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HISTORY TIMELINE
MEANING CLUSTERS
By Carl H. Peterson
Copyright 2004
4,000 B.C.
The solar calendar
4,000 B.C.
Writing
3,500 B.C.
The wheel
3,500 B.C.
Numbers
3500 B.C.
Bronze discovered
3,000 B.C.
Early schools
2,600 B.C.
Pyramids of Giza
2,500 B.C.
Egyptians create papyrus
2,000 B.C.
Ice cream
Late eighteenth century
ice cream recipe
brought to America
2,000 B.C.
Glass discovered
850 B.C.
The Iliad
and the Odyssey
800 B.C.
The Phoenicians
Sailors/Traders
772 B.C.
Greek Temple
of Artemis
600 B.C.
Africa
circumnavigated
510 B.C.
Roman Republic
founded
214 B.C.
Great Wall
of China started
43
Londinium founded
(today's London)
500
Latin grammar published
700's
Vikings begin
raiding Europe
1066
Battle of Hastings
1086
The Domesday Book
1174
Leaning Tower
of Pisa
1215
Magna Carta
1249
English universities
begin
1254
to 1324
Adventures
of Marco Polo
1260
Chartres Cathedral
consecrated
1280
to 1286
Eyeglasses invented
1354
The Alhambra
1378
Robin Hood
1394
to 1460
Prince Henry
of Portugal
("The Navigator")
1436
Florence's Duomo
is consecrated
1460
Gutenberg Press
1492
Columbus discovers
The New World
1497
to 1499
Vasco da Gama
rounds Africa
16th century
Pencils and pens
1500
the Iroquois League
influenced Framers
of Constitution
1513
Ponce de Leon
discovers Florida
1513
Balboa discovers
Pacific Ocean
1519
to 1521
Magellan's crew
circumnavigates globe
(Magellan dies en route)
1541
De Soto discovers
the Mississippi
1577
to 1580
Sir Francis Drake
circumnavigates globe
1585
Decimal point invented
1586
Kabuki theater
1590
The microscope
1596
Thermometer invented
1596
Water closet
(flush toilet)
invented
1603
Football ban lifted
1607
Jamestown settled
1609
Hudson explores river
1610
Galileo uses telescope
Explores solar system
Confirms Earth
revolves around Sun
1626
Manhattan Island purchased
1678
to 1682
La Salle claims
Louisiana Territory
1737
Mathematical Pi
1741
Alaska discovered
1768
to 1779
Captain Cook's voyages
1769
Watt's steam engine
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1770
British claim Australia
1775
Battle of
Lexington/Concord
1775
Bunker Hill
First all out battle
of Revolutionary War
1776
Thomas Paine's
"Common Sense"
1776
Declaration of
Independence
1776
John Adams of Braintree
horseback to Phildelphia
1781
Pestalozzi publishes
educational reform ideas
1783
Treaty of Paris
1787
The Constitution
1789
Declaration of
the Rights of Man
(France)
1790
Washington, D.C. planned
1791
The Whiskey Rebellion
1791
The Bill of Rights
1789
to 1791
First Amendment
Second Amendment
Third Amendment
to Constitution
1796
Smallpox vaccination
1800
Library of Congress
established
1803
The Louisiana Purchase
1804
Steam Locomotive
1804
Napoleonic Code
1804
to 1806
Lewis and Clark
Expedition
1821
Mexican Independence
from Spain
1821
John Davis discovers
Antarctica
1835
to 1919
Andrew Carnegie
1846
The Oregon Treaty
1848
Treaty of Guadalupe
Hidalgo
1849
Speed of light
demonstrated
1850
Levi Strauss
creates bluejeans
1856
Neanderthal Man
discovered
1858
Virchow describes
the Basic Cell
1859
The Origin of Species
(Charles Darwin)
1861
Pasteur's Germ Theory
1862
The Homestead Act
1862
Emancipation Proclamation
1863
The London Underground
1865
Mendel's Laws published
1865
Antiseptic surgery
1865
13th Amendment ratified
(abolishes slavery)
1866
Transatlantic Cable laid
1868
Cro-Magnon Man discovered
1869
DNA discovered
1870
Schliemann discovers Troy
1871
Stanley and Livingstone
1876
Roberts' Rules of Order
1876
The Dewey Decimal System
1876
The Telephone
1883
The Brooklyn Bridge
1885
The First Skyscraper
1885
The Automobile
1895
X-rays developed
1900
Planck's Quantum Theory
1903
The Airplane
1913
The Refrigerator
1913
16th Constitutional Amendment
(income tax)
1914
Air Conditioning
1915
Einstein's Theory
of Relativity
1916
The Supermarket
1918
Wilson's Fourteen Points
1920
Prohibition
1928
Penicillin discovered
1931
Empire State Building
1944
GI Bill of Rights
1945
Germany Surrenders
1945
The United Nations
1947
The Truman Doctrine
1948
to 1952
The Marshall Plan
1948
to 1949
Berlin Airlift
1949
The Computer Age
1955
Polio vaccine
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