Social Studies Timeline

  • 18,000 BCE

    Pottery

  • 6000 BCE

    Irrigation

  • 4150 BCE

    Fire

  • 4000 BCE

    Iron working

  • 4000 BCE

    The Wheel

  • 3500 BCE

    Sailing

  • 3300 BCE

    Writing

    Writing
  • 2550 BCE

    The great pyramid

  • 890 BCE

    Gunpowder

    AD
  • 610 BCE

    Islam Founded

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  • 500 BCE

    Windmill

    Windmill
  • 476 BCE

    Fall of the Roman Empire

    AD
  • 323 BCE

    Death of Alexander the Great

  • 206 BCE

    compas

  • 150 BCE

    Roman Concrete

  • 105 BCE

    Paper

    nd
  • 4 BCE

    Birth of Christ

  • 660

    Paper Currancy

  • 800

    Weaving

  • 1300

    Eye glasses

  • 1300

    Mechanical Clock

  • 1492

    Columbus sails to W. Indies

  • Pilgrims Land Plymouth Rock

  • American Independence

  • farming

  • Steam Locomotive

  • Bicycle

  • Photography

  • Mechanical Reaper

  • Deere Self-Scouring Plow

  • Vulcanized Rubber

  • Man Made Fertilizer

  • Telephone

  • rechargable battery

  • Pasteurization

  • U.S. Civil War Ends

  • Type Writer

  • Phonograph

  • Light Bulb

  • Coca-Cola

  • Motion Pictures

  • Diesel Engine

    Patent Year
  • Wright Bros. Fly

  • Ford’s Model T

  • World War 1

  • Fordson Tractor

  • Transatlantic Flight

  • First Radio Station

  • Penicillin

  • Nylon

  • world war 2 begins

  • McDonald’s

  • A-Bombs dropped on Japan

  • Transistor

  • AI

  • Printing Press (Gutenberg)

  • Polio Vaccine (Salk)

  • VHS VCR

  • Sputnic Launch

  • Moonlanding

  • television

  • Pong Debuts

  • Barcodes

  • Apple II Personal Computer

  • CD

  • Sony Walkman

  • Smallpox Eradicated Worldwide

  • Internet

  • Motorola DynaTec Cell Phone

  • CRISPR

  • Nanotubes

  • Bluetooth

  • WiFi

  • Google Maps

  • iPod debuts (hard drive)

  • Netflix Streaming

  • iPhone debuts

  • Bitcoin

  • cloning of dolly

  • Today

  • Bronze Working

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