Miscellaneous

Here is a miscellaneous timeline of events throughout history:

8000 BCE

Evidence of early farming and domestication of animals in

3000 BCE

Wheels invented, allow early forms of transportation

2550 BCE

Great Pyramids built at Giza

776 BCE

First recorded Olympic games held in Greece

218 BCE

Construction of the Great Wall of China begins under Qin Dynasty

44 BCE

Julius Caesar assassinated in the Roman Senate

1453 CE

Ottoman Turks capture Constantinople, marking the fall of the Byzantine Empire

1492 CE

Christopher Columbus lands in the Americas, beginning period of European colonization

1610 CE

Galileo observes Jupiter’s moons through a telescope, providing evidence for the Copernican model of the solar system

1776 CE

American Revolution begins with the Declaration of Independence

1804 CE

Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself French Emperor in Notre Dame Cathedral

1859 CE

Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species, introduces theory of evolution by natural selection

1876 CE

Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone

1903 CE

First controlled, sustained flight achieved by Orville and Wilbur Wright

1917 CE

Bolshevik revolution in Russia, Lenin becomes first Soviet premier

1929 CE

Stock market crash leads to the Great Depression in America

1945 CE

End of World War 2 with the unconditional surrender of Axis powers

1969 CE

Apollo 11 lands first humans (Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin) on the moon

1990 CE

Hubble Space Telescope launched into low Earth orbit

2007 CE

Apple releases first iPhone, ushering new era in smartphone technology