Timeline of History

Years before

The present

13.5 billion          Matter and energy appear. Beginning of physics. Atoms and             

                              molecules   .

                                          appear. Beginning of chemistry.

4.5 billion                        Formation of planet earth.

3.8 billion                        Emergence of organisms. Beginning of biology.

6  billion                          Last common grandmother of humans and chimpanzees.

2.5 million                      Evolution of the genus Homo in Africa. First stone tools.

2 million                              Humans spread from Africa to Eurasia. Evolution of different human

                                           Species.

500000                             Neanderthals evolve in Europe and the Middle East.

300000                            Daily usage of fire.

200000                            Homo sapiens evolves in East Africa.

70000                              The Cognitive Revolution. Emergence of fictive language.

45000                              Sapiens settle Australia. Extinction of Australian megafauna.

30000                              Extinction of Neanderthals.

16000                              Sapiens settle America. Extinction of American megafauna.

13000                              Extinction of Homo floresiensis. Homo sapiens the only surviving

                                         Human Species. 

12000                            The Agricultural Revolution. Domestication of plants and animals.

                                        Permanent  Settlements.

5000                              First Kingdoms, script and money. Polytheistic religions .

4250                              First empire – the Akkadian Empire of sargon.

2500                        Invention of coinage – a universal money.

                                 The Persian Empire – a universal political order ‘ for  the benefit of all                    

                                 Humans.

                                 Buddhism in India – a universal truth ‘ to liberate all begins from

                                 Suffering’.

2000                       Han Empire in china. Roman Empire in the Mediterranean. Christianity.

1400                       Islam.

500                         The scientific Revolution. Humankind admits its ignorance and begins to                 

                                acquire Unprecedented power. Europeans begin to conquer America and

                                the oceans. Europeans begin to conquer America and the oceans.

                                The entire planet becomes a single historical arena.

                                The rise  of capitalism.

200                         The Industrial Revolution. Family and community are replaced by state

                                and Market. Massive extinction of plants and animals.

The

Present                  Human transcend the boundaries of planet Earth.

                                Nuclear weapons threaten the survival of humankind.

                                Organisms are increasingly shaped by intelligent design rather than   

                                natural  Selection.            

The

Future                     Intelligent design become the basic principle of life?

                                 Homo sapiens is replaced by superhumans ?

                                                                                                      Sapiens

                                                                                                  A Brief History of humankind