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This is not History, history, merely a very selective timeline of events I come across in books that I wanted to see in relation to each other.

• Middle Ages
• 27 Augustus Rule
• 54 Nero Rule
• 65 Death of Seneca
• 79 Eruption of Vesuvius
• 80 Colosseum Completed
• 100 Plutarch's Moralia
• 138 Death of Hadrian
• 147 Ptolemy's Almagest
• 180 Death of Marcus Aurelius
• 382 The Vulgate
• 450 Old English
• 465 Birth of King Arthur
• 552 Buddhism in Japan
• 570 Birth of Prophet Muhammad
• 600 Chichen Itza
• 780 Birth of Al-Khwarizmi
• 876 Invention of Zero
• 975 Beowulf

• Enlightment
• Renaissance
• Industrial Revolution
• 1066 Norman Conquest
• 1086 Domesday Book
• 1321 Dante's Inferno Published
• 1337 Hundred Year War
• 1340 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
• 1346 Black Death
• 1368 Great Wall of China
• 1377 Muqaddimah Published
• 1431 Death of Joan of Arc
• 1440 The Printing Press
• 1443 Hangul
• 1511 Buonarroti's Creation of Adam
• 1513 Machiavelli's The Prince
• 1539 Middle French
• 1563 Bruegel's Tower of Babel
• 1603 Japan Edo Period
• 1605 Cervantes's Don Quixote
• 1634 Modern French
• 1640 Corneille's Horace
• 1654 Fabritius's Goldfinch
• 1656 Pascal's Lettres Provinciales
• 1665 Vermeer's Pearl Earring
• 1685 Birth of J. S. Bach
• 1686 Bashō's Old Pond
• 1789 French Revolution
• 1798 French Invasion of Egypt and Syria
• 1816 Year Without Summer
• 1818 Shelley's Frankenstein
• 1826 The First Photograph
• 1854 Convention of Kanagawa
• 1854 Thoreau's Walden
• 1865 Carroll's Alice in Wonderland
• 1871 Eliot's Middlemarch
• 1942 Camus' L'Étranger