferior to the constructions of the classical world.
  • 476 BCE

    Rome

    Rome
    Rome was founded, according to legend, on April 21, 753 BC and fell in AD 476, having nearly 1,200 years of independence and approximately 700 years of rule as a great power in the ancient world. This makes it one of the most enduring civilizations of antiquity.
  • 221 BCE

    China

    China
    It is an Asian civilization that emerged in the eastern region of the continent, around 5,000 or 6,000 years ago (according to their own oral accounts), although their oldest written documents date from about 3,500 years ago.
  • 146 BCE

    Greece

    Greece
    The locutions Ancient Greece and Ancient Greece refer to the period of Greek history that spans from the Dark Ages of Greece, beginning in the year 1200 BC. C. and the Doric invasion, until the year 146 a. C. and the Roman conquest of Greece after the battle of Corinth.
  • 130 BCE

    Venuses

    Venuses
    The Venuses mean famine and not
    fertility. They are female statuettes
    bone, antler, ivory, stone, terracotta, wood or
    mud. They are, in general, small sculptures of
    round lump between 5 and 25 centimeters in height.
  • 130 BCE

    Rock Art

    Rock Art
    A cave painting is
    a drawing or sketch that exists on some rocks or
    caves, especially the prehistoric ones.
  • Period: 2 BCE to 3 BCE

    Prehistory

    Prehistory is the time what goes from the appearance of the first beings humans up to invention of writing.

  • Contemporary Art

    Contemporary Art
    The art
    contemporary includes artistic expressions
    that arose from the 20th century until the
    today, which is why it is also called art
    modern. The term contemporary means what
    occurs at the present time and comprises the entire
    contemporary artistic creation.