Philosophy Things

Timeline of Events

Dates are obviously approximate. Biblical references noted in blue.

BC (BCE)

??? - Creation (undated)
4,500,000,000 – Earth Forms
500,000,000 – First plants appear
400,000,000 – First fish appear
200,000,000 – Dinosaurs appear
150,000,000 – Birds appear
65,000,000 – Mammals appear
??? – Noah Builds Ark (undated)
2500 – Egyptians discover ink, paper, and manufacture iron objects
2300 – Horses domesticated in Egypt, chickens domesticated in Babylon
2100 – Abraham born
2100 – Glass made by Mesopotamians, earliest discovered drug, alcohol used for pain
2000 – Abraham enters Canaan
2000 – Isaac born
2000 – Jacob and Esau born
2000 - Stonehenge
1900 – Joseph born
1900 – Spoked wheels invented, irrigation systems
1700 – Babylonians understand mathematics (cube and square root)
1500 – Sundials used in Egypt
1500 – Moses born
1400 – Moses writes Genesis, Exodus, Numbers, Deuteronomy (1st four books of Bible)
1400 – Exodus from Egypt, Crossing of Red Sea
1400 – 10 Commandments given (God tells Moses, Moses gives to people of Israel)
1400 – Intricate clock used in Egypt
1300 – Judges rule Israel
1300 – King Tut born
1200 – Silk fabrics manufactured in China, first Chinese dictionary
1100 – Samuel born
1000 – Greek mythology fully developed
1000 – Chinese mathematics uses multiplication, geometry, proportions, theory of motion
900 – Temple completed in Jerusalem
900 – Israel kingdom divides
800 – Chinese astronomers understand planetary movements
800 – Caste system developed in India
800 – Homer (first “philosopher”)
800 – Isaiah born
700 – City of Rome founded
700 - Earliest music notation written in Greece
700 – False teeth invented in Italy
700 – Thales (Greek philosopher)
700 – First known date of Olympic games
600 – Temple of Artemis (one of the 7 wonders of the world)
600 – Anaximander (Greek philosopher)
600 – Pythagoras (Mathematics - Pythagorean Theorem)
500 – Xenophanes (Greek philosopher)
500 – Heraclitus (Greek philosopher)
500 – Parmenides (Greek philosopher)
500 – Gautama Buddha (founder of Buddhism)
500 – Confucious (famous Chinese scholar)
500 – Origin of Halloween (a Celtic festival)
400 – Greeks get short haircuts
400 – Zeno of Elea
400 – Protagoras
400 – Gorgias
400 – Socrates (Plato’s teacher)
400 – Democritus (atomic theory – bodies are made of invisible atoms)
400 – Plato (Aristotle’s teacher)
300 – Aramaic replaces Hebrew for Jewish language
300 - Romans build first paved road
300 – Aristotle (Greek philosopher)
300 – Epicurus (Greek philosopher)
200 – Hebrew Old Testament translated into Greek
200 – Great Wall of China built
100 – Julius Cesar (first emperor of Rome)
100 – Cicero (politician, philosopher, lawyer, public speaker)
30 – Cleopatra and her lover commit suicide
25 – Mary born (Jesus' mother)
5 – Jesus born
5 – Saint Paul born

AD (CE)

26 – John the Baptist begins his ministry
26 – Jesus begins his ministry
30 – Jesus dies on cross, ascends to heaven
30 – early church beginnings, pentecost
43 – First definite reference to diamonds
57 – Paul writes book of Romans
75 – Rome builds Colosseum
95 – Apostle John writes Revelation (last book in Bible)
100 – Sextus Empiricus (Physician / philosopher)
300 – Ambrose (Bishop of Milan, influenced Augustine)
300 – Augustine (first Christian philosopher)
1000 – Medieval Times begin (approx.)
1200 - Gothic Art Movement (Lasts about 200 years)
1200 – Thomas Aquinas
1200 – Dante
1400 – Renaissance Cultural Movement (lasts approx. 300 years)
1500 – Martin Luther
1500 – Galileo Gallilei (astronomer, philosopher, mathematician)
1600 – John Locke (philosopher, politician)
1600 – Medieval Times End (approx.)
1700 – Berkely
1700 – David Hume (politician, economist, philosopher, conservative)
1700 – Immanual Kant
1800 – John Stuart Mill
1800 - Karl Marx
1800 – Fredrick Nietzsche
1800 – Ludwig Wittgenstein