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Eras

~500k BC — fire
~10k BC — bread and beer
~8k BC — crops and working animals
~6k BC — trade
~5k BC — metal
~4k BC — wheel

10k BC — last ice age ends in UK
10k–5k BC — Neolithic (New Stone Age)
5k–3k BC — Copper Age
3k–1k BC — Bronze Age
1k–0 BC — Iron Age

BC

3,200 BC — start of cuneiform writing
2,570 BC — Great Pyramid of Giza completed
the Greeks ...
- Thales of Miletus (c. 624 – c. 545 BC)
- Pythagoras (c. 570 – c. 495 BC)
- Zeno of Elea (c. 495 – 430 BC)
- Socrates (c. 470 – 399 BC)
- Plato (427–347 BC)
- Aristotle (384–322 BC)
- Euclid (c. 325 – c. 265 BC)
- Archimedes (c. 287 – c. 212 BC)
45 BC — Julian calendar

First millennium AD

Hero of Alexandria (10-70)
Hadrian (76–138)
- 122 — starts a wall, probably had help
- 126 — completes the Pantheon in Rome (nailed up the door number)
Diophantus (c. 200 – c. 284)
Hypatia (c. 370 – 415)
Zu Chongzhi (429–500)
Brahmagupta (598–668) — Zero
Bede (672–735) — BC / AD
Al Khwarizmi (c. 790 – c. 850) — "Arabic" digits

Second millennium AD — part 1

Fibonacci (c. 1170 – 1250)
1204 — Sack of Constantinople — triggers decline of the Byzantine Empire (discuss ...)
1209 — University of Cambridge founded
1215 — Magna Carta

15th century

Johannes Widmann (c. 1460 – after 1498) — first use of + and - symbols
Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519)

16th century

Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543) — heliocentrism — 1543
John Napier (1550–1617) — Logarithms – 1614
William Oughtred (1574–1660) — slide rule – 1622

17th century

1633 — trial of Galileo Galilei (1564–1642)
1636 — Harvard University is founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts
1637 — Discourse on the Method — René Descartes (1596–1650)
1649 — execution of King Charles I of England
1663 — discovery of cells using a microscope — Robert Hooke (1635–1703)
1687 — Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica — Isaac Newton (1642–1727)
1687 — Age of Enlightenment — maybe from 1687 to outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789

18th century

1718 — smallpox inoculations by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689–1762)
1737 — H1 ship's clock — John Harrison (1693–1776), prize eventually in 1773
1740–1741 — Famine in Ireland kills tenth of the population
1752 — Britain adopts the Gregorian calendar
1769–1770 — James Cook explores and maps New Zealand and Australia.
1771 — Richard Arkwright and his partners build the world's first water-powered mill at Cromford.
1775–1783 — American war of independence / American Revolutionary War
1783 — Hot air balloon — Montgolfier brothers
1787 — The United States Constitution is written
1789–1799 — French Revolution
1796 — smallpox vaccinations by Edward Jenner (1749–1823)

19th century

1802 — Coalbrookdale locomotive — Richard Trevithick (1771–1833)
1803 — "Pen-y-Darren" locomotive — Richard Trevithick
1805 — Battle of Trafalgar — allows for British dominance of the seas
1814 — George Stephenson's first locomotive
1815 — Battle of Waterloo
1818 — Frankenstein — Mary Shelley
1822 — difference engine — Charles Babbage
1829 — Rocket — Robert Stephenson
1829 — Electric motor
1937 — Electrical telegraph
1848 — Revolutions in Italy, France, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Poland, Moldavia, Wallachia
1851 — London Great Exhibition
1861 — American Civil War ends
1869 — Dmitri Mendeleev — first modern periodic table (66 known elements)
1870 — Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas — Jules Verne
1870 — Married Women's Property Act 1870 — money and inherited property
1879 — first radio transmission
1882 — Married Women's Property Act 1882 — buy and own property
1888 — Roundhay Garden Scene — oldest surviving film
1889 — Aspirin
1893 — Married Women's Property Act 1893 — tidying of 1882 act
1894 — Swiss Army knife
1895 — The Time Machine — H. G. Wells (1866–1946)
1898 — The War of the Worlds — H. G. Wells
1899–1902 — Boer War

20th century (1901–1950)

1903 — First powered flight — Wright brothers
1905 — Special Theory of Relativity — Albert Einstein
1906 — Jules Bordet and Octave Gengou — whooping cough vaccine
1907 — Qualification of Women (County and Borough Councils) Act 1907
1909 — Model T Ford
1912 — Titanic encounters an iceberg
1914–1918 — World War I
1915 — General Theory of Relativity — Albert Einstein (1879–1955)
1915 — Zeppelins
1916 — Tanks
1918 — Women get the vote in UK
1918 — Russia adopts the Gregorian calendar
1918–1920 — global influenza pandemic
1921 — BCG vaccine against tuberculosis
1925 — Television technology
1925 — Mein Kampf — Adolf Hitler (1889–1945)
1926 — Winnie-the-Pooh — A. A. Milne (1882–1956)
1931 — Gödel's incompleteness theorems — Kurt Gödel (1906–1978)
1933 — Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany
1955 — first polio vaccine — Jonas Salk (1914–1995)
1939–1945 — World War II — VE Day (8 May 1945) VJ Day (15 August / 2 September 1945)
1941 — Polyester
1941 — Z3 — first programmable digital (electromechanical) computer ()
1943 — Colossus — first programmable electronic computer (1,600 thermionic valves and thyratrons) — Max Newman at Bletchley Park
1944 — V-2 rockets
1945 — ENIAC
1948 — Manchester Baby — first electronic stored-program computer (32 words of 32 bits)
1950 — Pilot ACE — designed by Alan Turing when at the National Physical Laboratory

20th century (1951–2000)

1951 — LEO
1952 — Jonas Salk — polio vaccine
1954 — McCarthyism
1954 — FORTRAN
1957 — Sputnik 2
1960 — Conscription ended in UK
1960 — Lady Chatterley trial
1960 — Measles vaccine
1961 — Berlin Wall up
1963 — Assassination of John F. Kennedy
1963 — first Doctor Who
1965 — Elliot 903, PDP-8, CDC 6600
1968 — The Mother of All Demos — Douglas Engelbart (1925–2013)
1968 — Apollo 11 moon landing
1970 — Forth
1970 — Equal Pay Act 1970
1971 — Decimalisation in UK
1972 — Apollo 17 moon landing
1973
- 1973 oil crisis
- Skylab — used for 24 weeks, fell July 1979
- Roe v. Wade won
- The Dark Side of the Moon — Pink Floyd
- Tubular Bells — Mike Oldfield
1974 — Motorola 6800
1975 — Microsoft
1975 — UK annual inflation at 24.21%, peaks at 26.87% in August 1975^[1]
1976 — Apple
1976 — Colossal Cave Adventure – Crowther's original version
1978–1985 — first set of 10 experimental GPS satellites
1979 — Commodore PET
1979 — 1979 oil crisis
1982 — BBC Micro
1985 — Windows 1.0
1989 — Berlin Wall down
1989 — Launch of first of 28 operation GPS satellites
1989 — WWW — concept invented by Tim Berners-Lee
1990 — WWW — Hypertext project proposal 12 November 1990 — live 20 December 1990 — open sourced 30 April 1993
1991 — GPS live for civil use
1993 — Mosaic, Cello
1995 — Windows 95

21st century

11 September 2001 — 9-11
7 July 2005 — London bombings "7/7"
21 July 2005 — attempted London bombings "21/7"
2007–2008 financial crisis
- 14 September 2007 — Northern Rock baled out by Bank of England
- 21 January 2008 — FTSE 100 Index crashes 5.5%
- 17 March 2008 — Bear Stearns baled out by Federal Reserve
- 11 July 2008 — IndyMac failed
- 7 September 2008 — Federal takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
- 20–26 January 2009 — Icelandic government collapses
- June 2009 — America claims that it is all over
23 June 2016 — Brexit referendum
13 July 2016 — Theresa May PM
8 November 2016 — Trump elected — inauguration 20 January 2017
24 July 2019 — Boris Johnson PM
31 January 2020
- Brexit enacted
- First UK COVID cases confirmed in York
5 March 2020 — First UK COVID death
11 March 2020 — WHO declares COVID-19 a pandemic
3 November 2020 — Joe Biden elected — inauguration 20 January 2021
24 February 2022 — Russian invasion of Ukraine
24 June 2022 — Roe v. Wade overruled
6 September 2022 — Liz Truss PM for 50 days
25 October 2022 — Rishi Sunak PM
7 October 2023 — Gaza war
5 July 2024 — Keir Starmer PM
5 November 2024 — Trump re-elected — inauguration 20 January 2025

References

^ "United Kingdom Inflation Rate in 1975". StatBureau. Retrieved 20 April 2026.

[1] "United Kingdom Inflation Rate in 1975". StatBureau. Retrieved 20 April 2026.

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Eras

BC

First millennium AD

Second millennium AD — part 1

15th century

16th century

17th century

18th century

19th century

20th century (1901–1950)

20th century (1951–2000)

21st century

See also

References

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