Landmark Dates Study Guide

13.8 billion years ago –-Big Bang

• 5 billion years ago -Solar System Formed
• 4.6 billion years ago  -Earth Formed/Beginning of the Precambrian
• 3.8 billion years ago   -First Life Single Cell Creatures545  million years ago-End of Stromatolites and the Precambrian
• 544 million years ago: Cambrian/Big Bang of Life

  505 million years ago: -Gondwana/ Ordovician

  286 million years ago:- Pangea/Permian

  245 million years ago: -Triassic

  65 million years ago: -End of Dinos/ End of Cretaceous

  7 million years ago: -Chad

  4.4 million years ago:  -ARDI

  3.4 million years ago:  -LUCY

  2.5 million years ago:  -Human Explosion

  1 million years ago:  -FiRE “ahhhhhhhaaaahhhhh!! “

  200,000 -100,000 years ago  -EMH and Neanderthals  Develop

  (Early Modern Humans date is “Cro Magnon” is debatable)

  40,000-28,000 years ago  -Neanderthals Die/  Art is found

  11,000 years ago  -End of Last Ice Age (Younger   –  Dryas) and Beginning of Agriculture

   

  8000-4000 BCE:         -Evidence of Settlements

  5000 BCE:  Evidence of Nile Settlements

  3500 BCE: Start of Indus River Valley Civilization

  
  3200 BCE:  Hieroglyphics

  33-3100  BCE :    -Cuneiform

  3000 BCE:  Recorded History Beginning of Civilization as we know it!!  

  
  2800 BCE: Menes/Narmer United Egypt 1st Dynasty

  2800:  Minoan Civilization Begins

  2750   BCE: Old Kingdom begins

  
  2700 BCE: Gilgamesh  

  
  2680 BCE: Zoser- Step Pyramids Imhotep

  2500-1500  Rise of Indus River Civilization Harrapans

  2500 BCE: Great Pyramids- Khufu/Cheops

  2350 BCE: Sargon

  
  2200 BCE:  End of Old Kingdom

  
  2060 BCE:  Middle Kingdom, Advances in Art, Literature and Science, Architecture, Mentuhotep

  
  2000 BCE: Mycenaean Civilization Begins as well as a Aryan Migration to that area

  1900 BCE: Abraham moves his people to Canaan

  1900 -1500 BCE: Migration of the Aryans and decline of Indus River Civilization

  1800   BCE:  Shamshi Adad  

  1750   BCE: Hyksos in Egypt     Hammurabi

  1700 BCE Egyptian End of Middle Kingdom,  Some Jewish tribes move to Egypt

  
  1570 BCE:  New Kingdom Begins : Camose, Ahmose Thutmose take Egypt back from the Hyksos

  
  1500 BCE:  Hatshepsut,  Indus River Valley is abandoned, Vedas written down

  1500-600   Vedic Period

  1400 Fall of Minoan Civiliation

  1390 BCE: Amenhotep  III

  
  1350 BCE:  Akhenhaten

  
  1333   BCE: King Tut,

  
  1250 BCE:  Ramses 

  1200 TROJAN WAR and Moses

  1100-800 Greek Dark Ages

  
  1069 BCE Civil Wars in Egypt New Kingdom Ends

  1020 BCE Saul

  1000 BCE David

950 BCE Solomon

800 BCE Rise of City States inGreece and Homer Begins to write Illiad and Odyssey

776 BCE Olympics Begin in Greece

• 753  BCE Rome began733  BCE: Tiglath Pileser   Assyria / exiled Jews from Judah

  650 BCE :-Ashurbanipal /Assyria

  570 BCE: Nebuchadnezzar/ Babylonia

• 540 BCE Persian/Cyrus allow Jews to return to Judah 509  Roma takes over from the Etruscans Roman Republic Founded!

  
  500   BCE Persians and the wonderful

  Buddha!!!

  Persian Wars in Greece

  
  486 BCE: Siddhartha/Buddha dies

  
  460-429 Pericles Rules during the Golden Age of Athens

  
  431-404 Peloponnesian War

  338 Macedonia/Philip Takes over Greece

  
  334-323 BCE: Alexander the Great/

  324 Mauryan Empire

  323 Alexander the Great Dies

  
  323-146  Hellenistic Age Rome comes to help oust rival Greeks and the rest is History…

  
  200s BCE: Asoka spreads Buddhism

  
  46 Julius Ceasar decides to be a Benevolent Dictator

  44 Julius Ceasar is killed on the Ides of March  (3/1 5) “E tu, Brutus?”

  
  31 BCE Cleopatra/ Mark Anthony Die

  
  27 Roman Empire takes over the Roman Republic

  0:   Jesus

  
  79 CE:  Mt. Vesuvius

  
  312 Constantine Converts to Christianity

  
  320 CE- Gupta Empire rises Hinduism in full use

  467 CE:  Gupta Empire India ends

  
  476 CE: Fall of Rome

  
  
  ALL THE REST ARE EXTRA CREDIT

  691 Spread of Islam/Hieroglyphics no longer used   

  
  1492:  Columbus sailed the ocean Blue

  
  1620 CE: Pilgrims landed in Plymouth

  
  1776: Independence of United States

  
  1849:  Gold Rush

  
  1860:  Civil War

  
  1889?  Light bulb/ Thomas Edison

  
  1903:  Flight Accomplished

  
  1912: Titanic

  
  1914 World War I

  
  1923 ?  King Tutankahmen’s Tomb Discovered by Howard Carter

  
  1929:  Stock Market Crash

  
  1930s:  Great Depression

  
  1945:  End of World War II

  
  1960: “Universe cracked and nothing was the same.”

  
  1968 Martin Luther king

  
  1969:  Landing on the Moon

  
  Your birth date

  2001 911

  2011 Egyptian Revolution, Death of Osama Bin Laden