Stuff Happens: Graham Drake's view of our World History

15 Billion BC		Something Happened.
4.567 Billion BC		The Sun, a star, was born (give or take a few millennium).
4.557 Billion BC		Earth's creation.
800,000,000 BC		Complex eukaryotes.
570,000,000 BC		Trilobites.
425,000,000 BC		Plants.
65,000,000 BC		Cataclysmic event.
64,000,000 BC		Dinosaurs demised.
6,000,000 BC		Elephants / Mammoths.
4,200,000 BC		Upright humanoids.
3,600,000 BC		Laetoli Footprints.
3,200,000 BC		Human fossil "Lucy", Ethiopia.
2,600,000 BC		Tool fragments, Olduvi Gorge, Serengeti.
1,500,000 BC		Homo Erectus.
1,420,000 BC		Fireside charred bones.
1,000,000 BC		Homo Sapiens, Danakil skull.
780,000 BC		Earth's polarity reversed.
700,000 BC		Homo Archanthropus living in 'Petralona' Cave, Greece.
500,000 BC		Homo Heidleburgensis - Altameras, Europe.
500,000 BC		Boxgrove Man, Chichester, England.
400,000 BC		Wooden spears at Schoningen, Germany.
300,000 BC		Speech, via hypoglossal canal?
300,000 BC		Notched bones in Bilzingsleben, Germany.
250,000 BC		Flint hand axe, with fossil decoration.
230,000 BC		Pontnewydd Cave occupied, Denbighshire, Wales.
125,000 BC		Obsidian tools in Eritrea.
125,000 BC		Water levels similar to 20th Century levels.
120,000 BC		Burials.
100,000 BC		10,000 people on the the earth?
80,000 BC		Sea levels drop.
74,000 BC		Malaysian Stone Tools Factory.
74,000 BC		Toba, Volcanic Eruption.
40,000 BC		Mammoth skin tents, Moldova, Russia.
35,000 BC		Inhabitants of Arnhem Land, northern Australia, using red ochre.
33,000 BC		Castelmerle Beads factory, division of labour, working with mammoth ivory and soapstone (Dordogne).
30,500 BC		Star chart on mammoth ivory.
30,000 BC		The Mask of La Roche-Cotard.
30,000 BC		The Venus of Willendorf coated in red ochre.
28,000 BC		Cave Painting (Lascaux, France).
28,000 BC		Vindija cave, Croatia.
28,000 BC		Carved Sculpture, Lowenmensch, Germany.
28,000 BC		Neanderthal extinct?
24,500 BC		Lapedo child buried on Iberian Peninsular (red ochre).
24,000 BC		Red Lady of Paviland buried in Wales, UK (red ochre).
24,000 BC		Dolni Vestonice, Stone Venus figurines, weaving, basket work, Mammoth Ivory.
23,000 BC		Pechmel cave Art.
20,000 BC		Franchthi Cave (Greece) inhabited
20,000 BC		Time markings on bone.
18,000 BC		Water levels rising.
18,000 BC		Mas D'Azil (French Pyrenees Cave).
13,000 BC		Berber civilization in Moroccan Western Sahara.
11,500 BC		South American Skull.
10,500 BC		Pesse canoe, Holland.
10,000 BC		Sheep in central Asia.
10,000 BC		Sahara Desert fertile.
9,000 BC		Ice Age ends.
9,000 BC		Neolithic settlement at Göbekli Tepe, Anatolia.
9,000 BC		Agriculture in Palestine.
8,950 BC		Inca -9 sun.
8,150 BC		Inca -8 sun.
8,000 BC		'Freshwater' Black Sea, 100 mtrs below '20th Century AD' levels.
8,000 BC		Wall built at Jericho.
8,000 BC		Asikli Hoyuk, Turkey, multi-level dwellings, Obsidian.
8,000 BC		Wheat, pigs, goats and cattle.
8,000 BC		Accounts, Tokens (clay balls).
8,000 BC		Chinese Pottery.
7,350 BC		Inca -7 sun.
7,300 BC		Jericho abandoned.
7,300 BC		Kennewick Man, Pacific North West America.
7,000 BC		Mummies buried near Arica, northern Chile.
7,000 BC		Catal Hoyuk room paintings, Turkey.
6,550 BC		Inca -6 sun.
6,500 BC		Biblical 'Adam' born?
6,500 BC		Copper in use in Eastern Anatolia.
6,500 BC		English Channel formed.
6,000 BC		Australian 150 Mtr. floods (Rainbow Snake).
5,750 BC		Inca -5 sun.
5,700 BC		Enoch travels abroad?
5,600 BC		Freshwater in Black Sea replaced by Saltwater flood (Noah?).
5,000 BC		Bone flutes in Chinese ritual burials.
5,000 BC		Mynydd Rhiw Axe Factory, Aberdaron, Wales.
4,950 BC		Inca -4 sun.
4,713 BC		Julian Calendar begins, Noon 1 January.
4,500 BC		Start of Neolithic Period.
4,150 BC		Inca -3 sun.
4,004 BC		Archbishop Ussher date for creation of universe 'Anno Mundi'.
4,000 BC		Revised Masonic calendar for date of creation 'Anno Lucis'.
4,000 BC		Chinese using silk.
4,000 BC		Walled City of Hamoukar inhabited.
4,000 BC		Ur, Mesopotamia, founded.
4,000 BC		Ötzi (Oetzi) Tyrolean 'Ice Man' dies (Frozen Mummy with Copper Axe).
3,800 BC		Civilization in Malta.
3,761 BC		Jewish date for world Creation, AM, anno mundi, 7th Oct.
3,500 BC		Mummification in use in Saharan Libya, Uan Muhuggiag.
3,500 BC		Wheel shown on pictogram, Samaria.
3,500 BC		Epic of Gilgamesh, Sumeria.
3,500 BC		Neolithic monuments at Thornborough (Orion's Belt).
3,350 BC		Inca -2 sun.
3,300 BC		Export of Obsidian from the volcanic island of Milos
3,200 BC		Sumerian two wheeled cart.
3,200 BC		Karnak, Thebes (Luxor).
3,200 BC		Newgrange, Ireland.
3,114 BC		Start of Mayan Calendar, August 11.
3,050 BC		Canaanite Byblos in Phoenicia (Lebanon/Cannaa)(Tribe of Adam's Son, Cain) using pottery, copper, bronze, glass and tin alloy.
3,000 BC		Minoan Crete trading with Egypt.
3,000 BC		Sumerian base-60 mathematical formula.
3,000 BC		Sumer and Egypt using arched harp.
2,950 BC		Stonehenge Ditch dug.
2,925 BC		Menes, first king of the 1st Egyptian Dynasty, Memphis.
2,900 BC		Four Wheeled cart pottery (Szigetszentmarton, Hungary).
2,850 BC		Writing on Papyrus.
2,800 BC		Sepulchral Iconography at step pyramid burial of King Djoser, 3rd Dynasty.
2,700 BC		Maes Howe, Orkneys, Scotland.
2,613 BC		Phoenicians trading with 3rd Dynasty Egypt.
2,600 BC		Water conduits in use under Troy.
2,589 BC		Snefru, first King of the Egyptian 4th Dynasty, dies.
2,550 BC		Inca -1 sun.
2,576 BC		Khufu unites Egypt.
2,570 BC		Great Pyramid of Cheops.
2,520 BC		Beaker people inhabit 'Fortress' near Lisbon.
2,500 BC		Egyptian Book of the Dead.
2,500 BC		Pyramids (Orion's Belt).
2,400 BC		Big Stones at Stonehenge erected (Copper weapons).
2,300 BC		Amesbury Archer buried.
2,300 BC		Mesopotamian maps.
2,200 BC		Worldwide climate change, leading to drought.
2,100 BC		Ziggurat at Ur built.
2,000 BC		Xinjiang, northwest China, Caucasian mummies.
2,000 BC		Greeks, no arch.
2,000 BC		Bronze Age Civilization disappears on Malta.
2,000 BC		Akkadian language replaces Sumerian but Sumerian writing remains in use, for Sacred Literature.
1,953 BC		Beginning of the Chinese calendar, March 5.
1,780 BC		Babylonian texts controlling alcohol, Hammurabi.
1,750 BC		Inca 1st sun.
1,700 BC		Earthquake devastates Greece.
1,700 BC		Eruption of the 'Vesuvius' volcano destroys Avellino, in Italy.
1,628 BC		Santorini volcano (Thera, Greece) destroys Minoan Crete (Atlantis?).
1,595 BC		Babylon is sacked by Hittites.
1,595 BC		Rise of Mycenaean Greeks.
1,539 BC		Ahmose, 18th Dynasty, The New Kingdom.
1,500 BC		The Rig Veda in use in India.
1,500 BC		Aryans invade India, four-part caste system introduced.
1,458 BC		Thutmose III, King of Egypt, takes Megiddo, passing easily through Cannae.
1,410 BC		Joseph interprets dream for Thutmose IV.
*1,390 BC		Amenhotep III, King of Egypt.
*1,353 BC		Amenophis IV, Egyptian King, becomes Akhnaton (Moses/Oedipus?).
*1,340 BC		Akhnaton founds new capital, AkhtAton (the City of Horizon), Tel-El-Amarna,
*1,323 BC		Tutankhamun died,
		*David M. Rohl theory puts these dates nearer millennium
1,300 BC		Treasury of Atreus, Tomb of Agamemon, Beehive Tomb, no Arch.
1,290 BC		Seti 1st, Egyptian Pharaoh, died.
1,213 BC		Ramesses II died.
1,200 BC		Greek Dark Ages begin.
1,200 BC		I Ching divination in use in China.
1,175 BC		Philistines arrived in Canaan
1,110 BC		Phoenicians establish a colony at Gades (modern-day Cadiz, Spain)
1,079 BC		Egyptian Year of the Hyena - tough times.
1,078 BC		Moses leads 'One God' Tribes out of Egypt?
1,059 BC		Cataclysmic event leading to 18 years of distress in Europe.
1,000 BC		Egyptians using Blue Lotus, Opium, Cocaine, Cannabis, Nicotine and Silk.
980 BC		Saul became King of Hebrews, Tribe of Benjamin.
970 BC		Biblical David becomes King of Judah (Hebron Valley), while Ishbaal (Saul's Son) ruled as 'King' over the Hebrews’ northern kingdom, Israel?
970 BC		Hiram becomes Phoenician King (Tyre).
960 BC		Biblical David becomes King of Judah/Israel and moves to Jerusalem, then abdicates yet maintains control?
959 BC		Biblical Solomon becomes King of Judah/Israel?
958 BC		Hiram begins building Biblical Temple, at Jerusalem, for Solomon.
950 BC		Inca 2nd sun.
940 BC		Queen of Sheba (Yemen) gives birth to King Solomon's child?
936 BC		Hiram, King of Tyre, dies.
925 BC		Sacking of Jerusalem by Shishak (Ramesses II?).
922 BC		Solomon dies?
918 BC		Jeroboam, King of 10 Tribes (Israel), Rehoboam, King of 2 (Judah\Benjamin).
900 BC		Homer writes Iliad and Odyssey.
880 BC		Samaria becomes the new Capital of Israel.
874 BC		Elijah executes 450 prophets of Baal.
868 BC		Assyria extracts tribute from Judah and Phoenician cities.
842 BC		King Ahaziah, of Judah, dies at Megiddo.
814 BC		Carthage founded by Phoenician settlers.
776 BC		Shoshenk 1st, Pharaoh of Egypt.
776 BC		1st Olympic Games.
747 BC		Nabonassar becomes King of Assyria (AN - Anno Nabonassari - Ptolomy).
745 BC		Assyria creates standing army.
732 BC		Israel overrun by Assyrians, Refugees flee to Judah.
701 BC		Assyrian army, under the ruler Sennacherib, lays siege to Jerusalem.
700 BC		King Hezekiah builds water conduits under Jerusalem, Isaiah.
700 BC		Hindu philosophy evolving.
700 BC		British Iron Age.
664 BC		Sacking of Thebes (Valley of Kings) by the Assyrians.
662 BC		'Julian Calendar' date for founding of Rome.
657 BC		Kypselos controls Corinth
640 BC		Spartans subdue Messenians.
623 BC		Brahman Buddha Gotama (Siddhatta) born.
621 BC		King Josiah of Judah purges the Temple in Jerusalem, of 'pagan' influences.
616 BC		King Josiah of Judah reads from Deuteronomy.
612 BC		Fall of Assyrian Nineveh to Chaldeans, Babylon, Biblical Jonah.
609 BC		King Josiah of Judah dies at Megiddo.
604 BC		Jerusalem attacked by Nebuchadrezzar II.
600 BC		Etruscans on Lemnos, Greece.
597 BC		Jerusalem occupied by Nebuchadrezzar II.
587 BC		Temple at Jerusalem destroyed by Nebuchadrezzar II.
586 BC		Start of Babylonian exile for Jews.
580 BC		Birth of Lao-tsu, Founder of Taoism.
569 BC		Pythagoras born, Samos, Greece.
562 BC		Genesis composed.
552 BC		Temple of Artemis\Diana built at Ephesus (third wonder of the world).
551 BC		Confucius born in Shantung Province, China.
539 BC		Persia controls Babylon, Phoenicia, Palestine, Syria & Cyprus.
538 BC		Cyrus II allows selected exiled Jews to return to Jerusalem, after producing a charter, on the rights of nations.
522 BC		Darius the Great takes stronghold of Tigra, in Armenia.
520 BC		Building of the second Temple at Jerusalem starts.
516 BC		End of Babylonian exile for those who saw Jerusalem as home.
515 BC		Darius the Great founds Persian 'Persepolis' on prehistoric settlement.
515 BC		Second Temple completed, driven by Prophets Haggai & Zechariah.
503 BC		'Phoenician' Carthage makes an alliance with 'Rome'.
500 BC		Roman semicircular Arch.
480 BC		Battles of Thermopylae and Salamis.
458 BC		Ezra sent to govern Jerusalem (5 Books of the Torah).
450 BC		Polyclitus introduces symmetria into Sculpture.
445 BC		Nehemiah sees Jerusalem’s walls built.
432 BC		Meton introduces his Lunar calendar in Athens.
432 BC		The Parthenon, Athens, completed.
418 BC		Sparta defeat Athens in the Battle of Mantinea.
400 BC		Fall of Theseus' Athens, Sophocles.
400 BC		The Cynic movement founded.
399 BC		Socrates dies, Athens, Greece.
398 BC		Ezra leads last Jews from Babylonia to Jerusalem.
377 BC		Hippocrates dies.
373 BC		Helike submerged, Greece.
360 BC		Plato writes The Republic.
350 BC		Aristotle writes on Metaphysics.
336 BC		King Philip II of Macedonia dies.
333 BC		Alexander the Great wins 'Battle of Issus', Turkey.
330 BC		Alexander sacks Persepolis.
323 BC		Alexander dies, Ptolemaic dynasty begins.
300 BC		Euclid in Alexandria, Egypt (Arabian Text).
300 BC		The Stoic movement founded in Athens, by Zeno of Citium (Cyprus).
270 BC		Epicuras dies.
267 BC		Ctesibius invents clockwork timepiece, with Cuckoo.
240 BC		Halley's comet reported in China.
238 BC		Decree of Canopus for Ptolemy Euergetes.
235 BC		Ptolomy III establishes a 'Great Library' at Alexandria.
230 BC		Aristarchus of Samos died, after proposing heliocentric cosmos.
221 BC		Magnetic compass in use in China.
221 BC		Building of Great Wall of China begins.
218 BC		Hannibal crosses the Alps with elephants.
212 BC		Archimedes dies.
200 BC		'Jesus ben Sirach' compiles his Ecclesiaticus.
200 BC		Parchment in use at Pergamum, Turkey.
190 BC		'Rosetta Stone' ordered by Ptolemy V Epiphanes.
169 BC		Antiochus IV Epiphanes plunders 'The Temple' at Jerusalem.
167 BC		'Antiochus IV' offers sacrifice to 'Zeus' in 'The Temple'.
166 BC		Maccabean Revolt 'Hanukkah' puts 'The Temple' back in 'Jewish' control.
164 BC		Halley's comet recorded on Babylonian 'Cuneiform' Tablets.
150 BC		Inca 3rd sun.
130 BC		Septuagint completed.
120 BC		Hipparchus dies.
87 BC		Clockwork timepiece, Antikythera.
86 BC		Halley's comet.
73 BC		Spartacus leads a slave's rebellion.
63 BC		Roman Army's invasion of Judea (Pompey).
55 BC		Julius Caesar attempts an invasion of Britain.
54 BC		Crassus plunders 'The Temple' in Jerusalem.
54 BC		'Julius Caesar' fails to invade Britain.
46 BC		'Julian' Calendar standardized.
44 BC		'Gaius Julius Caesar' assassinated (March 15th).
41 BC		Cleopatra sails into Tarsus, to meet 'Mark Antony'.
37 BC		Herod the Great, ruler of Judaea.
31 BC		Cleopatra and Mark Anthony die.
20 BC		Philo Judaeus born (Greek-speaking 'Jewish' philosopher).
19 BC		Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) died.
11 BC		Halley's comet.
7 BC		Jesus, of Nazareth, born.
4 BC		Herod 'the Great' dies, at Jericho.

9 AD		Arminius (Teutonic) defeats Romans in battle, in the Teutoburg Forest.
14 AD		'Augustus Gaius Julius Octavius' died.
23 AD		Pliny the Elder born.
29 AD		John the Baptist begins his ministry
32 AD		Crucifixion of Jesus.
34 AD		John the Baptist beheaded by Herod Antipas (Salome).
37 AD		'Gaius Caesar Augustus Germanicus' (Caligula) became Roman Emperor.
43 AD		Emperor Claudius invades England.
44 AD		St. James of Compostela murdered (James the Great), Apostle, brother of John the Evangelist, son of Zebedee.
48 AD		Fire ravages Library at Alexandria.
60 AD		Boudicca (Boadicea) revolts against Romans.
64 AD		Roman Emperor, Nero, persecutes Christians.
66 AD		Halley's comet.
68 AD		James the Less (Just) murdered, son of Joseph, Brother of Jesus.
70 AD		Herod's Temple at Jerusalem destroyed.
79 AD		'Vesuvius' volcano destroys Pompeii, Italy.
93 AD		Josephus writes his Jewish Antiquities.
100 AD		Christians using variants of the Didache.
110 AD		Ignatius of Antioch died.
120 AD		Roman author Tacitus dies.
126 AD		The 3rd version of the Pantheon, Rome, completed.
126 AD		Hadrian's Wall completed.
141 AD		Halley's comet.
150 AD		Claudius Ptolemaeus writes his 'Almagest'.
167 AD		'Marcus Aurelius Antoninus' writes The Meditations.
203 AD		Galen died.
218 AD		Halley's comet.
250 AD		Plotinus writes 'The Six Enneads'.
250 AD		Origen dies.
286 AD		St. Alban martyred in England.
295 AD		Halley's comet.
321 AD		Arius excommunicated.
325 AD		Council of Nicaea establishes 'Christian' dogma.
328 AD		Emperor Constantine moves from Rome to Byzantium, Constantinople.
347 AD		Halley's comet.
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