| -970 |
|
Solomon becomes King of Israel |
| -940 |
|
Death of King Solomon - kingdom split into two |
| -900 |
|
Chavin culture predominates in northern Peru |
| -800 |
|
Phoenicians establish colony at Carthage, North Africa |
| -776 |
|
First Olympic Games held in Greece |
| -750 |
|
Foundation of city of Rome |
| -725 |
|
Nubians from present-day Sudan conquer Egypt |
| -720 |
|
Assyrians invade Palestine |
| -700 |
|
Death of Homer (writer) |
| -700 |
|
Assyrians invade Egypt |
| -700 |
|
Lydians introduce metal coinage |
| -660 |
|
Japanese Empire established by Jimmu |
| -620 |
|
Ninevah sacked by Medes - end of Assyrian empire |
| -600 |
|
Hanging Gardens of Babylon built by Nebuchadnezar |
| -580 |
|
Nebuchadnezzar takes Hebrews into captivity in Babylon |
| -540 |
|
Medes and Persians under Cyrus control most of Asia Minor |
| -540 |
|
Death of Croesus, fabulously rich king of Lydia |
| -540 |
|
Magadha kingdom in Northern India becomes dominant power |
| -530 |
|
Jews freed after Cyrus the Persian conquers Babylon |
| -530 |
|
Death of Lao-Tsu, founder of Taoism |
| -528 |
|
Enlightenment of Gautama Buddha |
| -525 |
|
Persians expand into Egypt, Asia Minor and towards India |
| -510 |
|
Democratic constitution established in Athens |
| -510 |
|
Republic of Rome declared |
| -4900 |
|
Death of Pythagoras (mathematician and philosopher) |
| -500 |
|
Persians invade Egypt |
| -500 |
|
Wars between rival Chinese kingdoms |
| -500 |
|
Confucius preaching in China |
| -500 |
|
Iron Age Nok culture thriving in Nigeria |
| -490 |
|
Greeks defeat Persians under Darius and Xerxes |
| -490 |
|
Romans free themselves from Etruscan domination |
| -486 |
|
Xerxes becomes king of Persia |
| -480 |
|
Ch'in Dynasty - standardized language and administration |
| -480 |
|
Death of Gautama Buddha and spread of his teachings |
| -460 |
|
Golden Age of Greece under Pericles |
| -450 |
|
Death of Aeschylus (dramatist) |
| -450 |
|
Great statue of Zeus built at Olympia |
| -450 |
|
End of Pharoahs' rule in Egypt - 30th Dynasty |
| -430 |
|
Death of Hippocrates (physician) |
| -430 |
|
Peleponnesian Wars between Athens and Sparta |
| -406 |
|
Death of Sophocles and Euripides (dramatists) |
| -400 |
|
Death of Democritus (philosopher) |
| -400 |
|
Egypt independent of foreign domination |
| -400 |
|
Mayan civilizations develop in Central America |
| -399 |
|
Death of Socrates (philosopher) |
| -385 |
|
Death of Aristophanes (comic dramatist) |
| -348 |
|
Death of Plato (philosopher) |
| -340 |
|
Greece reunited under Philip II - second flowering of arts |
| -330 |
|
Alexander the Great defeats Persians - expands towards India |
| -320 |
|
Alexander the Great dies and Greek empire is split |
| -320 |
|
Death of Aristotle (philosopher) |
| -300 |
|
Euclid develops geometry |
| -280 |
|
Romans control most of Italy |
| -270 |
|
Pharos (Lighthouse) of Alexandria built |
| -260 |
|
Start of Punic Wars against Carthage |
| -250 |
|
Parthians control much of Eastern Greek empire |
| -240 |
|
King Asoka extends his empire to cover most of India |
| -220 |
|
Shih Huang Ti first emperor of united China |
| -210 |
|
Great Wall of China built to keep out Mongolians |
| -210 |
|
Death of Archimedes (mathematician and scientist) |
| -200 |
|
Han Dynasty - Mandarin bureaucracy and invention of paper |
| -200 |
|
Scipio defeats Hannibal and the Carthaginians |
| -200 |
|
Axum Kingdom established in Ethiopia |
| -165 |
|
Jewish kingdom revived under Hasmoneans and Maccabees |
| -140 |
|
Emperor Wu Ti expands Chinese Empire |
| -140 |
|
Romans finally destroy Carthage |
| -87 |
|
Babylonian tablet records passage of Halley's Comet |
| -71 |
|
Death of Spartacus (Thracian rebel and insurrectionist) |
| -63 |
|
Romans under Pompey conquer Palestine |
| -55 |
|
Julius Caesar takes Britain after annexing Gaul for Rome |
| -54 |
|
Death of Catullus (poet) |
| -51 |
|
Cleopatra becomes Queen of Egypt |
| -48 |
|
Julius Caesar becomes Roman leader after defeating Pompey |
| -44 |
|
Julius Caesar assassinated and Augustus takes over as leader |
| -43 |
|
Death of Cicero (orator and dramatist) |
| -31 |
|
Augustus defeats his rival Marcus Antonio and Cleopatra |
| -30 |
|
Cleopatra commits suicide - Egypt ruled by Romans for 7 centuries |
| -27 |
|
Augustus becomes first Roman emperor |
| -19 |
|
Death of Virgil (poet) |
| -8 |
|
Death of Horace (poet) |
| -4 |
|
Birth of Jesus Christ |
| 18 |
|
Death of Ovid (poet) |
| 33 |
|
Death of Jesus Christ |
| 50 |
|
Aksum line of Ethiopian kings start rule |
| 60 |
|
Boadicaea and Iceni tribe's revolt against Rome fails |
| 65 |
|
Death of Seneca the Younger (philosopher and dramatist) |
| 67 |
|
Death of St Paul |
| 68 |
|
Death of Emperor Nero |
| 70 |
|
Jerusalem destroyed by Romans after rebellion |
| 79 |
|
Destruction of Pompei by Vesuvius volcano |
| 100 |
|
Bantu people of West Africa start to spread south and east |
| 113 |
|
Death of Pliny the Younger (writer) |
| 117 |
|
Roman Empire at greatest extent under Hadrian |
| 120 |
|
Death of Plutarch (biographer and writer) |
| 122 |
|
Hadrian's Wall built in Britain |
| 135 |
|
Emperor Hadrian completes destruction of Palestine |
| 140 |
|
Death of Juvenal (poet and Stoic) |
| 150 |
|
High Mayan society in Guatemala and Mexico |
| 150 |
|
Roman-Egyptian astronomer Ptolemy describes motions of stars and planets |
| 180 |
|
Death of Marcus Aurelius and beginning of the decline of the Roman Empire |
| 200 |
|
Death of Claudius Galen (physician) |
| 200 |
|
Silk, porcelain and tea exported to west on Silk Road |
| 214 |
|
Goths from Baltic infiltrate as far south as Black Sea |
| 220 |
|
End of Han Dynasty - China divided for 3 centuries |
| 250 |
|
Classic period of Mayan civilization |
| 267 |
|
Goths overrun Greece, capture Athens and sack other cities |
| 300 |
|
Ambrosian Chants one of earliest forms of Western music |
| 315 |
|
Under Diocletian, Roman Empire split into East (Byzantine) and West |
| 320 |
|
Gupta dynasty reunites India and arts flourish |
| 330 |
|
Emperor Constantine builds Constantinople (Byzantium) |
| 367 |
|
Picts, Scots and Saxons invade Britain |
| 372 |
|
Huns from Asia penetrate into Europe |
| 400 |
|
Japanese states united by Yamato clan |
| 400 |
|
Shinto cult in Japan |
| 400 |
|
Ghana controls important African gold trade |
| 410 |
|
Rome sacked by Alaric the Visigoth |
| 415 |
|
Visigoths invade Spain |
| 429 |
|
Vandals invade North Africa and Spain |
| 430 |
|
Death of St. Augustine (philosopher and theologian) |
| 446 |
|
Romans pull out of Britain |
| 452 |
|
Attila the Hun invades Gaul and Italy - repelled by Romans |
| 476 |
|
Romulus Augustulus, last Western Roman Emperor, deposed |
| 481 |
|
Francs under Clovis found Merovingian Kingdom in Gaul |
| 489 |
|
Ostrogoths, under Byzantine rule, govern Italy |
| 492 |
|
St Patrick completes Christian conversion of Ireland |
| 500 |
|
King Arthur and Knights of Round Table (legendary) |
| 520 |
|
Zen form of Buddhism introduced to China from India |
| 527 |
|
Accession of Emperor Justinian - Code of Civil Law |
| 529 |
|
Monte Cassino, main monastery of Benedictine order, established |
| 537 |
|
Hagia Sophia cathedral built in Constantinople |
| 550 |
|
White Huns from the north west destroy Indian empire |
| 552 |
|
Byzantines complete conquest of Italy and Spain |
| 581 |
|
Sui Dynasty - China reunited |
| 586 |
|
German Lombards divide Italy with Byzantine and Papacy |
| 597 |
|
Pope Gregory the Great sends St Augustine to convert Britons |
| 600 |
|
China's Grand Canal (longest canal system in world) rebuilt |
| 600 |
|
Khmer Empire established in Indo-China |
| 600 |
|
Jewish Talmud written |
| 618 |
|
T'ang Dynasty in China - arts and literature thrive |
| 622 |
|
Hejira - Mohammed's flight from Mecca to Medina |
| 624 |
|
Jihad - Mohammed and his followers subdue Mecca |
| 627 |
|
Byzantines under Heraclius defeat Persians |
| 638 |
|
Jeruslam captured by Muslims |
| 650 |
|
Zapotec civilization of southern Mexico at its zenith |
| 663 |
|
Roman Christianity accepted in Britain |
| 669 |
|
Muslims halted by Byzantines at Constantinople |
| 680 |
|
Bulgar Empire established in Balkans |
| 683 |
|
Empress Wu becomes first and only Chinese woman ruler |
| 700 |
|
Widespread pre-Inca culture develops around Lake Titicaca, Peru |
| 710 |
|
Japanese capital established at Nara |
| 711 |
|
Moors (Muslims) invade Spain |
| 732 |
|
Charles Martel halts Muslim advance into France |
| 735 |
|
Death of Venerable Bede (scholar and historian) |
| 751 |
|
Pepin founds Carolingian line in France |
| 762 |
|
Baghdad becomes centre of Arab/Muslim golden age of arts |
| 771 |
|
Charlemagne becomes king of Francs - expands into Germany and Italy |
| 793 |
|
Vikings invade Britain |
| 794 |
|
Kyoto becomes capital of Japan during Heian period |
| 795 |
|
Death of King Offa - end of Mercian domination of England |
| 800 |
|
Charlemagne crowned Emperor |
| 809 |
|
Death of Harun-ar-Rashid, Caliph of Baghdad |
| 814 |
|
Death of Charlemagne and division of Frankish Empire |
| 825 |
|
Wessex under Egbert becomes dominant in England |
| 840 |
|
Muslims occupy much of Southern Italy |
| 843 |
|
Kenneth McAlpin becomes first king of Scots and Picts |
| 843 |
|
Treaty of Verdun - seperate France and Germany established |
| 850 |
|
Slavs inhabit most of Eastern Central Europe |
| 862 |
|
Viking state founded in Russia by Rurik - Slavs united |
| 866 |
|
Much of England occupied by Viking Great Army |
| 868 |
|
First book printed in China |
| 871 |
|
Alfred the Great defeats Danish invaders in Britain |
| 876 |
|
Charles the Fat inherits Frankish Empire |
| 893 |
|
Bulgar Empire in Balkans expands under Simeon |
| 896 |
|
Magyars rule area around Hungary |
| 899 |
|
Edward the Elder succeeds Alfred the Great |
| 900 |
|
Mayan Empire mysteriously collapses |
| 907 |
|
"Five Dynasties" and partition of China |
| 910 |
|
Abbey of Cluny founded - monastic reforms begin |
| 929 |
|
Death of Wenceslas, King of Bohemia |
| 930 |
|
Althing, oldest functioning parliament in world, established in Iceland |
| 936 |
|
Otto I expands German Empire to Poland and Austria |
| 937 |
|
West Saxons under Athelstan now masters of England |
| 945 |
|
Persian Muslims capture Baghdad |
| 960 |
|
Northern Sung Dynasty in China - paper money introduced |
| 962 |
|
Otto I crowned Emperor of Holy Roman (German) Empire |
| 987 |
|
Hugh Capet made King of France |
| 990 |
|
Rollo the Viking rules Normandy (as a fiefdom of France) |
| 995 |
|
Olaf I brings Christianity to Norwegian Vikings |
| 1000 |
|
Viking Leif Erikson "discovers" North America |
| 1000 |
|
Zimbabwe culture influencial in East Africa |
| 1000 |
|
Stephen I becomes King of Hungary |
