series of Time Line-s from Big Bang to the present.
[[http://www.bigbend.edu/soc/evolution/sequence_of_human_evolution_from.htm |Human Evolution From 500 million years ago to present]] Jorn Barger's timeline http://www.robotwisdom.com/ai/timeline.html
Universe created (Big Bang): 12b ya (years ago)
Earth formed: 4b ya
Jurassic period: 180m ya
hominids: 5m ya
Australopithecus africanus and A. afarensis: 3m ya
Stone Age (tools): 2m ya
Homo Habilis: 1.8m ya
Homo Erectus: 1.5m ya (fire: 1m ya)
Neanderthal (some say part of Homo Sapiens, others disagree): 250k ya (go extinct 30k ya)
"modern" Homo Sapiens (including Cro Magnon): 100k ya
cave paintings: 35k ya
extinction of mammoths and sabertooth tigers: 12k ya
Agri Culture: 12k ya (10,000 BC)
Sum Er 1st Civilizat Ion: 5300 BC - By 3800BC they were the dominant group in the area. At least a dozen city-states developed, including Ur (with a population of about 24,000), Uruk, Kish, and Lagash.
Bronze Age: 4500 BC (Thailand)
Writing (clay): 3400 BC (Egypt)
soap, candles, water clocks: 3000 BC
calendar of 365 days: 2800 BC (Egypt)
estimate pi=3: 2000 BC (Egypt)
sundial clock: 1500 BC (Egypt)
Ancient Greece: 776-323 BC
Aesop's fables: 580 BC
Siddhartha Gautama Buddha: 563-483 BC
Athenian democracy: 510-338 BC
Iron Age: 500 BC in classical world
Sun Tzu Art Of War: 500 BC
Socrates, Pla To, Aristotle (born): 400 BC
Library Of Alexandria: 341 BC
rule of Alexander The Great: 336-323 BC
Hellenistic Greece: 323 BC-146 BC
Euclid's geometry: 290 BC
Roman Empire conquers Greece: 146 BC
Jesus Christ: c 0
Constantinople made capital of Eastern Roman Empire: 330 AD
Muhammed: 570-632 AD
Inclusion of zero into Arabic numeral system: 700 AD
Holy Roman Empire: 843-1806 AD
Ottoman Empire formed: 1283 AD
Constantinople falls to Ottoman Empire: 1453 AD
life in the USA in 1904: see [[http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=41362 |this]] Timelines to purchase: