A Timeline of Civilization

History of Humanity

The story of humankind in short chapters: from the earliest steps of prehistoric life to the ideas, conflicts, discoveries and revolutions that shaped civilization.

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The big Bang  

-4540000000

Formation of the Earth

-4000000000

Planet under constaction

第一批海洋

-3500000000

Under construction

-1000000000

Creation of life

-700000000

Earth's Adulthood

-530000000

Fish  

530 million years ago

-310000000

From Amphibians to Reptiles

310 million years ago

-290000000

Mammaliaformes  

290 million years ago

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Dinosaurs  

230 million years ago

-125000000

The Age of Mammals

125 million years ago

-60000000

The Origins of Primates

60 million years ago

-33000000

Apes  

33 million years ago

-7000000

Common ancestors  

70 million years ago

-5000000

From Forests to Savannas

5 million years ago

-4000000

Australopithecus  

4 million years ago

-3000000

Standing up  

3 million years ago

-2500000

Homo  

2,5 millions years ago

-2400000

Homo Habilis  

-1600000

Homo erectus  

-400000

Fire  

800.000 years ago

-200000

Homo Sapiens

200.000 years ago

-150000

Homo Sapiens Neanderthals

150.000 years ago

-130000

Homo Sapiens Sapiens

130.000 years ago

-90000

Talking  

500.000 years ago

-70000

The Great Cognitive Leap

70 thousands years ago

-40000

Art  

-15000

The conquest of Earth

50.000 years ago

-12000

Animism  

Humanity’s First Religion

-10000

The Αgricultural revolution

9000 years ago

-9500

From flax to Wheel and Boat

-9000

The Road to Patriarchy

-8500

Enslavement of animals

-8000

From Cannibalism to Slavery

-7000

Public service

-6500

The first towns  

-5000

Mesopotamia  

-3500

Money  

-3300

Writing  

-3200

Ancient Egypt

-3000

Minoan Crete

-2600

Indus Valley Civilisation

-2370

Akkadian Empire

-2070

China Xia dynasty

-1790

Babylon  

-1680

Mycenaean civilization

-1600

Shang and Zhou Dynasties

-1570

Egypt New Kingdom

-1550

Vedic period

-1500

Chavin Olmec

-1460

Assyria  

-1450

Asia Minor

-1300

Phoenicians  

-1194

Achaeans  

-1100

Greek Colonisation

-1040

Jews  

-1000

Hellenes Greeks

-850

Greek Dark Ages

-800

Sparta  

-750

Etruscan civilization

-700

City of Athens

-690

Ancient Greek cities

-670

Ancient Greek colonization

-600

Carthage  

-559

Persian Empire

-550

Zoroastrianism  

-538

The Kingdom of Jews

-509

Rome  

-501

The birth of Democracy

-500

Classical Greece

-490

Greek-Persian wars

-400

Taoism Confucianism

-334

Macedonian Empire

-316

State of India

-305

Hellenistic Egypt

-247

Seleucid Empire

-221

China  

-197

Rome  

-150

The life of Romans

-134

Roman Empire

-52

Celts Galatians

-49

Julius Caesar΄s era

-6

Judaism  

0

The first galaxies

0

Amphibians  

420 MILLION YEARS AGO

0

The birth of religiousness

30

Jesus of Nazareth

50

Christianity  

130

Jewish–Roman wars

180

Pax Romana

Roman Piece

224

Sasanian Empire

250

Paracas culture

260

Nazca civilization

270

Moche civilization

280

Teotihuacan  

284

Imperial crisis

330

Romans Reforms

350

Kingdoms of Africa

360

Gupta Empire of India

374

People of the steppes

400

The Migration Period

581

Chinese dynasties Sui & Tang

880

Bantu Swahili Ethiopia

911

The Viking age

1572

Reformation and counter-reformation

1880

Electricity  

1917

October Revolution

(to be continued...)