Wikipedia:E3e2

This is an experiment in indexing Wikipedia using a logarithmic timeline approach.

I'm taking the 2nd millennium as a startingplace. The title "e3e2" means the span from 10e3 years ago to 10e2 years ago.

[section dates are approximate]

1000-1200

 * 2.99: Avicenna; Al-Biruni; Alhazen; magnetic compass
 * 2.98: Lady Godiva; Lady Murasaki's "Tale of Genji"
 * 2.97: troubadors; Domesday Book (English tax census)
 * 2.96 = 1100: Crusades; Omar Khayyám; scholasticism
 * 2.95: Abelard castrated for affair with Heloise
 * 2.94: Cistercians; checkers; coal for smelting iron
 * 2.93: Notre Dame's gothic architecture; murder of Becket
 * 2.92: Averroes, Maimonides; Little Ice Age; Genghis Khan
 * 2.91 = 1200: Fibonacci; Magna Carta; St Francis
 * 2.90: Oxford University, Grosseteste; sitar

1200-1400

 * 2.89: Inquisition; Frederick II
 * 2.88: Albertus Magnus; Rumi; Roger Bacon
 * 2.87: Thomas Aquinas; kabbalah
 * 2.86: Marco Polo; Jews expelled from England & France; Braveheart
 * 2.85 = 1300: Raymond Lully; Giotto; madrigals
 * 2.84: Dante’s Divine Comedy; Tenochtitlan
 * 2.83: spinning wheel; Ockham's razor
 * 2.82: Petrarch; cannon warfare
 * 2.81: Black Death; Boccaccio’s ‘Decameron’
 * 2.80: Wycliffe; Noh drama; Oresme

1400-1500

 * 2.79: Great Schism in papacy; Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales”
 * 2.78 = 1400: tarot
 * 2.77: Jan Hus burned; Chinese naval conquests
 * 2.76: Thomas a Kempis's "Imitation of Christ”; Joan of Arc burned
 * 2.75: Nicholas of Cusa; Leone Battista Alberti
 * 2.74: Gutenberg’s printing press
 * 2.73: Francois Villon; Thomas Malory’s “Morte d'Arthur”
 * 2.72: Botticelli’s The Birth Of Venus
 * 2.71: Christopher Columbus; Sikhism; Borgias
 * 2.70 = 1500: Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo

1500-1600

 * 2.69: Erasmus; Machiavelli’s ‘The Prince’
 * 2.68: Luther’s 95 theses; Little Ice Age
 * 2.67: Paracelsus, Rabelais; Mennonites; Jesuits; Calvin
 * 2.66: Petrus Ramus, Dürer, Mercator
 * 2.65 = 1550: Vesalius, Copernicus; Queen Elizabeth
 * 2.64: John Dee, Giambattista della Porta; Huguenots killed
 * 2.63: Montaigne; Giordano Bruno; Simon Stevin
 * 2.62: Spanish Armada; Vieta’s algebra; Edict of Nantes
 * 2.61 = 1600: Bruno burned; Shakespeare’s Hamlet; Kepler
 * 2.60: Francis Bacon; telescope; Ben Jonson; King James Bible

1600-1700

 * 2.59: Rosicrucians; Cervantes; Napier’s logarithms
 * 2.58: Pilgrims on Mayflower; John Donne
 * 2.57 = 1625: Burton’s “The Anatomy of Melancholy”
 * 2.56: Galileo’s trial; Jacob Boehme; Descartes's 'cogito'
 * 2.55: English Civil War; Taj Mahal; Rembrandt
 * 2.54 = 1650: Herrick’s ‘Lovers’; Hobbes; Quakers
 * 2.53: Boyle; Royal Society; Vermeer; London plague and fire
 * 2.52: Milton's “Paradise Lost”; Wilkins's thesaurus
 * 2.51 = 1675: Spinoza’s Ethics Geometrically Demonstrated; microscope; calculus
 * 2.50: Newton’s Principia Mathematica

1700-1750

 * 2.49: Amish; Locke; Leibnitz
 * 2.48 = 1700: Newton’s Optics
 * 2.47: piano; Berkeley
 * 2.46: Marten’s masturbation-taboo; Freemasons; Bach
 * 2.45: Defoe’s “Robinson Crusoe”; South Sea Bubble; Hasidism
 * 2.44 = 1725: Vico’s “New Science”; Swift’s “Gulliver's Travels”
 * 2.43: looms driven by punched cards; rice-futures exchange
 * 2.42: Linnaeus; Euler; Hume; Swedenborg
 * 2.41: Voltaire; Saudis adopt Wahhabism; 1st symphonies
 * 2.40 = 1750: Rothschild banking dynasty; French Encyclopedie

1750-1800

 * 2.39: sextant; chronometer; Laurence Sterne’s “Tristram Shandy”
 * 2.38: Rousseau’s “The Social Contact”
 * 2.37:
 * 2.36: Watt’s steam engine; Shakers; Messier’s catalog
 * 2.35 = 1775: Smith’s “Wealth of Nations”; American Revolution
 * 2.34: Shakers; Gibbon’s “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”
 * 2.33: Uranus; mesmerism; Kant; Mozart; Lavoisier
 * 2.32: Blake’s “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell”
 * 2.31: French Revolution; Bentham; Malthus; Rosetta Stone
 * 2.30 = 1800: Laplace; Louisiana Purchase

1800-1850

 * 2.29: Napoleon proclaimed emperor; Goethe's 'Faust'
 * 2.28: John Dalton's atomism; Jane Austen
 * 2.27: Scott’s ‘Waverly’
 * 2.26: Battle of Waterloo
 * 2.25: Byron; railroad; electric motor
 * 2.24 = 1825: Beethoven’s 9th; photography
 * 2.23: Pushkin’s “Eugene Onegin”; Mormons; Robert Owen
 * 2.22: Patrick Matthew’s natural selection
 * 2.21: Babbage designs Analytical Engine; Battle of the Alamo
 * 2.20: telegraph; Poe; Bolzano; Baháʼí Faith; Neptune; Victoria of the United Kingdom

1850-1875

 * 2.19: Opium War; Joule; potato famine; Pre-Raphaelites
 * 2.18 = 1851: goldrush; Moby-Dick; Peter Mark Roget’s Thesaurus
 * 2.17: Thoreau’s Walden; Whitman’s Leaves of Grass
 * 2.16: Flaubert’s “Madame Bovary”; Neanderthal skeletons
 * 2.15: Baudelaire’s “Les Fleurs du mal”; Darwin; “Great Expectations”
 * 2.14: US Civil War; “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland”
 * 2.13: Mendel; Marx’s “Das Kapital”; Suez Canal
 * 2.12: Mendeleev; Chicago fire
 * 2.11: Tolstoy’s “Anna Karenin”; Dewey Decimal System
 * 2.10 = 1876: Bell Telephone Laboratories’s telephone; Custer’s last stand; Swan Lake

1875-1900

 * 2.09: Edison’s phonograph, lightbulb; Ibsen’s “A Doll's House”
 * 2.08: Twain’s “Huck Finn”; Krakatoa; Maxim gun; Mikado
 * 2.07: Statue of Liberty; Peirce’s electrical logical machine
 * 2.06 = 1889: Kodak; Coca-Cola; Jack the Ripper; Nietzsche goes mad
 * 2.05: William James's Psychology; van Gogh dies; Gauguin to Tahiti
 * 2.04: Charles Proteus Steinmetz; Universal Decimal Classification; electron
 * 2.03: trial of Oscar Wilde; Nobel prizes; Congo genocide
 * 2.02: Dreyfus affair; zionism; Hearst’s Spanish-American War
 * 2.01: fauvism; Georges Polti’s “36 Dramatic Situations”
 * 2.00 = 1901: Sigmund Freud’s “The Interpretation of Dreams”