HISTORY  -  B. C.
Date Event
12,500,000,000 Big Bang
4,600,000,000 Earth Forms
3,000,000,000 Life - Bacteria in Ocean
600,000,000 Cambrian Period - Fossils
460,000,000 Carboniferous Period - Amphibians
390,000,000 Permian Period - Mamals
4,400,000 Ardipithecus Ramidus - Human Ancestor
4,200,000 Australopithecus Anamensis - walked upright
3,200,000 Australopithecus Afarensis - walked fully upright
2,500,000 Australopithecus Africanis
2,000,000 Australopithecus Robustus
1,800,000 Homo Habilis - Brain Expanded, Stone Tools
1,600,000 Homo Erectus - More Brain, Fire, Hand Ax
100,000 Homo Sapien - Human
35,000 Neanderthal - replaced
18,000 Cro-Magnon - replaced
15,000 Humans cross Bering Straits inhabit Americas
10,000 Agriculture & Permanent Settlements
8,000 Cities - Skills, Pottery - Mesopotamia
4,500 Sumerians - City-State, Phonetic Writing, Calendar
4,400 Loom - Egypt
3,900 Wheel (Cart) - Mesopotamia-
3,500 Sumerians - Phonetic Writing
3,500 Copper - Sumerians & Egyptians
3,500 Plow - Mesopotamia
2,500 Papyrus - Egypt
2,500 Systematic Astronomy - Egypt, Babylon, India, China
1,800 Alphabet - Greece, Egypt
1,750 Codified Law - Hammuribi, Babylon
776 Olympics - Greece
753 Rome founded
550 Democracy - Athens, Greece
582-507 Pythagoras - Greece
551-479 Confucius - China
563-483 Buddha - India
500 Atomic Theory - Democrituc - Greece
490 Marathon Battle - Greeks beat Persians
480 Thermopylae & Salamis Battles -Greeks beat Persians
496-406 Sophocles - Greece
460-400 Hippocrates - Greece
450?-399 Socrates - Greece
427-348 Plato
356-323 Alexander - Greece, Establishes Empire
xx-399 Socrates
384-322 Aristotle - Greece
323 Geometry - Euclid Greece
300 Crossbow - China
300 Geometry - Euclid - Alexandria
287-212 Archimedes - Greece
191 Thermopylae Battle - Rome Defeats Seleucids (Greeks)
100 Astronomical Calculator Greece
100-44 Julius Caesar - Expands Roman Empire
27 Augustus - Roman Emperor & God
4 - 30 AD Jesus Christ