THE Timeline

By pgabriellini
  • 570 BCE

    Pythagoras born

  • 540 BCE

    Heraclitus born

  • 500 BCE

    Anaxagoras born

  • 497 BCE

    Pythagoras died

  • 495 BCE

    Empedocles born

  • 490 BCE

    Protagoras born

  • 480 BCE

    Heraclitus died

  • 435 BCE

    Empedocles died

  • 428 BCE

    Plato born

  • 428 BCE

    Anaxagoras died

  • 420 BCE

    Protagoras died

  • 348 BCE

    Plato died

  • 339 BCE

    Zeno born

  • 316 BCE

    Arcesilaus born

  • 262 BCE

    Zeno died

  • 240 BCE

    Arcesilaus died

  • 204

    Plotinus born

  • 270

    Plotinus died

  • 322

    Aristotle died

  • 354

    Augustine of Hippo born

  • 384

    Aristotle born

  • 430

    Augustine of Hippo died

  • Jan 1, 1225

    Thomas Aquinas born

  • Mar 7, 1274

    Thomas Aquinas died

  • Aug 3, 1492

    Columbus's First Voyage

  • May 11, 1502

    Columbus's last voyage

  • Feb 7, 1519

    Cortes stats invasion of Mexico

  • Aug 13, 1521

    Cortes conquers Mexico

  • Dec 13, 1521

    Sexts Empiricus born

  • Roanoke Island Founded

  • Roanoke Island Colony Disappears

  • Sextus Empiricus died

  • René Descartes born

  • Jamestown Virginia Founded

  • Virginia House of Burgesses Formed

  • First Africans Arrived in Virginia

  • Pilgrims Found Plymouth Colony

  • Massachusetts Becomes Royal Colony

  • Puritan Migration to Massachusetts

  • Calvert found Maryland

  • John Locke born

  • Start of Pequot Indian War (Massachusetts)

  • Anne Hutchinson Convicted of Heresy

  • End of Pequot Indian War (Massachusetts)

  • The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

  • Start of English Civil War

  • Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz born

  • René Descartes died

  • First Navigation Act

  • End of English Civil War

  • English Conquers New Netherlands

  • Start of King Philip's War

  • Bacon's Rebellion (Virginia)

  • End of King Philip's War

  • Christian Wolff born

  • Pennsylvania Settled

  • George Berkeley born

  • Start of English Glorious Revolution

  • End of English Glorious Revolution

  • Start of Salem Witch Trials

  • End of Salem Witch Trials

  • Queen Anne's War started

  • John Locke died

  • United Kingdom Founded

  • David Hume born

  • Queen Anne's War ended

  • Denis Diderot born

  • King George I Ascended

  • Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz died

  • Paul-Henri Dietrich born

  • Immanuel Kant born

  • King George I Died

  • King George II Ascended

  • Gotthold Ephraim Lessing born

  • Georgia founded

  • Start of First Great Awakening

  • John Peter Zenger trial

  • Start of King George's war

  • End of First Great Awakening

  • End of King George's war

  • George Berkeley died

  • Christian Wolff died

  • Start of French and Indian war

  • Albany Congress established

  • Albany Congress disbanded

  • King George II died

  • King George III Ascends

  • End of French and Indian war

  • Proclamation of 1763

  • Stamp act

  • Boston Massacre

  • Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel born

  • Tea act

  • Boston Tea Party

  • Introlerable acts

  • First Continental Congress

  • Battles of Lexington and Concord

  • Washington Appointed Commander in Cheif

  • Thomas Paine's Common Sense

  • Declaration of Independence fully signed

  • David Hume died

  • Battle of Saratoga

  • Franco-American alliance

  • Gotthold Ephraim Lessing died

  • Articles of Confederation ratified

  • Congress Establishes Bank of North America

  • Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown

  • Newburgh Conspiracy

  • Treaty of Paris

  • Ordinance of 1784

  • Denis Diderot died

  • Land Ordinance of 1785

  • Jay-Gardoqui Treaty rejected

  • Virginia Religious Freedom act

  • Indian Ordinance of 1786

  • Shays Rebellion Started

  • Annapolis Convention

  • Shays Rebellion Ended

  • Constitutional Convention Started

  • Northwest Ordinance

  • Constitutional Convention Ended

  • The Federalist Papers

  • Constitution Ratified

  • Paul-Henri Dietrich died

  • Washington elected

  • Government Under the U.S. Constitution would begin

  • Start of French Revolution

  • Report on Public Credit

  • Washington D.C. Became the Capital

  • First Bank of United States established

  • Washington's second term

  • Proclamation of Neutrality

  • Cotton Gin Patented

  • Battle of Fallen Timbers

  • Whiskey Rebellion

  • Jay's Treaty

  • Pinckney's Treaty

  • Washington's Farewell Address

  • Inauguration of John Adams

  • XYZ Affair

  • The Alien and Sedition Acts

  • Start of Quasi-War

  • Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions

  • End of French Revolution

  • End of Quasi-War

  • Adam Appoints "Midnight" judges

  • First inauguration of Thomas Jefferson

  • Period: to

    Congress recalls most of the "midnight" judges

  • Marbury v. Madison

  • Louisiana Purchase

  • Immanuel Kant died

  • Start of Lewis and Clark Expedition

  • Aaron Burr kills Alexander Hamilton in a duel

  • Ludwig Feuerbach born

  • Jefferson Wins Re-Election

  • End of Lewis and Clark Expedition

  • Burr acquited for treason

  • Embargo Act

  • African slave trade ends

  • Søren Kierkegaard born

  • Karl Marx born

  • King George III died

  • Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel died

  • Friedrich Nietzsche born

  • Søren Kierkegaard died

  • Ludwig Feuerbach died

  • Karl Marx died

  • Friedrich Nietzsche died

  • Jean-Paul Sartre born

  • Wilhelmus Luijpen born

  • Jean-Paul Sartre died

  • Wilhelmus Luijpen died