Mini-Poster List of Events

Mini-Poster List of Events (due 11/8)
Directions: Select 15 events from BCE & 15 events from CE. Place accurately on timeline.

Before Common Era (3200 BCE -45 BCE)

3rd Century BCE Erathothenes calculates the circumference of Earth, establishing the study of Geography.
1700 BCE Indo-European Aryans invade Indus Valley Civilization in modern-day India.
551-479 BCE Kongfuzi aka Confucius teaches system of philosophy in China, later adopted by the Han Dynasty.
206 BCE- 220 CE Han Dynasty expands the trade along the Silk Road to European sources.
563-485 BCE Siddharttha Gautama also known as Buddha develops Buddhism in ancient India.
55 BCE Julius Caesar invades Britain
48-45 BCE Gaius Julius Caesar appointed dictator of Rome, assasinated and replaced by successor Emperor Octavian Augustus
146 BC The Battle of Corinth establishes Roman control over Greece
264-146 BCE Punic Wars- Rome vs. Carthage
323-146 BCE Alexander the Great conquers Persian Empire, establishing Greek or Hellenistic Period
612 BCE Fall of Assyrian Empire to the Persian Empire at the sack of Nineveh
2400 BCE Sargon of Akkad establishes Babylon
689 BCE Fall of Babylon to the Assyrian Empire under Sennacherib
3200 BCE Sumerians invent wheel transportation
2700 BCE Minoan Civilization begins in Crete
1600 BCE Myceanean Civilization begin in Greece.
2600 BCE The city of Mohenjo-Daro is built in the Indus Valley (India)
1194-1184- Trojan Wars
2070-1600 BCE Xia Dynasty becomes first civilization in China
3100 B.C.E- An early form of hieroglyphics appears in Egypt; cuneiform, the earliest known form of script  appears in Sumer
3100 B.C.E. Menes (Narmer) unifies lower and upper Egypt.
2532 BCE Great Sphinx is completed
Code of Hammurabi circa 1760 B.C.E.
1047-930 BCE King Saul unifies the Kingdom of Israel
509 BCE The Roman Republic is founded
540 BCE Pythagoras develops 'Pythagorean Theorem' and argues spherical Earth
499-449 BCE Persian Wars, Xerxes invades Greece to punish rebellion.

Seven Wonders of the World
1. Great Pyramids of Giza ca 2560 BCE
 2. Hanging Gardens Of Babylon 600 BCE built by Nebuchadnezzar II
3. Temple of Artemis at Ephesus 550 BCE
4. Statue of Zeus at Olympia circa 432
5. Mausoleum of Maussollos at Halicarnassus completed by wife of King Mausolus 353 BCE
6. Colossus of Rhodes by Charles of Lindos 292 BCE
7. Pharos of Alexanderia 247 BCE

Common Era (CE) 33 CE - 2010

2008 -United States elects first African American President, Barack Obama.
2008 United States enter Recession.
2001-2008 President George Bush send troops in War on Terror to Iraq and Afghanistan.
2001 USA- New York City/Washington D.C.  is attacked by Islamic Fundamental Terrorist, killing over 3,000 people and destroying the World Trade Center Complex.
1991 USSR is dissolved.
1969 Apollo 11 lands on the moon with the first astronauts to walk on the moon.
1965 The Civil Rights Act signed into law, ending 100 years of segregation of freed African Americans.
1957 USSR- Russia sends first artifical satellite into space called Sputnik.
1948 United Nations created to prevent another World War./ The state of Israel is created by the British.
1933-1945 WWII begins in Europe with Nazi invasion of Poland and ends with atomic bomb dropping over Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
1929 Stock Market crash of the United States causes The Great Depression.
1914-1918 WWI begins in Europe. Ten milllion dead.
1909 Sigmund Freud lectures on Psychoanalysis in the US
1884 Mark Twain Adventures of Huckleberry Finn published.
1879 Thomas Edison invents an incandescent lamp.
1869 Suez Canal opens in Egypt controled by the British Empire.
1860 American Civil War begins. / 1863 Abraham Lincoln declares enslaved Africans in the south free in the Emancipation Proclamation.
1854 Japan opens trade to the West, starting with the United States.
1848 Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publishes The Communist Manifesto.
1848 Famous Seneca Falls Convention discussing women's rights.
1845 Potato famine in Ireland kills app. one million and causes mass emigration.
1830s Indian Removal Act in United States causes forced Trail of Tears of Native Americans.
1833 Slavery abolished in Britain.
1812 United States declares war on Britain./ British forces burn Washington D.C.
1810 Simon Bolivar begins fight for South American independence from Spain.
1808 United States ban importation of enslaved Africans from Africa.
1805 Haiti gains independence from France, as the second independent Republic of the Americas
1799 Rosetta Stone found in Egypt
1790 Britain begins 80 yr practice of sending convicts to Australia.
1789 General George Washington elected as the first President of the United States.
1789 French Revolution begins in France./ 1799 Napolean declared emperor of France.
1780s James Watt develops steam engine.
1775-1783 American Revolution begins.
1773 The Boston Tea Party/ African American Phillis Wheatley publishes poetry.
1765 Mozart writes Symphony No. 1 at age nine.
1762 Catherine II (The Great) becomes Czarina of Russia.
1752 Benjamin Franklin invents the lightning rod. Franklin also invents Franklin stove, bifocal glasses, and catheter.
1760 King George III, the English ruler, who lost the American colonies, crowned.
1726 Johnathan Swift publishes Gulliver's Travels.
1719 Daniel Defor publishes Robinson Crusoe.
1690 John Locke publishes, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding.
1688 "Glorious Revolution," establishes Protestant William and Mary as King & Queen of England, succeeding King James II
1687 Sir Issac Newton publishes Principles of Natural Philosophy.
1670s Ashanti Empire forms in West Africa.
600s Mayan Civilization begin construction of Chichen Itza.
1649 Taj Mahal completed by Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan
1639 Japan expells all Europeans.
1636 Harvard University is established as the 1st institution of Higher Learning in the United States.
1620 Mayflower Pligrims land in Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts.
1600s Great Wall of China completed.
300 Latin Vulgate translation of the bible using (Septuagint 2nd - 3rd Century BCE) and Hebrew scrolls.
1611 King James I of England orders the translation of the bible.
1609 Galileo studies with first telescope.
1607 1st permanent English settlement in North America established at Jamestown, Virginia.
1600 British East India Company founded for trade in Asia.
1586 Kabuki Threatre begins in Japan.
1588 English defeat Spanish Armada
1558 Elizabath I becomes Queen of England
1564 William Shakespeare born.
1543 Nicolaus Copernicus publishes theory on how the planets orbit the sun.
1526 Mogul Empire begins in India
1529 Spanish Priest Bernardino de Sahagun translates Aztec encyclopedia.
1521 Hernandez Cortes conquers Aztecs Empire, giving the Spanish Crown the wealthest and most powerful Empire in Europe.
1517 Martin Luther publishes the 95 Theses, starting the Reformation.
1517 Benin Kingdom begin sale of first enslaved Africans.
1509 Henry VIII crowned King of England. He will create the Church of England
1502 Amerigo Vespucci navigator of Columbus' ships, sailed to South America in published account.
1485 King Richard III killed in battle.
1498 Vasco da Gama sails around the Cape of Good Hope to reach India.
1492 Christobal Colombo "discovers" the new world for The Spanish Crown.
1452 Leonardo da Vinci born (Mona Lisa 1503).
1438 Machu Picchu built by the Incan Empire.
1400s Benin Kingdom of West Africa flourishes.
1438 Inca Empire established.
1378 The legendary figure, 'Robin Hood,' appears in Piers Plowman.
1337 Hundred Years' War begins between England and France
1325 Aztecs expand an empire in Mexico.
1300s Kingdom of Zimbabwe emerges as a major trading empire.
1275 Marco Polo visits the Kublai Khan along the Silk Road in China.
1211 Genghis Khan creates the largest continuous Empire under the Mongols.
1192 Minamoto Yoritomo becomes 1st Shogun of Japan.
1163 Construction begins on Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris.
577 Tales of the Legendary King Arthur published.
1095-1272 Crusades 1-4 reclaim and lose Jerusalem to the Islamic expansion.
1066 William the Conqueror or the Duke of Normandy becomes English King. Normans from France defeat the Saxons of England.
1000 Sei Shonogan writes diary in Japan called, The Pillow Book.
900 Kingdom of Ghana flourishes in Africa.
400 BCE -900 CE Kingdom of Axum rules in Ethiopia.
800 Arabian Tales including "Aladdin" published in The Thousand and One Nights
800 Charlemagne the Frank (France) is crowned emperor of the West by Pope Leo II.
793 Vikings invade Britain beginning a century of invasions.
750 Pueblo period begins in southwestern North America.
700 Beowulf is 1st recorded.
597 Augustine of Canterbury converts Anglo-Saxon King Ethelbert in England, to Christianity. Augustine becomes first Archbishop of Canterbury.
466-511 Clovis I unities the Franks to become the King of the Franks.
625 Muhammad ibn ‘Abdullāh begin reciting the Koran, starting the Islamic religion.
640 Alexandria, Egypt Arabs in Islamic expansion discover famous library of 300,000 scrolls.
711 Islamic Moors take Hispania in Muslim expansion from Arabian Peninsula.
80 CE Roman Colosseum (Flavian Amphitheatre) completed under Emperor Titus.
50 CE Londinium or London founded by Romans as a supply port.
220 CE Woodblock Printing developed in China.
313 CE Byzantine Emperor Constantine proclaims Christianity a lawful religion in the Roman Empire.
370 CE Asian Hun migrate to Europe, pushing Germanic Visigothic Tribes into Roman Empire.
1300s CE The Black Death devastates Europe killing 1/4 of the population.
409 CE Roman legions withdraw from Britain.
449 CE Germanic Angles, Saxons, and Jutes invade Britain.
455 CE Viking Vandals sack Rome.
476 CE Fall of Western Roman Empire to Germanic tribes.
1095 CE Pope Urban II calls for 1st Crusades to reclaim "Holy Lands" from Muslim control.
33-141 CE Religion of Chrisitianity begins as a persecuted Jewish sect and spreads throughout southeast Asia, Africa, and Europe.
1450 CE Johannes Gutenberg introduces Printing Press.