 When
we study history it is divided into
segments. We study ancient Greek history and then we study ancient
Chinese history, but we never ask, "What was going on in Greece when
this was going on in China?"
Travel
wasn't as fast or as available
as it is today, but it was
available, especially to the rich, the educated, the priestly classes.
Communication did exist between societies. Lighthouse fires could be
set up on hills to announce major expected events around the world
within hours of their occurence, boats travelled the water between big
coastal cities, exchanging people, things and information.
 Also,
some historical events are disputed or controversial. Theories
about why something happened may be based upon the selective reading of
one aspect of history but ignoring the history of the rest of the
world at the time. Sometimes other events that may not appear to be
related on the surface may have some weight to bear on whether to
believe whether something did or did not happen in the past. This
timeline is intended to try to pull together events from the past that
may appear to us today to have no connection but might have had
at the time.
Date/Time measured as approximate
number of years ago:
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13,700,000,000 The Big Bang, creation of the universe
(After inflation stopped, the universe consisted of a quark-gluon
plasma cosmic microwave background)
13,699,620,000 atoms (mostly hydrogen) form
13,400,000,000 stars form
10,000,000,000 other atoms form in stars
5,000,000,000 Earth forms 4.567 billion years ago
1,400,000,000 eukaryote cells form together to form soft animals like
jellyfish and worms
250,000,000 The "Great Dying". 90% marine & 75% land life killed
(Pangaea) Permean/Jurassic boundary, fungus thrived (lots of dead
stuff to eat). current popular explanation: methane hydrates caused
global warming
85,000,000 dinosaurs killed
17,000,000 "Adam's Bridge" (in India) formed if (you believe) it is a
natural geologic structure
130,000 cats began to live with humans
80,000 beginning of major ice age
20,000 Mean global temperature is approximately 4 degrees C lower than
in the year 2000
20,000 Blood type A appears
11,400 end of last ice age
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Date Time
measured as years before the common era began:
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(BCE) (Years ago = BCE + current year )
11,000 End of Ice Age, ergo global warming begins
10,800 Intense heat events (called Windermere
Interstadial.)
10,500 Sphinx built if it was built by previous
intelligent species that inhabited the earth..
10,000 Extinction of large mammals
10,000 Wheat apprears as a hybrid from wild wheat in the Middle East
8,000 Still getting warmer. In Africa at the time, Sahara a huge grassland,
desert begins to form.
6,200 Global warming ends, global cooling begins, (possibly
caused by collapse of two giant glacial lakes in Hudson Bay area of
Canada. Sea level rises.)
5600 - flooding of the Black Sea due to rising sea levels.
5000 History begins (beginning of written records)
4300 BC, Babylonian clay tablets detail recipes for beer.
4004 Suggested young earth creation date
4000 Global climate almost identical to 2006
3700 Sumerian written records begin. Records say, "Everything we know,
we learned from the Anunnaki".
3500 Badbury Rings occupied
3010 People begin using wheeled carts and chariots.
3000 Closed oven invented/introduced, allowing variety of breads to be
baked
3000 Tower of Babel (Gate of God/the gods) built by Ur-Nammu
2900 Gilgamesh, king of Uruk (Iraq) in ancient Sumer, goes to mountain
to ask for immortality (unsuccessfully) from the gods (according
to Epic of Gilgamesh)
2686 Beginning of what is called the Old Kingdom of Egypt
2580 Sphinx built if (you believe) it was built by humans
2484 Flood of Noah
2350 Peak of global warming; 3 degrees C higher than 2000.
2300 Sargon, from one of the Sumerian cities, unites the people of
Babylonia under his rule
2160 End of what is called the Old Kingdom of Egypt
2000 Epic of Gilgamesh written down. (It is assumed it was transmitted
orally before that)
2000 Abraham was born at Ur (Babylon, formerly Sumer)
2000 An angel gives Abraham the secret/grains to make fermented milk
(kefir).
1944 Tower of Babel destroyed
1848, 1792, or 1728 First year of the reign of Hammurabi of
Babylon
1597 previous last fly-by of Nemesis (conjectured failed star twin of
Sol).
1527 Birth of Moses
3321 (Jewish Year) Moses brings
down the Torah (written law) from Mount Sinai {??see
1527BCE)
1500 an Exodus date
1500 "Adam's Bridge"
built if it
was built by humans
1500-1400 sun stood still
in middle east for about a day
according to Joshua 10: 12-13
Third year of
the reign of Titu Yupanqui
Pachacuti II, the fifteenth monarch of Ancient Empire Times, night
lasted 20 hours longer than normal (after a brief
sunrise and sunset in the east) in America according to the Annals of
Cuaulititlan
1479 Hatshepsut, granddaughter
of Ahmose Nefertiri, reigns in
Egypt
1450 Thutmosis III
1440 or 1447 an Exodus date (Biblical)
1404 Long day of Joshua according to
David Gaddy of "Big Time Bible
Study".
Hammurabi gets law from sun-god
Shamash
1400 Thutmosis IV removes the sand from the Sphinx
1400 Pigs begin to be taboo to all deities.
1352-1335 Akhenaten's reign (1364 - 1347?)
1348 Amenhotep IV adopts Atenism and changes name to Akhenaten
1350's Akhenaten and Nefertiti
((Nefertiti assumes a masculine identity toward the end of Akhenaten's
rule - that of the young co-pharaoh Smenkhkare - and marries her
daughter.))
1312 Moses brings the Torah down from Mount Sinai
1300 Egypt withdraws from Canaan
1272 suggested date for death of Moses, supposedly at age 120
1270 the Assyrians overpower Babylon. For the next 700 years,
Babylon was a lesser power as the Assyrians dominated the ancient
world.
1200 Kingdoms collapse. General economic crisis. Dark Age begins.
1200 End of Bronze Age, beginning of Iron Age
1200 an Exodus date
Philistines invade Israel. Jericho Destroyed.
1200 Enuma Elish written to celebrate Babylon (with Marduk as the main
hero)
1184 Traditional date for
the Trojan War.
1175 Another date proposed for the reign of Akhenaten
1134 to 246 BC, Chinese
Chou dynasty, soy designated sacred grain with
barley, wheat, millet and rice, but soy was not used as food.but as a
nitrogen fixer in the soil
1100 Marduk becomes chief god of
Babylonia
1006 David becomes King of Israel
1000 Asia and Europe start to come out of Dark Age
1000 Mosiac laws on food preparation introduced.
960 Temple built
955 Ark goes to temple
927 Egypt invades Israel and loots Solomon's Temple taking all the
stuff during reign of Rehoboam, son of Solomon.
864 Elijah at Mt. Carmel
750 (approx) calendars around the world change from a 360-day year to a
365 1/4
day year, and begin counting days from new moon to new moon, as there
are no longer 30 days per month. (Tradtional societies measure the year
by looking for the sun's
appearnace on different places on the horizon)
749 big earthquake
701 alternative date for the day the sun stands still (Joshua 10:12:
“Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon;
and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon.” ).based on a 360-day year
calendar.
701 Hezekiah and the backward-moving Shadow
700-600 Babylonians destroy the Assyrian capital of Nineveh.
700-600 Tholes of Miletus observes the attraction of light to rubbed
amber.
626 Babylonian independence was won from Assyria by Nabopolassar.
630 - 562 Nebuchadnezzer (dies at age 68)
605 Nebuchadnezzer son of Nabopolassar becomes king of Babylon (takes
things from the temple of Solomon in Jerusalem and brings them to
Babylon/Iraq.) puts Shadrach, Meshach and Abendago into furnace
587 Babylonians destroy Jerusalem and carry the leading citizens of the
Kingdom of Judah as prisoners to Babylon.
586 Babylonians loot the temple
570 Zoroaster preaches in Persia (Iran)
550 Earliest
use of cast iron in China
539 Tower of Babel falls
500 fall of Babylon
500 Death of Pythagoras
469 - 399 Socrates (dies at age 70)
386 Plato opens Socratic School
Hippocrates of Kos (460-377
BC) marks the transition from a magical view of health and disease to
one of belief in causation
356 Olympias claimed that
Philip was not Alexander's father, but
Zeus in the form of a serpent identified with the god, Zeus Ammon.
332 (Nov) Alexander the Great enters Egypt, welcomed. Visits Oracle of
Amon. Sacrificed to Apis to become Pharoah
Pliny (Gaius Plinius Secundus, 23-79 AD, a universal scientific writer
5 JC born , Hale-Bopp comet appears
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Date/Time
measured as the commonly accepted era, Common Era:
400 End of the Nubian (Pharaonic) Empire
476 Fall of the Roman Empire
535 Krakatoa erupts
593 China recognizes Empress Suiko of Japan (1st recognition of Japan)
613 Mohammed beings preaching monotheism
632 Death of Mohammed
853 First book printed in China
900 mini-global warming perid begins (800 - 1300 is called the Medieval
Warm Period or MWP))
1000 slavery of the Classical type increasingly uncommon in Northern
Europe and, by the 11th and 12th centuries, had been effectively
abolished (Classic slavery: slaves get tips. can buy freedom in about 6
years, according to Cicero)
1173 - Nubian Christians surrender to Islamic invaders and Sudan become
Moslem, Moslems celebrate by killing all pigs.
1211 Genghis Khan invades China
1275 Marco Polo goes to China
1295 Marco Polo returns from China
1300 mini ice age begins
1314-1316 famine in Europe
The MIddle Ages in Europe is about the same time period as the Samurai
Period in Japan
1333 Bubonic plague strikes China
1348 first wave of Black Death plague
1441: Start of European chattel slave trading in Africa.(Chattel
slavery: slaves cannot buy freedom, even if they had the money.)
1400 – 1850 is called the
Little Ice Age
1450 Population of Beijing, China, 600,000
(Chandler estimate)*
1500 Population of Beijing,
China, 672,000 (Chandler estimate)
1560 - 1850 Western Europe
experience a very cold
climate
1564 7th December, frozen Thames
allowed the court of Elizabeth I to
indulge in sports on the ice at Westminster
1610 sunspots begin to be monitored (as the telescope had been recently
invented)
1691 Witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts
1644 Last Ming emperor of China commits suicide
1645 until 1715
(Maunder
minimum) sunspot
activity decreased (very few sunspots)
1750
1784 - 1798 solar cycle 4
1870 Chattel slavery
and mini
ice age end
1892
Reindeer were brought to Alaska from Siberia
1934 Communists' Long March in China
1980
US
abortion rate is 29 per 1,000 women aged 15-44
2003 Supposed flyby of twin sun Nemesis past sun (see 1597 BCE)
2004 Sun more active than at any time in the past 8000 years (Max
Planck Institute).
2004 US abortion rate is 20 per 1,000 women aged 15-44 (30 year low)
2004 Dec 26. tsunami in Indian Ocean, earthquake equivalent of 9.0
2005 Great Tsunami in Indian Ocean
2007
Sunspot activity at near zero
2008 March predicted start of solar cycle 24
2009 November false start of solar cycle 24
2010 January 25 solar cycle 24 starts again
28th of October
2011,
alternative end of Mayan long count calendar
(common date of Dec 21, 2012)
What on Earth Happened?
by Christopher Lloyd "The complete story of the planet, life and people
from the big bang to the present day." Quote from book on the origin of
life. p.11:"A few hundred million years after the earth's fiery birth,
inert chemicals began to duplicate into single-celled forms of life we
now call bacteria. ... Bacteria merged to create more complex cells
which themselves began to link together into the earth's first
multi-cellular beings."
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