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Period: 250,000 BCE to 3500 BCE
Prehistory
The first hominids appear
ancestors of homo sapiens, paintings and sculptures. They also discovered fire and learned to use it. -
Period: 4000 BCE to 476
Old Age
The Ancient Ages is a broad historical period beginning approximately in 4000 B.C. and that ends in the year 476, with the fall of Rome. Due to the creation of writing, the Ancient Age supposes the closure of another historical stage such as Prehistory. -
500 BCE
Discovery of fire
It is estimated that it was around the year 500,000 B.C. when fire was discovered for the first time, in the sense that it was managed to be used, taking advantage of a branch after a fire and then maintaining and conserving it -
476 BCE
The End of the Roman Empire
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 BCE to 1492
Middle age
The Middle Ages is the historical period 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. -
Period: 1453 to
The 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. -
Declaration of Independencde
On July 4, 1776, the United States Congress approved the Declaration of Independence. -
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Contemporary age
The Contemporary Age is the historical period between the French Revolution (1789) and the present. It is a time characterized by revolutions and by great artistic, demographic, social, political, technological and economic transformations. -
Proclamation of the second Spanish republic
The Republican victory in the municipal elections held on April 12, 1931 put an end to the Bourbon Restoration in Spain. The masses take to the streets of Madrid to celebrate the proclamation of the Second Republic on April 14, 1931. -
Indo-European invasion
Indo-European tribes in 2000 BC from the west headed west over the pastures into Romania and Hungary and other parts of Europe, becoming Celts, Germanics, Italics, Illyrians, Thracians, and Greeks or Hellenes.