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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.
Praeterit pot es alien mund sed me ne cred que gents de ib loq un ling que nos pot ne percip. The past may be a foreign country but I do not believe that the people there speak a language that we cannot understand.
- 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
- 1337 Hundred Year War
- 1340 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
- 1346 Black Death
- 1368 Great Wall of China
- 1377 Muqaddimah
- 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
- 1667 Milton's Paradise Lost
- 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
- 1934 Joyce's Ulysses
- 1942 Camus' L'Étranger
- 1986 Chernobyl Disaster
incoming: 2026