Stuff Happens: Graham Drake's view of our World History

15 Billion BC		Something Happened.
4.567 Billion BC		The Sun, a star, was born (give or take a few millennium).
4.557 Billion BC		Earth's creation.
800,000,000 BC		Complex eukaryotes.
570,000,000 BC		Trilobites.
425,000,000 BC		Plants.
65,000,000 BC		Cataclysmic event.
64,000,000 BC		Dinosaurs demised.
6,000,000 BC		Elephants / Mammoths.
4,200,000 BC		Upright humanoids.
3,600,000 BC		Laetoli Footprints.
3,200,000 BC		Human fossil "Lucy", Ethiopia.
2,600,000 BC		Tool fragments, Olduvi Gorge, Serengeti.
1,500,000 BC		Homo Erectus.
1,420,000 BC		Fireside charred bones.
1,000,000 BC		Homo Sapiens, Danakil skull.
780,000 BC		Earth's polarity reversed.
700,000 BC		Homo Archanthropus living in 'Petralona' Cave, Greece.
500,000 BC		Homo Heidleburgensis - Altameras, Europe.
500,000 BC		Boxgrove Man, Chichester, England.
400,000 BC		Wooden spears at Schoningen, Germany.
300,000 BC		Speech, via hypoglossal canal?
300,000 BC		Notched bones in Bilzingsleben, Germany.
250,000 BC		Flint hand axe, with fossil decoration.
230,000 BC		Pontnewydd Cave occupied, Denbighshire, Wales.
125,000 BC		Obsidian tools in Eritrea.
125,000 BC		Water levels similar to 20th Century levels.
120,000 BC		Burials.
100,000 BC		10,000 people on the the earth?
80,000 BC		Sea levels drop.
74,000 BC		Malaysian Stone Tools Factory.
74,000 BC		Toba, Volcanic Eruption.
40,000 BC		Mammoth skin tents, Moldova, Russia.
35,000 BC		Inhabitants of Arnhem Land, northern Australia, using red ochre.
33,000 BC		Castelmerle Beads factory, division of labour, working with mammoth ivory and soapstone (Dordogne).
30,500 BC		Star chart on mammoth ivory.
30,000 BC		The Mask of La Roche-Cotard.
30,000 BC		The Venus of Willendorf coated in red ochre.
28,000 BC		Cave Painting (Lascaux, France).
28,000 BC		Vindija cave, Croatia.
28,000 BC		Carved Sculpture, Lowenmensch, Germany.
28,000 BC		Neanderthal extinct?
24,500 BC		Lapedo child buried on Iberian Peninsular (red ochre).
24,000 BC		Red Lady of Paviland buried in Wales, UK (red ochre).
24,000 BC		Dolni Vestonice, Stone Venus figurines, weaving, basket work, Mammoth Ivory.
23,000 BC		Pechmel cave Art.
20,000 BC		Franchthi Cave (Greece) inhabited
20,000 BC		Time markings on bone.
18,000 BC		Water levels rising.
18,000 BC		Mas D'Azil (French Pyrenees Cave).
13,000 BC		Berber civilization in Moroccan Western Sahara.
11,500 BC		South American Skull.
10,500 BC		Pesse canoe, Holland.
10,000 BC		Sheep in central Asia.
10,000 BC		Sahara Desert fertile.
9,000 BC		Ice Age ends.
9,000 BC		Neolithic settlement at Göbekli Tepe, Anatolia.
9,000 BC		Agriculture in Palestine.
8,950 BC		Inca -9 sun.
8,150 BC		Inca -8 sun.
8,000 BC		'Freshwater' Black Sea, 100 mtrs below '20th Century AD' levels.
8,000 BC		Wall built at Jericho.
8,000 BC		Asikli Hoyuk, Turkey, multi-level dwellings, Obsidian.
8,000 BC		Wheat, pigs, goats and cattle.
8,000 BC		Accounts, Tokens (clay balls).
8,000 BC		Chinese Pottery.
7,350 BC		Inca -7 sun.
7,300 BC		Jericho abandoned.
7,300 BC		Kennewick Man, Pacific North West America.
7,000 BC		Mummies buried near Arica, northern Chile.
7,000 BC		Catal Hoyuk room paintings, Turkey.
6,550 BC		Inca -6 sun.
6,500 BC		Biblical 'Adam' born?
6,500 BC		Copper in use in Eastern Anatolia.
6,500 BC		English Channel formed.
6,000 BC		Australian 150 Mtr. floods (Rainbow Snake).
5,750 BC		Inca -5 sun.
5,700 BC		Enoch travels abroad?
5,600 BC		Freshwater in Black Sea replaced by Saltwater flood (Noah?).
5,000 BC		Bone flutes in Chinese ritual burials.
5,000 BC		Mynydd Rhiw Axe Factory, Aberdaron, Wales.
4,950 BC		Inca -4 sun.
4,713 BC		Julian Calendar begins, Noon 1 January.
4,500 BC		Start of Neolithic Period.
4,150 BC		Inca -3 sun.
4,004 BC		Archbishop Ussher date for creation of universe 'Anno Mundi'.
4,000 BC		Revised Masonic calendar for date of creation 'Anno Lucis'.
4,000 BC		Chinese using silk.
4,000 BC		Walled City of Hamoukar inhabited.
4,000 BC		Ur, Mesopotamia, founded.
4,000 BC		Ötzi (Oetzi) Tyrolean 'Ice Man' dies (Frozen Mummy with Copper Axe).
3,800 BC		Civilization in Malta.
3,761 BC		Jewish date for world Creation, AM, anno mundi, 7th Oct.
3,500 BC		Mummification in use in Saharan Libya, Uan Muhuggiag.
3,500 BC		Wheel shown on pictogram, Samaria.
3,500 BC		Epic of Gilgamesh, Sumeria.
3,500 BC		Neolithic monuments at Thornborough (Orion's Belt).
3,350 BC		Inca -2 sun.
3,300 BC		Export of Obsidian from the volcanic island of Milos
3,200 BC		Sumerian two wheeled cart.
3,200 BC		Karnak, Thebes (Luxor).
3,200 BC		Newgrange, Ireland.
3,114 BC		Start of Mayan Calendar, August 11.
3,050 BC		Canaanite Byblos in Phoenicia (Lebanon/Cannaa)(Tribe of Adam's Son, Cain) using pottery, copper, bronze, glass and tin alloy.
3,000 BC		Minoan Crete trading with Egypt.
3,000 BC		Sumerian base-60 mathematical formula.
3,000 BC		Sumer and Egypt using arched harp.
2,950 BC		Stonehenge Ditch dug.
2,925 BC		Menes, first king of the 1st Egyptian Dynasty, Memphis.
2,900 BC		Four Wheeled cart pottery (Szigetszentmarton, Hungary).
2,850 BC		Writing on Papyrus.
2,800 BC		Sepulchral Iconography at step pyramid burial of King Djoser, 3rd Dynasty.
2,700 BC		Maes Howe, Orkneys, Scotland.
2,613 BC		Phoenicians trading with 3rd Dynasty Egypt.
2,600 BC		Water conduits in use under Troy.
2,589 BC		Snefru, first King of the Egyptian 4th Dynasty, dies.
2,550 BC		Inca -1 sun.
2,576 BC		Khufu unites Egypt.
2,570 BC		Great Pyramid of Cheops.
2,520 BC		Beaker people inhabit 'Fortress' near Lisbon.
2,500 BC		Egyptian Book of the Dead.
2,500 BC		Pyramids (Orion's Belt).
2,400 BC		Big Stones at Stonehenge erected (Copper weapons).
2,300 BC		Amesbury Archer buried.
2,300 BC		Mesopotamian maps.
2,200 BC		Worldwide climate change, leading to drought.
2,100 BC		Ziggurat at Ur built.
2,000 BC		Xinjiang, northwest China, Caucasian mummies.
2,000 BC		Greeks, no arch.
2,000 BC		Bronze Age Civilization disappears on Malta.
2,000 BC		Akkadian language replaces Sumerian but Sumerian writing remains in use, for Sacred Literature.
1,953 BC		Beginning of the Chinese calendar, March 5.
1,780 BC		Babylonian texts controlling alcohol, Hammurabi.
1,750 BC		Inca 1st sun.
1,700 BC		Earthquake devastates Greece.
1,700 BC		Eruption of the 'Vesuvius' volcano destroys Avellino, in Italy.
1,628 BC		Santorini volcano (Thera, Greece) destroys Minoan Crete (Atlantis?).
1,595 BC		Babylon is sacked by Hittites.
1,595 BC		Rise of Mycenaean Greeks.
1,539 BC		Ahmose, 18th Dynasty, The New Kingdom.
1,500 BC		The Rig Veda in use in India.
1,500 BC		Aryans invade India, four-part caste system introduced.
1,458 BC		Thutmose III, King of Egypt, takes Megiddo, passing easily through Cannae.
1,410 BC		Joseph interprets dream for Thutmose IV.
*1,390 BC		Amenhotep III, King of Egypt.
*1,353 BC		Amenophis IV, Egyptian King, becomes Akhnaton (Moses/Oedipus?).
*1,340 BC		Akhnaton founds new capital, AkhtAton (the City of Horizon), Tel-El-Amarna,
*1,323 BC		Tutankhamun died,
		*David M. Rohl theory puts these dates nearer millennium
1,300 BC		Treasury of Atreus, Tomb of Agamemon, Beehive Tomb, no Arch.
1,290 BC		Seti 1st, Egyptian Pharaoh, died.
1,213 BC		Ramesses II died.
1,200 BC		Greek Dark Ages begin.
1,200 BC		I Ching divination in use in China.
1,175 BC		Philistines arrived in Canaan
1,110 BC		Phoenicians establish a colony at Gades (modern-day Cadiz, Spain)
1,079 BC		Egyptian Year of the Hyena - tough times.
1,078 BC		Moses leads 'One God' Tribes out of Egypt?
1,059 BC		Cataclysmic event leading to 18 years of distress in Europe.
1,000 BC		Egyptians using Blue Lotus, Opium, Cocaine, Cannabis, Nicotine and Silk.
980 BC		Saul became King of Hebrews, Tribe of Benjamin.
970 BC		Biblical David becomes King of Judah (Hebron Valley), while Ishbaal (Saul's Son) ruled as 'King' over the Hebrews’ northern kingdom, Israel?
970 BC		Hiram becomes Phoenician King (Tyre).
960 BC		Biblical David becomes King of Judah/Israel and moves to Jerusalem, then abdicates yet maintains control?
959 BC		Biblical Solomon becomes King of Judah/Israel?
958 BC		Hiram begins building Biblical Temple, at Jerusalem, for Solomon.
950 BC		Inca 2nd sun.
940 BC		Queen of Sheba (Yemen) gives birth to King Solomon's child?
936 BC		Hiram, King of Tyre, dies.
925 BC		Sacking of Jerusalem by Shishak (Ramesses II?).
922 BC		Solomon dies?
918 BC		Jeroboam, King of 10 Tribes (Israel), Rehoboam, King of 2 (Judah\Benjamin).
900 BC		Homer writes Iliad and Odyssey.
880 BC		Samaria becomes the new Capital of Israel.
874 BC		Elijah executes 450 prophets of Baal.
868 BC		Assyria extracts tribute from Judah and Phoenician cities.
842 BC		King Ahaziah, of Judah, dies at Megiddo.
814 BC		Carthage founded by Phoenician settlers.
776 BC		Shoshenk 1st, Pharaoh of Egypt.
776 BC		1st Olympic Games.
747 BC		Nabonassar becomes King of Assyria (AN - Anno Nabonassari - Ptolomy).
745 BC		Assyria creates standing army.
732 BC		Israel overrun by Assyrians, Refugees flee to Judah.
701 BC		Assyrian army, under the ruler Sennacherib, lays siege to Jerusalem.
700 BC		King Hezekiah builds water conduits under Jerusalem, Isaiah.
700 BC		Hindu philosophy evolving.
700 BC		British Iron Age.
664 BC		Sacking of Thebes (Valley of Kings) by the Assyrians.
662 BC		'Julian Calendar' date for founding of Rome.
657 BC		Kypselos controls Corinth
640 BC		Spartans subdue Messenians.
623 BC		Brahman Buddha Gotama (Siddhatta) born.
621 BC		King Josiah of Judah purges the Temple in Jerusalem, of 'pagan' influences.
616 BC		King Josiah of Judah reads from Deuteronomy.
612 BC		Fall of Assyrian Nineveh to Chaldeans, Babylon, Biblical Jonah.
609 BC		King Josiah of Judah dies at Megiddo.
604 BC		Jerusalem attacked by Nebuchadrezzar II.
600 BC		Etruscans on Lemnos, Greece.
597 BC		Jerusalem occupied by Nebuchadrezzar II.
587 BC		Temple at Jerusalem destroyed by Nebuchadrezzar II.
586 BC		Start of Babylonian exile for Jews.
580 BC		Birth of Lao-tsu, Founder of Taoism.
569 BC		Pythagoras born, Samos, Greece.
562 BC		Genesis composed.
552 BC		Temple of Artemis\Diana built at Ephesus (third wonder of the world).
551 BC		Confucius born in Shantung Province, China.
539 BC		Persia controls Babylon, Phoenicia, Palestine, Syria & Cyprus.
538 BC		Cyrus II allows selected exiled Jews to return to Jerusalem, after producing a charter, on the rights of nations.
522 BC		Darius the Great takes stronghold of Tigra, in Armenia.
520 BC		Building of the second Temple at Jerusalem starts.
516 BC		End of Babylonian exile for those who saw Jerusalem as home.
515 BC		Darius the Great founds Persian 'Persepolis' on prehistoric settlement.
515 BC		Second Temple completed, driven by Prophets Haggai & Zechariah.
503 BC		'Phoenician' Carthage makes an alliance with 'Rome'.
500 BC		Roman semicircular Arch.
480 BC		Battles of Thermopylae and Salamis.
458 BC		Ezra sent to govern Jerusalem (5 Books of the Torah).
450 BC		Polyclitus introduces symmetria into Sculpture.
445 BC		Nehemiah sees Jerusalem’s walls built.
432 BC		Meton introduces his Lunar calendar in Athens.
432 BC		The Parthenon, Athens, completed.
418 BC		Sparta defeat Athens in the Battle of Mantinea.
400 BC		Fall of Theseus' Athens, Sophocles.
400 BC		The Cynic movement founded.
399 BC		Socrates dies, Athens, Greece.
398 BC		Ezra leads last Jews from Babylonia to Jerusalem.
377 BC		Hippocrates dies.
373 BC		Helike submerged, Greece.
360 BC		Plato writes The Republic.
350 BC		Aristotle writes on Metaphysics.
336 BC		King Philip II of Macedonia dies.
333 BC		Alexander the Great wins 'Battle of Issus', Turkey.
330 BC		Alexander sacks Persepolis.
323 BC		Alexander dies, Ptolemaic dynasty begins.
300 BC		Euclid in Alexandria, Egypt (Arabian Text).
300 BC		The Stoic movement founded in Athens, by Zeno of Citium (Cyprus).
270 BC		Epicuras dies.
267 BC		Ctesibius invents clockwork timepiece, with Cuckoo.
240 BC		Halley's comet reported in China.
238 BC		Decree of Canopus for Ptolemy Euergetes.
235 BC		Ptolomy III establishes a 'Great Library' at Alexandria.
230 BC		Aristarchus of Samos died, after proposing heliocentric cosmos.
221 BC		Magnetic compass in use in China.
221 BC		Building of Great Wall of China begins.
218 BC		Hannibal crosses the Alps with elephants.
212 BC		Archimedes dies.
200 BC		'Jesus ben Sirach' compiles his Ecclesiaticus.
200 BC		Parchment in use at Pergamum, Turkey.
190 BC		'Rosetta Stone' ordered by Ptolemy V Epiphanes.
169 BC		Antiochus IV Epiphanes plunders 'The Temple' at Jerusalem.
167 BC		'Antiochus IV' offers sacrifice to 'Zeus' in 'The Temple'.
166 BC		Maccabean Revolt 'Hanukkah' puts 'The Temple' back in 'Jewish' control.
164 BC		Halley's comet recorded on Babylonian 'Cuneiform' Tablets.
150 BC		Inca 3rd sun.
130 BC		Septuagint completed.
120 BC		Hipparchus dies.
87 BC		Clockwork timepiece, Antikythera.
86 BC		Halley's comet.
73 BC		Spartacus leads a slave's rebellion.
63 BC		Roman Army's invasion of Judea (Pompey).
55 BC		Julius Caesar attempts an invasion of Britain.
54 BC		Crassus plunders 'The Temple' in Jerusalem.
54 BC		'Julius Caesar' fails to invade Britain.
46 BC		'Julian' Calendar standardized.
44 BC		'Gaius Julius Caesar' assassinated (March 15th).
41 BC		Cleopatra sails into Tarsus, to meet 'Mark Antony'.
37 BC		Herod the Great, ruler of Judaea.
31 BC		Cleopatra and Mark Anthony die.
20 BC		Philo Judaeus born (Greek-speaking 'Jewish' philosopher).
19 BC		Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) died.
11 BC		Halley's comet.
7 BC		Jesus, of Nazareth, born.
4 BC		Herod 'the Great' dies, at Jericho.

9 AD		Arminius (Teutonic) defeats Romans in battle, in the Teutoburg Forest.
14 AD		'Augustus Gaius Julius Octavius' died.
23 AD		Pliny the Elder born.
29 AD		John the Baptist begins his ministry
32 AD		Crucifixion of Jesus.
34 AD		John the Baptist beheaded by Herod Antipas (Salome).
37 AD		'Gaius Caesar Augustus Germanicus' (Caligula) became Roman Emperor.
43 AD		Emperor Claudius invades England.
44 AD		St. James of Compostela murdered (James the Great), Apostle, brother of John the Evangelist, son of Zebedee.
48 AD		Fire ravages Library at Alexandria.
60 AD		Boudicca (Boadicea) revolts against Romans.
64 AD		Roman Emperor, Nero, persecutes Christians.
66 AD		Halley's comet.
68 AD		James the Less (Just) murdered, son of Joseph, Brother of Jesus.
70 AD		Herod's Temple at Jerusalem destroyed.
79 AD		'Vesuvius' volcano destroys Pompeii, Italy.
93 AD		Josephus writes his Jewish Antiquities.
100 AD		Christians using variants of the Didache.
110 AD		Ignatius of Antioch died.
120 AD		Roman author Tacitus dies.
126 AD		The 3rd version of the Pantheon, Rome, completed.
126 AD		Hadrian's Wall completed.
141 AD		Halley's comet.
150 AD		Claudius Ptolemaeus writes his 'Almagest'.
167 AD		'Marcus Aurelius Antoninus' writes The Meditations.
203 AD		Galen died.
218 AD		Halley's comet.
250 AD		Plotinus writes 'The Six Enneads'.
250 AD		Origen dies.
286 AD		St. Alban martyred in England.
295 AD		Halley's comet.
321 AD		Arius excommunicated.
325 AD		Council of Nicaea establishes 'Christian' dogma.
328 AD		Emperor Constantine moves from Rome to Byzantium, Constantinople.
347 AD		Halley's comet.
365 AD		Earthquake at Alexandria.
381 AD		Second General Council, at Constantinople.
391 AD		Theophilus destroys 'Pagan' Serapeum, in Alexandria.
397 AD		Augustine of Hippo begins writing his 'Christian Doctrine'.
400 AD		Talmud Yerushalmi compiled.
403 AD		Sulpicius Severus writes his Chronica.
406 AD		Jerome completes his 'Vulgate' Bible.
406 AD		Barbarians (Huns, Vandals, Goths) cross the Rhine, at Mainz.
451 AD		Halley's comet.
455 AD		Gaiseric the Vandal sacks Rome - European Dark Ages begin.
461 AD		Bishop Patrick dies in Ireland.
500 AD		Battle of Mons Badonicus, Britons v Germanic foederati.
530 AD		Halley's comet.
532 AD		Justinian begins work on his Hagia Sophia.
533 AD		'Patriarch of Antioch' makes reference to Dionysius the Areopagite.
539 AD		'Thomas of Wendover' describes Comet impact.
540 AD		Dionysius Exiguus died.
541 AD		Plague spreads through Europe.
549 AD		Last chariot races in Rome's Circus Maximus.
565 AD		St. Columba arrives in Scotland.
570 AD		Muhammad born.
597 AD		St. Augustine Converts 'Kingdom of Kent' to Christianity.
607 AD		Halley's comet.
614 AD		Persians capture Jerusalem.
622 AD		The Islamic Era (AH, Anno Hegirae) begins.
642 AD		Arab invasion of Alexandria.
650 AD		Inca 4th sun, leads to prophesy of 800 years of war.
664 AD		The Synod of Whitby settles Easter date.
684 AD		Halley's comet.
691 AD		Dome on the Rock built in Jerusalem.
717 AD		Leo III becomes Byzantine Emperor, in Constantinople.
720 AD		Beowulf composed.
731 AD		Venerable Bede completes his Historia ecclesiastica.
732 AD		Battle of Tours halts the Islamic\Muslim army's advances into Europe.
760 AD		Halley's comet.
760 AD		Tibetan Book of the Dead.
787 AD		Second General Council of Nicea.
793 AD		'Vikings' attack Holy Island, Northumbria.
800 AD		Exceptional cold period, tree rings.
837 AD		Halley's comet.
865 AD		'Viking' invasion of England.
890 AD		Anglo-Saxon Chronicle compiled, by Alfred the Great.
907 AD		Wenceslas born, near Prague, Bohemia.
912 AD		Halley's comet.
989 AD		Halley's comet.
1,002 AD		Saxon King Aethelred married Emma, Duke Richard of Normandy's Sister.
1,017 AD		Viking King Canute married Aethelred's widow, Emma.
1,039 AD		Aztec 2-Reed year.
1,042 AD		Emma's Son, Edward the Confessor, became 'King of England'.
1,054 AD		Supernova (Crab Nebula) recorded in China\Arabia
1,054 AD		The Pope excommunicates the Patriarch of Constantinople.
1,066 AD		Halley's comet.
1,066 AD		William, Duke of Normandy defeats Harold Godwinson at Hastings.
1,086 AD		Domesday Book completed.
1,091 AD		Aztec 2-Reed year.
1,093 AD		Saint Anselm founds a Priory in Chester, England.
1,095 AD		First Crusade begins.
1,099 AD		Crusaders take Jerusalem.
1,120 AD		Templars on Temple Mount.
1,123 AD		Omar Khayyam died.
1,140 AD		Gothic Architecture, at St. Denis, Paris.
1,143 AD		Aztec 2-Reed year.
1,145 AD		Halley's comet.
1,154 AD		The Book of Roger completed.
1,154 AD		Henry II becomes 'King of England'.
1,170 AD		Murder of Thomas Becket.
1,187 AD		Saladin take Jerusalem.
1,191 AD		Richard The Lionheart massacres the Saracens at Acre (3rd Crusade).
1,195 AD		Aztec 2-Reed year.
1,200 AD		Famine in Cairo.
1,204 AD		'Roman Christians' subdue 'Orthodox Christians' in Constantinople.
1,209 AD		Pope Innocent III orders the 'Cistercian' Albigensian Crusade.
1,215 AD		King John signs Magna Carta.
1,222 AD		Halley's comet.
1,226 AD		Giovanni Francesco Bernardone died (St. Francis of Assisi).
1,227 AD		Genghis Khan dies.
1,227 AD		'Thomas Aquinas' begins his Summa Theologica.
1,229 AD		The Council of Toulouse.
1,231 AD		Pope Gregory IX appoints the 'Papal Inquisitors'.
1,247 AD		Aztec 2-Reed year.
1,250 AD		Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, died.
1,260 AD		Kublai Khan, grandson of Genghis, became ruler of the Mongol empire.
1,272 AD		Roger Bacon publishes his Compendium philosophiae.
1,277 AD		Zahir Baybars poisoned himself.
1,291 AD		Templars lose Acre, last foothold in Holy Land.
1,295 AD		Marco Polo returns to Venice.
1,299 AD		Aztec 2-Reed year.
1,300 AD		Apex of 9, Sienna.
1,301 AD		Halley's comet.
1,306 AD		All 'Jews' in France arrested.
1,307 AD		All Templars in France arrested, Friday the 13th.
1,313 AD		Pope Clement V issues a 'Papal Bull' abolishing the 'Templar' organisation.
1,314 AD		Dante publishes La Divina Commedia.
1,325 AD		Foundation of Tenochtitlan (the Aztec capital).
1,327 AD		Edward III becomes 'King of England'.
1,327 AD		Meister Eckhart died.
1,328 AD		'Renaud le Contrefait' writes about Tarot Cards.
1,337 AD		Giotto died.
1,346 AD		The Battle of Creçy.
1,347 AD		Black death (plague) strikes Europe from China.
1,347 AD		'William of Ockham' died (Occam's razor).
1,348 AD		Order of the Garter established.
1,350 AD		Clockwork planetary tracking of 7 planets.
1,351 AD		Aztec 2-Reed year.
1,376 AD		'Tarot cards' are forbidden in Florence
1,378 AD		Halley's comet.
1,382 AD		Black death strikes again.
1,384 AD		John Wycliffe died (Lollardism).
1,390 AD		Chaucer's 'The Canterbury Tales' published in English.
1,390 AD		Masonic 'Old Charges' written down (Regius Manuscript).
1,395 AD		A second Wycliffe Bible published in English.
1,403 AD		Aztec 2-Reed year.
1,428 AD		Start of the Aztec Empire.
1,431 AD		Joan of Arc burned at the stake.
1,434 AD		Jan Van Eyck paints the Arnolfini Wedding Portrait.
1,438 AD		Brunelleschi's Cupola completed.
1,438 AD		Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui, (Peru/Chile) meets bearded man with staff and conch shell.
1,446 AD		Rosslyn Chapel founded (Biblical 'Temple' reproduction).
1,450 AD		Gutenberg and Fust publish first printed German Bible.
1,450 AD		Cooke Manuscript published.
1,450 AD		Inca 5th sun.
1,451 AD		Ottoman 'Sultan Mohammed II' takes Constantinople.
1,455 AD		Aztec 2-Reed year.
1,455 AD		Fra Angelico died.
1,456 AD		Halley's comet.
1,469 AD		Cosimo de' Medici died.
1,469 AD		Guru Nanak born, Founder of 'Sikhism'.
1,478 AD		'Pope Sixtus IV' authorizes 'Spanish Inquisition'.
1,482 AD		Torquemada becomes the head of 'The Inquisition', a Dominican.
1,485 AD		Caxton prints 'Malory's' Le Morte D'arthur.
1,492 AD		All 'Jews' in Spain expelled.
1,492 AD		'Moorish' Alhambra despoiled by 'Spanish' recapture.
1,492 AD		Piero della Francesca died.
1,492 AD		Columbus sails across the Atlantic.
1,495 AD		George Ripley died.
1,497 AD		Bonfire of the Vanities, in Florence.
1,499 AD		Marsilio Ficino died.
1,506 AD		Andrea Mantegna died.
1,507 AD		Aztec 2-Reed year.
1,507 AD		Martin Waldseemuller produces a world globe, including America.
1,509 AD		Erasmus writes his Praise of Folly.
1,510 AD		Sandro Botticelli died.
1,512 AD		'Michelangelo' adorns the Sistine Chapel (Biblical 'Temple' reproduction).
1,512 AD		Copernicus proposes that "the earth revolves around the sun".
1,513 AD		King James IV of Scotland died, Battle of Flodden.
1,516 AD		Sir Thomas More publishes his Utopia.
1,516 AD		Hieronymus Bosch died.
1,517 AD		The Ninety-five Theses, by Martin Luther, printed.
1,519 AD		Leonardo Da Vinci died.
1,520 AD		Raffaello Sanzio died.
1,521 AD		Spanish destruction of Aztec power.
1,522 AD		Sultan Suleiman 1, the Magnificent, attacks Rhodes against the 'Knights Hospitallers of the Order of St. John'.
1,522 AD		Martin Luther publishes a 'New Testament', in German.
1,528 AD		Tyndale publishes 'the Obedience'.
1,528 AD		Albrecht Durer dies.
1,530 AD		'Sir Thomas More' persecutes Heretics, in England.
1,531 AD		Halley's comet.
1,532 AD		Spanish destruction of Inca power.
1,532 AD		'Niccolo Machiavelli' writes The Prince.
1,533 AD		'Cornelius Agrippa' publishes Three Books of Occult Philosophy.
1,533 AD		Thomas Cranmer promotes a 'Book of Common Prayer'.
1,534 AD		Act of Supremacy makes Henry VIII head of 'Church of England'.
1,535 AD		Myles Coverdale prints 'Tyndale's' English 'New Testament'.
1,536 AD		Paracelsus publishes 'Der grossen Wundartzney'.
1,540 AD		Henry VIII abolished 'Orders of Chivalry'.
1,540 AD		The "Great Bible" translation revised.
1,540 AD		Organised horse racing on the Roodee at Chester, UK
1,540 AD		John Calvin publishes first of his Commentaries.
1,543 AD		Bibliander translation of the Qur'an published.
1,543 AD		Copernicus proposes a 'new' Earth\Sun\Cosmos theory.
1,543 AD		'Spanish Inquisition' begins burning 'Protestants' at the stake.
1,546 AD		Socinianism introduced.
1,553 AD		Michael Servetus, Spanish physician, burned at the stake.
1,553 AD		Mary I crowned Queen of England.
1,558 AD		Elizabeth I crowned Queen of England.
1,559 AD		Aztec 2-Reed year.
1,559 AD		Guido de Bres writes the 'Belgic Confession'.
1,560 AD		Geneva Bible published.
1,563 AD		'John Foxe' publishes his Book of Martyrs.
1,564 AD		'John Dee' publishes his Monas hieroglyphica.
1,564 AD		Shakespeare born.
1,564 AD		Michelangelo Buonarroti died.
1,566 AD		Nostradamus died.
1,569 AD		Pieter Bruegel, the Elder, died.
1,572 AD		John Knox died.
1,576 AD		Titian died.
1,582 AD		Gregorian Calendar.
1,586 AD		William Camden publishes his Britannia.
1,592 AD		'Pope Clement VIII' issues revised Vulgate Bible.
1,594 AD		Palestrina died.
1,596 AD		Sir Francis Drake died.
1,597 AD		Elizabeth, Dowager Countess of Shrewsbury, moved into Hardwick Hall.
1,597 AD		'James VI of Scotland' writes on Dæmonologie.
1,599 AD		Scottish 'Masonic' records, Mary's Chapel.
1,600 AD		Kepler moves to Prague.
1,601 AD		Tycho Brahe died.
1,602 AD		Schaw Statutes published.
1,603 AD		James VI of Scotland becomes 'James 1'st, of England'.
1,603 AD		Francis Bacon Knighted.
1,604 AD		Robert Cawdrey publishes the first 'English' dictionary.
1,605 AD		'Cervantes' publishes Don Quixote (part 1)
1,605 AD		Gunpowder Plot (Guy Fawkes).
1,607 AD		Halley's comet.
1,608 AD		Arminius wrote his Declaration of Sentiments.
1,609 AD		'Emperor Rudolf II' allows 'freedom of religion' in Bohemia.
1,610 AD		Thomas Harriot uses telescope to map the moon.
1,610 AD		Caravaggio died.
1,610 AD		Jean Beguin publishes his textbook of chemistry.
1,611 AD		Aztec 2-Reed year.
1,611 AD		The King James version of 'The Bible' published.
1,614 AD		The Fama Fraternitatis published (Account of the Brotherhood).
1,616 AD		Copernicus 'Sun' theory outlawed.
1,618 AD		Sir Walter Raleigh executed.
1,618 AD		30 year war begins, the Heretics, Truth should prevail.
1,620 AD		Charles I becomes King of England.
1,620 AD		First colony in New England (Pilgrims).
1,624 AD		Jakob Böhme died.
1,626 AD		Sir Francis Bacon writes 'The New Atlantis'.
1,628 AD		William Harvey published his Exercitatio anatomica.
1,628 AD		Petition of Right exhibited to 'Charles 1st of England'.
1,634 AD		Simon Stevin, Holland, proves Gravity.
1,640 AD		Isaac Newton born.
1,640 AD		Peter Paul Rubens died.
1,640 AD		'Short' and 'Long' Parliaments, in England.
1,641 AD		Irish Rebellion.
1,641 AD		Masonic Initiation for Sir Robert Moray, Newcastle.
1,642 AD		Galileo died, the telescope proved 'Ptolomy' wrong.
1,642 AD		English 'Civil War' begins.
1,645 AD		First meeting of the 'Invisible College'.
1,646 AD		Masonic 'Initiation' for Elias Ashmole, Warrington.
1,648 AD		Eighty Years War ended in Europe.
1,650 AD		Descartes died, 'I think, therefore I am'.
1,652 AD		Inigo Jones died.
1,653 AD		Pascal employed his 'arithmetical triangle'.
1,656 AD		'Diego Velazquez' completes Las Meninas.
1,658 AD		Oliver Cromwell died.
1,660 AD		Plague eradicated in Europe.
1,660 AD		Charles II proclaimed 'King of England'.
1,660 AD		Royal Society of London founded.
1,661 AD		Louis XIV (The Sun King) becomes ruler of France.
1,662 AD		Royal Society granted Charter, by Charles II.
1,663 AD		Aztec 2-Reed year.
1,665 AD		'Robert Hooke' published his Micrographia.
1,665 AD		Publication of the first Philosophical Transactions, as a periodical.
1,666 AD		Frans Hals died.
1,669 AD		Rembrandt van Rijn died.
1,667 AD		John Milton publishes 'Paradise Lost'.
1,667 AD		Jonathan Swift born.
1,672 AD		'John Bunyan' publishes The Pilgrims Progress.
1,675 AD		Jan Vermeer died.
1,682 AD		Halley's comet.
1,686 AD		The Glorious Revolution begins.
1,686 AD		Newton publishes his Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
1,689 AD		'William and Mary' sign Declaration of Rights and become joint Monarchs.
1,690 AD		Battle of the Boyne.
1,690 AD		'John Locke' publishes his Essay Concerning Human Understanding.
1,692 AD		Glen Coe Massacre.
1,697 AD		First 'Service' in Wren's St. Paul's Cathedral.
1,697 AD		'Giovanni Antonio Canal' (Canaletto) born.
1,698 AD		A man with an iron mask was imprisoned in the Bastille.
1,700 AD		William Congreve completes 'The Way of the World'.
1,707 AD		'English' and 'Scottish' Parliaments united.
1,712 AD		Peter the Great moved the Russian capital to St. Petersburg.
1,712 AD		The transaction at Auchensaugh.
1,714 AD		First recorded 'Masonic Minutes' of the 'Grand Lodge of York'.
1,715 AD		Aztec 2-Reed year.
1,717 AD		Voltaire imprisoned in the Bastille, because of his satirical writings.
1,717 AD		Some London Freemasons organised the 'Grand Lodge of England'.
1,717 AD		The Bangorian Controversy precipitated, by Benjamin Hoadly.