3 million years ago: hominids appear
600,000-10,000 BCE: Paleolithic Era (hunter-gatherers)
100,000 BCE: Neanderthals appear
25,000-20,000 BCE: "Venus" figurines
10,000 BCE: Neolithic Era (crops and animals domesticated
3000 BCE: Early Bronze Age (writing--cuneiform--invented)
2500 BCE: Great Pyramids of Egypt
2350 BCE: Enheduanna writes
1900-1800 BCE: Abraham (if historical)
1750 BCE: Hammurabi's Code
1250 BCE: Troy sacked by Myceneans
1250 BCE: Moses
1200-600 BCE: Hebrew people (in Canaan) worship Asherah alongside Yahweh
1125 BCE: Deborah; "Song of Deborah" (Judges 5)
1000 BCE: King David (united monarchy)
750 BCE: Homer writes; Greek alphabet invented
722 BCE: Israel (northern kingdom of the Jews) fall to the Assyrians
680-640 BCE: Archilochos writes
640 BCE: Jeremiah born
late 7th C BCE: Sappho and Alkaios
593-571 BCE: Ezekiel writes
586 BCE: Judah (southern kingdom) falls to the Babylonians (Babylonian
exile)
mid 6th C BCE: Song of Songs put into its final form
late 6th C BCE: Anakreon
after 6th C BCE: Proverbs 1-9 written
500-300 BCE: Classical Greece (Sparta and Athens)
469-399 BCE: Socrates
429-347 BCE: Plato
383-322 BCE: Aristotle
2d C BCE: Judith written
1-33 CE: Jesus (traditional)
10-62 CE: Paul
54 CE: 1 Corinthians written
55-58 CE: Romans written
just before 70 CE: Mark written
70 CE: Jerusalem temple and city destroyed by Rome
80-85 CE: Luke written
90 CE: Matthew written
90-100 CD: John written
early 2d C CE: 1 Timothy written
early 2d C CE: Gospel of Mary written
312 CE: Emperor Constantine adopts Christianity
325 CE: Council of Nicaea establishes Christian doctrine
394 CE: Emperor Theodosius forbids pagan cults; Christianity only legal
religion of Rome
400 Ce: Nag Hammadi texts buried