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World History Timeline

By benduvall2007
  • 4004 BCE

    Creation of the World

  • 2948 BCE

    Noah

  • The Flood
    2348 BCE

    The Flood

  • Period: 2242 BCE to 2206 BCE

    Tower of Babel

  • Period: 2000 BCE to 1500 BCE

    The Minoans

  • 1996 BCE

    Abraham

  • Pyramids First Appear
    1990 BCE

    Pyramids First Appear

  • 1950 BCE

    Sumerians attacked by the Elamites and Amorites (the beginning of the decline of the Sumerians)

  • 1918 BCE

    Issac Born

  • 1875 BCE

    Pyramid of Giza

  • 1792 BCE

    Babylonian Empire Becomes the Largest and Most Powerful Empire in Mesopotamia

  • 1750 BCE

    Hammurabi, King of the Amorites, Writes Code of Law

  • 1745 BCE

    Joseph

  • 1720 BCE

    Northern Egypt (Lower Kingdom) was invaded and taken over by the Hyksos

  • Period: 1570 BCE to 1550 BCE

    Kamos and Ahmose I from Southern Egypt (Upper Kingdom) joined forces with the Nubians and fought together to defeat the Hyksos and expel them from Egypt (wars of liberation)

  • Period: 1500 BCE to 1100 BCE

    The Mycenaeans

  • 1491 BCE

    Moses and the Exodus

  • 1450 BCE

    Mycenaean Greeks take over the Minoans

  • Period: 1279 BCE to 1213 BCE

    Ramses II (Ramses the Great)

  • 1200 BCE

    A period of migrations and turmoil began for the Mycenaeans

  • 1085 BCE

    David

  • 975 BCE

    Monarchy Divides

  • 900 BCE

    Sparta founded

  • 722 BCE

    Assyrian Destruction of Israel

  • Period: 700 BCE to 650 BCE

    Greece ruled by nobles

  • 650 BCE

    Sparta rises to military dominance

  • Period: 650 BCE to 500 BCE

    Greek ruled by tyrants

  • 604 BCE

    Nebuchadnezzar II became king of Babylon

  • 586 BCE

    Babylonian Captivity of Judah

  • 546 BCE

    Persia attacked Greece

  • 539 BCE

    Cyrus the Great conquered Mesopotamia and expanded the Persian Empire, bringing an end to the Babylonian Empire in the process

  • Period: 500 BCE to 336 BCE

    Greece divided into smaller city states

  • 480 BCE

    Battle of Thermopylae

  • 479 BCE

    Greece defeats Persia, ending the series of wars between them

  • 431 BCE

    Thebans attack Athenian outpost at Plataea

  • Period: 431 BCE to 421 BCE

    First phase of The Peloponnesian War (Archidamian War)

    The first phase (431–421 BC) was named the Ten Years War, or the Archidamian War, after the Spartan king Archidamus II, who invaded Attica several times with the full Hoplite army of the Peloponnesian League, the alliance network dominated by Sparta (then known as Lacedaemon)
  • Period: 431 BCE to 404 BCE

    The Second Peloponnesian War or The Peloponnesian War

    Historians have traditionally divided the war into three phases
  • Period: 421 BCE to 413 BCE

    Second phase of the Peloponnesian War (Peace of Nicias and Sicilian Expedition)

    Several battles took place during the Peace of Nicias. The Sicilian Expedition was an Athenian military campaign in Sicily from 415–413 BCE. The ambitious invasion, intended to conquer the city of Syracuse and cut off Spartan grain supplies, resulted in the almost destruction of the Athenian expedition and marked a major turning point in the war
  • 418 BCE

    The battle of Mantinea

  • Period: 413 BCE to 404 BCE

    Third phase of the Peloponnesian War

    The Sicilian disaster prompted the third phase of the war (413–404 BC), named the Decelean War, or the Ionian War
  • Period: 394 BCE to 386 BCE

    The Corinthian War

  • 371 BCE

    Sparta defeated by Thebes at the Battle of Leuctra

  • 350 BCE

    Philip of Macedon invaded Greece

  • 146 BCE

    Sparta incorporated into the Roman Republic

  • 4 BCE

    Jesus

  • Period: 1300 to 1450

    Early Renaissance

  • Period: 1450 to 1527

    High Renaissance

  • 1451

    Christopher Columbus is born in Genoa

  • Period: 1485 to

    The Tudor Period

  • 1492

    Christopher Columbus Sailed across the Atlantic Ocean

  • 1493

    Christopher Columbus sets sail on his second voyage

  • 1496

    Columbus arrives back at Spain from his second voyage

  • 1498

    Christopher Columbus embarks on his third voyage

  • 1498

    Christopher Columbus and his crew arrive on the island of Trinidad

  • 1502

    Christopher Columbus leaves Spain on his fourth voyage

  • Period: 1527 to

    Late Renaissance/Mannerism

  • Huge discovery in South Asia proved that Egypt and Mesopotamia were not the only "early civilizations."