All events:

Pre-historic

• 13.85 billion years ago - The universe is born

• 4.5 billion years ago - Earth and the Moon are born

• 4.5 billion years ago - The Hadean Eon and the origin of life

• 4 billion years ago - The Archean Eon

• 2.4 billion years ago - The Proterozoic eon, oxygen, fossil fuels, and sex

• 550 million years ago - The Cambrian Explosion

• 455, 360, and 252 million years ago - Paleozoic era extinctions

• 250 million years ago - The Mesozoic Era (Pangea breaks up)

• 201 and 65 million years ago - Mesozoic era extinctions

• 60 million years ago - The Age of Mammals begins

• 10 million years ago - Humanoids

• 3.9 million years ago - Australopithecus afarensis

• 3 million years ago - Homo Naledi

• 2.8 million years ago - Isthmus of Panama

• 2.8 to 1.5 million years ago - Homo Habilis

• 1.3 million years ago - Homo Erectus

• 200,000 years ago - Homo Sapiens

• 200,000 years ago - Neanderthals

  
  

Civilization begins

200,000 BCE to 10,000 BCE

• 125,000 to 100,000 BCE - Pre-Chellean culture

• 100,000 to 75,000 BCE - Abbevillian culture

• 75,000 to 40,000 BCE - Acheulean culture

• 40,000 BCE to 25,000 BCE - Mousterian culture

• 25,000 - 20,000 BCE - Aurignacian culture

• 23,000 BCE - Dogs!

• 16,000 BCE - Magdalenian culture

10,000 BCE - 1,000 BCE

• 6,000 BCE - The coming of metals

• 5,000 BCE - The bronze (non) age

• 3,600 BCE - Writing

• 5262 to 1810 BCE - Sumeria

• 3500 to 2631 BCE - The Old Kingdom

• 2852 BCE - Emperor Fuxi

• 1953 BCE - The Planets align

• 1400 BCE - Minoan civilization

• 1353 - The Heretic King

• 1213 BCE - Ramesses II

• 1154 BCE - Zhou Dynasty
  

1,000 BCE - 500 BCE

• 626 BCE - Ashurbanipal

• 624 BCE - Thales of Miletus

• 610 BCE - Anaximander of Miletus

• 572 BCE - Solon

• 551 BCE - Confucius

• 530 BCE - Heraclitus the Obscure

• 529 BCE - Pythagoras
  

500 BCE - 0 CE

• 494 BCE - Empedocles

• 485 BCE - Darius and Xerxes

• 480 BCE - The Battle of Salamis

• 460 BCE - Democritus

• 470 BCE - Socrates

• 490 BCE - Zeno of Elea

• 467 BCE - Pericles

• 428 BCE - Plato

• 421 BCE - The Peace of Nicias

• 412 BCE - Diogenes

• 404 BCE - Alcibiades

• 384 BCE - Aristotle

• 341 BCE - Epicurius

• 310 BCE - Aristarchus of Samos

• 300 BCE - Euclid’s Elements

• 323 BCE - Alexander the Great and the Fall of Achaemenid Persia

• 331 BCE - The death of Alexander

• 324 BCE - Chandragupta Maurya

• 280 BCE - King Pyrrhus and his pyrrhic victories

• 276 BCE - Eratosthenes of Cyrene

• 273 BCE - Ashoka

• 221 BCE - Qin Shi Huang

• 219 BCE - Second Punic War

• 212 BCE - Archimedes

• 190 BCE - Hipparchus of Nicaea

• 151 BCE - Third Punic War

• 139 BCE - The Gracchi brothers

• 88 BCE - Sulla the Happy

• 52 BCE - Caesar and Vercingetorix

• 49 BCE - Caesar crosses the Rubicon

• 31 BCE - Augustus
  

0 CE - 500 CE

• 0 - Heron of Alexandria

• 68 - The Age of Despots

• 70 - The Destruction of the Second Temple

• 96 - Philosopher kings

• 177 - The beginning of the end of Rome

• 330 - Constantinople founded

• 350 - Hypatia

• 363 - Julian the Apostate
  

500 CE - 1,000 CE

• 565 - Justinian the Great

• 628 - Sasanian Persia ends

• 632 - Muhammad dies

• 717 - Leo "The Isaurian"

• 771 - Charlamagne

• 901 - The Period of Engi

• 916 - Muslim expansion ends

• 965 - Alhazen
  

1,000 CE - 1,200 CE

• 1066 - The Granada Massacre

• 1066-1215 - From William the Conqueror to Magna Carta

• 1096-1270 - The Crusades

  • 1096 - First Crusade

  • 1147 - Second Crusade

  • 1189 - Third Crusade

  • 1203 - The Fourth Crusade

  • 1215-1270 - The rest of the Crusades

• 1194 - Frederick II

• 1150 - Peak of Muslim Philosophy

• 1258 - The Mongol Conquest
  

1300s

1400s

1500s

1600s

• 1600 - Giordano Bruno

• 1605 - The Tokugawa Period

• 1605 - Akbar the Great

• 1609 - Hans Lipperhey

• 1660 - Boyle's air-pump

• 1665 - Hooke’s Micrographia

• 1690 - Christiaan Huygens

1700s

• 1705 - Hauksbee sphere

• 1709 - Newton’s Optiks

• 1730 - Conductors and Insulators

• 1746 - Leyden Jar

• 1749 - Ben Franklin (plus and minus)

• 1752 - Lightning in a bottle

• 1771 - Electrical intensity and amount

• 1781 - William Herschel discovers Uranus

• 1781 - Yorktown Victory

• 1789 - Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen

• 1793 - Execution of Louis XVI

• 1798 - Jean-François Champollion (Rosetta Stone)

• 1799 - Voltaic Pile
  

1800s

• 1800 - Discovery of infrared light

• 1803 - Giovanni Aldini

• 1808 - Humphry Davy's Arc light

• 1814 - Joseph von Fraunhofer

• 1821 - Faraday’s Electric Motor

• 1831 - Faraday’s first generator

• 1832 - Henry, Morse, and the telegraph

• 1839 - First Photo

• 1845 - Faraday Effect

• 1846 - Discovery of Uranus

• 1858 - Transatlantic submarine cable

• 1859 - John Brown and Frederick Douglass

• 1859 - The Carrington Event

• 1859 - Charles Darwin

• 1868 - Era of Meiji

• 1868 - Discovery of Helium

• 1875 - "Dad, Oxes"

• 1879 - Thomas Edison's Light Bulb

• 1882 - Pearl Street Power Plant

• 1884 - Geodetic Greenwich Meridian

• 1888 - Nikola Tesla and George Westinghouse

• 1891 - Edison vs Tesla

• 1894 - First Sino-Japanese War

• 1895 - Wilhelm Röntgen's x-rays

• 1899 - Wilbur Wright's letter
  

1900 - 1950

• 1903 - First Flight

• 1905 - The Battle of the Sea of Japan

• 1908 - Tunguska Event

• 1913 - Harry Moseley

• 1914 - Von Kluck's turn

• 1915 - Alfred Wegener's Pangea

• 1920s - The Cyclotron

• 1925 - Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin

• 1925 - Edwin Hubble

• 1927 - Center of the Galaxy

• 1927 - The Big Bang Theory

• 1927 - The Fifth Solvey Conference

• 1929 - The Peking Man

• 1933 - Leo Szilard

• 1934 - Soft Neutrons

• 1938 - Nuclear Fission

• 1942 - Chicago Pile 1

• 1943 - Nikola Tesla's success and death

• 1944 - SF Hydro

• 1945 - The Dragon Experiment

• 1945 - Trinity Test

• 1945 - Little Boy and Fat Man

• 1945 - The Synchrotron
  

1950 - present

• 1950 - The Oort Cloud

• 1961 - Anthropogenic lead pollution

• 1956 - The Age of Earth

• 1957 - Theory of Plate Tectonics

• 1957 - Sputnik

• 1974 - Lucy, the Australopithecus

• 1975 - Venera 9

• 1977 - Voyager 2

• 1979 - Vera Rubin's confirmation of dark matter

• 1987 - The Montreal Protocol