User:GhostInTheMachine/Timeline

BC

 * 2,570 BC — Great Pyramid of Giza completed
 * the Greeks ...
 * Thales of Miletus (c. 624 – c. 545 BC)
 * Pythagoras (c. 570 – c. 495 BC)
 * Zeno of Elea (c. 495 – 430 BC)
 * Socrates (c. 470 – 399 BC)
 * Plato (427–347 BC)
 * Aristotle (384–322 BC)
 * Euclid (c. 325 – c. 265 BC)
 * Archimedes (c. 287 – c. 212 BC)
 * 45 BC — Julian calendar

First millennium AD

 * Hero of Alexandria (10-70)
 * Hadrian (76–138)
 * 122 — starts a wall, probably had help
 * 126 — completes the Pantheon in Rome (nailed up the door number)
 * Diophantus (c. 200)
 * Hypatia (c. 370 – 415)
 * Zu Chongzhi (429–500)
 * Brahmagupta (598–668) — Zero
 * Bede (672–735) — BC / AD
 * Al Khwarizmi (c. 790) — "Arabic" digits

Second millennium AD — part 1

 * Fibonacci (c. 1170 – 1250)
 * 1204 — Sack of Constantinople — triggers decline of the Byzantine Empire (discuss ...)
 * 1209 — University of Cambridge founded
 * 1215 — Magna Carta

15th century

 * Johannes Widmann (c. 1460 – after 1498) — first use of + and - symbols
 * Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519)

16th century

 * Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543) — heliocentrism — 1543
 * John Napier (1550–1617) — Logarithms – 1614
 * William Oughtred (1574–1660) — slide rule – 1622

17th century

 * 1633 — trial of Galileo Galilei (1564–1642)
 * 1636 — Harvard University is founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts
 * 1637 — Discourse on the Method — René Descartes (1596–1650)
 * 1649 — execution of King Charles I of England
 * 1663 — discovery of cells using a microscope — Robert Hooke (1635–1703)
 * 1687 — Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica — Isaac Newton (1642–1727)
 * 1687 — Age of Enlightenment — maybe from 1687 to outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789

18th century

 * 1718 — smallpox inoculations by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689–1762)
 * 1737 — H1 ship's clock — John Harrison (1693–1776), prize eventually in 1773
 * 1740–1741 — Famine in Ireland kills tenth of the population
 * 1752 — Britain adopts the Gregorian calendar
 * 1769–1770 — James Cook explores and maps New Zealand and Australia.
 * 1771 — Richard Arkwright and his partners build the world's first water-powered mill at Cromford.
 * 1775–1783 — American war of independence / American Revolutionary War
 * 1783 — Hot air balloon — Montgolfier brothers
 * 1787 — The United States Constitution is written
 * 1789–1799 — French Revolution
 * 1796 — smallpox vaccinations by Edward Jenner (1749–1823)

19th century

 * 1802 — Coalbrookdale locomotive — Richard Trevithick (1771–1833)
 * 1803 — "Pen-y-Darren" locomotive — Richard Trevithick
 * 1805 — Battle of Trafalgar — allows for British dominance of the seas
 * 1814 — George Stephenson's first locomotive
 * 1815 — Battle of Waterloo
 * 1818 — Frankenstein — Mary Shelley
 * 1822 — difference engine — Charles Babbage
 * 1829 — Rocket — Robert Stephenson
 * 1829 — Electric motor
 * 1937 — Electrical telegraph
 * 1848 — Revolutions in Italy, France, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Poland, Moldavia, Wallachia
 * 1851 — London Great Exhibition
 * 1861 — American Civil War ends
 * 1869 — Dmitri Mendeleev — first modern periodic table (66 known elements)
 * 1870 — Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas — Jules Verne
 * 1870 — Married Women's Property Act 1870 — money and inherited property
 * 1879 — first radio transmission
 * 1882 — Married Women's Property Act 1882 — buy and own property
 * 1888 — Roundhay Garden Scene — oldest surviving film
 * 1889 — Aspirin
 * 1893 — Married Women's Property Act 1893 — tidying of 1882 act
 * 1894 — Swiss Army knife
 * 1895 — The Time Machine — H. G. Wells (1866–1946)
 * 1898 — The War of the Worlds — H. G. Wells
 * 1899–1902 — Boer War

20th century

 * 1903 — First powered flight — Wright brothers
 * 1905 — Special Theory of Relativity — Albert Einstein
 * 1907 — Qualification of Women (County and Borough Councils) Act 1907
 * 1909 — Model T Ford
 * 1912 — Titanic encounters an iceberg
 * 1914–1918 — World War I
 * 1915 — General Theory of Relativity — Albert Einstein (1879–1955)
 * 1915 — Zeppelins
 * 1916 — Tanks
 * 1918 — Women get the vote in UK
 * 1918 — Russia adopts the Gregorian calendar
 * 1925 — Television technology
 * 1925 — Mein Kampf — Adolf Hitler (1889–1945)
 * 1926 — Winnie-the-Pooh — A. A. Milne (1882–1956)
 * 1933 — Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany
 * 1939–1945 — World War II
 * 1941 — Polyester
 * 1944 — V-2 rockets
 * 1946 — ENIAC
 * 1954 — McCarthyism
 * 1957 — Sputnik 2
 * 1961 — Berlin Wall up
 * 1968 — The Mother of All Demos — Douglas Engelbart (1925–2013)
 * 1968 — Apollo moon landing
 * 1970 — Equal Pay Act 1970
 * 1971 — Decimalisation in UK
 * 1973 — Skylab
 * 1973 — Roe v. Wade won
 * 1975 — Microsoft
 * 1976 — Apple
 * 1976 — Colossal Cave Adventure – Crowther's original version
 * 1989 — Berlin Wall down

21st century

 * 11 September 2001 — 9-11
 * 2007–2008 financial crisis
 * 14 September 2007 — Northern Rock baled out by Bank of England
 * 21 January 2008 — FTSE 100 Index crashes 5.5%
 * 17 March 2008 — Bear Stearns baled out by Federal Reserve
 * 11 July 2008 — IndyMac failed
 * 7 September 2008 — Federal takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
 * 23 June 2016 — Brexit referendum
 * 20 January 2017 — Trump elected
 * 31 January 2020 — Brexit enacted
 * 31 January 2020 — COVID hits Europe
 * 11 March 2020 — WHO declares COVID a pandemic
 * 20 January 2021 — Trump ejected
 * 24 June 2022 — Roe v. Wade overruled
 * 24 February 2022 — Russia invades Ukraine
 * 7 October 2023 — Israel–Hamas war