Religion Timeline

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  • Period: 43,000 BCE to 28,000 BCE

    Aurignacian flutes

    Ancient flutes made of bone and ivory that represent the earliest known musical instruments and prehistoric music.
  • 9000 BCE

    Gobekli Tepe

    The world's first temple, situated in Şanlıurfa in Southeastern Anatolia, Turkey.
  • Period: 4500 BCE to 1900 BCE

    Sumerian Empire

    The earliest known civilization in the historical region of southern Mesopotamia, emerging during the Chalcolithic and early Bronze Ages.
  • Period: 630 BCE to 560

    Solon

    An Athenian statesman, lawmaker and poet.
  • Period: 570 BCE to 508 BCE

    Cleisthenes

    An ancient Athenian lawgiver credited with reforming the constitution of ancient Athens.
  • Period: 12 to 41

    Gaius ‘Caligula’

    The third Roman emperor, ruling from 37 to 41.
  • Period: 1010 to 970

    Ancient Israelite Commonwealth, starting with Kings Saul and David

    The English translation of the Greek πολιτείας (politeias) mentioned in Ephesians 2:12.
  • 1215

    Magna Carta

    A royal charter of rights agreed to by King John of England at Runnymede, near Windsor, on 15 June 1215.
  • 1440

    Guttenberg printing press

    In Germany, around 1440, goldsmith Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press, which started the Printing Revolution.
  • Period: 1485 to 1547

    Cortes

    Hernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro Altamirano, 1st Marquess of the Valley of Oaxaca was a Spanish Conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of what is now mainland Mexico under the rule of the King of Castile in the early 16th century.
  • Period: 1558 to

    Elizabethan religious settlement law

    The name given to the religious and political arrangements made for England during the reign of Elizabeth I (1558–1603) that brought the English Reformation to a conclusion.
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    American Revolution

    An ideological and political revolution that occurred in colonial North America between 1765 and 1783.
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    French Revolution

    A period of fundamental political and societal change in France that began with the Estates General of 1789 and ended in November 1799 with the formation of the French Consulate.