History's Timeline B.C.

To fully aprreciate what history has to offer, sometimes we need to take a couple of steps back to view its' bigger picture. Perhaps, if we looked across the broad spectrum, we would realize that nothing happens in isolation. No one gets ups one morning and says, "... hmm, think I'll invent pottery or maybe even a religion today". History is an evolutionary development that happens over time.

Before Christ (BC)

Before the common era (BCE)

1000000		Paleolithic period
		Early man walks the Earth and are hunter-gatherers and dinosaurs are extinct by now. Beginnings of ritualistic funerals and understanding of the Earth.
170000		Use of crude stone tools like hand-axes
45000		Neanderthal carvings on Wooly Mammoth tooth found near Tata in Hungary
35000		Early hunting weapons like the Laurel Leaf spear
30000		Ivory horse is the oldest known animal carving of mammoth ivory -Vogelherd Germany Venus of Willendorf made between 30000 and 25000 and is thought to be a Goddess statue. Interest in Her as well as other Venus Figures have resurfaced due to Neopaganism The Bering Strait gives access to the Americas to many migrating tribes.
28000		Cro-Magnon markings of phases of the moon found on a carved bone discovered at Blanchard France.
27000	23000	Dolni Vestoni
25000	12000	More"Venus" figurines emerge in Europe. The data collected about these figurines from both within Europe and the Near-East suggest that the figurines could have been used for a variety of purposes. The most supported theory utilizes the figurines for reasons of trade rather than for any religious or magical use.
18000		Chauvet cave France
15000		Lascaux cave paintings
14000	10000	Altamira Cave Paintings
12000		Mesolithic Period
10000		First agricultural villages Invention of the bow and arrow Engraved antler baton depicting a seal salmon and plants discovered in Montgaudier France. First animals are domesticated -dog and reindeer Earliest pottery found in Japan
10000	6000	Dravidian Religion is practiced. The earliest roots of Hinduism. They practice stone worship later called Sivalinka.
8000		Neolithic Period
8000	6500	Agricultural Revolution begins: the development of settled societies due to the discovery of agriculture. Each area of the world has it own dates as when it began
8000	3100	In Mesopotamia tokens for accounting and recording keeping existed.
7000		Peoples in the Ancient Near East develop agriculture
6500	5650	Catal Hulyuk Mesopotamian agriculture settlement.
6000		Jericho Crop-growing and stock rearing is a regular part of existence Large communities have formed-towns and cities.
5000		Rice cultivation in China
5000	2700	Yangshao culture China
4500		Neolithic Revolution in Western and central Europe
4300	3200	Harappan developed farming Communities in the Indus Valley
4000	2200	Hinduism one of the oldest religions is practiced
4000		Indo European migration begins; starting in the regions around the Caspian Sea. The Culture of Vra
3500		Sumerians settle in Mesopotamia Writing - pictographs of financial accounts written on clay tablets exist in Sumer
3500	2000	Longsham culture China
3400	3100	Inscription on Mesopotamian tokens overlaps with pictography
3200		Upper and Lower Egypt united by Menes the First Pharaoh Harappan urbanization begins somewhere between 3200 and 2600
3100	2686	Early Egyptian Dynastic Period
3000		Domestication of sheep, cattle and water buffalo in China Pharoah is worshipped by the Egyptians
3000	500	Late Archaic Period in the Americas
2900		Irrigation and drainage projects in Egypt
2800	2340	Beginnings of Sumerian classification of city-states. Innin and Tammuz are the chief Sumerian deities
2750		Stonehenge in England was built in stages. The earliest inner ring of the Blue stones predates the Egyptian Pyramids.
2686	2181	The Old Kingdom in Egyptian history
2650	575	Hieroglyphics become standardized
2600		Pyramid building begins. Scribes employed in Egypt.
2600	2000	Harappan Civilization well established culture
2500		Great Pyramids built and the Sphinx altered at Gizah The beginnings of the Isis and Osiris in Egypt. The Snake and the Bull are chief religious symbols in Minoan Crete Ishtar worship prominent in Mesopotamia
2400		In India: Engraved seals for identifying the writer
2300		Weakening of pharaoh's central authority
2250		Copper working
2200		Date of the oldest found document written on papyrus
2085		Abraham the founder of Judaism
2000		Marduk is worshipped as the chief god of Babylon The "Book of the Dead" 18th dynasty of Egypt
2000		Aryans invade the cities of the Indus Valley
2000	1900	Harappan Civilization collapses
1900	1600	The Babylonian Empire
1800		Celto-Ligurian culture
1600		Bronze Ages After the fall of the Harappan Civilization, between 1600 and 1000 saw the great architecture of Mahabharata, Viz, Hastinapur, Dwarka and Hulas. It was also the time of the great epics like Vedas.
1523	1027	Shang dynasty
1500		Phoenician alphabet Bronze Age in Scandinavia Brahmanism
1500	700	Poverty Point Culture
1400		Oldest record of writing in China inscribed on bone.
1385		Ikhnaton attempts to establish monotheism in Egypt with the worship of Anton the sun god, however he failed.
1270		Syrian scholar compiles an encyclopedia
1250		Moses receives the 10 Commandments on Mount Sinai
1200		Urnfield lts
1200	1000	The Age of the Judges in Israel
1200	750	The Era of the Smaller Civilizations
1027	771	Zhou dynasty
1000		Aryans migrate into Ganges Valley Proto Germanic people settle in the general area of modern Scandinavia and begin to develop a linguistic /cultural / religious identity separate from that of general Indo-European stock. Development of the traditional Greek pantheon.
900		China has an organized postal service for government use
850	800	Homer's Illiad and Odyssey
800		Hesiod's Theogony
775		Greeks develop a phonetic alphabet that is written from left to right
770	256	Later Zhou dynasty
701		The Prophet Isaiah
630	553	Zarathustra (Zoroaster) founder of Zoroastrianism in Persia
611	545	Anaximander and Anaximenes
599		Mahavira founder of Jainism
585		The Prophet Jeremiah Thales of Miletus begins the development of philosophy by speculating about the nature of the"cosmos."
563	483	The Life and Teaching of Sidhartha Gautama
550		Lao Tzu founder of Taoism
535	475	Heraclitus of Ephesus
530		Xenophanes of Colophon A library in Greece
500		Iron Age begins in Scandinavia Greek telegraph system: via trumpets, drums, shouting, beacon fires, smoke, signals, and mirrors. Persia has a long distance communication in a form of a pony express. Chinese scholars write on bamboo with reeds dipped in pigment inks.
500	480	Pythagoras of Samos
500	200	Celtic rule throughout most of Continental Europe East Germanic peoples (Goth, Burgundians ...) migrate from Scandinavia to Eastern Europe, settling in the Steppes and Black Sea area. West Germanic peoples migrate south into the area of modern Germany, displacing the Celts who had previously ruled the region. The Proto-Germanic language is dividing into North Germanic (Old Norse which becomes Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Icelandic, Faroese and others); West Germanic (Continental Germanic and Anglo Saxon: which becomes English, Yiddish, and Dutch) and East Germanic (Gothic with no surviving modern language)
475		Parmenides
469	399	Socrates
427	347	Plato
400		Chinese write on silk and wood.
390		"Western Europe" concept enters History between 390 to 500 AD
384	322	Aristotle
273	237	The Reign of Asoka: India
250	100	development of the runes
220		End of the Han Dynasty
200		Books written on parchment and vellum. Tipao gazettes are circulated to Chinese officials. (First Newspaper?)
180	284	Crisis of Third century Rome
150		The Buddhism Canon is put to writing
150	100	Germans meet the Romans mutually hate.
140	87	Han China at its largest territorial extent under the Emperor Wu Ti.
130		Rome establishes its dominion in the Mediterranean
101		Cimbri and Teutones invade Italy
100		Rise of Mahayana Buddhism between 100 BC to 500 AD sacrificing/executing people in bogs is carried out regularly in Scandinavia especially Denmark
98	117	Roman Empire at its largest territorial extent under the Emperor Trajan.
59		Julius Caesar orders postings of Acta Diurna
55	54	Julius Caesar military expedition into Britain
47		Varro's Human and Divine Antiquities

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