History Timeline

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  • 4004 BCE

    Creation

  • 3200 BCE

    Sumerian society starts

  • Period: 3100 BCE to 1000 BCE

    Ancient Egyptian Kingdom

  • 2448 BCE

    Noah Called to Build an Ark

  • 2349 BCE

    The Flood Starts

  • Period: 2000 BCE to 338 BCE

    Greece Empire

  • 1920 BCE

    Abram Called

  • 1707 BCE

    The great famine during Joseph's life starts

  • 1491 BCE

    Parting of the Red Sea

  • 1451 BCE

    Conquest of Jericho

  • 1063 BCE

    David Anointed King

  • 1005 BCE

    Temple Completed

  • 975 BCE

    Israel Divided

  • Period: 911 BCE to 612 BCE

    Assyrian Empire

  • 753 BCE

    Rome Founded

  • 721 BCE

    Israel Taken into Captivity

  • Period: 612 BCE to 539 BCE

    Babylonian Empire

  • 588 BCE

    Judah Taken into Captivity

  • Period: 550 BCE to 330 BCE

    Persian Empire

  • Period: 490 BCE to 479 BCE

    Persian Wars

  • Period: 431 BCE to 404 BCE

    Peloponnesian War

  • Period: 356 BCE to 323 BCE

    Alexander the Great's life

  • 338 BCE

    Philip Conquers Greece

  • Period: 337 BCE to 31 BCE

    Hellenistic Kingdoms

  • Period: 264 BCE to 241 BCE

    First Punic War

  • Period: 218 BCE to 201 BCE

    Second Punic War

  • 166 BCE

    Maccabean Revolt

  • Period: 149 BCE to 146 BCE

    Third Punic War

  • 146 BCE

    Macedonia and Greece become Roman Provinces

  • Period: 100 BCE to 44 BCE

    Julius Caesar

  • Period: 31 BCE to 410

    Roman Empire

  • Period: 27 BCE to 180

    Pax Romana

  • Period: 27 BCE to 14

    Augustus' (Octavian) Reign

  • 4 BCE

    Jesus is Born

  • 27

    Jesus is Baptized--Earthly Ministry Begins

  • Period: 27 to 33

    Jesus Earthly Ministry

  • 31

    Disciples Called

  • 33

    Jesus' Betrayal, Crucifixion, Burial, Resurrection, and Ascension

  • 35

    Conversion of Saul

  • Period: 54 to 68

    Reign of Nero

  • 65

    Paul is Martyred

  • 66

    Peter is Martyred

  • Period: 69 to 81

    Reign of Vespasian

  • 70

    Destruction of Jerusalem by Titus

  • Period: 81 to 96

    Reign of Domitian

  • Period: 96 to 180

    Five Good Emperors

  • Period: 249 to 251

    Reign of Decius

  • Period: 285 to 305

    Diocletian Reign

  • Period: 285 to 305

    Reign of Diocletian

  • 313

    The Edict of Milan

  • 330

    Constantinople Built

  • 385

    Christianity official Religion of Rome

  • Period: 400 to 1000

    Byzantium Empire

  • Period: 418 to 711

    Visigothic Kingdom of Spain

  • Period: 485 to 750

    Merovingian Dynasty of France

  • Period: 500 to 1500

    Middle Ages

  • 622

    Muhammad Flees Mecca

  • Period: 672 to 735

    The Venerable Bede

  • Period: 752 to 987

    Carolingian Dynasty

  • Period: 871 to 901

    Reign of Alfred the Great

  • 1000

    Leif Erikson travels to North America

  • Period: 1096 to 1291

    The Crusades

  • 1206

    Genghis Khan Unites Military

  • 1215

    Magna Carta Signed

  • Period: 1225 to 1274

    Thomas Aquinas

  • Period: 1254 to 1324

    Marco Polo

  • Period: 1300 to 1566

    Ottoman Empire

  • Period: 1300 to

    The Renaissance

  • Period: 1320 to 1384

    John Wycliffe

  • Period: 1337 to 1453

    The Hundred Years' War

  • 1348

    The Black Death Begins

  • Period: 1483 to 1546

    Martin Luther

  • 1492

    Columbus Discovers North America

  • Period: 1509 to 1564

    John Calvin

  • 1517

    Luther's Ninety-five Theses

  • 1521

    Luther at the Diet of Worms

  • 1522

    Cortés Conquers the Aztec Empire

  • 1532

    Inca Empire Falls to Francisco Pizarro

  • 1534

    Act of Supremacy (The English King is the Head of the English Church)

  • 1539

    de Soto lands in Florida

  • 1543

    Capernicus Publishes views of Heliocentric Model

  • Period: 1558 to

    Queen Elizabeth of England's Reign

  • Period: 1562 to

    French Wars of Religion

  • Period: 1564 to

    William Shakespeare

  • Period: 1564 to

    Galileo Galilei

  • 1572

    Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre

  • Spanish Armada Destroyed

  • English East India Company Founded

  • Dutch United East India Company Founded

  • Period: to

    King James I of England's Reign

  • The Bank of Amsterdam is Founded

  • Period: to

    Thirty Years' War

  • Period: to

    Charles I of England's Reign

  • Period: to

    John Bunyan

  • Period: to

    Isaac Newton

  • The Bank of Sweden is Founded

  • Period: to

    Charles II of England's Reign

  • The Bank of England is Founded

  • Period: to

    Voltaire

  • Period: to

    Benjamin Franklin

  • Period: to

    Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  • Period: to

    George I of England's Reign

  • Period: to

    Edmund Burke

  • Period: to

    George Washington

  • Period: to

    Thomas Paine

  • Period: to

    Thomas Jefferson

  • Period: to

    American Revolution

  • Declaration of Independence

  • Period: to

    Industrial Revolution

  • Tennis Court Oath

  • Storming the Bastille

  • Reign of Terror

  • Rosetta Stone Found

  • Period: to

    Abraham Lincoln

  • Period: to

    Charles Darwin

  • Napoleon Defeated at Waterloo

  • Period: to

    Karl Marx

  • Samuel Morse Sends Message by Telephone Wire

  • Period: to

    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • The Communist Manifesto is Written

  • Origin of Species Written

  • Period: to

    U.S. Civil War

  • Telephone Invented

  • Socialists form the Second International

  • Period: to

    Adolf Hitler

  • Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand

  • Period: to

    World War 1

  • Spanish Flu

  • Period: to

    Soviet Union

  • Mussolini's Italian office turned into Dictatorship

  • Period: to

    Great Depression

  • Nazis Gain Power

  • Period: to

    World War 2

  • Pearl Harbor

  • D-Day

  • United Nations Founded

  • Period: to

    Cold War

  • Berlin Wall Built

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

  • Americans Land on the Moon

  • Chernobyl Accident

  • NAFTA Signed

  • Period: to

    War in Afghanistan

  • 9/11 Terrorist Attacks