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160 events across 3 classical history sequences
| Event | Date | Period |
|---|---|---|
| Creation and the Fall | Beginning | Ancient |
| The Flood and the Tower of Babel | approx. 2348 BC | Ancient |
| Mesopotamia and Sumer | c. 3500 BC | Ancient |
| Egyptians | 3000 BC | Ancient |
| Indus River Valley Civilization | c. 2600 BC | Ancient |
| Minoans and Mycenaeans | c. 2000-1200 BC | Ancient |
| Seven Wonders of the Ancient World | c. 2560 BC-280 BC | Ancient |
| Patriarchs of Israel | c. 2166-1805 BC | Ancient |
| Hittites and Canaanites | c. 1600-1178 BC | Ancient |
| Kush | Undated | Ancient |
| Assyrians | c. 2500-609 BC | Ancient |
| Babylonians | c. 1894-539 BC | Ancient |
| China's Shang Dynasty | c. 1600-1046 BC | Ancient |
| Hinduism in India | c. 1500 BC | Ancient |
| Phoenicians and the Alphabet | c. 1500-300 BC | Ancient |
| Olmecs of Mesoamerica | c. 1500-400 BC | Ancient |
| Israelite Exodus and Desert Wanderings | c. 1446 BC | Ancient |
| Israelite Conquest and Judges | c. 1406-1050 BC | Ancient |
| Greek Dark Ages | c. 1200-800 BC | Ancient |
| Israel's United Kingdom | c. 1050-930 BC | Ancient |
| Early Native Americans | c. 1000 BC | Ancient |
| Israel Divides into Two Kingdoms | c. 930 BC | Ancient |
| Homer and Hesiod | c. 850-700 BC | Ancient |
| Rome Founded by Romulus and Remus | 753 BC | Ancient |
| Israel Falls to Assyria | 722 BC | Ancient |
| Assyria Falls to Babylon | 612 BC | Ancient |
| Lao-Tzu, Confucius, Buddha | c. 600-500 BC | Ancient |
| Judah Falls to Babylon, Temple Destroyed | 586 BC | Ancient |
| Babylon Falls to Persia | 539 BC | Ancient |
| Jews Return and Rebuild the Temple | 539-516 BC | Ancient |
| Roman Republic | 509 BC | Classical |
| Golden Age of Greece | c. 500-300 BC | Classical |
| Peloponnesian Wars | 431-404 BC | Classical |
| Persia Falls to Alexander the Great | 334-330 BC | Classical |
| India's Mauryan Empire | c. 322-185 BC | Classical |
| Mayans of Mesoamerica | c. 2000 BC-AD 1500 | Ancient |
| Punic Wars | 264-146 BC | Classical |
| Rome Conquers Greece | 146 BC | Classical |
| Roman Dictator Julius Caesar | 100-44 BC | Classical |
| Caesar Augustus and the Pax Romana | 27 BC-AD 180 | Classical |
| John the Baptist | c. 6 BC-AD 30 | Classical |
| Jesus the Messiah | c. 4 BC-AD 30 | Classical |
| Pentecost and the Early Church | c. AD 30 | Classical |
| Persecution Spreads the Gospel | c. AD 30-313 | Classical |
| Herod's Temple Destroyed by Titus | AD 70 | Classical |
| Diocletian Divides the Roman Empire | AD 285 | Classical |
| Constantine Legalizes Christianity | AD 313 | Classical |
| India's Gupta Dynasty | c. AD 320-550 | Classical |
| First Council of Nicaea (Divinity of Christ) | AD 325 | Classical |
| Augustine of Hippo | AD 354-430 | Classical |
| Jerome Completes the Vulgate | c. AD 405 | Classical |
| Visigoths Sack Rome | AD 410 | Classical |
| The Middle Ages | c. AD 450-1500 | Medieval |
| Council of Chalcedon (Two Natures of Christ) | AD 451 | Classical |
| Western Roman Empire Falls to Barbarians | AD 476 | Classical |
| Byzantine Emperor Justinian | AD 527-565 | Medieval |
| Event | Date | Period |
|---|---|---|
| Benedict and Monasticism | c. AD 529 | Medieval |
| Muhammad Founds Islam | c. AD 610 | Medieval |
| Zanj and Early Ghana in Africa | c. AD 700-1200 | Medieval |
| Franks Defeat Muslims at the Battle of Tours | AD 732 | Medieval |
| Golden Age of Islam | c. AD 750-1258 | Medieval |
| Vikings Raid and Trade | c. AD 793-1066 | Medieval |
| Japan's Heian Period | AD 794-1185 | Medieval |
| Charlemagne Crowned Emperor of Europe | AD 800 | Medieval |
| Alfred the Great of England | AD 871-899 | Medieval |
| Erik the Red and Leif Erikson, Norse Explorers | c. AD 985-1000 | Medieval |
| Vladimir I of Kiev | c. AD 980-1015 | Medieval |
| Byzantine Emperor Basil II | AD 976-1025 | Medieval |
| East-West Schism of the Church | 1000 AD | Medieval |
| Norman Conquest and Feudalism in Europe | AD 1066 | Medieval |
| The Crusades | AD 1096-1291 | Medieval |
| Zimbabwe and Early Mali in Africa | c. AD 1100-1400 | Medieval |
| Aztecs of Mesoamerica | c. AD 1300-1521 | Medieval |
| Francis of Assisi and Thomas Aquinas | c. AD 1200-1274 | Medieval |
| Japan's Shoguns | AD 1185-1868 | Medieval |
| Incas of South America | c. AD 1200-1533 | Medieval |
| Genghis Khan Rules the Mongols | c. AD 1206-1227 | Medieval |
| England's Magna Carta | AD 1215 | Medieval |
| Ottoman Empire | c. AD 1299-1922 | Medieval |
| Marco Polo's Journey to China | AD 1271-1295 | Medieval |
| The Hundred Years' War and Black Death | AD 1337-1453 | Medieval |
| The Renaissance | c. AD 1400-1600 | Renaissance |
| China's Ming Dynasty | AD 1368-1644 | Renaissance |
| Age of Exploration | c. AD 1400-1600 | Exploration |
| Prince Henry Founds School of Navigation | c. AD 1418 | Exploration |
| Slave Trade in Africa | c. AD 1440-1870 | Exploration |
| Gutenberg's Printing Press | c. AD 1440 | Renaissance |
| Songhai in Africa | c. AD 1464-1591 | Renaissance |
| Czar Ivan the Great of Russia | AD 1462-1505 | Renaissance |
| The Spanish Inquisition | AD 1478 | Renaissance |
| Columbus Sails to the Caribbean | AD 1492 | Exploration |
| Age of Absolute Monarchs | c. AD 1500-1800 | Reformation |
| Protestant Reformation | AD 1517 | Reformation |
| Spanish Conquistadors in the Americas | c. AD 1519-1540 | Exploration |
| Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion | AD 1536 | Reformation |
| Council of Trent (Counter-Reformation) | AD 1545-1563 | Reformation |
| Baroque Period of the Arts | c. AD 1600-1750 | Baroque |
| Japan's Isolation | AD 1639-1853 | Colonial |
| Event | Date | Period |
|---|---|---|
| Jamestown and Plymouth Colony Founded | AD 1607-1620 | Colonial |
| Age of Enlightenment | c. AD 1650-1800 | Colonial |
| Hudson's Bay Company | AD 1670 | Colonial |
| First Great Awakening | c. AD 1730-1740 | Colonial |
| Classical Period of the Arts | c. AD 1750-1820 | Colonial |
| The Seven Years' War | AD 1756-1763 | Colonial |
| Age of Industry | c. AD 1760-1969 | Industrial |
| James Cook Sails to Australia and Antarctica | AD 1768-1779 | Exploration |
| American Revolution and General George Washington | AD 1775-1783 | Revolutionary |
| Madison's Constitution and the Bill of Rights | AD 1787-1791 | Revolutionary |
| French Revolution | AD 1789-1799 | Revolutionary |
| Second Great Awakening | c. AD 1790-1840 | Early Modern |
| Louisiana Purchase and Lewis and Clark Expedition | AD 1803-1806 | Early Modern |
| Napoleon Crowned Emperor of France | AD 1804 | Early Modern |
| Liberation of South America | c. AD 1810-1825 | Early Modern |
| The War of 1812 | AD 1812-1815 | Early Modern |
| The Missouri Compromise | AD 1820 | Early Modern |
| Immigrants Flock to America | c. AD 1820s+ | Early Modern |
| The Monroe Doctrine | AD 1823 | Early Modern |
| Romantic Period of the Arts | c. AD 1800-1850 | Early Modern |
| Cherokee Trail of Tears | AD 1838 | Early Modern |
| US Westward Expansion | c. AD 1840s | Early Modern |
| Marx Publishes The Communist Manifesto | AD 1848 | Early Modern |
| The Compromise of 1850 and the Dred Scott Decision | AD 1850-1857 | Early Modern |
| US Restores Trade with Japan | AD 1853 | Early Modern |
| British Queen Victoria's Rule Over India | AD 1858-1947 | Early Modern |
| Darwin Publishes The Origin of Species | AD 1859 | Early Modern |
| American Civil War and President Lincoln | AD 1861-1865 | Early Modern |
| Reconstruction of the Southern States | AD 1865-1877 | Early Modern |
| Dominion of Canada | AD 1867 | Early Modern |
| Otto von Bismarck Unifies Germany | AD 1871 | Industrial |
| Boer Wars in Africa | AD 1880-1902 | Industrial |
| The Spanish-American War | AD 1898 | Industrial |
| The Progressive Era | c. AD 1890-1920 | Modern |
| Australia Becomes a Commonwealth | AD 1901 | Modern |
| Mexican Revolution | AD 1910-1920 | Modern |
| World War I and President Wilson | AD 1914-1918 | Modern |
| Lenin and the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia | AD 1917 | Modern |
| US Evangelist Billy Graham | AD 1918-2018 | Modern |
| Modern Period of the Arts | c. AD 1900-present | Modern |
| The Great Depression and the New Deal | AD 1929-1939 | Modern |
| World War II and President Franklin D. Roosevelt | AD 1939-1945 | Modern |
| Stalin of the USSR and the Katyn Massacre | AD 1940 | Modern |
| The United Nations Formed | AD 1945 | Modern |
| The Cold War | AD 1947-1991 | Modern |
| Gandhi and India's Independence | AD 1947 | Modern |
| Jewish State Established | AD 1948 | Modern |
| Mao and the Communist Victory in China | AD 1949 | Modern |
| North Atlantic Treaty Organization | AD 1949 | Modern |
| The Korean War | AD 1950-1953 | Modern |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement | c. AD 1954-1968 | Contemporary |
| Jim and Elisabeth Elliot, Missionaries to Ecuador | AD 1956 | Contemporary |
| The Antarctic Treaty | AD 1959 | Contemporary |
| The Vietnam War | AD 1955-1975 | Contemporary |
| US Astronauts Walk on the Moon | AD 1969 | Contemporary |
| Age of Information and Globalization | c. AD 1969-present | Contemporary |
| Watergate, President Nixon Resigns | AD 1974 | Contemporary |
| Fall of Communism in Eastern Europe | AD 1989 | Contemporary |
| European Union Formed | AD 1993 | Contemporary |
| Apartheid Abolished in South Africa | AD 1994 | Contemporary |
| September 11, 2001 | AD 2001 | Contemporary |
| Rising Tide of Freedom | 21st century AD | Contemporary |
The Timeline Quick Reference lists classical history events in chronological order across 3 learning sequences, organized for quick recitation review. Each entry shows the event name, date, and historical period.
The Ancient World section spans from early civilizations up through the end of the Western Roman Empire.
The Medieval World section covers the middle timeline, and the Modern World section covers the later timeline.
Events are listed in chronological order within each learning sequence and grouped by historical period, so students can rehearse them in order. The table format shows event, date, and period at a glance for quick drill or review before a recitation.