Timeline of Great Thinkers, Events, and Inventions
compiled by Stephen Hird
Complete and Full Detail List with Pictures
Pre-3000 BCE - 900 BCE
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| pre 3000 BCE |
Adam and Eve |
| c. 3800 BCE |
Invention of the Wheel |
| c. 3500 BCE |
Discovery of Iron Processing |
| c. 3500 BCE |
Invention of Writing |
| c. 3050 BCE |
Menes |
| c. 1810 BCE |
Hammurabi |
| c. 1600 BCE |
Invention of Paper |
| c. 1500 BCE |
Discovery of Organized Religion |
| c. 1300 BCE |
Moses |
| c. 1000 BCE |
Zoroaster |
| 962 BCE |
Solomon |
899 BCE - 1 BCE
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| c. 638 - 558 BCE |
Solon |
| c. 560 BCE |
Discovery of the Atom |
| c. 580 - 490 BCE |
Pythagoras of Samos |
| c. 551 - 479 BCE |
Confucius |
| c. 544 - 496 BCE |
Sun Tzu (Master Sun) |
| c. 427 - 347 BCE |
Plato |
| c. 420 BCE |
Invention of Democracy |
| 384 - 322 BCE |
Aristotle |
| c. 287 - 212 BCE |
Archimedes of Syracuse |
0 AD - 1450 AD
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| 0 AD |
Jesus Christ |
| c. 61/63 - 113 |
Gaius or Caius Plinius Caecilius Secundus |
| c. 272 - 337 |
Flavius Valerius Aurelius Constantinus (Contstantine I) |
| February 313 |
Event - Edict of Milan |
| September 476 |
Event - Fall of the Roman Empire |
| c. 570 - 632 |
Abu al-Qasim Muhammad |
| 603 - 683 |
Pacal the Great |
| c. 1215 |
Event - The Signing of the Magna Carta |
| c. 1343 - 1400 |
Geoffrey Chaucer |
1451 AD - 1700 AD
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| 1452 - 1519 |
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci |
| c. 1450 |
Invention of the Typesetter/Printing Press |
| 1473 - 1543 |
Nicolaus Copernicus |
| c. 1543 |
Discovery of Heliocentricism |
| 1509 - 1564 |
John Calvin |
| 1564 - 1616 |
William Shakespeare |
| 1564 - 1642 |
Galileo Galilei |
| 1596 - 1650 |
René Descartes |
| 1632 - 1704 |
John Locke |
| c. 1676 |
Discovery of Bacteria |
| 1646 - 1716 |
Gottfried Leibniz |
| c. 17th Century |
Event - Development of Modern Calculus |
| 1642 - 1727 |
Isaac Newton |
| c. 1687 |
Discovery of Gravity |
| c. 1646 |
Discovery of Electricity and Magnetism |
| c. 17th Century |
Event - Settlement of the New World |
1701 AD - 1850 AD
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| 1694 - 1746 |
Francis Hutcheson |
| 1694 - 1778 |
François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire) |
| 1706 - 1790 |
Benjamin Franklin |
| c. 1712 |
Invention of the Piston and Cylinder Engine |
| 1724 - 1804 |
Immanuel Kant |
| 1737 - 1809 |
Thomas Paine |
| 1743 - 1826 |
Thomas Jefferson |
| c. 1745 |
Invention of the Capacitor/resistor |
| 1751 - 1836 |
James Madison, Jr |
| July 4, 1776 |
Event - American Revolution |
| 1777 - 1855 |
Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss |
| 1785 – 1863 |
The Brothers Grimm |
| c. 1807, 1848 |
Event - The Industrial Revolution |
1851 AD - 1950 AD
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| 1809 - 1865 |
Abraham Lincoln |
| 1818 - 1883 |
Karl Heinrich Marx |
| c. 1859 |
Discovery of Natural Selection |
| 1828 - 1906 |
Henrik Johan Ibsen |
| 1834 - 1907 |
Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev |
| c. 1868 |
Discovery of the Atomic Elements / Periodic Table of Elements |
| 1847 - 1922 |
Alexander Graham Bell |
| c. 1871 |
Invention of the Telephone |
| 1847 - 1931 |
Thomas Alva Edison |
| c. 1877 |
Invention of Medicine - Antibiotics/Immunization |
| c. 1880 |
Invention of Television |
| Oct 29, 1929 |
Event - Black Friday, The Great Depression |
| 1870 - 1924 |
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin |
| 1874 - 1965 |
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill |
| 1879 - 1955 |
Albert Einstein |
| c. 1915 |
Discovery of General Relativity |
| 1881 - 1973 |
Pablo Ruiz Picasso |
1951 AD - 2008 AD
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| 1911 - 2004 |
Ronald Wilson Reagan |
| 1931 - 2003 |
Neil Postman |
| b. 1937 |
Tom Osborne |
| b. 1942 |
Stephen William Hawking |
| Aug 6,9, 1945 |
Event - Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
| b. 1947 |
Michio Kaku |
| Oct 4, 1957 |
Event - Launch of Sputrnik |
| c. 1950-1960 |
Invention of the Internet |
| b. 1953 |
Richard Matthew Stallman |
| b. 1955 |
Steven Paul Jobs |
| b. 1955 |
William Henry Gates III |
| c. 1963 |
Invention of the pointing device (mouse) |
| Sep 11, 2001 |
Event - World Trade Center Collapses |