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.

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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
 
?????

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

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