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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