A Time-Line of
Historical Persons and Events


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This time-line is closely based on a hardcopy timeline originally prepared by Darrell Huwe.




Pre-Historical

fire last glacial maximum (-11000) domestication of plants and animals (-8000) causes deviation of global climate: progressively warmer than astronomical fluctuations cause oil Black Sea Flood (-5600)

Earliest History

Egyptian Empire (from -3100 to -600) Moses (-1250; no mention in surviving contemporary documents)

-600

Buddha

-500


-400

coal Aristotle

-300


-200

Roman Empire...

-100


0

Jesus of Nazareth

100

Ptolemy

200

New Testament manuscripts, with no punctuation, spaces between words, or capitalization, are copied by amateur scribes

300

Byzantine Empire...

400

New Testament manuscripts copied by professional scribes... ...Roman Empire "Dark Ages"... growth of Copan valley population

500


600

Mohammed Arab Empire...

700

Franks field heavy cavalry with saddles and stirrups (732) Copan valley population plateaus around 27,000 people

800


900

occupation of Easter Island Copan valley population about half of peak France cross plow Vikings settle Greenland under Erik the Red

1000

horse collar (China??) ...Arab Empire (1055)

1100

collapse of Mimbres (1130) collapse of Chaco Canyon, North Black Mesa, and Virgin Anasazi

1200

Genghis Kahn Mongol Empire... Robert Grosseteste (Bishop of London 1235...) Copan valley population zero Roger Bacon Northern Italian-based international banks Invention of eyeglasses (Italy, 1284) and mechanical clocks Kublai Kahn (a grandson of Genghis Kahn) ...Mongol Empire

1300

collapse of Mesa Verde and the Kayenta Anasazi Marco Polo Yuan Dynasty... invention of cannon (1324-25) and sternpost rudder crop failure Hundred Years' War... Black Plague English wool exports shift from fleeces to woven cloth

1400

collapse of Mogollon collapse of Norse colonies in Greenland Nicolas of Cusa ...Hundred Years' War ...Byzantine Empire (1453) moveable type printing press ends hand copying of bible manuscripts Columbus Easter Island deforested

1500

...Middle Ages Luther Copernicus Tyco Brahe Usury re-defined to forbid only "high" interest rates Gilbert (Earth as magnet); Stevin (hydrostatic paradox)

1600

Francis Bacon Galileo Descartes Kepler Locke Newton

1700

spinning jenny Easter Island population c. 30% of peak cotton gin Smith

1800

Malthus Dalton Lyell Ricardo steam locomotive telegraph entropy oil well Darwin Irish Potato Famine (1845-50)

1900

Einstein Heisenberg nuclear fission

2000

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Dick Piccard revised this file (http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~piccard/entropy/timeline.html) on January 2, 2006.

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