A Time-Line of
Historical Persons and Events

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This time-line is closely based on a hardcopy timeline originally prepared by Darrell Huwe.

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Pre-Historical
    fire    last glacial maximum (-11000)    domestication of plants and animals (-8000) causes deviation of global         climate:  progressively warmer than astronomical fluctuations cause    oil    Black Sea Flood (-5600)
Earliest History
    Egyptian Empire (from -3100 to -600)    Moses (-1250; no mention in surviving contemporary documents)
-600
    Buddha
-500
-400
    coal    Aristotle
-300
-200
    Roman Empire...
-100
0
    Jesus of Nazareth
100
    Ptolemy
200
    New Testament manuscripts, with no punctuation, spaces between words,      or capitalization, are copied by amateur scribes
300
    Byzantine Empire...
400
    New Testament manuscripts copied by professional scribes...    ...Roman Empire    "Dark Ages"...    growth of Copan valley population
500
600
    Mohammed     Arab Empire...
700
    Franks field heavy cavalry with saddles and stirrups (732)    Copan valley population plateaus around 27,000 people
800
900
    occupation of Easter Island    Copan valley population about half of peak    France    cross plow    Vikings settle Greenland under Erik the Red
1000
    horse collar (China??)    ...Arab Empire (1055)
1100
    collapse of Mimbres (1130)    collapse of Chaco Canyon, North Black Mesa, and Virgin Anasazi
1200
    Genghis Kahn     Mongol Empire...    Robert Grosseteste (Bishop of London 1235...)    Copan valley population zero    Roger Bacon    Northern Italian-based international banks    Invention of eyeglasses (Italy, 1284) and mechanical clocks    Kublai Kahn (a grandson of Genghis Kahn)    ...Mongol Empire
1300
    collapse of Mesa Verde and the Kayenta Anasazi    Marco Polo    Yuan Dynasty...    invention of cannon (1324-25) and sternpost rudder    crop failure    Hundred Years' War...    Black Plague    English wool exports shift from fleeces to woven cloth
1400
    collapse of Mogollon    collapse of Norse colonies in Greenland    Nicolas of Cusa    ...Hundred Years' War    ...Byzantine Empire (1453)    moveable type printing press ends hand copying of bible manuscripts    Columbus    Easter Island deforested
1500
    ...Middle Ages    Luther    Copernicus    Tyco Brahe    Usury re-defined to forbid only "high" interest rates    Gilbert (Earth as magnet); Stevin (hydrostatic paradox)
1600
    Francis Bacon    Galileo    Descartes    Kepler    Locke    Newton
1700
    spinning jenny    Easter Island population c. 30% of peak    cotton gin       Smith
1800
    Malthus          Dalton              Lyell    Ricardo          steam locomotive    telegraph    entropy          oil well    Darwin           Irish Potato Famine (1845-50)
1900
    Einstein    Heisenberg    nuclear fission
2000
    ?????

Dick Piccard revised this file (http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~piccard/entropy/timeline.html) on January 2, 2006.

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