history timeline

By hectorpiñeiro

  • PREHISTORY

    PREHISTORY
    Prehistory is the time that goes from the appearance of the first human beings to the invention of writing. Division of Prehistory: 2,500,000 years B.C. up to 3,500 years BC.

  • ANTIQUITY

    ANTIQUITY
    Thus, the Ancient Age 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.

  • MODERN AGE

    MODERN AGE
    Chronologically, it houses a period whose beginning can be set at the fall of Constantinople (1453) or the discovery of America (1492), and whose end can be placed at the French Revolution (1789) or at the end of the previous decade, after the independence of the United States (1776).

  • MIDDLE AGES

    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.

  • CONTEMPORARY AGE

    CONTEMPORARY AGE
    1776 – Independence of the United States.
    1789 – Outbreak of the French Revolution.
    1801 – Beginning of the Napoleonic Wars.
    1810 – Start of the Latin American independence processes.
    1815 – Napoleon Bonaparte is defeated at Waterloo.