All of history

Reading some of The Harvard Classics^N has made me realise how little I know about history, and when things happened in relation to other things. I’ll try and keep this updated as I learn more.

• 570 BC
  • Birth of Pythagoras
• 469 BC
  • Birth of Socrates
• 427 BC
  • Birth of Plato
• 384 BC
  • Birth of Aristotle
• 300 BC
  • Theorised birth of Euclid
• 100 BC
  • Birth of Julius Caesar
• 6 BC
  • Theorised birth of Jesus
• 43 AD
  • Roman conquest of Britain
• 50AD
  • Birth of Epictetus, The Golden Sayings, Epictetus^N
• 121 AD
  • Birth of Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Aurelius^N
• 323 AD
  • Christianity becomes the official religion of religion of Roman Empire
• 354 AD
  • Birth of St. Augustine, The Confessions, Augustine^N
• 500 AD
  • Start of the Middle Ages
• 700 AD
  • Earliest suggested date of Beowulf
• 1066 AD
  • Battle of Hastings, William the Conquerer becomes the first Norman king of England
• 1170 AD
  • Birth of Fibonacci
• 1348 AD
  • Black death in England
• 1436 AD
  • Invention of Gutenberg press
• 1500 AD
  • End of the middle ages
• 1533 AD
  • Beginning of Reformation
• 1553 AD
  • Bloody Mary starts burning people at the stake
• 1561 AD
  • Birth of Francis Bacon, Essays, Bacon^N
• 1564 AD
  • Birth of William Shakespeare
• 1575 AD
  • Birth of Queen Elizabeth
• 1588 AD
  • Spanish Armada, Spain tries to invade England to overthrow Queen Elizabeth
• 1600 AD
  • Start of the Enlightenment
• 1605 AD
  • Birth of Thomas Browne
• 1608 AD
  • Birth of John Milton
• 1611 AD
  • Introduction of King James Bible
• 1644 AD
  • Birth of William Penn, Fruits of Solitude, Penn^N
  • Publication of Areopagitica, Milton^N
• 1658 AD
  • Milton begins writing Paradise Lost, Milton^N
• 1666 AD
  • Great Fire of London
• 1694 AD
  • Foundation of Bank of England
• 1706 AD
  • Birth of Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin^N
• 1720 AD
  • Birth of John Woolman, The Journal of John Woolman^N
• 1757 AD
  • Birth of William Blake, London^N
• 1760 AD
  • Start of Industrial Revolution
• 1770 AD
  • Start of Romanticism movement
• 1775 AD
  • American revolution
• 1789 AD
  • French revolution
• 1797 AD
  • Birth of Mary Shelley
• 1800 AD
  • End of the Enlightenment
• 1802 AD
  • Birth of Alexandre Dumas (author of The Count of Monte Cristo^N)
• 1833 AD
  • Abolition of slavery in the UK
• 1853 AD
  • First landing on Antarctica
• 1865 AD
  • Abolition of slavery in United States
• 1877 AD
  • Birth of G. H. Hardy
• 1859 AD
  • Birth of Arthur Conan Doyle
• 1868 AD
  • William Gladstone becomes prime minister
• 1878 AD
  • First electric streetlight
• 1883 AD
  • Birth of Franz Kafka
• 1899 AD
  • Birth of Jorge Borges
• 1903 AD
  • Birth of John Steinbeck
• 1913 AD
  • Birth of Paul Erdős, The Man Who Loved Only Numbers, Hoffman^N
  • Birth of Albert Camus
• 1914 AD
  • World War I starts
• 1916 AD
  • Birth of Roald Dahl
• 1918 AD
  • World War I ends
• 1927 AD
  • Birth of Gabriel García Márquez
• 1939 AD
  • World War II starts
• 1945 AD
  • World War II ends
• 1979 AD
  • Margaret Thatcher becomes prime minister
• 1997 AD
  • Tony Blair becomes prime minister