History timeline

  • Period: 5000 BCE to 3500 BCE

    PREHISTORY

    Prehistory is the longest period of humanity. It covers the time that elapsed between the appearance of human beings and the invention of writing. It is difficult to know exactly when the first hominid walked the Earth, but it is estimated that it was about 5 million years ago.
  • 3500 BCE

    FIRST WRITINGS

    a tablilla de arcilla y la escritura cuneiforme fueron el primer libro y escritura que se conoce. Ambas, fueron utilizadas por sumerios, acadios, babilonios, asirios, elamitas, urarteos, hititas, entre otros pueblos. Las también conocidas como tabletas cuneiformes eran denominadas tuppu por sus creadores
  • Period: 3500 BCE to 476

    ANCIENT HISTORY

    The Ancient Age is known as the historical period that witnessed the emergence and development of the first human civilizations (known as ancient civilizations), especially from the invention of writing, an event considered as the end of prehistory and the beginning of the history as such.
  • 476

    THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE

    THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE
    Odoacer, king of the Heruli, overthrows the last emperor of Rome, Romulus Augustulus, on September 4, 476. This event marks the end of the Roman Empire: the western empire disappears while the eastern Byzantine empire survives until the fall of Constantinople. in 1453
  • Period: 476 to 1492

    THE MIDDLE AGES

    The Middle Ages is the historical period that spans from the fall of the Western Roman Empire (476) to the Discovery of America (1492). This long historical period, also known as feudalism, was a social, political and economic organization based on land and vassalage.
  • 1492

    CRISTOBAL COLON DESCUBRE AMERICA

    CRISTOBAL COLON DESCUBRE AMERICA
    Despite the diversity of theories about this discovery, official history recognizes Christopher Columbus as the legitimate discoverer of the new continent in 1492, mainly due to the great usefulness that his voyages had in the commercial sector of his time.
  • Period: 1492 to

    THE MODERM AGE

    The Modern Age is the period of History between the conquest of Constantinople by the Ottoman Empire in 1453 AD. C., and the beginning of the French Revolution in 1789. This historical period is between the Middle Ages and the Contemporary Age
  • FRENCH REVOLUTION

    FRENCH REVOLUTION
    The French Revolution was a social and political process that developed in France between 1789 and 1799 whose main consequences were the abolition of the absolute monarchy and the proclamation of the Republic, eliminating the economic and social bases of the Old Regime.
  • Period: to

    THE CONTEMPOARY AGE

    The Contemporary Age is the historical period between the French Revolution (1789) and the present. It is an era characterized by revolutions and great artistic, demographic, social, political, technological and economic transformations.