[2000s BC] Minoan worship of the Mother Goddess

[2000s BC] Extensive commerce between Egypt and Crete

[2000s BC] (-1500) Height of Minoan Civilization

[1600s BC] (-1200) Mycenaean civilization on mainland Greece

[1500s BC] (-800 ) Dark Ages of Greek history

[1500s BC] (-1400) Mycenaean dominance on Crete

[1400s BC] Destruction of Knossos and end of Minoan Civilization

[1250s BC] Trojan War

[1200s BC] (-1100) Collapse of Mycenaean civilization in Greece

[800s BC] Beginning of city-states in Greece

[753s BC] Rome founded

[750s BC] (-600) Concentration of landed wealth in Greece

[750s BC] (-600) Greek overseas expansion

[750s BC] The Iliad and The Odyssey

[700s BC] Earliest Greek settlement in Egypt's Nile delta

[650s BC] Shift from cavalry to infantry in Greece

[650s BC] (-500) Doric architectural style

[600s BC] Invention of coinage by Lydians

[600s BC] Thales of Miletus

[594 BC] Reforms of Solon in Athens

[530s BC] Pythagoras

[525 BC] (-456) Aeschylus

[508 BC] Reforms of Cleisthenes in Athens

[500s BC] (-432) Phidias

[500s BC] (-400) Ionic architectural style

[500s BC] Establishment of Roman Republic

[500s BC] Orphic and Eleusinian mystery cults

[496 BC] (-406) Sophocles

[490s BC] (-420) Protagoras

[490 BC] (-479) Greco-Persian War

[487 BC] (-429) Perfection of Athenian democracy

[484s BC] (-420) Herodotus

[480s BC] (-406) Euripides

[478 BC] (-404) Delian League

[471s BC] (-400) Thucydides

[469 BC] (-399) Socrates

[460s BC] The Parthenon

[460s BC] (-362) Democritus

[460 BC] (-377경) Hippocrates

[450s BC] Law of the Twelve Tables, Rome

[450s BC] (-400) The Sophists

[448s BC] (-380) Aristophanes

[431 BC] (-404) Peloponnesian War

[429 BC] (-347) Plato

[400s BC] (-300) Corinthian style architecture

[384 BC] (-322) Aristotle

[370s BC] (-310) Praxiteles

[342 BC] (-270) Epicurus

[338 BC] Macedonian conquest of Greece

[334 BC] (-323) Conquests of Alexander the Great

[323s BC] (-285) Euclid

[323 BC] Death of Alexander, division of his empire

[320s BC] (-250) Zeno the Stoic

[310 BC] (-230) Aristarchus

[300s BC] (-100) Hellenistic international trade

[287s BC] (-212) Archimedes

[276s BC] (-195) Eratosthenes

[264 BC] (-146) Punic Wars between Rome and Carthage

[250s BC] (-100) Growth of slavery, decline of small farmer in Rome

[250s BC] (-50 ) Oriental mystery cults in Rome

[220s BC] (-150) Herophilus

[205s BC] (-118) Polybius

[200s BC] The Skeptics

[183s BC] (-145) Greek Invasion of India

[146s BC] (-60 ) Introduction of Greek philosophy to Rome

[146 BC] Destruction of Carthage by Rome

[133 BC] (-121) Reforms of the Gracchi brothers in Rome

[106 BC] (-43 ) Cicero

[98 BC] (-55) Lucretius

[70 BC] (-19) Virgil

[65 BC] (-8 ) Horace

[59 BC] (~17C.E) Livy

[46 BC] (-44) Dictatorship of Caesar in Rome

[43 BC] (~17C.E) Ovid

[27 BC] (~14C.E) Principate of Augustus Caesar in Rome

[27 BC] (-14C.E) Principate of Augustus Caesar in Rome

[34] (-65) Seneca

[55] (-117) Tacitus

[61] Treaty of Samos between Rome and Kush

[80s] The Colosseum

[96] (-180) The "Good Emporers" in Rome

[120s] The Pantheon

[120s] (-250) Height of Roman portrait statuary

[121] (-180) Marcus Aurelius

[130] (-c.200) Galen

[200] Completion of Roman jurisprudence by great jurists

[204s] (-270) Plotonius

[235] (-284) Civil war in the Roman empire

[284] (-305) Diocletian

[306] (-337) Constantine I

[311] Beginning of toleration of Christians in Roman Empire

[354] (-430) St. Augustine

[379] (-395) Theodosius I

[380] Christianity becomes the official Roman religion

[410] Visigoths sack Rome

[476] Deposition of last western Roman emporer

[480s] (-524) Boethius

[493] (-526) Theodoric the Ostrogoth king of Italy

[500s] (-700) Decline of towns and trade in the west

[520s] Benedictine monastic rule

[527] (-565) Justinian

[532] (-537) Byzantine church of Hagia Sophia

[550s] Corpus of Roman law

[590] (-604) Pope Gregory I

[610] (-641) Byzantine Emperor Heraclius

[630] Muhammad enters Mecca in triumph

[700s] (-1050) Predominantly agrarian economy in the West

[711] Muslims conquer Spain

[715s] (-754) Missionary work of St. Boniface in Germany

[717] Muslims unsuccessfully attack Constantinople

[726] (-843) Iconoclastic controversy in Byzantine Empire

[735] Death of the Venerable Bede

[750s] Beowulf

[750s] Book of Kells (Ireland)

[751] Pepin the Short annointed king of the Franks

[768] (-814) Charlemagne

[800] Charlemagne crowned emperor

[800s] (-1000) Height of Byzantine commerce and industry

[800s] (-850) Carolingian Renaissance

[850s] (-911) Carolingian Empire distintegrates

[871] (-899) Alfred the Great of England

[880s] (-911) High point of Viking raids in Europe

[910] Foundation of Cluny

[936] (-973) Otto the Great of Germany

[950s] Foundation of the Kievan state

[988s] Byzantine conversion of Russia to Christianity

[1Thousands] (-1200) Romanesque style in architecture and art

[1025s] (-1100) Destruction of Byzantine free peasantry

[1046] Beginning of Reform Papacy

[1050s] (-1300) Agricultural advance, revival of towns and trade in the West

[1054] Beginning of Schism between Roman and Eastern Orthodox Churches

[1054] Beginning of Schism between Roman and Eastern Orthodox Churches

[1066] Norman conquest of England

[1071] Seljuk Turks defeat Byzantines at Battle of Manzikert

[1073] (-1085) Pope Gregory VII

[1077] Penance of Henry IV at Canossa

[1090] (-1153) St. Bernard of Clairvaux

[1095] (-1099) First Crusade

[1095s] Song of Roland

[1100] (-1135) Henry I of England

[1100s] (-1300) Origins of universities in the West

[1100s] (-1220) Troubadour poetry

[1108] (-1137) Louis VI of France

[1115s] (-1153) Height of Cistercian monasticism

[1122] Concordat of Worms ends investiture struggle

[1140s] (-1260) Translation of Aristotle's works into Latin

[1150s] (-1500) Gothic style in architecture and art

[1152] (-1190) Frederick I (Barbarossa) of Germany

[1154] (-1189) Henry II of England

[1155s] (-1157) Peter Lombard's Sentences

[1165s] (-1190) Poetry of Chretien de Troyes

[1168s] (-1253) Robert Grosseteste

[1180] (-1223) Philip Augustus of France

[1180s] Windmill invented

[1187] Crusaders lose Jerusalem to Saladin

[1198] (-1216) Pope Innocent III

[1198] Death of Averroes

[1204] Crusaders sack Constantinople

[1204] Death of Maimonides

[1208] (-1213) Albigensian Crusade

[1210] Founding of Franciscan Order

[1212] Spanish victory over Muslims at Las Navas de Tolosa

[1212] (-1250) Frederick II of Germany and Sicily

[1214s] (-1294) Francis Bacon

[1215] Magna Carta

[1215] Fourth Latern Council

[1216] Founding of Dominican Order

[1225] (-1274) St. Thomas Aquinas

[1226] (-1270) Louis IX (St. Louis) of France

[1250s] (-1277) Height of Scholasticism

[1270s] Romance of the Rose

[1272] (-1307) Edward I of England

[1285] (-1349) William of Ockham

[1285] (-1314) Philip IV (the Fair) of France

[1290s] Mechanical clock invented

[1291] Fall of last Christian outposts in the Holy Land

[1294] (-1303) Pope Boniface VII

[1300s] (-1327) Period of Master Eckhart's activity

[1300s] (-1450) European economic depression

[1305] (-1378) Babylonian captivity of papacy

[1305s] (-1337) Paintings of Giotto

[1310s] Dante's Divine Comedy

[1315] Floods throughout western Europe

[1320s] (-1500) height of nominalism

[1330s] (-1384) John Wyclif

[1337] (-1453) Hundred Years War

[1347] (-1350) Black Death

[1350s] (-1450) Height of Hanseatic League

[1350s] (-1450) Political chaos in Germany

[1350s] Boccaccio's Decameron

[1378] (-1417) The Great Schism of the papacy

[1381] English peasant's revolt

[1390s] Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

[1397] (-1494) Medici Bank

[1400] (-1441) Paintings of Jan van Eyck

[1408s] (-1415) Jon Hus preaches in Bohemia

[1414] (-1417) Council of Constance

[1420] (-1434) Hussite Revolt

[1427s] Imitation of Christ

[1429] (-1431) Appearance of Joan of Arc

[1431] (-1449) Council of Basel, defeat of conciliarism

[1450s] (-1500) Rise of princes in Germany

[1450s] Printing with movable type

[1453] Heavy artillery (cannons) helps Turks capture Constantinople and end Hundred Years War

[1453s] (-1513) Reassertion of royal power in France

[1454] (-1485) Peace among Northern Italian states

[1455] (-1485) War of the Roses in England

[1462] (-1505) Ivan III lays foundation for Russian Empire

[1469] Marriage of Ferdinand and Isabella

[1485] (-1603) Strong Tudor dynasty in England