Events & Eras

91 events and eras, in date order

• Bronze Age c. 3000–c. 1200 BCE
• Minoan Civilization c. 3000–c. 1100 BCE
• Early Dynastic Sumer c. 2900–c. 2334 BCE
• Old Kingdom of Egypt c. 2686–c. 2181 BCE
• Indus Valley Civilization c. 2600–c. 1900 BCE
• Great Pyramid of Giza completed 2560 BCE
• Code of Hammurabi 1754 BCE
• Mycenaean Greece c. 1600–c. 1100 BCE
• New Kingdom of Egypt c. 1550–c. 1069 BCE
• Iron Age c. 1200–c. 550 BCE
• Late Bronze Age Collapse c. 1200–c. 1150 BCE
• Trojan War 1184 BCE
• Phoenician Alphabet 1050 BCE
• Zhou Dynasty 1046–256 BCE
• Axial Age c. 800–c. 200 BCE
• Classical Antiquity c. 800 BCE–c. 500 CE
• First Olympic Games 776 BCE
• First Coins 600 BCE
• Classical Greece c. 510–323 BCE
• Roman Republic 509–27 BCE
• Athenian Democracy 508–322 BCE
• Hellenistic Period 323–31 BCE
• Han Dynasty 202 BCE–220 CE
• Silk Road c. 130 BCE–c. 1450 CE
• Assassination of Julius Caesar 44 BCE
• Roman Empire 27 BCE–476 CE
• Eruption of Mount Vesuvius 79
• Papermaking 105
• Byzantine Empire 330–1453
• Fall of the Western Roman Empire 476
• Middle Ages c. 500–c. 1500
• Tang Dynasty 618–907
• Hijrah 622
• Islamic Golden Age c. 786–1258
• Viking Age c. 793–1066
• Gunpowder 850
• Battle of Hastings 1066
• Battle of Manzikert 1071
• First University 1088
• Crusades 1095–1291
• Mongol Empire 1206–1368
• Magna Carta 1215
• Ottoman Empire c. 1299–1922
• Hundred Years' War 1337–1453
• Italian Renaissance c. 1340–c. 1550
• Black Death 1346–1353
• Ming Dynasty 1368–1644
• Age of Discovery c. 1420–c. 1650
• Northern Renaissance c. 1450–c. 1600
• Printing press in Europe 1450
• Fall of Constantinople 1453
• English Renaissance c. 1485–c. 1660
• Tudor Period 1485–1603
• Columbus reaches the Bahamas 1492
• Early Modern Period c. 1500–c. 1800
• Protestant Reformation 1517–1648
• Mughal Empire 1526–1857
• Scientific Revolution 1543–c. 1687
• Baroque Period c. 1600–c. 1750
• Edo Period 1603–1868
• Thirty Years' War 1618–1648
• Golden Age of Piracy c. 1650–c. 1730
• Age of Enlightenment c. 1685–c. 1815
• Steam Engine 1712
• Industrial Revolution c. 1760–c. 1840
• American Revolution 1765–1783
• French Revolution 1789–1799
• Late Modern Period c. 1800–
• Napoleonic Wars 1803–1815
• Victorian Era 1837–1901
• American Civil War 1861–1865
• Meiji Restoration 1868
• Telephone 1876
• First Powered Flight 1903
• WWI 1914–1918
• The Lost Generation c. 1915–c. 1929
• Russian Revolution 1917
• Founding of the Republic of Turkey 1923
• Penicillin 1928
• Stock market crash 1929
• WWII 1939–1945
• Atomic bombings 1945
• Cold War 1947–1991
• Human Rights Declaration 1948
• The Information Age c. 1950–
• The Space Age 1957–
• Man walks on the Moon 1969
• Fall of the Berlin Wall 1989
• World Wide Web 1989
• September 11 attacks 2001
• COVID-19 pandemic 2019–2023