Timeline

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  • 1800 BCE

    First Seek for Quadratic Elliptiv Equations

    The Old Babylonian Strassburg tablet seeks the solution of a quadratic elliptic equation
  • 750 BCE

    Messina is Born

  • 570 BCE

    Birth of Pythagoras

    Pythagoras founded the Pythagorean School of Mathematics in Cortona, a Greek seaport in Southern Italy. He is credited with many contributions to mathematics along with the Pythagorean Theorem.
  • 540 BCE

    Birth of Heraclitus

    Heraclitus is a Greek philosopher of the late 6th century BCE, Heraclitus criticizes his predecessors and contemporaries for their failure to see the unity in experience.He claims to announce an everlasting Word (Logos) according to which all things are one, in some sense.
  • 450 BCE

    Creation of Math

    Between 600 and 300 BC the Ancient Greeks began a systematic study of mathematics in its own right with Greek mathematics.
  • 380 BCE

    Plato's Republic is Written

  • 348 BCE

    Plato's Death

  • 334 BCE

    Aristotle returns to Athens from Macedonia

  • 322 BCE

    Aristotle Dies

  • 300 BCE

    Stoicism is founded by Zeno of Citium

  • 300 BCE

    Epicureanism is founded by Epicurus

    The only two philosophical schools mentioned by name in the New Testament are the Stoics and the Epicureans, whom the apostle Paul encountered at the Areopagus in Athens.
  • 282 BCE

    Messina is taken by mercenaries

  • Jan 1, 1061

    Messina is liberated by the Normans

  • Jan 1, 1225

    Thomas Aquinas is born

    Thomas Aquinas in 1225 in Aquino, near Naples Italy. His father, a count of Aquino, was the aristocracy.
  • Jan 1, 1274

    Thomas Aquinas dies

  • Jan 1, 1464

    King of France establishes postal system

  • Jan 1, 1492

    Columbus' First Voyage

  • Jan 1, 1493

    Columbus' Second Voyage

  • Jan 1, 1515

    François I crowned King of France

  • Jan 1, 1519

    Hernan Cortes Conquers Mexico

  • Jan 1, 1547

    Beginning of King Henry II's Reign in France

  • Jan 1, 1559

    End of King Henry II's Reign in France

  • Rene Descartes is born

  • Jamestown, Virginia is Founded

    Jamestown is the very first colony founded in the New World, led by John Smith.

  • Founding of Quebec

  • Virginia House of Burgesses is Formed

  • First Africans Arrive in Virginia

  • Rene Descartes pens "Discourse on the Method"

  • A French newspaper carries classified ads

  • Creation of Algebra

    In 1637, René Descartes published La Géométrie, inventing analytic geometry and introducing modern algebraic notation. Another key event in the further development of algebra was the general algebraic solution of the cubic and quartic equations, developed in the mid-16th century.

  • The term imaginary number is first used by René Descartes

  • Anne Hutchinson convicted of heresy

  • Beginning of English Civil War

  • Louis XIV becomes king with Mazarin as principal minister in France

  • Wilhelm Leibniz's Birth

  • End of English Civil War

  • Royal court moves to Versailles in France

  • George Berkley's Birth

  • Bill of Rights is Created

  • John Locke's "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding"

  • Massachusetts Becomes a Royal Colony

  • Beginning of Queen Anne's War

  • England, Wales, and Scotland unite into the U.K.

  • David Hume Publishes "A Treatise of Human Nature"

  • End of Queen Anne's War

  • End of Louis XIV and Mazarin's Reign in France

  • Trigonometric functions and complex numbers

    Abraham de Moivre states de Moivre's formula connecting trigonometric functions and complex numbers.

  • Georgia is Founded

  • Plague in Messina

    Nearly 50,000 inhabitants of Messina died to the plague in 1743

  • Beginning of French and Indian War

  • End of French and Indian War

  • Beginning of Messina's insurrection against the Bourbons

    In the 18th century, Messina came under the rule of the Angevins, the Aragonese, and the Spanish Bourbons. A heroic insurrection against the Bourbons took place from 1774 to 1778.

  • Birth of Carl Gauss

    There is no specific history to when sequences were started although there was a young math student who created a formula to help solve for the sum of arithmetic sequences. His name was Carl Gauss, he was born in 1777 in a German Empire and at just ten years old he created arithmetic sequences.

  • End of Messina's insurrection against the Bourbons

    In the 18th century, Messina came under the rule of the Angevins, the Aragonese, and the Spanish Bourbons. A heroic insurrection against the Bourbons took place from 1774 to 1778.

  • "Critique of Pure Reason" is Published

    Immanuel Kant's most famous work is published in 1781

  • Fundamental Theorem of Algebra is Proved

    Carl Friedrich Gauss proves the fundamental theorem of algebra (every polynomial equation has a solution among the complex numbers).

  • British seize American Ships

  • Battle of Tippecanoe

  • Soren Kierkegaurd's Birth

  • James Monroe Elected President

  • Karl Marx's Birth

  • Radicals

    Niels Henrik Abel proves that the general quintic equation is insoluble by radicals

  • Galois Theory

    Galois theory is developed by Évariste Galois in his work on abstract algebra.

  • Martin Van Buren Elected President

  • Panic of 1837

  • Friedrich Nietzsche's Birth

  • Texas Anexation

  • Gold Discovered in California

  • Compromise of 1850

  • Soren Kierkegaurd's Death

  • Charles Darwin publishes "The Origin of Species"

  • Abraham Lincoln Elected President

    Abraham Lincoln ran for president without a single Southern electoral vote, for he was against slavery.

  • South Carolina Secedes

  • Emancipation proclimation

    President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."

  • Sand Creek Massacre

  • Purchase of Alaska

  • Panic of 1873

  • Hayes Becomes President

  • Elliptic and Modular Functions

    Charles Hermite solves the general quintic equation by means of elliptic and modular functions.

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

  • Karl Marx's Death

  • Veto of the Seed Corn Bill

  • Alaskan Gold Rush

  • Friedrich Nietzsche's Death

  • McKinley Elected

  • Newlands Reclamation Act

  • Earthquake and Tsunami in Messina

    Both an Earthquake and Tsunami lay waste in Messina, destroying 90% of buildings.

  • Versailles Peace Conference

    The Versailles Peace Conference was the meeting of the Allied victors, following the end of World War I to set the peace terms for the defeated Central Powers following the armistices of 1918.

  • Sigmund Freud's "The Future of an Illusion"

  • Martin Heidegger succeeds Husserl

    Martin Heidegger, a student of Husserl, became his assistant at Freiburg in 1920 and succeeded him in 1927.

  • Freud's "Civilization and Its Discontents"

  • 'Operation Huskey' in Messina

    As U.S. and British forces pushed hard through the island of Messina, it became the last bastion of German defenses and suffered significant bombing.

  • Jean-Paul Sartre's "The Flies and No Exit" is published

  • Polynomial Equations of Arbitrary Degree

    Chinese mathematician Jia Xian finds numerical solutions of polynomial equations of arbitrary degree

  • Beginning of quadratic equations

    Berlin Papyrus 6619 (19th dynasty) contains a quadratic equation and its solution

  • Beginning of quadratic equations

    Berlin Papyrus 6619 (19th dynasty) contains a quadratic equation and its solution