Ancient Timeline

Timeline of lots of events as I find them. All taken from reliable sources over the years. Bibliography is, sadly, incomplete, but I'm gradually working through it.
4500 BC	[circa] Linen first woven (Egypt) [23]
4004 BC	[23 October] God created the earth, according to James Ussher, Archbishop of Armagh [25]
3300-3200 BC	Otzi, the Iceman, lived [8]
2700 BC	[circa] China discovers silk (possibly by Empress Si Ling-Chi) [23]
2500 BC	[circa] First settlement in Olympia region, Greece [27]
2334-2279 BC	Reign of King Sargon I of Akkad
2200-1750 BC	Xia dynasty in China [41]
Bef 2070 BC	Three Sovereigns and The Five Emperors dynasty of China [16]
2070-1600 BC	Xia dynasty of China [16]
2000-1700 BC	Mycenean enter mainland Greece
1792-1750 BC	Reign of Hammurapi of Babylon
1700-1500 BC	Height of Minoan civilisation
1600 - 1046 BC	Shang Dynasty of China [16]
1400 BC	Rise of Mycenean naval strength
1298-1235 BC	Ramese the Great, pharoah of Egypt [28]
1280 BC	[circa] Trojan War [27]
1215-1190 BC	[circa] Reign of Shang King Wu Ding in China [41]
1150 BC	Dorian immigration into Greek mainland
1150-1100 BC	Aeolian immigrations begin to Asia Minor
1100 BC	End Mycenean age & civilisation. Early city states ruled through monarchy Olympia established as a religious site to the earth goddess Gaea [27]
1100-1000 BC	Ionian immigrations to Asia Minor
1045 - 770 BC	Western Zhou Dynasty of China [41]
1000 BC	Agrarian festival held at Olympia which included foot races [27]
900 BC	Dorian migration to Aegean islands, Asia Minor and through Peloponnesus
900-800 BC	[circa] Growth of the Greek polis (city-state) [27]
808-778 BC	Reign of Karanus of Macedon
805-785 BC	Reign of King Menua of Urartu [7]
800-780 BC	Development of Greek alphabet [5]
800-700 BC	Monarchies begin to be replaced by Aristocratic Republics (Greece)
800-500 BC	Archaic period (Greece)
776 BC	First Olympic Games [27]
770 BC	Earliest example of written Greek
770 - 256 BC	Eastern Zhou Dynasty [16][41]
753	Romulus founds Rome [various including 14] [21 April] Romulus digs a trench on the Palantine Hill, founding Rome [28]
750 BC	[circa] Homer composes The Iliad & The Odyssey [27]
720 BC	Greek settlement of Sybaris in Southern Italy Orsippos of Megara wins the olympic sprint naked [27]
700-678 BC	Reign of Perdiccas of Macedon
689 BC	Sennacherib of Assyria sacks Babylon
685-645 BC	Reign of King Gyges of Lydia [5]
678-640 BC	Reign of Argaeus I of Macedon
669 BC	Argives win a major victory against the Spartans [5]
669-631 BC	Reign of Ashurbanipal of Assyria in Babylon
650 BC	Earliest inscribed Greek law - Delos, Crete [5]
640-602 BC	Reign of Philip I of Macedon
626-605 BC	Reign of Nabopolassar of Babylon [6]
621 BC	Draco's code of law - Athens
612 BC	Ninevah falls to the Babylonians and Medes
605 BC	Battle of Carchemish (Babylon crushes the Assyrians)
605-562 BC	Reign of Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon [6][34]
602-576 BC	Reign of Aeropus I of Macedon
601 BC	Babylon heavy clashes with Egypt
600 BC	Coin currency introduced (Greece)
599 BC	Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon moves against the Arabs
598 BC	Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon moves against Judah
594 BC	Solon was archon in Athens [5] Solon inscribes laws for Athens [5]
590 BC	Sacred War at Delphi First Pythian Games at Delphi [5]
587 BC	Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon sacks Jerusalem
586 BC	Assyrian seige of Jerusalem
585 BC	Eclipse of the sun [5]
582 BC	First Isthmian Games at Corinth [5] Rival Pythian Games held in Sicyon [5]
580-500 BC	Special treaties between Miletus and eastern kings [5]
578-535 BC	2nd Etruscan king of Rome - Servius Tullius
576-547 BC	Reign of Alcetas I of Macedon
573 BC	Nemean Games held in Cleonae [5]
566 BC	Panathenaic festivals established
562 BC	Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon dies
562-560 BC	Reign of Amel-Marduk of Babylon [6]
560 BC	Amel-Marduk, son of Nebuchadnezzar II, murdered by his brother-in-law Neriglissar
560-556 BC	Reign of Neriglissar of Babylon [6]
560-546 BC	Reign of King Croesus of Lydia [5]
556 BC	Neriglissar dies Brief reign of Labasi-Marduk of Babylon [6]
556-539 BC	Reign of Nabonidus of Babylon [6]
551 BC	Confucius (Kongzi) born [41]
550-520	Persians overun Near East from Egypt to River Oxus [5]
547 BC	Death of Adda-guppi mother of Nabonidus of Assyria
547-498 BC	Reign of Amyntas I of Macedon
546 BC	Persian King Cyrus conquers Lydia [5] Persian King Cyrus invades & conquers Greek territories through Asia Minor [5]
539 BC	Cyrus takes Babylon [5]
530 BC	King Cyrus of Babylon dies [5] Anaximander attempts to draw map of the world (Greek) [5]
525 BC	Persians invade and supress Egypt [40]
522 BC	End of tyranny on island of Samos [5]
520 BC	Foundations laid for the Temple of Olympian Zeus in Athens [28]
514 BC	King Doreius forced to leave Sparta [5]
510 BC	Sybaris destroyed [5] Roman explusion of Kings End of Peisistratids tyranny rule of Athens [5]
509 BC	Rape of Lucretia Republican Revolution Etruscan monarchy overthrown (Tarquinius Superbus) [1] Roman Republic founded [3]
508 BC	Less than a fifth of citizens live in Athens 'city' [5] Athenian democracy established [27]
507 BC	Cleisthene's democratic constitution (Greece)
500 BC	Population in Rome possibly around 35,000 male citizens Hecataeus writes Circuit of the Earth (Greek) [5]
500-400 BC	Classic Period (Greece) 500-400 BC
499 BC	Ionians possessed 353 triremes [5]
498-454 BC	Reign of Alexander I of Macedon
495-488 BC	Roman war against the Latins [1]
494 BC	Protest of the Plebians [1] Plebian Tribunate [1] Greek city of Miletus is razed by Persians and rebuilt [2]
493 BC	Rome joins the Latin League [3]
491 BC	Coriolanus impeached & exiled [1]
490 BC	1st Persian invasion of Greece ordered by King Darius [27] Battle of Marathon
480 BC	2nd Persian invasion of Greece led by Xerxes [27] the '300' Spartans defeated at Thermopylae [5] Athens occupied by Persians Persians defeated at Salamis
480-479 BC	Founding of the Delian League
479 BC	Persians defeated at Plataea by Greeks [27] Spartan general, Pausanias defeated the Persians [27] Confusius dies [41]
472 BC	The Persians by Aeschylus written
471 BC	Lex Publilia Voleronis recognises Concilium of the Plebians & Tribunes
460 BC	Empedocles holds an animal rights demonstration at the olympics [27]
460-429 BC	Pericles - democratic politician in Athens
461 BC	Greek council of Areopagus lost power to investigate what each citizen did and how he supported himself
457 BC	Cincinnatus dictator for 16 days [1]
454-413 BC	Reign of Perdiccas II of Macedon
451-449 BC	Ten patricians (decemvirs) draw up city laws and govern as tyrants [1]
450 BC	Laws publicly inscribed in Cretan city of Gortyn [5]
449 BC	Laws of the Twelve Tables - Rome Fall of the decemvirs following death of Virginia - Rome [1] Introduction of separate prizes for actors and poets at the Athenian festival
448 BC	Greek peace with the Persians
447 BC	Work begins on the Parthenon in Athens [27]
445 BC	The Lex Canuleia - Rome
444 BC	Iccus of Taretum writes the first text book for olympic athletes [27]
443 BC	Hippodamus invited to work on town plan of Athens-led settlement at Thurii
443-429 BC	Pericles leader of Athens during Golden Age
440 BC	Herodotus reads from his History of the Persian Wars at the olympics [27]
438 BC	Telephus by Aristophanes produced
437-426 BC	The Roman Fidenaen War
431 BC	Aulus Postumius Tubertus was dictator of Rome War against the Aequians (east of Latium) Start of the Peloponnesian War [27]
431-404 BC	The Peloponnesian War
430 BC	Plague in Athens
429 BC	Oedipus the King by Sophocles believed to be first performed
427 BC	Plato born
416 BC	Alcibiades enteres seven chariots in the olympics [27]
415 BC	Mutilation of the Hermes in Athens
413-399 BC	Reign of Archelaus of Macedon
411 BC	Revolts in Athens
406-396 BC	Seige & victory at Etruscan city of Veii by dictator Camillus - Rome [1]
404 BC	Athens surrenders to Sparta [27]
403-221 BC	The Warring States period in China [41]
400-330 BC	Late Classical Period (Greece)
399 BC	Reign of Craterus of Macedon Suicide of Socrates [27]
399-396 BC	Reign of Orestes & Aeropus II of Macedon
396 BC	Cynisca, a Spartan princess, enters chariots into and wins at the olympics [27]
396-393 BC	Reign of Archelaus II of Macedon
395-340 BC	Warfare between rival Greek leagues
393 BC	Reign of Amyntas II of Macedon Reign of Pausanias of Macedon Reign of Amyntas III of Macedon
393-392 BC	Reign of Argaeus II of Macedon
392 BC	Cynisca, a Spartan princess, enters chariots into and wins at the olympics for the second time [27]
392-370 BC	Reign of (restored) Amyntas III of Macedon
390 BC	Warriors from Gaul sack Rome [1]
388 BC	First prosecution for cheating at the olympic games when Elpolus of Thessaly bribes three boxers to lose against him [27] Dionysus I ruled in Syracuse [27] Eubulus of Thessaly caught bribing boxers to throw a fight at the olympics [27]
386 BC	Athens festival and 1st attested revival of older plays
384 BC	Aristotle born
380 BC	Egyptians drive out the Persians who have held power since 525 BC[40]
371 BC	Thebes defeats Sparta at Leuctra Greek writer Theophrastus born
370-368 BC	Reign of Alexander II of Macedon
368 BC	12 year old Damiscus of Messene wins the boy's sprint at the olympics [27]
368-365 BC	Reign of Ptolemy I of Macedon
367 BC	Praetor urbanus - Rome Construction of temple of Concord - Rome [1]
366 BC	The Licinian Laws & end of hereditary patriciate - Rome [1]
365-359 BC	Reign of Perdiccas III of Macedon
364 BC	Earliest staging of scenic games - Rome [1]
362 BC	Epaminondas leads the Thebans in a defeat of an allied army of Greek city states [28]
361 BC	Lord Shang arrives in the Qin capital from the state of Wei [41]
359-356 BC	Reign of Amyntas IV of Macedon
356 BC	Alexander the Great born
356-336 BC	Reign of Philip II of Macedon
351 BC	Marcus Fabius Ambustus dictator - Rome
350 BC (abt)	Myth of Rome founding created [3]
348 BC	King Philip (father of Alexander) flattened Olynthus Plato dies Seular games held - Rome [1]
343 BC	The Persians return to Egypt [40]
343-340 BC	First Samnite War - Rome [1]
340 BC	Start of the Latin War - Rome v The Latin League [3]
338 BC	Philip of Macedonia leads Greek City States after Greek defeat at Battle of Chaeronea [27][28] Latium under Roman rule [1] Lord Shang of China killed [41]
336 BC	[Autumn] King Philip of Macedonia assassinated by Pausanias [31]
336-323 BC	Reign of Alexander III (the Great) of Macedonia
334 BC	Alexander the Great defeats the Persians at the Battle of Granicus [28] Alexandria founded [28]
334-323 BC	Antipater as Regent of Macedon
332 BC	Greece, led by Alexander the Great, successfully invades Egypt [40]
330-30 BC	Hellenistic Age (Greece)
328 BC	Etruria & Campania annexed - Rome [1]
327-304 BC	Second Samnite War - Rome [1]
325 BC	Lucius Papirius Cursor was dictator - Rome
323 BC	Alexander the Great dies [27]
323-148 BC	Greek City States relatively independent Frequent warfare between rival Greek leagues
323-321 BC	Perdiccas as Regent of Macedon
323-317 BC	Reign of Philip III Arrhidaeus of Macedon (only titular king)
323-310 BC	Reign of Alexander IV of Macedon (only titular king)
322 BC	Aristotle dies
321 BC	Roman defeat at the Caudine Forks [1]
321-319 BC	Antipater as Regent of Macedon
319-317 BC	Polyperchon as Regent of Macedon
317-306 BC	Cassander as Regent of Macedon
312 BC	Construction of Via Appia from Rome to Capua [1]
306-301 BC	Reign of Antigonus I Monophthalmus of Macedon
305-282 BC	Reign of Ptolemy I Soter of Egypt
300 BC	The Ogulnian Law
298-290 BC	Third Samnite War - victory of Curius Dentatus [1]
287 BC	3rd Secession of the Plebians
285 BC	Greek writer Theophrastus dies
284-246 BC	Reign of Ptolemy II Philadelphus of Egypt Ruled jointly with Ptolemy the Son (267-259 BC)
281-272 BC	War against King Pyrrhus of Epirus - Rome [1]
280 BC	Rome defeated by Greek King Pyrrhus of Epirus [3]
276 BC	Erastothenes, assuming the earth is round, calculates its circumference to within 50 miles [40]
275 BC	Rome defeats Greek King Pyrrhus of Epirus at Beneventum near Naples [3]
272 BC	Livius Andronicus brought to Rome Tarentum taken by Rome
269 BC	Earliest Roman minting of coins [1]
264 BC	Introduction of gladitorial combats - Rome [1]
264-241 BC	First Punic War [1][3]
256 BC	Regulus captured by the Carthaginians - Rome [1] Zhou dynasty ended by Qin, in China [41]
256-254 BC	War in Africa - Rome [1]
252 BC	Sicilian campaign of the First Punic War
250 BC	Plautus born
246 BC	King Zheng takes the Qin throne of China, aged 13 [41]
246-222 BC	Reign of Ptolemy III Euergetes of Egypt
242 BC	Praetor peregrinus - Rome
241 BC	Construction of Via Aurelia from Rome to Pisa [1] [10 March] Rome wins decisive battle over the Carthaginians off the Aegates Isalnds, north of Sicily [3]
240 BC	Earliest staging of Latin comedies and tragedies [1] Lucius Livius Andronicus puts on first play
239-169 BC	Ennius
238 BC	Carthage yields Corsica & Sardinia to Rome [1] Hamilcar heads an expedition to Spain to make up for Carthaginian losses to Rome [3]
236-183 BC	Scipio Africanus
234 BC	270,773 adult citizen males in Rome [3]
234-149 BC	Cato the Elder
230 BC	Qin state occupies state of Nan in China [41]
229 BC	Roman troops sent across Adriatic to police against Illyrian pirates
229-219 BC	Conquest of Illyria - Rome [1]
228 BC	Qin state defeats the Zhao state in China [41]
227 BC	Siciliy becomes Rome's first colony [1] Corsica & Sardinia become Rome's second colony [1]
226 BC	Rome demands Carthaginians limit expansion to the river Ebro [3] Qin state defeats the Wei state in China [41]
225 BC	Qin state defeats the Chu state in China [41]
225-222 BC	War against Po valley Gauls - Rome [1] Roman victory at Clastidium [1] Milan taken by Romans [1]
222 BC	Qin state defeats the Yan state in China [41]
222-204 BC	Reign of Ptolemy IV Philopator of Egypt
221 BC	Hannibal assumes control of Carthaginian forces in Spain [3] Qin state defeats the Qi state in China [41]
221-206 BC	Qin Dynasty in China [16][41]
220 BC	Construction of Via Flaminia from Rome to Rimini [1]
219 BC	Hannibal takes Saguntum (Spain) [1]
219-202 BC	Second Punic War [1]
217 BC	Hannibal victorious at Lake Trasimere in Italy [1] Ptolemy IV victorious at Raphia against King Antiochus III and the Seleuid army
216 BC	Romans defeated at Cannae during Second Punic War [1]
213 BC	Marcus Claudius Marcellus besieged Syracuse
212 BC	Romans capture Syracuse [1] Archimedes dies [1] Floral Games inaugurated in Rome
211 BC	Qin Shi Huangdi dies in China [41]
209 BC	Tarentum taken by Rome (again)
207 BC	Livius Andronicus commissioned to compose hymn during 2nd war with Cathage
206 BC- 220 AD	Western Han Dynasty in China [41]
204-180 BC	Reign of Ptolemy V Epiphanes of Egypt
202 BC	Scipio & Hannibal meet for peace negotiations at Zama [3] Victory of Scipio Africanus over Hannibal at Zama [1] Liu Bang's army defeats Xiang Yu for control of China and takes title of Emperor of Han Empire [41] Polybius born
201 BC	Scipio Africanus defeated the Carthaginians
200-197 BC	First Macedonian War against Philip V - Rome [1] Victory of Flaminius [1]
200-196 BC	1st Roman victories over Greece
200-118 BC	Polybius - Constitution of the Roman Republic
197 BC	Rome defeats King Philip V of Macedon at Cynoscephalae in Thessaly Spain becomes a Roman province [1]
197-133 BC	Celtiberians resisted Romans - Spain
196 BC	College of Epulones (banqueters) founded in Rome [28]
195 BC	Liu Bang, Emperor of Han dynasty of China, dies [41]
192 BC	Roman victory at Thermopylae in Greece against King Antiochus III
192-188 BC	Asian War against King Antiochus III of Syria - Rome [1]
191 BC	Manius Acilius Glabrio defeated King Antiochus the Great of Syria
190-189 BC	Roman victory at Magnesia in western Asia ending 150 years of Greek rule
188 BC	Empress Lu places her infant son on the Dragon throne of China, ensuring that she held power [41]
187 BC	Construction of Via Aemilia [1]
186 BC	Bacchanalia outlawed - Rome [1]
185-184 BC	Cato the Elder's censorship [1]
184 BC	Plautus dies Construction of Basilica Porcia - Rome [1]
180 BC	Rome's war against the Ligurians Rome subjugates Northern Spain under Gracchus senior [3] Empress Lu of China, dies [41]
180-164 BC	Reign of Ptolemy VI Philometor of Egypt
175-105 BC	circa Dong Zhongshu, Chinese philosopher and teacher [41]
173 BC	Construction of Basilica Aemilia -Rome [1]
171-168 BC	Second Macedonian War against Perseus - Rome [1] Victory of Aemilius Paullus at Pydna - Rome [1]
170 BC	Construction of Basilica Sempronia - Rome [1]
170-163 BC	Reign of Ptolemy VIII Euergetes II of Egypt
168 BC	Lucius Aemilius Paullus defeated King Perseus of Macedonia near Pydna (June 22)
167 BC	Greek historian Polybius deported to Rome Rome abolishes direct taxation in Italy [3]
163-150 BC	Greek historian Polybius detained in Rome [3]
163-145 BC	Reign of Ptolemy VI Philometor of Egypt Briefly ruled jointly with Ptolemy Eupator (152 BC)
160 BC	Performances of The Mother-in-Law & The Brothers by Terence, at the funeral of Lucius Aemilius Scaurus
155 BC	Work starts on Rome's first stone theatre but is demolished before it is completed
154 BC	Funeral of Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus, Roman hero, takes place in Rome [3]
149 BC	Carthaginians send three embassies to Rome to try and avert war [3]
149-146 BC	Third Punic War
147 BC	Publius Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus builds impregnable walls around Carthage, sack it and raze it to the ground [3]
148 BC	Macedonia becomes a Roman providence [1]
146 BC	Scipio Aemilianus Africanus wins Carthage and razes it to the ground - Rome [1] Africa becomes a Roman province [1] Greece becomes a Roman province [1] Secular games held [1] Corinth destroyed by Romans [21] North African Roman subjects start paying land and poll taxes
145 BC	Han Wudi, the Martial Emperor, takes the Han throne in China [41]
145-116 BC	Reign of Ptolemy VIII Euergetes II of Egypt
143 BC	Quintus Caecilius Metellus Macedonicus commanded army against the Celtiberians in Spain
142 BC	Quintus Caecilius Metellus Macedonicus captured Contrebia
140 BC	[circa] Silk making spreads from china to India [23]
139 BC	Secret ballots introduced for elections in Rome
138 BC	Tiberius elected as quaestor in Rome [3]
137 BC	Gaius Hostilius Mancinus surrendered to the Numantines Secret ballots introduced for public non-capital trials in Rome
135 BC	Poseidonius born
134 BC	Scipio Aemilianus consul for second time
133 BC	Scipio Aemilianus destroyed Numantia - Spain [3] First Slave War in Sicily - Rome Tiberius Gracchus elected tribune of the plebs [3], introduces agrarian law then assassinated by Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica [1] Attalus, King of Pergamum (Greek city in Asia Minor) dies [3]
132 BC	First Slave War in Sicily ended by consul Publius Rupilius
131-130 BC	Secret ballots introduced in Rome for legislation
131-127 BC	Reign of Cleopatra II Philometora Soteira of Egypt (in opposition to Ptolemy VIII)
125-117 BC	Creation of Roman province of Gallia Narbonensis [1]
123 BC	Gaius Gracchus elected tribune in Rome [1]
122 BC	Gaius Gracchus elected tribune in Rome [1] Gaius Gracchus assassinated [1] Foundation of Aquae Sextiae (Aix-en-Provence) [1]
120 BC	Polybius dies
116 BC	Varro born
116-101 BC	Reign of Cleopatra III Philometor Soteira Dikaiosyne Nikephoros of Egypt Ruled jointly with Ptolemy IX (116-107 BC) Ruled jointly with Ptolemy X (107-101 BC)
113 BC	Creation of Roman province of Asia [1]
113-101 BC	Teutones and Cimbri threaten Italy Roman war against Cimbri and Teutones who invaded Gaul [1] Victory of Marius against the Teutones at Aquae Sextiae [1] Victory of Marius against the Cimbri at Campi Raudii (Italy) [1]
112-106 BC	War in Africa against Jurgurtha - Rome [1]
110 BC	Spurius Posthumius Numidicus defeated by King Jugurtha of Numidia
109-107 BC	Quintus Caecilius Metellus Numidicus commanded the Roman army in Numidia
107 BC	Jugurtha defeated by Marius - Rome [1]
107-88 BC	Reign of Ptolemy X Alexander I of Egypt
106 BC	Marcus Tullius Cicero born at Arpinum east of Rome Pompey born Jugurtha captured by Sulla - Rome [1]
106 - 43 BC	Cicero, Roman lawyer [34]
104 BC	Gaius Marius, (a non-noble) consul in Rome
103 BC	Gaius Marius, (a non-noble) consul in Rome
102 BC	Gaius Marius, (a non-noble) consul in Rome
101 BC	Cimbrians (Denmark) marched on Italy Gaius Marius, (a non-noble) consul in Rome Gaius Marius defeats Germanic tribes of Teutones and Cimbri [14]
100 BC	Gaius Marius, a non-noble) consul in Rome Julius Caesar born
98 BC	On the Nature of the Universe by Titus Lucretius Carus (the atom)
91-88 BC	Rebellion by Italy's allies who obtain Roman citizenship [1]
90-89 BC	The Social War [3][21]
89 BC	Lex Pompeia - right to Roman citizenship Allies' War
88 BC	Lucius Cornelius Sulla's march on Rome [3] King Mithridates of Pontus (near Black Sea) declares war on Rome killing (perhaps) 80,000
88-82 BC	Roman wars against King Mithridates of Pontus [1] Civil wars in Rome [1]
88-81 BC	Reign of Ptolemy IX Soter II of Egypt
87 BC	Cornelius Cinna consul in Rome, outlaws Sulla Marius seizes power in Rome [1]
86 BC	Athens sacked by Sulla Death of Marius - Rome [1]
86-78 BC	Constitution of Sulla
85 BC	Sulla makes feeble peace with Mithridates
83 BC	Sulla defeats Mithridates [3]
82-79 BC	Sulla's dictatorship [1]
81-80 BC	Reign of Berenice III Philopator of Egypt Ruled jointly with Ptolemy XI Alexander II (80 BC) until he killed her then ruled for 19 days on his own
80 BC	Sulla gives up leadership and becomes consul in Rome Sulla pillages Olympia [27]
80-58 BC	Reign of Ptolemy XII Neos Dionysos of Egypt
79 BC	Pompey victorious in Africa Sulla returns republic to the Senate and retires to Puteoli [3]
78 BC	Sulla abdicates and dies [1]
77 BC	Ex-consul Aemilius Lepidus marched against Rome
74-67 BC	Roman against Mithridates and Armenia [1]
73 BC	74 slaves, led by Spartacus, a Thracian, make stand on slopes of Vesuvius
73-71 BC	Slave War of Spartacus [1]
72 BC	Slaves defeat both Roman consuls
71 BC	Spartacus and his slaves (possibly 150,000 strong) defeated by 10 legions Pompey victorious in Spain
70 BC	Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (Pompey) becomes consul [3] Tribunes powers restored by consuls Crassus and Pompey Cicero prosecutes corrupt govenor Verres
69 BC	910,000 adult citizen-males registered in Rome census Julius Caesar serves as a junior magistrate in southern Spain
67-63 BC	Roman war in Syria [1] Pompey creates Roman province of Syria [1]
65 BC	Julius Caesar serves as aedile (city magistrate)
63 BC	Cicero made consul (January) [1] Cicera defeats Catiline's conspiracy [1] Cicero presides over executions (December) Birth of Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus (Augustus Caesar) Pompey wins victory in Judaea [1] Gaius Octavius (father of Octavius) falls ill and dies [26]
62 BC	Julius Caesar elected to praetorship
61 BC	Pompey victorious in Asia Julius Caesar gains command in Further Spain Julius Caesar and Servilia resume an affair that started in their youth [26]
60 BC	1st Triumvirate (Pompey, Cato, Julius Caesar) [1]
59 BC	Julius Caesar, Pompey & Crassus strike a political deal As consul, Julius Caesar caused business of the senate to be published
59 BC	Livy born Julius Caesar marries his third wife, Calpurnia [26] Julius Caesar as consul requires that all Senate proceedings are written down and saved - acta senatus [26] [spring] Pompey marries Julia, daughter of Julius Caesar [3]
58 BC	Helvetti migrate from their home and are defeated by Romans under Julius Caesar [3] Lucius Calpurnius Piso, Julius Caesar's father-in-law, is consul in Rome and a njuetral in the Civil War [26] [March] Cicero self exiled from Rome leaving Clodius to demolish his house and build a temple to 'Liberty' [March] Julius Caesar leaves for Gaul
58-57 BC	Reign of Cleopatra V Tryphaena of Egypt Ruled jointly with Berenice IV Epiphaneia (58-55 BC)
58-51 BC	Julius Caesar conquers the whole of Transalpine Gaul [1]
57 BC	Cicero returns to Rome (September) Julius Caesar defeats Belgae [3]
56 BC	Atia, mother of Octavius, remarries Philippos [26]
55 BC	Julius Caesar defeats Germanic tribes the Usipetes and the Tencteri [3] Julius Caesar invades Britain [3] Pompey has first permanent stone theatre built in Rome on Campus Martius [1] Theatre of Pompey dedicated [26] Lucretius dies Parthian forces defeat Roman force under Marcus Licinius Crassus in deserts of Arabia [3]
55-51 BC	Reign of Ptolemy XII Neos Dionysos of Egypt
54 BC	Cicero starts writing Republic and Laws Basilica Julia [1] Julia, daughter of Julius Caesar & wife of Pompey, dies in childbirth [3] Servius Sulpicius Galba praetor of Rome [26]
54-53 BC	Roman expedition against the Parthians [1] Death of Crassus [1]
53 BC	Julius Caesar announces all of Gaul 'pacified' [3] Cicero appointed augur (official Roman diviner)
52 BC	Gauls under Vercingetorix rise in revolt [26] Vercingetorix withdraws to town of Alesia after defeat by Julius Caesar [3] Alesia falls to Julius Caesar [3]
51 BC	Cicero sent east to Cilicia in southern Asia Minor Poseidonius dies
51-30 BC	Reign of Cleopatra VII Philopator of Egypt Ruled jointly with Ptolemy XIII (51-47 BC) Ruled jointly with Ptolemy XIV (47-44 BC) Ruled jointly with Ptolemy XV Caesarion (44-30 BC)
50 BC	Gaius Claudius Marcellus consul of Rome [3]
49 BC	Julius Caesar embarks on Roman civil war [21] Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon [1] Lepidus praetor of Rome [26]
49-48 BC	Roman civil war [1]
48 BC	Victory of Julius Caesar over Pompey at Pharsalus [1] Pompey murdered by the Egyptians [26]
48-47 BC	Reign of Arsinoe IV of Egypt (in opposition to Cleopatra VII) Lepidus governor of Nearer Spain [26]
48-44 BC	Julius Caesar's dictatorship [1]
46 BC	Julius Caesar named Liberator by Senate [3] First mock sea battle staged by Julius Caesar Cato the Younger dies at Utica [1] Introduction of Julian calendar [1] Gaius Octavius, co-consul to Julius Caesar, in Spain during war [26] [20-30 July] Ludi Victoriae Caesaris festival inaugurated by Julius Caesar to honour Venus [26]
45 BC	[19 December] Julius Caesar visits Cicero at Puteoli [26]
44 BC	Comet sighted for four consecutive nights from Rome[3] Lucius Cornelius Cinna praetor of Rome [26] [15 March] Julius Caeser assassinated [1] [15 March] Antistius carries out an autopsy on Julius Caesar - the first autopsy on any historical figure in recorded history [26] [18 March] Marcus Cicero returns to Rome on hearing of assassination of Caesar [26] [20 March] The funeral of Julius Caesar in Rome [26] [7 April] Marcus Cicero leaves Rome fort the country [26] [10 April] Octavius returns to Rome from Apollonia accompanied by Marcus Vipsavius Agrippa & Quintus Salvidienus Rufus [26] [22 April] Octavius visits Marcus Cicero in Puteoli [26]
43 BC	Porcia, wife of Brutus, commits suicide in Rome [26] [December] Cicero beheaded [26]
43-33 BC	2nd Triumvirate (Antony, Lepidus, Octavian) [1][26]
36 BC	Lepidus exiled [26] Augustus publically burns records of old debts [28]
31 BC	[2 September] Battle of Actium - Octavianus (Augustus) defeated Antony and Cleopatra [1][3][26] Following the victory, Augustus founds Nicopolis - the City of Victory [28]
30 BC	Roman seizure of Alexandria [1] Egypt becomes a Roman province [1] Antony & Cleopatra commit suicide [26]
27 BC	Varro dies Octavian establishes monarchial power and assumes the name Augustus [1][3]
27 BC-14 AD	Augustus, first emperor of Rome, reigns [14]
26 BC	Augustus goes to war in Spain [3]
25 BC - 50 AD	Cornelius Celsus, Roman doctor [34]
19 BC	The Aeneid by Virgil
17 BC	Games of the Ages under Augustus [3]
12 BC	The father of a young athlete bribes another father to have his son throw a wrestling match at the olympics [27]
6 AD	After expulsion of Archelaus, Judaea becomes a Roman Imperial province [3]
9 AD	Rome loses 3 legions at the Battle of the Teutoburger Forest [14][3] Rome puts down a revolt in Pannonia [28] Wang Mang siezes power in China and declares the Xin (new) dynasty [41]
9-23 AD	Xin Dynasty in China [16]
11 AD	The Yellow River, China, floods [41]
14 AD	[August] Augustus (Octavian) dies [3][26]
14-37 AD	Tiberius reigns [4]
17 AD	Livy dies
19 AD	Germanicus, possible successor to Tiberius poisoned [3]
22 AD	Junia Tertullia, sister of Brutus & wife of Cassius, dies [26]
23 AD	Drusus, son and successor to Tiberus, poisoned by Sejanus [3] Wang Mang killed in China [41]
25-220 AD	Later or Eastern Han Dynasty in China [16][41]
30 AD	Crucifixion of christ (circa) [14]
35 AD	Marcus Locceius Nerva born [28]
37 AD	Tiberius dies [3]
37-41 AD	Gaius (Caligula) reigns [4]
38 AD	Caligula orders Publius Petronius to march on Jerusalem and erect statues of him [3]
39 AD	Caligula's abortive invasion of Britain [28]
41 AD	Caligula assassinated [3][28]
41-54 AD	Claudius reigns [4]
42 AD	Abortive revolt against Claudius by the governor of Illyricum [28]
43 AD	Successful Roman invasion of Britain by Claudius [28]
47 AD	[circa] Lucius Julius Servilius Ursus Servianus born [28]
48 AD	Roman census records 6,944,000 Jews in the empire [28]
50 AD	Claudius adopts Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus who becomes Tiberius Claudius Nero Caesar [3]
51 AD	[March] Nero assumes the toga of manhood a year before it was due [3]
53 AD	Nero appears at games in his honour [3]
54 AD	[12 October] Claudius dies [3]
54-68 AD	Nero reigns [4]
55 AD	[circa] Juvenal born [28]
56 AD	Tiberius Claudius Balbillus is first Greek to be appojnted Prefect of Egypt by Rome [28]
60 AD	Boudiccan Revolt
62 AD	Mt Vesuvius erupts [21]
63 AD	Jews gathered in Caesarea to protest and a riot breaks out [3]
64 AD	[19 July] Fire starts in Rome and burns for nine days, destroying most of it [3]
66 AD	[May] Joseph ben Mattathias (Josephus) leaves Rome to return to Jerusalem [3] [September] Nero leaves Rome for extended visit to Greece [3]
66-70 AD	Jewish Revolt [3]
67 AD	Titus storms Gischala, Judaea [3] [June] Vespasian at Ptolemais to quell Jewish Revolt [28]
68 AD	Galba reigns in Rome [4] [2 April] Army proclaims Galba 'legate of the Senate and people of Rome' [3] [9 June] Nero commits suicide [3] [July] Roman fighting in Judaea suddenly halts due to suicide of Nero [3]
69 AD	Galba, Otho, Vitellius & Vespasian reign [4] Civil war in Rome [21][3] [9 July] Vespasian declared Emperor of Rome by the armies of Judaea [3] [December] Vespaisan in Egypt [3]
70 AD	Roman sack of Jerusalem [3] [March] Titus arrives at Jerusalem [3]
70-79 AD	Vespasian reigns in Rome [4]
72 AD	Antiochus IV, last king of Commagene, supporting Vespasian, send troops to aid Titus in the seige of Jerusalem [28]
76 AD	[24 January] Publius Aelius Hadrianus Afer (Hadrian) born in Rome [3][28]
78 AD	Trajan marries Pompeia Plotina Claudia Phoebe Piso [28]
79 AD	Vesuvius erupts and buries Pompeii (25 August) [21]
79-81 AD	Titus reigns in Rome [4]
80 AD	Colosseum completed & opens [3][28] Pantheon in Rome burns down [28]
81 AD	Roman emperor Titus dies [28]
81-96 AD	Domitian reigns in Rome [4]
84 AD	The Dacians, under Decebalus invade the Roman province of Moesia [28]
85 AD	Flavius Metrobius wins long distance foot race at olympics [27]
86 AD	Future Roman emperor Trajan becomes Praetor [28] Domitian founds the Capitoline Games to mark the rebuilding of Jupiter optimus maximus on the Capital in Rome. [28]
89 AD	[1 January] Lucius Antonius Saturninus, governor of Upper Germania, raises standard of revolt [28] [25 January] Revolt in Upper Germania quelled [28]
91 AD	Trajan made consul ordinarius [28]
93 AD	Gnaeus Julius Agricola dies [28]
94 AD	Hadrian serves on the Board of Ten for Civil Judgments in Rome [28] Hadrian appointed Praefectus urbi feriarum Latinarum (city prefect of the Latin festival) [28]
95 AD	Domitian expels philosophers from Rome [28] Hadrian leaves Rome as military tribune in Pannonia [28] Titus Flavius Clemens, Vespasian's nephew, serves as consul ordinarius [28]
96 AD	Hadrian meets Quintus Marcius Turbo [28] Hadrian leaves Pannonia to serve as Laticlavies (military tribune) in Lower Moesia [28] [26 September] Domitian killed in his own household & Nerva becomes interum emperor [28]
96-98 AD	Nerva reigns in Rome [4]
97 AD	[Autumn] Praetorian Guard take over imperial palace in Rome and execute murderers of Domitian [28]
98 AD	[28 January] Nerva dies [28]
98-117 AD	Trajan reigns in Rome [4]
100 AD	The invention of paper in China [41]
101 AD	[April] Trajan marches into Dacia [28]
102 AD	Trajan returns to Rome having defeated the Dacians [28] Licinius Sura serves as consul ordinarius in Rome [28]
106 AD	Hadrian made governor of newly created Lower Pannonia by Trajan [28]
107 AD	Licinius Sura serves as consul ordinarius in Rome [28]
109 AD	Gaius Julius Antiochus Epiphanes Philopappus (grandson of Antiochus IV) becomes Roman senator and suffect consul [28]
110 AD	Pliny sent by Trajan to the province of Bithynia-Pontus to overhaul the Roman governance [28]
112 AD	Hadrian visits Athens and attends the Dionysia [28] In his capacity as chief magistrate, Hadrian organises the Panatheniac Games in Athens [28] [August] Marciana, sister of Trajan, dies in Rome [28]
113 AD	[October] Trajan leaves Rome and marches against Parthia [28]
114 AD	The king of Armenia capitulates to Trajan [3]
115 AD	[January] Earthquake strikes Antioch [28]
115-117 AD	Revolt of the Cyrene Jews [28]
116 AD	Trajan reaches the Persian Gulf, expanding Roman control [3] Wealthy Romanised Greek, Philopappus dies [28]
117 AD	Trajan crowns Parthe Maspates client king in Partha [28] Trajan dies [28] [11 August] Hadrian's inauguration takes place in Antioch [3]
117-138 AD	Hadrian reigns in Rome [4]
118 AD	Possible assassination attempt on Hardian averted [28] Hadrian's wall started [28] [9 July] Hadrian returns to Rome, for the first time as emperor [28]
119 AD	[January] Hadrian's birthday celebrated with games which included the killing of 100 lions and 100 lionesses [3] [December] Salonina Matidia, niece/daughter of Trajan, mother-in-law of Hadrian, dies [28]
121 AD	Hadrian leaves Rome to tour the empire [28]
122 AD	Mt Etna erupts [28] [June] Hadrian crosses to Britain [28] [winter] Hadrian in Tarraco, Spain [28]
123 AD	The town of Stratonicea hosts Hardrian and renames itself Hadrianopolis [28] [June] Hadrian arrives in Antioch from Africa [28]
124 AD	Hadrian is initiated into the Mysteries of Demeter while in Greece [28] The court eunuchs place an infant on the Chinese throne [41]
125 AD	Hadrian attends the Dionysia in Athens [28] [winter] Hadrian visits Sparta [5]
126 AD	Marcus Annius Verus appointed to his third consulship in Rome [28]
127 AD	[2 March] Hadrian leaves Rome for a tour of Northern Italy [28] [11 August] Hadrian is back in Rome for the ten year anniversary of his accession to emperor [28]
130 AD	[October] Antinous, Hadrian's lover, dies in Egypt [28]
131 AD	[Spring] Hadrian leaves Egypt [28]
132 AD	Jewish revolt [28]
135 AD	Temple of Venus and Rome dedicated [28]
136 AD	Hadrian adopts Lucius Celonius Commodus (Lucius Aelis Caesar) as his successor [28]
138 AD	[10 July] Hadrian dies [28]
138-161 AD	Antoninus Pius reigns in Rome [4]
160 AD	(circa) Pausanias writes a Greek travel guide [27]
161-180 AD	Marcus Aurelius reigns in Rome [4]
161-169 AD	Verus reigns in Rome [4]
165 AD	Cynic philosopher, Peregrinus, publically immolates himself at the olympics [27]
166 AD	Court eunuchs purge the Chinese Beaurocracy of 1,000s of officials [41]
169 AD	Court eunuchs purge the Chinese Beaurocracy of 1,000s of officials for a second time [41]
176-192 AD	Commodus reigns in Rome [4]
177-180 AD	Rome defeats the Marcomanni and Sarmatian barbarians on the Danube frontier [14]
184 AD	Rebellion of the Yellow Turbans in China [41]
192 AD	Commonus, son of Marcus Aurelius, Assassinated [28]
193 AD	Pertinax reigns in Rome [4] Didius Julianus reigns in Rome [4]
193-211 AD	Severus reigns in Rome [4]
193-197 AD	Albinus reigns in Rome [4]
193-194 AD	Pescennius Niger reigns in Rome [4]
198-217 AD	Caracalla reigns in Rome [4]
209-212 AD	Geta reigns in Rome [4]
217-218 AD	Macrinus reigns in Rome [4]
218-222 AD	Elagabalus reigns in Rome [4]
220 - 265 AD	Three Kingdoms Dynasty in China [16]
222-235 AD	Severus Alexander reigns in Rome [4]
235-238 AD	Maximin reigns in Rome [4]
238 AD	Pupienus reigns in Rome [4]
238 AD	Gordian I reigns for 20 days in February in Rome [4]
238 AD	Gordian II reigns as Gordian I in Rome [4]
238-244 AD	Gordian III reigns in Rome [4]
244-249 AD	Philip I & Philip II reign in Rome [4]
248-253 AD	Uranius reigns in Rome [4]
248 AD	Pacatianus reigns in Rome [4]
251 AD	Goths broke through the forts along the Danube, defeating emperor Decius and eventually sack Athens [3]
260 AD	Franks breach the border of the Rhine and sacked Tarraco [3]
260 - 280 AD	Serious barbarian invasions against Rome over the River Rhine, River Danube and in the east [14]
263 AD	Wei forces defeat the Shu Han in China during the Three Kingdoms era [41]
265 - 317 AD	Western Jin Dynasty in China [16]
267 AD	The Heruli tribe from Southern Russia invade Greece [27]
270-275 AD	Aurelian reigns (Rome) [3]
272 AD	Romans permanently abandon the province of Dacia [3]
280 AD	The Jin defeat the Wu state in the Yangzi Valley, China during the Three Kingdoms era [41]
284 - 305 AD	Gaius Aurelius Valerius Diocletianus (Diocletian) emperor of Rome [14]
303 AD	Beginning of the Great Persecution of Christians [14] Diocletian issues an edict ordering Christian churches to be destroyed [3]
305 AD	End of the Great Persecution of Christians [3]
306 - 337 AD	Constantine I emperor of Rome [14]
307 AD	Severus captured and executed at Tres Tabernae outside Rome [3]
311 AD	Galerius dies [3] Xiongnu tribesmen lay waste to the Jin capitol of Luoyang, China [41]
312 AD	[28 October] The forces of Constantine and Maxentius fight at the Battle of Milvian Bridge [3] Roman Battle of Milvian Bridge [14]
313 AD	'Edict of Toleration' issued in Milan [14]
315 AD	Constantine gives his half-sister Anastasia in marriage to Bassianus, a senator [3]
316 AD	[7 August] Constantine's wife, Fausta, gives birth to a son [3]
324 AD	[18 September] Battle between Constantine and Licinius between Chrysopolis and Chalsedon [3]
325 AD	Council of Nicaea attended by Constantine [14][3]
326 AD	Constantine orders the deaths of his saon, Crispus and his wife , Fausta [3]
330 AD	[11 May] Dedication of Constantinople [14][3] Death of Constantia, Constantine's sister [3]
337 AD	[22 May] Constantine dies [3]
350 AD	Huns defeat Alans and Goths by the River Don, north of the Black Sea (circa) [14]
357 AD	Julian (Roman) defeats the Alamanni [14]
344 - 413 AD	Kumarajiva, monk and translator of Buddhist texts in Chinese [41]
364 - 375 AD	Valentinian I spends much time campaigning against the Alamanni [14]
374 - 395 AD	Ambrose, bishop of Milan [14]
376 AD	Goths cross the Danube [14]
378 AD	Valens defeated and killed by Goths at the Battle of Hadrianople [14]
379 - 395 AD	Theodosius I emperor of Rome [14]
382 AD	Treaty made between Rome and the Goths who settle in the Balkans [14] Altar of Victory removed from the Roman Senate [14]

390 AD	Massacre at Thessalonica [14] Ambrose bans Theodosius I from the sacrament of Holy Communion [14]
391 AD	Theodosius I bans all pagan practices [14]
393 AD	Last official olympic games [27]
394 AD	Theodosius I (with Stilicho & Alaric) defeats Eugenius at the Battle of the River Frigidus [14] Theodosius I bans all pagan festivals including the olympics [27]
394 - 395 AD	Rufinus rules for Arcadius in East Roman empire [14]
395 AD	Theodosius I dies [14] Roman empire split into east (Honorius) and West (Arcadius) [14]
395 - 397 AD	Alaric's revolt in the Balkans [14]
395 - 399 AD	Eutropius rules for Arcadius in the East Roman empire [14]
395 - 408 AD	Arcadius emperor West Roman empire [14] Stilicho generalissimo in West Roman empire [14]
395 - 423 AD	Honorius emperor East Roman empire [14]
395 - 430 AD	Augustine bishop of Hippo [14]
397 - 398 AD	Gildo's revolt in Africa [14]
398 AD	Honorius marries Stilicho's daughter, Maria [14]
400 AD	Gainas briefly occupies Constantinople [14]
401 - 403 AD	Alaric invades Italy [14] Battles of Pollentia & Verona [14]
402 AD	[circa] Death of Symmachus [14]
404 AD	Triumph of Honorius in Rome [14]
405 - 406 AD	Radagaisus invades Italy [14] Radagaisus defeated by Stilicho [14]
406 AD	[January] Alans, Suevi, Vandals & Burgundians cross the Rhine [14]
407 AD	Campaign against East Rome by Stilicho & Alaric aborted [14] Death of Maria, wife of Honorius [14]
407 - 411 AD	Constantine III emperor in West Roman empire [14]
408 AD	Honorius marries Stilicho's second daughter, Thermantia [14] [1 May] Death of Arcadius [14] [13 August] Rising against Stilicho's senior allies at Ticinum [14] [22 August] Death of Stilicho [14][3] [October] Alaric invades Italy and besieges Rome [14] [ circa November] Execution of Serna by the Roman Senate [14] [ circa November] Pompeianus & Pope Innocent consider pagan sacrifice [14] [December] Alaric retires to Tuscany [14] [December] 40,000 slaves flee Rome to join Alaric [14] [December] Rome replenishes supplies from Ostia/Portus [14] [December] Honorius (at Ravenna) made consul for the eighth time [14] [December] Honorius sends imperial robes to Constantine III at Arles [14]
409 AD	[January] Priscus Attalus (and others) conduct Rome's mission to Ravenna but fails to persuade Honorius to negotiate with Alaric [14] [January] Valens loses most of his 60,000 men attacking Alaric [14] [January] Ataulf arrives in italy to aid Alaric (January) [14] Olympius removed from office in Ravenna [14] [January] Honorius makes Generidus a general [14] [January] Jovius' attempts to make terms with Alaric thwarted by Ravenna [14] [January] Honorius vows not to make peace with Alaric [14] [January] Alaric repents of the march on Rome and asks just for land in Noricum [14] [January] Honorius rejects Alaric's demands & Alaric marches on Rome [14] [3 November] Priscus Attalus declared emperor at Rome [14]
410 AD	Honorius saved from Attalus & Jovius by arrival of 4,000 trtoops from the east [14] Attalus fails to take Africa [14] [ circa July]Alaric deposes Attalus [14] [ circa July]Sarus' Goths (on Honorius' side) attack Alaric [14] [24 August] Alaric sacks Rome [14] [August] Goths head south to sack Capua & Nola [14] [circa September] Goths fail to sail to North Africa [14]
410 - 411 AD	Alaric dies at Consentia [14] Ataulf succeeds Alaric [14]
410 - 600 AD	Migration of the Angles, Saxons and Jutes from Europe to Britain [42]
411 AD	Ataulf leads Goths north, via Rome, to Gaul [14] Fall of Constantine III [14]
411 - 413 AD	Jovinus, usurper in Gaul [14]
412 - 414 AD	Senate offices & Baths of Sura (Aventine) restored [14]
413 AD	Tax remissions made to cities in central and southern italy after Gothic invasion [14] Heraclian, count of Africa, rebels and is defeated [14]
413 - 426 AD	Augustine writes City of God [14]
414 AD	Marriage of Ataulf to Galla Placida [14]
414 - 415 AD	Second reign of Priscus Attalus [14]
415 AD	Assassination of Ataulf [14] Galla Placidia returns to Ravenna [14]
416 AD	[circa] Basilica Julia restored in the Roman Forum [14]
417 AD	Galla Placidia marries Constantius [14]
418 AD	Tax remissions again made to cities in central and southern italy after Gothic invasion [14] Visigoths settle in Aquitaine [14]
420 - 589 AD	Southern and Northern Dynasties in China [16]
421 AD	Constantius III declared emperor [14]
423 AD	Death of Honorius [14]
425 - 455 AD	Valentinian III (son of Galla Placidia) emperor of the west [14]
425 - 494 AD	Northern Wei emperors sponsor carving of 1,000s of Buddhist statues in sandstone cliffs at Yungang, China [41]
426 AD	The Temple of Zeus at Olympia is burned by Christian fanatics on the orders of Theodosius II [27]
430 AD	Death of Augustine at Hippo [14]
438 AD	Theodosian Code written [14]
439 AD	Vandals take Carthage [14]
446 - 453 AD	Attila ruler of the Huns [14]
450 AD	Death of Galla Placidia [14]
451 AD	Huns defeated at the Battle of the Catalaunian Fields [14]
452 AD	Attila the Hun invades Italy, sacking several northern cities [3]
455 AD	Rome sacked by the Vandals [14]
460 - 493 AD	Northern Wei dynasty in China [41]
465 AD	Empress dowager Feng effectively rules Northern Wei after the death of the emperor, China [41]
472 AD	Rome sacked by Ricimer [14]
476 AD	Romulus Augustulus deposed by Odovacer (effective end of western empire) [14] The end of the Roman Empire in the West [39]
479 - 493 AD	Odovacer, king of Italy [14]
480 AD	Death of Julius Nepos, last official emperor of the west [14]
490 AD	The Empress dowager Feng dies, China [41]
493 - 526 AD	Theodoric the Ostrogoth, king of Italy [14]
494 AD	Northern Wei capital moves from Pingcheng to Luoyang [41]
518 AD	Justin, Uncle of Justinian, proclaimed emperor of Rome [39]
524 AD	Xianbei troops rebel against Luoyang, China [41]
526 AD	Goth ruler Theodoric dies [39]
529 AD	Justinian closes the Platonic Academy in Athens [39]
534 AD	Northern Wei collapses in China [41]
535 AD	Justinian's army invades Italy [39]
535 - 552 AD	War in italy between the Ostrogoths and the Byzantine Empire [14]
540 AD	General Belisarius captures Ravenna from the Goths [39]
541 AD	Yang Jiang born in Northern China [41]
547 AD	Rome sieged and sacked by Totila the Ostragoth [14]
550 AD	Persian monks tell Justinian I, Byzantium emperor, how silk is produced and steal silkworms from China [23]
552 - 557 AD	Northern Qi dynasty, China [41]
557 - 581 AD	Northern Zhou dynasty, China [41]
568 AD	Lombards conquer Italy [14] Yang Jiang inherits his father's title of Duke of Sui in China [41]
581 AD	Yang Jian usurps power from ther Zhou and decalres the Sui dynasty in China [41]
581 - 618 AD	Sui Dynasty in China [16][41]
589 AD	Yang Jian successfully reunifies North and South China [41]
590 - 604 AD	Pope Gregory the Great [14]
597 AD	Augustine of Canterbury takes office and begins the Christianization of the Anglo-Saxons [42]
610 AD	Heraclius comes to the Byzantine throne [39]
614 AD	Persians sack Jerusalem [39]
618 - 907 AD	Tang Dynasty in China [16][41]
626 AD	The Persians ally themselves with the Avars and Slavs and lay (unsuccessful) seige to Constantinople [39]
626 - 649 AD	Li Shimin, Tang Taizong, rules China [41]
630 AD	Muhammad leads an army of 10,000 against Mecca which surrenders peacefully [39]
632 AD	Muhammad dies [39]
635 AD	Aidan founds a monastery on Lindisfarne [42]
641 AD	Byzantine ruler, Heraclius dies [39]
661 - 750 AD	Umayyads rule from Damascus [39]
674 AD	An Arab fleet blockades Constantinople for four years [39]
680 AD	Muawiyah, Umayyad ruler, dies & succeeded by Yazid [39]
681 AD	Byzantine treaty with the Bulgars, following a Byzantine defeat [39]
683 AD	Yazid, Umayyad ruler, dies [39]
684 AD	Cuthbert becomes bishop of Lindisfarne [42]
685 AD	Bishop Erkenwald builds a gate which becomes known as Bishopsgate, in London [34] Abid al-Malik succeeds his father Marwan, as Umayyad ruler [39]
691 AD	Construction on the Dome of the Rock completed [39]
711 AD	Visigothic Kingdom of Spain conquered by the Umayyads [14]
717 AD	Umayyad ruler, Sulayman, lays seige to Constantinople for one year [39]
726 - 787 AD	Iconoclasm officially in force throughout Byzantium [39]
732 AD	Battle of Poitiers brings defeat to invading Muslims [39]
740 AD	A severe earthquake strikes Constantinople [39]
750 AD	The Abbasids, the second imperial Arab dynasty, founded [39] [February] Abbasid & Umayyad forces meet at the River Zab, ending the Umayyad Arab dynasty [39]
756 AD	Frankish King Pepin marches over Alps into Italy [11]
786 AD	Diogenes, the Byzantine commander, dies in battle against the raiding Abbasid army of Harun ar-Rashid [39]
787 AD	The Empress Irene, aided by Patriarch Tarasius, restores icons in Byzantium, ending the first period of Iconoclasm [39]
793 AD	Vikings raid Lindisfarne [42]
800 AD	Pope Leo III crowns Frankish King Charlemagne 'Emperor' of the Holy Roman Empire [39]
802 AD	Queen Eadburga kills her husband and is exiled from Essex [44]
808 AD	Hunayn Ibn Ishaq (Johannhius), translator of Greek to Arabic, born near Baghdad [39]
811 AD	Bulgar Khan Krum, defeats the Byzantine army at a mountain ambush, killing Emperor Nicephorus I [39]
812 AD	Treaty between Charlemagne & the Venetians at Rialto (Italy) [11]
839 - 858 AD	Aethelwulf, King of Wessex [42]
849 AD	Alfred (the Great) born in Wantage [42]
853 AD	Alfred (the Great) travels to Rome [42]
855 AD	Ahmad Ibn Hanbal, opponent of the Mutazilites and founder of the severest branch of Sharia Law, dies [39] Alfred (the Great) travels to Rome with his father, the king [42]
858 - 860 AD	Aethelbald, King of Wessex [42]
860 AD	Photius serves as Patriarch of Constantinople [39] [18 June] A naval attack from the north by the 'barbarian' Slavs against an undefended Constantinople [39]
860 - 865 AD	Aethelberhl, King of Wessex [42]
865 - 871 AD	Aethelred, King of Wessex [42]
866 AD	York and the kingdom of Northumbria fall to the Vikings [42]
868 AD	Cyril and Methodius are summoned to Rome by Pope Nicholas I [39]
869 AD	East Anglia falls to the Vikings [42]
871 AD	The Battle of Ashdown - Alfred & Aethelred defeat Vikings [42]
871 - 899 AD	Alfred (the Great) King of the Anglo-Saxons [42]
873 AD	Hunayn Ibn Ishaq (Johannhius), dies [39]
878 AD	Guthrum (Viking) invades Wessex [42] Alfred (the Great) driven into hiding in Athelney [42] The Battle of Edington - Alfred defeats the Vikings under Guthrum [42]
881 AD	Comacchio sacked (Italy) [11]
885 AD	Followers of Methodius exiled from Moravia, cross the Danube into Bulgaria [39] Alfred (the Great) drives the Vikings from the gates of Rochester [42]
889 AD	Boris of Bulgaria abdicates in favour of his son Vladimir who is deposed in favour of Symeon [39]
897 AD	End of the war between Bulgaria and Byzantium [39]
899 AD	Death of Alfred the Great [42]
899 - 924 AD	Edward the Elder, King of theAnglo-Saxons [42]
907 - 960 AD	Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms in China [16]
912 AD	Pope Leo VI dies [39]
916 - 1125 AD	Liao Dynasty in China [16]
924 AD	Bulgarian emperor Symeon, annexes Serbia [39]
924 - 939 AD	Aethelstan, King of the Anglo-Saxons [42]
925 AD	[May] Nicholas Mysticus, Patriarch of Constantinople, dies [39]
926 AD	Symeon, emperor of Bulgaria, defeated in Croatia by King Tomislav [39]
927 AD	[May] Symeon, emperor of Bulgaria, dies of a heart attack as he prepares to attack Constantinople [39]
937 AD	Aethelstan is victorious at the Battle of Brunanburh [42]
941 AD	Kievan (proto-Russian) ruler, Igor, leads a fleet of ships against Byzantine coastal settlements around Constantinople [39]
945 AD	Treaty between Kiev and Byzantium [39]
949 AD	Romanus I is emperor of Byzantium [39]
957 AD	Olga, regent of Kiev and wife of Igor, visits Constaninople and is baptised into the Christian faith by Emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus [39]
960 - 976 AD	Reign of Zhao Kuangyin (Song Taizu) in China [41]
960 - 1279 AD	Northern Song Dynasty in China, characterised by the beginning of foot binding [41]
963 AD	The Great Lavra, the first monastery on Mt Athos, Greece, is founded [39]
967 AD	Byzantine emperor Nicephorus II Phocas asks Svyatoslav of Kiev to lead an army against Bulgaria [39]
968 AD	Nicephorus II Phocas is emperor of Byzantium [39]
969 AD	John Tzimiscles murders Byzantine emperor Nicephorus II Phocas [39]
976 AD	The Great Mosque of Cordoba, Spain, completed [39] John Tzimisces, Byzantine regent dies, leaving Basil II as emperor [39]
980 AD	Vladimir the Great becomes ruler of Kievan Rus (proto Russia) [39]
986 AD	Bulgarian army defeats Basil II's Byzantine force [39]
987 AD	General Bardas Phocas (nephew of Nicephorus II Phocas) rebels against Byzantine emperor Basil II and is proclaimed emperor by his troops [39]
1000 AD	The Arabic 'Translation Movement' of Ancient Greek texts, ends [39]
1021 - 1086 AD	Wang Anshi, Chinese eccentric idealist and chief councillor [41]
1036 - 1101 AD	Su Shi (Su Dongpo), Chinese scholar - official who opposed the reforms of Wang Anshi [41]
1037 AD	St Sophia in Kiev started [39]
1043 AD	The Russians, under Yaroslav, attack Constantinople and lose [39]
1046 AD	St Sophia in Kiev completed [39]
1056 AD	Russian ruler Yaroslav dies [39]
1066 AD	Battle of Hastings [29]
1071 AD	Turkish army defeats Byzantium at Manzikert [39]
1072 AD	[5 January] Roger Guiscard (a Norman) breaches Al-Qasr, Palermo, Sicily [30]
1078 AD	The Song government in China, produces 125,000 tons of iron [41]
1081 AD	Alexius I Comnenus becomes Byzantine emperor [39]
1084 - c1151 AD	Li Qingzhao, China's greatest female poet [41]
1108 AD	Yuri Dolgoruky founds the fortified outpost of Vladimir [39]
1113 - 1125 AD	Vladimir II Monomakh rules as Grand Prince of Kiev [39]
1115 - 1234 AD	Jin Dynasty in China [16]
1127 - 1279 AD	Southern Song Dynasty in China [16][41]
1130 - 1200 AD	Zhu Xi, Neo-Confucian scholar [41]
1139 AD	Southern Song court, under leadership of Qin Gui signs peace treaty with the Jin [41]
1140 AD	The Jin breaks peace treaty with the Southern Song and Yue Fei leads Song forces against them [41]
1141 AD	Yue Fei, of the Southern Song dynasty, accused of plotting against the emperor and executed [41]
1147 AD	First mention of Moscow as a small outpost west of Vladimir [39]
1156 AD	First fortifications, named The Kremlin, built in the centre of Moscow [39]
1172 AD	Byzantine emperor, Manuel Commenus defeats Serbian Grand Zhupan, Stefan Nemanja [39]
1196 AD	William FitzOsbert martyred for civil unrest against the corruption of London's aldermen [34] Stefan Nemanja, Grand Zhupan of Serbia, abdicates [39]
1203 AD	Temuchin unifies Mongol tribes [41] [24 May] A fleet of warships leaves Corfu for Constantinople at the start of the 4th Crusade [39] [June] The ships of the 4th Crusade arrive at Constantinople [39] [June/July] 4th Crusaders take over Constantinople and place Alexius IV on the throne [39]
1204 AD	[January] Alexius IV overthrown and executed by Alexius Ducas, leader of the Byzantine resistance, who then assumes the throne as Alexius V [39] [13 April] 4th Crusaders sack Constantinople, setting fire to the city and for three days and nights, murder, rape, loot and destroy the remaining Byzantiums [39]
1206 AD	Mongol leader Temuchin takes the title Genghis Khan [41]
1213 AD	St Francis preaches a famous sermon in San Leo, Italy [30]
1215 AD	Signing of Magna Carta [29]
1219 AD	Sava, son of Stefan Nemanja, consecrated as the first archbishop of the Serbian orthodox church [39]
1223 AD	A combined Cuman and Russian army is defeated by Genghis Khan at the Battle of Kafka [39]
1227 AD	Genghis Khan dies [41]
1235 - 1236 AD	Simon FitzMary serves as Sheriff of London [34]
1236 AD	Sava dies in Turnovo, Bulgaria [39]
1237 AD	[December] Batu Khan, grandson of Genghis Khan, invades north estern Russia, sacking Riazan [39]
1238 AD	[January] Batu Khan, grandson of Genghis Khan, invades north estern Russia, sacking Moscow [39] [March] Batu Khan, grandson of Genghis Khan, invades north estern Russia, sacking Vladimir [39]
1240 AD	[December] Kiev falls to Mongol army after a two week siege [39]
1245 AD	Rebuilding of Westminster Abbey begins [34]
1246-1247 AD	Simon FitzMary serves as Sheriff of London [34]
1247 AD	[23 October] Bethlehem Priory established in London [34]
1250 AD	Hohenstaufen Frederick II of the Swabian Empire, dies [33]
1258 AD	The Abbasids, Arab dynasty, extinguished by the Mongols [39]
1261 AD	Constantinople recaptured from the Latins by the Byzantium emperor, Michael VIII Paleologus [39]
1264 AD	Khubilai Khan (grandson of Genghis) moves his capitol from Mongolia to Dadu (Beijing) [41] Battle of Lewes [43]
1270-1332 AD	Byzantine, Theodore Metochites [39]
1271 AD	Khubilai Khan declares himself emperor of Yuan dynasty in China [41]
1274 AD	Mongols undertake a naval conquest of Japan [41]
1279 AD	Last Song emperor killed in a naval battle in southern China [41] Round table tournatment held at Kenilworth by the Mortimer family [43]
1279-1368 AD	Yuan Dynasty in China [41]
1281 AD	Mongols undertake a naval conquest of Japan [41]
1285 AD	The Statute of Winchester is enacted, codifying community policing and punishments for law breakers [29] [September] Edmund Mortimer marries Maragret de Fiennes [43]
1286 AD	Alexander III of Scotland dies [44]
1287 AD	[25 April] Sir Roger Mortimer born in England [43]
1292 AD	Mongols undertake a naval conquest of Java [41]
1296 AD	The Duomo in Florence started [39] John Balliol, King of Scotland, forced to abdicate by Edward I [44]
1298 AD	Adolf of Nassau, Holy Roman Emperor, deposed [44]
1301 AD	[20 September] Roger Mortimer marries Joan de Geneville in England [43]
1305 AD	William Wallace killed at Smithfield, London [29]
1306 AD	[May] Roger Mortimer knighted by Edward I of England [43] [26 June] English commander Aymer de Valence defeats Scottish King Robert bruce at Methven [43]
1307 AD	Adam of Orleton appointed an envoy to Pope Clement by Edward II of England [43] [7 July] King Edward I dies in Scotland
1308 AD	[25 January] Edward II of England marries Isabella the Fair, daughter of King Philip of France, in Boulogne [43] [25 February] Coronation of King Edward II of England [43]
1309 AD	[17 July] Edmund Mortimer dies at Wigmore Castle [43]
1309-1377 AD	Driven out of Rome, the Papacy resides in Avignon [39]
1312 AD	The Knights Templar are suppressed & dissolved by the Pope [30][44] [19 June] Piers Gaveston, Earl of Cornwall & favourite of Edward II, kidnapped and murdered by the Earls of Lancaster, Arundel and Warwick at Blacklow Hill [43] [13 November] Future Edward III born at Windsor [44]
1313 AD	[January] Future Edward III given over to the care of his nurse, Margaret Chandler [44] [8 January] Robert Bruce successfully captures Perth castle from the English [43] [September] Scottish carter, William Binnock, takes Linlithgow Castle from the English [43]
1314 AD	James Douglas and his knights take Roxburgh Castle from the English [43] [14 March] Sir Thomas Randolph, aided by William Francis, takes Edinburgh Castle from the English [43] [24 June] Scots defeat the English at the Battle of Bannockburn [43]
1315 AD	[2 January] Piers Gaveston buried at King's Langley [43] [26 May] Edward Bruce (brother of Robert) lands at Olderfleet (Carne) Ireland to begin Scottish invasion [43] [29 June] Scottish forces take the Irish town of Dundalk, slaughtering all inhabitants [43]
1316 AD	[1 May] Edward Bruce crowned King of Ireland at Dundalk [43] [27 June] Edmund Mortimer (son of Roger) marries Elizabeth de Badlesmere at Ernwood Manor, Kinlet, Shopshire [43] [26 July] The city of Bristol surrenders to the king's men after seige [43] [15 August] Prince John, brother of future Edward III, born at Eltham [44] [23 November] Roger Mortimer appointed King's Lieutenant or Ireland - Viceroy [43]
1316-1321 AD	Theodore Metochites pays for and overseers the complete renovation of the Church of the Holy Saviour in Chora and it's monastery in Constantinople [39]
1318 AD	Hugh Despenser the Younger made King's Chamberlain [43] Sir Richard Damory appointed as Guardian to future Edward III [44] [8 June] Eleanor of Woodstock, sister to future Edward III, born [44] [14 October] Battle of Faughart, Ireland where Sir John de Bermingham's English forces defeat Edward Bruce and the Scottish invaders [43]
1321 AD	William Bishop serves as one of Roger Mortimer's men-at-arms [43] [29 July] The Marcher Lords, led by Roger Mortimer, arrive in London practically laying seige to King Edward II and the court [43]
1322 AD	[22 January] Roger Mortimer and his uncle, Mortimer of Chirk, surrender to the royal forces at Shrewsbury and wind up in the Tower of London [43] [16 March] Battle of Boroughbridge sees the defeat of Lancaster and Hereford to royal forces [43] The Earl of Lancaster executed in England [43]
1323 AD	[1 August] Sir Roger Mortimer escapes from the Tower of London [43]
1324 AD	[June] Earl of Pembroke dies on his way to Paris from Boulogne [43] [14 July] Edward II gives the Savoy Palace to Edward III [44]
1325 AD	[September] The future Edward III made Duke of Aquitane [44]
1326 AD	First accurately documented use of gunpowder in cannons in Europe [44] [24 September] Roger Mortimer and his army land in Suffolk [43] [20 October] Robert Wyvill becomes the Keeper of the Privy Seal in England [43] [November] Hugh Despenser executed in Hereford Castle [43] [December] Roger Mortimer given the Keepership of Denbigh Castle [43]
1327 AD	[20 January] Edward II abdicates in favour of his son, Edward III [43] [30 January] Edward III of England marries Philippa of Hainault [43][44] [1 February] Coronation of Edward III as king of England [43][44] [1 March] Richard Ayrmin becomes the Keeper of the Privy Seal in England [43]
1328 AD	Andronicus III becomes emperor of Byzantium and Cantacuzenos serves as his prime minister [39] [24 April] Adam Lymbergh becomes the Keeper of the Privy Seal in England [43]
1329 AD	Robert bruce of Scotland dies [44]
1330 AD	[19 March] The Earl of Kent, uncle to Edward III of England is beheaded for treason on trhe kings orders [43][44] [26 November] Roger Mortimer tried at Westminster and accused of 14 crimes [43] [29 November] Roger Mortimer executed at Tyburn [43]
1331 AD	Coluccio Salutati born in Stignano, Tuscany [39] [1-6 January] Royal 'Games' held at Guildford, Surrey, by Edward III [44]
1333 AD	Battle of Halidon Hill between England and Scotland won by England, led by Edward III [44]
1336 AD	Beginning of the 100 Years War [29] Joan, widow of Sir Roger Mortimer, pardoned and her possessions returned to her [43]
1338 AD	Edward III travels to Germany to be made a Vicar of the Holy Roman Empire [43]
1339 AD	Genoa wins independence from Milan under Simon Boccanegra, 1st Doge of Genoa [43]
1341 AD	[15 June] Andronicus III of Byzantium dies [39]
1344 AD	Massive flooding along the Yellow River in China [41]
1346 AD	Scottish King David II captured near Durham by the English [29] Battle of Crecy (France v England) [29]
1347 AD	The English conquer Calais [29] Plague in England [43]
1348 AD	The Black Death strikes Florence [39] The Black Death arrives in England [29][34]
1349 AD	Edward III rushes out the Ordinance of Labourers [29] [July] The Pope consecrates Thomas Bradwardine as Archbishop of Canterbury [29]
1351 AD	The English parliament ratifies the Statute of Labourers, fixing wages [29] Nicephorus Gregoras is condemned by a church council and placed under house arrest in Constantinople [39] Anti-government uprisings against the Yuan dynasty in China by the Buddhist sect called the White Lotus Scoiety [41]
1354 AD	[November] Cantacuzenos abdicates in favour of John V Paleologus in Byzantium [39]
1355 AD	Zhu Yuanzhang, first of the Ming dynastry, commands the Red Turban Army, rebelling against the Yuan dynasty in China [41]
1356 AD	The English, led by Prince Edward [the Black Prince], capture the French King Jean, near Poitiers, France [29] Joan, widow of Sir Roger Mortimer, dies [43]
1358 AD	Isabella, wife of Edward II dies at Hertford Castle [43]
1360/1 AD	The Treaty of Bretigny signed between England and France [29]
1363 AD	The English parliament reissues the Sumptuary Laws [29]
1364 AD	Captive French King Jean dies in London [29]
1364-1437 AD	Niccolo Niccoli, Humanist [39]
1366 AD	Zhu Yuanzhang, first of the Ming dynastry, breaks with the Red Turban Army [41]
1367-1371 AD	William Wykeham is Bishop of Winchester [29]
1368 AD	Lithuanian Grand Prince Olgerd's unsuccessful siege of Moscow is repelled by Dimitri II [39] A rebel band invades Beijing and declares the Ming dynasty [41]
1368-1644 AD	Ming Dynasty in China [16][41]
1369 AD	Robert Denton is given a royal licence to found a hospital in Barking for the mad, though he did not act on it [34]
1370 AD	Henry Despenser made Bishop of Norwich by Pope Urban V [29] Leonardo Bruni in born in Arezzo, Italy [39]
1370-1444 AD	Pier Paulo Vergerio, Humanist [39]
1371 AD	Ottomans defeat Serbians at Maritsa River [39]
1374 AD	Petrarch dies [39] Guarino of Verona is born [39]
1375 AD	Boccaccio dies [39] [2 December] Cyprian consecrated as Metropolitan of Kiev by Philotheos of Byzantium [39]
1376 AD	The Good Parliament in England [29] Prince Edward, the Black prince, dies in England [29] Zhu Yuanzhang, of the Ming dynasty, orders the execution of up to 1,000 government officials for pre-stamping tax documents [41]
1377 AD	Edward III of England dies [29] A Poll Tax is introduced in England, takng 4 pence from every man and woman over the age of 14 [29] Lithuanian Grand Prince Olgerd dies [39] Philotheos, Constantinople Patriach, dies [39] [February] John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, interferes in the trial of John Wyclif for heresy, prompting riots in London [29] [July] Richard II crowned King of England following death of Edward III [29]
1378 AD	Papal schism between rival popes Pope Urban VI and Pope Clement VII [39]
1379 AD	Second Poll Tax - graduated to means - introduced in England [29] [August] Janus Imperial, the Genoen ambassador, is stabbed to death in London by John Kirkby [29]
1380 AD	Zhu Yuanzhong, Ming emperor of China, has his chief councillor, Hu Weiyong killed for plotting against him as well as (perhaps) 15,000 other officials [41] [Spring] John V becomes Patriach of Constantinople [39] [January] Tax on movable goods introduced in England [29] [8 September] Grand Prince Dimitri II of Moscow defeats Mongol force at Kulikovo [39]
1380-1459 AD	Poggio Bracciolini, Humanist [39]
1381 AD	Sir Robert Hales appointed Treasurer of the Exchequer in England [29] Peasant's Revolt in London and South East England [29] William de Herthe is Abbott of Lesnes Abbey, Kent [29] [15 July] John Ball is executed following his part in the Peasant's Revolt [29]
1382 AD	Empress Ma, wife of Ming emperor, dies in China [41] [January] Richard II of England marries Anne of Bohemia [29]
1386 AD	Lithania and Poland unite following the wedding of Grand Prince Jagiello and Catholic Princess of Poland, Hedwig (the Union of Krewo) [39]
1387 AD	The Merciless Parliament in England [29]
1388 - 1403 AD	Peter 'The Porter' Taverner acts as treasurer for Bethlem Hospital in London [34]
1389 AD	Ottomans defeat Serbians at Kosovo Polye the "Field of Blackbirds" [39]
1390 AD	John Gower writes Vox Clamantis [29]
1390-1406 AD	Pier Paulo Vergerio, Professor of Logic at Padua University [39]
1391 AD	Manuel II assumes Byzantine throne [39] [January] Demetrius Cydones granted Venetian citizenship by the Doge, Antonio Venerio [39]
1391-1425 AD	Manuel II rules Byzantium [39]
1394 AD	Ottoman sultan Bayezid blockades Constantinople for eight years [39]
1395 AD	[Autumn] Iacopo Angeli da Scarperia arrives in Constantinople [39]
1397 AD	Tommaso Parentucelli born in Sarzana, Tuscany [39]
1398 AD	Zhu Yuanzhiang, Ming emperor, dies [41]
1399 AD	Richard II of England deposed [29]
1402 AD	Mongol conqueror Tamerlane devastates Ottoman sultan Bayezid at Ankara [39] Gian Galeazzo Visconti of Milan, dies [39] The Prince of Yan, uncle to the legitimate Ming emperor, takes Nanjing by force and declares himself emperor [41]
1405 AD	Venice absorbs Padua [39]
1406 AD	Coluccio Salutati dies in Florence [39] Cyprian, Metropolitan of Kiev, dies [39]
1411 AD	The English Parliament hands Henry IV a petition for hospital reform [34]
1413 AD	English King Henry IV dies [34]
1414-1418 AD	The Council of Constance, which heals the Papal Schism [39]
1415 AD	Battle of Agincourt [34]
1427-1444 AD	Leonardo Bruni serves as Chancellor of Florence [39]
1429 AD	Giovanni de Medici dies [39]
1430 AD	Murad captures Thessalonica for the Ottoman Empire [39]
1431 AD	The Council of Basel repudiates Pope Eugenius IV Eugenius [39]
1433 AD	Cosimo de Medici exiled from Florence, engineered by Rinaldo Degli Albizzi [39]
1434 AD	Cosimo de Medici returns triumphant to Florence [39]
1437 AD	Edward Atherton becomes master of Bethlem Hospital, London [34]
1438 AD	[8 February] Byzantine delegation arrives in Venice for Council of Ferrara [39] [9 April] The Council of Ferrara (Florence) opens in Ferrara, Italy [39]
1439 AD	Byzantine George Gemistos Pletho visits Florence [39] [January] Plague strikes in Ferrara, italy, forcing the Council of Ferrara to move to Florence [39]
1444 AD	Leonardo Bruni dies in Florence, Italy [39] [November] Crusaders defeated by Ottoman force at Varna, Bulgaria [39]
1446 AD	Tommaso Parentucelli elected Pope Nicholas V, the first Humanist pope favouring Ancient Greek over Latin [39]
1450 AD	Jack Cade's rebellion in England [29]
1451 AD	William Gregory is mayor of London [34]
1453 AD	The Ottoman Turks capture Constantinople, essentially replacing the Byzantine Empire [39]
1453 - 1454 AD	Henry VI of England, suffers a 'mental episode' - possibly schizophrenia [34]
1456 AD	Mark of Ephesus canonized as an orthodox saint [39]
1457 AD	John Arundell appointed master of Bethlem Hospital, London [34]
1461 - 1483 AD	Reign of Louis XI, king of France [23]
1463 AD	Padua university first establishes a chair in Ancient Greek [39]
1464 AD	First commercial fair held in Lyons, France [23]
1465 AD	William Gregory (ex mayor of London) dies [34]
1471 AD	English King Henry VI murdered [34]
1473 AD	Margaret, the daughter of the Duke of Clarence, born near Bath [32]
1478 - 1535 AD	Sir Thomas More [34]
1480 AD	Louis XI of France, offers valuable incentives to Italian silk workers to come to Tours, Loire, France [23]
1483 AD	Lord Hastings beheaded in the Tower of London [32] [April] Edward IV of England dies [32] [26 July] Richard II becomes king of England [32]
1485 AD	Henry Tudor defeats Richard II at the Battle of Bosworth Field [29][32] [20 September] Tomas Maudesley becomes warden at Bethlem Hospital, London [34]
1487 AD	Malleus Maleficarum by Jacob Sprenger & Heinrich Kramer, published [34]
1494 AD	Margaret, daughter of the Duke of Clarence, marries Sir Richard Pole and becomes the Duchess of Salisbury [32] Ferdinand I, Neapolitan ruler, dies [33]
1495 AD	France invades Italy [33]
1500 AD	Syphilis epidemic in Europe [34]
1505 AD	Syphilis epidemic in China [34]
1509 AD	Lady Margaret Beaufort dies in England during mass [32] Henry Tudor becomes king of England
1510 AD	Portugal starts trading wiuth the Asian sub-continent [38]
1515 - 1547 AD	Reign of Francois I, king of France [23]
1516 - 1523 AD	Sir Thomas More lived at Crosby Hall, Bishopsgate, London [34]
1520 AD	Field of Cloth of Gold meeting between Henry VIII of England & Francis I of France [32]
1524 AD	Lady Rochford (Jane Parker) marries George Boleyn (Anne's brother) [32]
1526 AD	Babur establishes the Timurid Dynasty in Delhi, India [38]
1529 AD	George Boleyn (brother of Anne) is appointed master of Bethlem Hospital, London [34]
1530 AD	Knights Hospitallers of St John establish themselves on the island of Malta [30] Ivan IV (The Terrible) born [39]
1533 AD	Mary Tudor born [32] Henry VIII marries Anne Boleyn [32] Apology by Sir Thomas More, published [34]
1535 AD	The Bishop of Rochester is executed [32]
1536 AD	Lady Jane Grey born [32] English parliament authorises dissolution of all religious houses with less than £200 per year [34] [May] Lord Rochford (George Boleyn) beaheaded in the Tower of London [32] [2 May] Anne Boleyn arrested for treason and taken to the Tower of London [32] [19 May] Anne Boleyn beheaded in the Tower of London [32]
1537 AD	Jane Seymour dies [32] Edward VI born [32]
1538 AD	Sir Richard Grestham is lord mayor of London [34]
1540 AD	Henry VIII marries Katherine Howard [32]
1541 AD	Margaret Pole executed at the Tower of London [32]
1542 AD	[13 February] Lady Rochford (Jane Parker) beheaded for high treason, in the Tower of London [32] [13 February] Katherine Howard beheaded in the Tower of London [32]
1544 AD	Peter Mewtys, spy master, knighted by Henry VIII [34]
1547 AD	Henry VIII dies & Edward VI becomes king of England [32]
1553 AD	Edward VI of England dies [32] Lady Jane Grey becomes queen [32] Mary Tudor becomes queen [32] Wyatt's rebellion against Queen Mary I - [see 1554][29]
1554 AD	A revolt led by Sir Thomas Wyatt against the marriage of Mary Tudor to Philip of Spain, is defeated [32] [12 February] Lady Jane Grey beheaded at the Tower of London [32]
1556 AD	[January] Michael Trivolis AKA Maximos AKA Maxim Gek dies [39]
1556 - 1605 AD	The Mogul Empire of Akbar the Great in India [38]
1557 AD	A tax is levied on every citizen of London to support charitable organisations [34]
1558 AD	Elizabeth I becomes queen of England [32]
1558 - 1592 AD	Robert Greene, English dramatist [34]
1563 - 1631 AD	Michael Drayton [34]
1566 AD	Population of Lyons 120,000. More than one tenth were silk weavers [23]
1566 - 1626 AD	Edward Alleyn, Elizabethan actor [34]
1569 AD	Sir Thomas Roe serves as lord mayor of London [34]
1576 - 1648 AD	Dr Helkiah Crooke serves as Medical Superintendent at Bethlem Hospital, London [34]
1577 AD	Author Robert Burton born in Leicestershire [34]
1580 - 1653 AD	Thomas Adams, puritan [34]
1582 AD	Pope Gregory XIII introduces the Gregorian Calendar [25]
1584 AD	Forte of Fancie by Nicholas Breton, published [34]
1586 AD	Treatise on Melancholie by Timothy Bright, published [34]
1588 AD	England drives off the Spanish Armada [32]
1590 AD	Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, marries Frances Sidney [32]
1590 - 1652 AD	Lady Audley (AKA Eleanor Davies) [34]
1594 AD	Ottoman authorities burn the coffin of St Sava in Serbia [39]
1597 AD	Daemonologie by King James I (England) & IV (Scotland), published [34]
1599 AD	Basilikon Doron by King James I (England) & IV (Scotland), published [34]
1601 AD	The Passions of the Mind by Thomas Wright, published [34] [25 February] Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, beheaded at the Tower of London as a traitor [32]
1603 AD	[March] Elizabeth I, queen of England, dies [32]
1604 AD	The Honest Whore by Thomas Dekker, written [34] Dr Helkiah Crooke appointed physician to King James I of England [34]
1605 AD	The Gunpower Plot in London [34]
1606 AD	James I formulates the Oath of Allegiance in England [34]
1606-1607 AD	Virginia founded in the US [36]
1609 - 1698 AD	Ludovic Muggleton, founder of the Muggletonians [34]
1613 AD	Elizabeth of Bohemia (sister of Charles I of England) marries German Elector Palantine, Frederick V [36] Jahangir Khan, Mogul emperor, allows the East India Company to locate a trading post at Surat [38]
1614 AD	Purchas his Pilgrimage published [25]
1615 AD	Mystical Bedlam by Thomas Adams published in London [34] Mikrokosmographia by Dr Helkiah Crooke, published [34]
1618 AD	Thomas Jenner is Keeper of Bethlem Hospital, London [34]
1618 - 1667 AD	Abraham Cowley, British poet [34]
1619 AD	Portugese traders establish a trading post on the southern coast of Taiwan [41] [13 April] Dr Kelkiah Crooke elected Keeper of Bethlem Hospital, London [34]
1621 AD	The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton, published [34]
1623 AD	The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster, written [34]
1626 AD	The New Atlantis by Francis Bacon, published [36] Bubonic plague in England [36]
1628 AD	Due to famine, peasant uprisings begin in northwest China [41]
1631 AD	Mumtaz Mahal (of Taj Mahal) dies in childbirth [38] [14 May] Mervyn Touchet beheaded on Tower Hill for alleged rape and buggery [34]
1633 - 1703 AD	Samuel Pepys, diarist [34]
1634 AD	Dr Helkiah Crooke dismissed from Bethlem Hospital, London [34]
1634 - 1648 AD	Dr Meverall serves as physician at Bethlem Hospital, London [34]
1634 - 1703 AD	Thomas Tryon, philosopher and one of the founders of the vegetarian movement [34]
1635 - 1703 AD	Robert Hooke, polymath & surveyor to Christopher Wren [34]
1636 AD	[17 December] Lady Audley (AKA Eleanor Davies) committed to Bethlem Hospital, London [34]
1638 AD	King Charles I grants Bethlem Hospital to the City of London [34]
1639 AD	Japanese and Spanish merchants stop shipping silver to China [41]
1640 AD	Author Robert Burton dies at Christ Church [34]
1641 AD	Sir George Whitmore is Lord Mayor of London [34] Mary (sister of Charles II of England) marries Prince William of Orange [36]
1642 AD	Blaise Pascal, French scientist and philosopher, constructs an unreliable adding machine [23] A pamphlett headed The Just Reward of Rebels circulated anonymously in England [29] Parliamentarians build a fort at St George's Field to defend London against the King [34] First civil war in Britain [36] An Interpretation of the Number 666 by Francis Potter, published [36]
1643 AD	Siege of Bristol [36]
1644 AD	Shun Dynasty in China [16] All Chinese males required to adopt Manchu hairstyle (the Queue) [41]
1644 - 1800 AD	Early Qing dynasty in China [41]
1644 - 1911 AD	Qing Dynasty in China [16]
1645 AD	Battle of Naseby [36] The Dippers Dipt by Daniel Featley published in England [36]
1647 AD	[June] Charles II leaves England in exile [36]
1648 AD	End of 30 Years War in Europe [36] Pride's Purge in Britain [36] [April] James (brother of Charles II of England) leaves England in exile [36]
1649 AD	Execution of Charles I of England [36] Death of the husband of Isabelle-Angelique, Duchesse de Chatillon, in the Wars of the Fronde [36] Thomas Vyner is Sheriff of London [36] [9 April] James, future Duke of Monmouth, born to Charles II and Lucy Walter [36]
1650 AD	William II of Orange dies of smallpox [36] Charles II of England, visits Scotland [36]
1650 - 1708 AD	Edward Tyson, anatomist [34]
1651 AD	Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes published [36] Cromwell's Navigation Act passed in England [36]
1652-4 AD	First Dutch War between England and Holland [36]
1654 AD	Charles II of England, in exile, moves to Cologne from France [36]
1655 AD	William Penn captures Jamaica from Spain [36] Philosophical and Physical Opinions by Margaret Cavendish, published [36] La Compagne des Indes Occidental starts trading in France [36]
1656 AD	Charles II of England, in exile, moves to Bruge from Cologne [36] John Wilkins marries Robina Cromwell, sister of Oliver [36]
1657 AD	Henry Bennet knighted by Charles II in exile [36] Major Strangeways sentenced to death by pressing (piene forte et dure) [37]
1658 AD	Whole Duty of Man by Richard Allestree published [36] Anglo-French army defeats Spain, ceding Dunkirk to Cromwell's Britain [36] Edward Backwell is made Treasurer of Dunkirk [36] [September] Oliver Cromwell dies [36]
1659 AD	Barbara Villiers marries Roger Palmer in England [36] John Wilkins becomes Master of Trinity College, Cambridge [36] Cheques first introduced in England [36] [May] Richard (Tumbledown Dick) Cromwell, son of Oliver, forced to resign by the New Model Army [36]
1660 AD	Thomas Allen is Lord Mayor of London [36] The Dippers Dipt by Daniel Featley re-issued in England [36] Elizabeth Butler marries Philip Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield [36] 1651 Navigation Act, expanded in England [36] [January] Philip Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, flees England for Paris after killing a man in a duel [36] [29 May] Charles II parades through London after the restoration of the monachy in England [34] [June] Robert Boyle publishes New Experiments Physico-Mechanical [12 November] John Bunyan arrested for preaching in the village of Samsell [36] [28 November] Beginning of the Royal Society in London [36] [8 December] For the first time a woman performs on a public London stage [36]
1661 AD	Gilbert Sheldon is Bishop of London [36] [January] Venner's Uprising in London [36] [March] Sir Robert Moray elected President of the Royal Society [36] [15 April] The Savoy Conference of church leaders, begins in London [36] [August] Sir Henry Bennet made Keeper of the King's Privy Purse in England [36] [October] Sir Henry Bennet becomes one of two secretaries of State and Charles Berkeley becomes Keeper of the King's Privy Purse [36] [December] The Corporation Act passed in London, decreeing that all magistrates and municipal officers had to take an oath of allegiance to the monarch [36]
1662 AD	Hearth Tax introduced in Britain - twice a year, householders obliged to pay 1 shilling for each fireplace [36] The Licensing Act passed by parliament in England [36] Problema Physica by Thomas Hobbes, published [36] French ambassador Cominges arrives in London [36] [January] Henrietta Maria, the Queen Mother, brings Francis Stuart to England [36] [13 February] Elizabeth of Bohemia (aunt to Charles II of England) dies at Leicester House [36] [19 May] Parliament in London passes the Act of the Uniformity of Publique Prayers and Administration of Sacraments [36] [20 May] Charles II of England marries Catherine of Braganza [36] [June] Execution of Sir Henry Vane in the Tower of London [36] [August] The 'Quaker Act' passed through the commons in England [36] [24 August] The 'Great Ejection' of clergy in England [36] [October] Dunkirk sold to the French for five million livres [36]
1663 AD	Visit to England by Samuel Sobiere published [36] [June] William Juxon, Archbishop of Canterbury, dies [36] [June] Samuel Sorbiere becomes first foreign Fellow of the Royal Society [36] [August] Giles Calvert, printer, dies in London [36]
1664 AD	England's Happiness Increased by John Forster published [36] Sylva or A Discourse of Forest Trees and the Propagation of Timber by John Evelyn published [36] The Conventicles Act passed in England [36] The English Rogue by Thomas Head, published [36] Le compagne des Indes Orientale starts trading in France [36] [September] Barbara Castlemane gives birth to Charlotte in London [36]
1665 AD	James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde, puts through the Act of Explanation in the Dublin Parliament to surrender lands grabbed by Cromwellians during the Interregnum [36] The Five Mile Act passed in England [36] Prison Meditations by John Bunyon published [36] Nell Gwyn's first recorded performance as Cydaria in Dryden's The Indian Emperor or The Conquest of Mexico [36] Bubonic Plague in England [36] Charles Stuart, 3rd Duke of Richmond, confined in the Tower of London for dueling [36] King Charles II of England establishes the Town Plate horse race [36] [4 March] Charles II of England declares war against Holland [36] [April] Charles II writes to the Lord Mayor of London, warning of a possible fire [36] [22 November] First edition of the Oxford Gazette, soon to become the London Gazette [36]
1666 AD	Valentine 'The Stroker' Greatraks, arrives in London from Ireland [34] Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners by John Bunyan published [36] William Chaffinch becomes the Keeper of the Kings Closet on the death of his brother, Thomas [36] [10 February] Charles II of England declares war on France [36] [June] The Four Day Battle at Sea between England and Holland [36] [August] The English fleet, under Sir Robert Holmes, burns Dutch trading ships and the village of Vlie on the island of Terschelling [36] [2 September] Beginning of the Great Fire of London in the Pudding Lane bakery of Mr Farryner, the King's baker [36] [November] The Pentland Rising in Scotland [36]
1667 AD	History of the Royal Society by Thomas Sprat, published [36] Arthur Annesley, earl of Anglesey, resigns as Vice-treasurer of Ireland to take up the post of Treasurer of the Navy [36] [21 July] The Treaty of Breda signed, ending the English Dutch war [36] [24 August] The Treaty of Breda ratified [36] [23 November] Arthur Coga has transfusion of sheeps blood and survives [34]
1667 - 1745 AD	Jonathan Swift, Irish satirist [34]
1668 AD	Behemoth by Thomas Hobbes published [36] George Etherege, playwirght, becomes Gentleman of the Privy Chamber in England [36] [23 March] Riots in London by apprentices attacking bawdy houses [36] [August] A new French ambassador, Charles Colbert, Maquis de Croissy, arrives in London [36]
1669 AD	Charles II of England grants the Royal Society, Chelsea College [36] Truth Exalted and No Cross, No Crowne both written by the Quaker William Penn, published [36] The Scottish parliament passes and Act of Supremacy giving Charles II authority over the Scottish Council [36] La Compagne du Nord starts trading in France [36] The Kangxi emperor takes control of the Chinese government by arresting Prince Oboi [41] [7 June] Charles II of England, grants Scotland the 'First Indulgence' allowing the return of moderate Presbyterian ministers to their parishes [36]
1670 AD	Mathematician, Ralph Greatorex, carries out a survey of Whitehall in London [36] La Compagne du Levant starts trading in France [36] [4 June] Treaty of Dover, between Charles II of England and Louis XIV of France ratified [36] [30 June] Henrietta-Anne, Duchesse D'Orleans (Minette), sister to Charles II, dies at home in France [36] [21 December] The Secret Treaty of London signed [36]
1671 AD	Charles II of England wins the Town Plate horse race [36] Charles II of England begins an affair with Louise de Kernoualle, a Breton he calls 'Fubbs' [36]
1671 - 1743 AD	George Cheyne [34]
1672 AD	Third Dutch War - England & Holland [36]
1673 AD	Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz completes model of calculating machine based on Pascal's which is also unreliable [23] Charles II of England founds the mathematical school at Christ's Hospital [36] Moll Davis has a daughter to Charles II, called Mary [36]
1674 AD	John Milton, poet, dies [36]
1675 AD	Charles II of England founds the Royal Observatory at Greenwich [36] Charles II appoints John Flamsteed to post of Astronomer Royal [25] [June] Foundation stone laid for the new St Paul's Cathedral, London
1676 AD	The Apothecaries Company founds the Chelsea Physic Garden [25]
1681 AD	Kangxi emperor suppresses Ming revolt in China [41]
1682 AD	Charles II of England buys back Chelsea College from the Royal Society and creates a home for old soldiers [36] Jonathan Wild, thief and fence, born in Wolverhapton, Staffs [37]
1683 AD	Elizabeth Hare burnt alive for 'coining' in Bunhill Fields, London [37]
1684 AD	Dr Edward Tyson becomes the visiting physician at Bethlem Hospital, London following the retirement of Thomas Allen [34]
1685 AD	Monmouth Rebellion in England [29] [6 February] Charles II of England dies peacefully in London [36]
1690 AD	Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosphy by Anne, Viscountess Conway, published posthumously [36] Calcutta chosen as a British trading post [38]
1692 AD	Dutch physician JB van Helmont, introduces usque ad deliquum electric shock treatment [34]
1697 - 1764 AD	William Hogarth, painter [34]
1698 AD	Private Act enabled the improvement of the River Lea (England) [15]
1701 - 1770 AD	Alexander Cruden, Scottish bookseller [34]
1702 AD	Jack Sheppard, highwayman, born in Spitalfields, London [37]
1703 AD	Defoe pilloried for his pampheltt The shortest way with the Dissenters [37] Charles de St Evremond, French critic, dies in exile in London [36]
1703 - 1776 AD	William Battie, classical scholar, physician and early psychiatrist [34]
1704 AD	A Tale of a Tub by Jonathan Swift published [34]
1707 AD	Act of Union between England and Scotland [36] Aurangzeb, the last of the great Mogul emperors, dies [38]
1708 - 1778 AD	William Pitt the Elder, statesman [34]
1709 - 1784 AD	Samuel Johnson, author and creator of the dictionary [34]
1711 AD	St Paul's Cathedral completed [36]
1712 AD	St Petersburg proclaimed a city by Czar Peter the Great [30] Chinese Kangxi emperor freezes tax assessments [41]
1714 AD	Longitude Act passed in England [25] [26 February] Jonathan Swift elected governor of Bethlem Hospital, London [34]
1717 AD	Emperor Farrukhsiyar grants the East india Company extensive commercial privileges in Bengal [38]
1718 - 1807 AD	Dr Francis Willis who claimed to have cured the madness of King George III [34]
1720 AD	Anthony Hamilton dies a bachelor in St germain, Paris [36]
1721 - 1759 AD	William Collins, poet [34]
1722 AD	Chinese Kangxi emperor dies and succeeded by Yongzheng emperor [41]
1724 AD	Around 1160 miles of English rivers navigable [15] [23 November] Jack Sheppard, highwayman, hanged in London [37]
1725 AD	York traders fight a Bill to improve Aire & Calder rivers [15] Robert Clive ("of India") born in Shropshire [38]
1726 AD	[9 May] Catherine Hayes (nee Hall) executed in London, by burning for the murder of her husband [37]
1728 AD	'Falcon' possibly invents first punched card loom [23] Jonathan Wild, thief and fence, executed in London [37]
1730 AD	Onania or The Heinous Sin of Self-Pollution by Anonymous, published [34]
1731 - 1797 AD	Dr Richard Warren, society doctor [34]
1733 AD	The Rake's Progress painted by William Hogarth [34]
1736 AD	Chinese Yongzheng emperor dies and uis succeeded by Qianlong emperor 41]
1737 AD	Footman's Riot at Drury Lane, sparked by the removal of the free list for footmen at the Theatre Royal [37]
1738 AD	The Freemasons split into two distinct groups in Great Britain: In England, the Modern Rite and in Scotland, the Ancient Rite [30]
1739 AD	The Mogul's peacock throne in Delhi looted by Nadir Shah of Persia [38] [10 April] Dick Turpin executed at York [37]
1741 AD	Jacques de Vaucanson appointed inspector of French silk factories [23]
1742 AD	[June] Robert Ramsay, thief, exectued at Tyburn, London [37]
1743 AD	[2 June] Guiseppe Balsamo (Count Cagliostro) is born in Palermo, Sicily [30]
1743 - 1823 AD	English architect, James Grandon [34]
1744 AD	First seat of the Saudi royal dynasty at Diriyah [13] The East India Company loans the British Government £1m [38] War between Britain and France [38]
1746 AD	[25 August] Matthew Henderson hanged at Tyburn for the murder of Lady Dalrymple [37]
1747 AD	Plowmen, near Piacenza, unearth the tabula alimentaria (bronze tablet) [28]
1750 AD	Casanova initiated into the Freemasons at Grand Orient Lodge of Lyons [30] [8 March] An earthquake strikes London [34]
1751 AD	St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics in London with William Battie as founder [34] The Defence of Arcot, India [38]
1751 - 1835 AD	Dr John Willis, son of Dr Francis Willis [34]
1752 AD	[7 July] Joseph-Marie Jacquard born in St Nizier, La Presqu'ile, Lyon, France [23]
1753 AD	Benjamin Babbage (father of Charles) born in Totnes, Devon, England [23] Analysis of Beauty by William Hogarth published [34]
1754 AD	Benjamin Babbage (grandfather of Charles) serves as mayor of Totnes, Devon, England [23]
1756 AD	Countess Jeanne de Valois de Saint-Remy de la Motte born near French village of Bar-sur-Aube [30] The Subtil Medium Prov'd by Richard Lovett, advocating the use of electricity in medicine, published [34] [20 June] Siraj ud-Danla orders the occupation of East India Company bases at Kasimbazar and Calcutta, placing the prisoners in, what becomes known as, The Black Hole of Calcutta [38]
1757 AD	12 mile Sankey Brook navigation opens in South Lancashire [15] [January] The first Indian battalion, The Lal Paltan or Red Regiment, formed in Calcutta by Robert Clive [38]
1757 - 1829 AD	William Blake, poet and engraver [34]
1758 AD	Treatise on Madness by William Battie, published [34]
1759 AD	Francis Willis qualifies as a physician in England [34]
1760-1820 AD	Reign of George III in Britain [34]
1762 AD	Catherine the Great overthrows Czar Peter III to become the Russian ruler [30] The Press Yard at Newgate Prison burns, killing two prisoners [37] [15 July] Antoinette Jacquard (mother of Joseph-Marie) dies [23]
1764 AD	[23 October] The East india Company forces defeat Mir Kasim's Bengal army at Buxar [38]
1764-1847 AD	Mary Lamb, sister of Charles [34]
1765 AD	[20 January] Clemence Jacquard (sister of Joseph-Marie) marries Jean-Marie Berret [23]
1766 AD	The site of Olympia discovered by Richard Chandler [27]
1768 AD	[20 April] Lorenza Seraphina Feliciani marries Guiseppe Balsamo in Rome [30]
1769-1812 AD	Napoleon Bonaparte (Napoleon I of France) [20]
1772 AD	Mersey & Severn rivers linked by canal [15] Jean-Charles Jacquard (father of Joseph-Marie) dies [23] The press, as a form of execution, is abolished [37]
1773 AD	The English Malady or A Treatise of Nervous Diseases of all Kinds by George Cheyne published [25] The Pugachev Rebellion in Russia [30]
1774 AD	Louis XVI becomes king of France [30]
1774-1785 AD	Warren Hastings serves as India's first Governor-General [38]
1775 AD	John Cox's mechanical museum in London, closes [25]
1776 AD	Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations published [23] The Bavarian Illuminati founded by Adam Weishaupt [30] [12 April] Guiseppe Balsamo, as Joseph Cagliostro, admitted as a Freemason of the Esperance Lodge in London [30] [14 November] Guiseppe Balsamo successfully predicts the numbers for the London Lottery [30]
1777 AD	Trent & Mersey rivers linked by canal [15] [17 March] Patrick Bronte born [24]
1778 AD	Frederick von Medem dies in Mitau, Latvia [30] Catholic Relief Act introduced in Britain by Sir George Savile [34] [26 July] Joseph-Marie Jacquard marries Claudine Boichon [23]
1779 AD	1st Maratha War in India [38] [April] Jean-Marie Jacquard (son of Joseph-Marie) born [23]
1780 AD	Mary Somerville (nee Fairfax) born in Scotland [25] [2-10 June] Anti-Catholic Gordon Riots in London as a result of the Catholic Relief Act and following George Gordon's call for its repeal [30][34]
1781 AD	William Herschel discovers Uranus [23] The Inquisition Tribunal sacks Casanova and he leaves Venice [30]
1783 AD	[15 April] Maria Branwell born [24] [29 August] William Ryland, forger, is the last person to be hanged at Tyburn [37]
1784 AD	Augusta, Byron's half-sister born [25] Public executions cease at Tyburn and are moved to Newgate prison [37] The India Act is passed in England [38]
1785 AD	Count Cagliostro imprisoned in the Bastille, Paris [30]
1786 AD	Goethe visits Palermo, Sicily [30] [2 August] Margaret Nicholson attempts to stab King George III in London [34]
1787 AD	The Dog & Duck Tavern ("The Surrey College of Crime") loses its license [34] [13 May] The First Fleet leaves for Botany Bay [35]
1788 AD	[22 January] Byron born [25]
1789 AD	Thames & Severn rivers linked by canal [15] French Revolution [19] A Treatise on the Real Cause and Cure of Insanity by Andrew Harper, published [34] [June] Major-General Sir Hugh Massy Wheeler born in Ireland [38] [14 July] Fall of the Bastille in Paris [30]
1790 AD	First US census [23] Tallyrand starts a debate for metrification in Paris which the French Academy adopted [25]
1791 AD	The History and Antiquities of the Country of Somerset by Reverend John Collinson published [25] Benjamin Babbage (father of Charles) and wife move to London [23] [26 December] Charles Babbage born in London [23]
1792 AD	Observations on Maniacal Disorders by William Pargeter, published [34] Lieutenant-General Sir Colin Campbell born in Glasgow [38]
1793 AD	Siege of Lyon [23] French revolutionaries introduce new calendar in France [23][25] Lord George Gordon (of the Gordon Riots) dies of gaol fever in Newgate prison [37] British government sends a trade mission to Qing court in Beijing [41] [January] King Louis XVI of France executed [19]
1795 AD	[26 August] Guiseppe Balsamo (Count Cagliostro) dies of a stroke in the San Leo prison, Italy [30]
1797 AD	French revolutionaries overun Worms, France [23] Coleridge write Kubla Khan in Colbone, Exeter [25] Casanova dies [30] Patrick Walsh leads a mutiny aboard HMS Hermoine [34] The Bank of England produces bank notes less than £5 in value for the first time [37]
1798 AD	Lyrical Ballads by Coleridge and Wordsworth published [25]
1798-1805 AD	Lord Wellesley serves as Governor-General of India [38]
1799 AD	Napoleon Bonaparte comes to power [23] Muslim ruller of Mysore, Tipu Sultan, defeated [38] The Hindu principality of Tanjore annexed [38] The Rosetta Stone found in Egypt by the French army [40] Chinese Qianlong emperor dies [41] [June] The metre is formally established [25] [23 August] Napoleon seizes control of the French Government [19]
1800 AD	[16 May] James Hadfield attempts to shoot King George III in London [34] [23 December] Joseph-Marie Jacquard takes out first patent for a new loom [23]
1801 AD	Richard Trevithick builds first steam engine with locomotive power [15] Joseph-Marie Jacquard presents treadle-loom at the Second Exhibition of French Industry in Paris and wins bronze [23] Major-General Sir hugh Rose born in Berlin to a Scottish diplomat [38] [25 September] Jean-Antoine Chaptal was French Minister of the Interior [23]
1802 AD	The French Society for the Furtherance of National Industry sponsors a prize for a loom to make fishing nets which is won by Joseph-Marie Jacquard [23] [25 March] Treaty of Amiens between France and Britain [19]
1803 AD	John Joseph Merlin, 'engineering wizard', and founder of a mechanical museum in London, dies [25] Thomas Weeks founds the Weeks's Mechanical Museum in Tichborne Street, London [25]
1803-1804 AD	Second Maratha War in India [38]
1803-1815 AD	Napoleonic Wars [19]
1804 AD	The Jacquard Loom first patented [23] The British station at Meerut, Upper Doab, India, established [38] [18 May] Napoleon declares France an Empire [19] [2 December] Napoleon declares himself Emperor of France [19][23]
1804-1814 AD	Napoleon Bonaparte reigns in france [23]
1805 AD	Sir Nathaniel Conant leads the Police Horse Patrol, reducing the number of highwaymen in England [37] [18 April] Napoleon Bonaparte and Josephine visit Joseph-Marie Jacquard in Lyon [23]
1806 AD	Sir henry Lawrence of the East India Company, born in Ceylon [38] [1 January] France returns to the Gregorian calendar [23][25]
1807 AD	Samuel Grieg, Mary Somerville's first husband, dies [25]
1808 AD	County Asylums Act passed in Britain [34]
1810 AD	Charles Babbage attends Trinity College, Oxford [23] George Medhurst proposes the Atmospheric Principle, a railway propulsion system that uses a vacuum [25] Illustrations of Madness by apothecary, John Haslam, published [34] Lieutenant-Colonel James Neill born in Ayrshire [38]
1811 AD	The Regency Bill receives royal assent [34]
1812 AD	Charles ("Carlo") Canning born in England [38][10 March] Childe Harold's Pilgrimage by Byron published [25] [11 May] British Prime Minister Spencer Perceval assassinated by John Bellingham [34] [29 December] Patrick Bronte marries Maria Branwell [24]
1813 AD	[December] York Asylum burns down, killing four patients and destroying all records [34]
1814 AD	Charles Babbage graduates from Trinity College Oxford with a BA [23] Glasgow Asylum opens based on Jeremy Bentham's 'Panopticon' design [34] [2 July] Charles Babbage marries Georgiana Whitmore [23]
1814-1815 AD	1st Nepal War [38]
1815 AD	Corn Law passed in England [25][34] [Spring] Napoleon Bonaparte escapes from Elba [40] [2 January] Byron marries Annabella Milbanke in Seaham [25] [5 January] Byron marries Annabella Milbanke in Seaham [23] [13 March] Napoleon declared an outlaw by the Congress of Vienna [18] [18 June] Battle of Waterloo [18] [10 December] Ada Byron (later Lovelace) born [23] christened Augusta Ada Byron [25]
1816 AD	Cholera pandemic spreads from India to Europe [25] Charles Babbage elected member of the Royal Society [23] Kubla Khan by Coleridge published [25] British government sends a trade mission to Qing court in Beijing [41] [15 January] Annabella leaves Byron [25] [March] Earthquake in the Midlands [25] [21 April] Charlotte Bronte born [24] [25 April] Byron leaves England from Dover for the final time [25]
1817 AD	[June] Pentrich Revolution Derbyshire, England) [10] [26 June] Patrick Branwell Bronte born [24]
1817-1818 AD	3rd Maratha War in India [38]
1817-1886 AD	Richard Dadd, artist [34]
1818 AD	Frankenstien by Mary Shelley, published [34] David Davis attempts to shoot Lord Palmerston, British Secretary of War, wounding him [34] The Bank of England withdraws all notes valued less than £5 as a result of widespread forgeries [37] [30 July] Emily Jane Bronte born [24]
1819 AD	Joseph-Marie Jacquard receives Cross of the Legion of Honour from the French government [23] Charles Babbage and John Herschel travel to france [23] Charles Babbage meets French astronomer and scientist Francois Jean Dominique Arago [23]
1820 AD	Bronte family move into Haworth Parsonage [24] Danish physicist Hans Christen Oersted shows how an electrical current can create a magnetic field [25] [17 January] Anne Bronte born [24]
1820-1829 AD	Thomas de Calmar invents the Arithmometer, the world's first calculator [23]
1821 AD	[15 September] Maria Bronte (nee Branwell) dies [24]
1821-1833 AD	Charles Babbage works on the Difference Engine [23]
1822 AD	Charles Babbage announces completion of working model of his Difference Machine to the Royal Astronimcal Society [23][25] Phrenological Society set up by George Combe in London [25] [28 January] Judith Millbanke (Annabella's mother) dies [25]
1823 AD	Treasury grants Charles Babbage £1500 to fund construction of the Difference Engine [23] The Reversionary Interest Society set up [25]
1824 AD	Charles Babbage invited to set up The Protector, a short lived assurance company [25] [18 April] Byron dies of marsh fever at Missolonghi, Greece [25] [19 April] Byron dies at Missolonghi, Greece [23] [29 June] Byron's body arrives in London aboard the Florida [25]
1825 AD	Claudine Jacquard (wife of Joseph-Marie) dies [23]
1826 AD	Ada & Annabella Byron leave England on a foreign tour [25] University of London founded [25] Governor Darling takes office in New South Wales, Australia [35] History of England by John Lingard, published [36]
1827 AD	[27 February] Benjamin Babbage (father of Charles) dies in London [23] [8 August] George Canning, British Prime Minister, dies [38] [October] Ada & Annabella Byron return to England from their foreign tour [25]
1827-1835 AD	Lord William Bentinck serves as Governor-General of India [38]
1828 AD	Charles Babbage moves into 1 Dorset Street, Marylebone, London [23] Longitude Board disbanded [25] Lady Caroline Lamb dies [25] William Lamb becomes Lord Melbourne on the death of his father [25] The Fairy Mythology by Thomas Keightley published [25] Madness Act passed in Britain [34] Lakshmi Bai, the Rani of Jhansi, born in Benares, India [38]
1829 AD	Ada Byron struck down by a mystery illness which leaves her temporarily blind and unable to walk [25] 2nd cholera pandemic spreads through Europe UK & USA [25] Abolition of suttee (self-immolation by high caste widows) in India [38]
1830's AD	Excavation of Pompeii begins [21]
1830 AD	[April] The first Bushranger Act passed in New South Wales, Australia [35]
1831 AD	Philip Webb (architect) born in Oxford [22] Steam locomotive, John Bull completed by Robert Stephenson and Co for the US [23] The Middlesex County Pauper Lunatic Asylum opens at Hanwell [34]
1832 AD	Charles Babbage completes one seventh of his Difference Machine [23] Charles Babbage writes the survey "On the economy of machinery and manufacturers" [25] Reform Act in Britain Height of cholera epidemic in London, kills 7,000 [25]
1833 AD	[April] Elisa von der Recke dies [30] [10 May] Ada Byron presented to King William IV & Queen Adelaide as a debutante in London [25] [5 June] Ada Byron meets Charles Babbage [23] [17 June] First time Ada Byron sees Babbage's Difference Engine [25]
1834 AD	Last canal of the 'canal mania' completed in England [15] Thomas Weeks's Mechanical Museum closes [25] Poor Law Amendment Act passed in England [25] Slavery is abolished in the British Empire [35] Robert Wardell, barrister and former editor of the Australian newspaper, murdered by John Jenkins [35] [7 August] Joseph-Marie Jacquard dies [23]
1835 AD	William Beale (James Beale's grandfather) becomes director of the Birmingham and Derby Railway [22] George Biddell Airy appointed Astronomer Royal [23] Ada Byron (later Lovelace) marries Lord William King [23] Francis Baily publishes a biography of astronomer royal, John Flamsteed [25] Lord William Bentinck abolishes corporal punishment in the native Indian army [38] [June] William King proposes to Ada Byron [25]
1835 - 1909 AD	Cesare Lombrosso, forensic psychologist [34]
1836 AD	University of London changes its name to University college and receives royal charter [25] Charles Darwin returns to England aboard the Beagle [25] [12 May] Ada & William King have son, Byron [25] [12 May] Solar eclipse where Baily's Beads are first observed [25] [30 June] Charles Babbage decides to use Jacquard loom punch cards for his Analytical Engine [23]
1837 AD	English Queen Victoria begins her reign [23] Venetia by Benjamin Disraeli published [25] Ada & William King have a daughter, Annabella [25] Andrew Cross, experimenting with electricity, claims to have created spontaneous generation [25] The amount of crimes which carried the death penalty is reduced from over 200 to just 7 [37] Sir Henry Lawrence marries his cousin, Honoria [38] Bahadur Shah II becomes honorary King of Delhi [38] The Canadian Insurrections [38]
1838 AD	Didier Petit & Co weave Jacquard's portrait in Lyons [23] Lord William King becomes the Earl of Lovelace [23][25] Mary Somerville moves to Italy [25]
1839 AD	Augustus de Morgan becomes Ada Lovelace's tutor [25] Dr James Kay appointed secretary of a committee tasked with a study into government education [25] George Bradshaw publishes first railway timetable [25] Jack Sheppard by William Harrison Ainsworth, published [34] Lin Zexu becomes Chinese Commissioner of Trade in Guangzhou and destroys over 21,000 chests of opium [41] First Opium War [41] [July] Ada & William Lovelace have a son, Ralph [25]
1840 AD	James Beale, solicitor, born in Edgbaston [22] Charles Babbage attends a meeting of scientists in Turin, Italy [23] Augustus de Morgan tutors Ada Lovelace [23] William King becomes Lord Lieutenant of Surrey [25] Lord Lovelace (William King) purchases East Horsley Place from William Currie [25] Edward Oxford attempts to shoot Queen Victoria [34] [Spring] Charles Babbage starts displaying Jacquard's woven portrait [23]
1840 - 1902 AD	Richard von Kraft-Ebing, German psychiatrist [34]
1841 AD	South Western line reaches Weybridge from London [25] Thomas Cook starts cheap group day trips to temperance clubs [25]
1842 AD	Robert Peel, founder of the Conservative Party, is elected Prime Minister of Great Britain [23] Turner paints Snow storm [25] James Braid coins the word 'hypnotism' [25] The Nervous System and its Functions by Herbert Mayo published [25] John Francis attempts to shoot Queen Victoria [34] Lakshmi Bai marries the Maharaja of Jhansi [38] Treaty of Nanjing (marking the end of the First Opium War) between Britain and China gives Hong Kong to Britain [41]
1842 - 1921 AD	Dr George Henry Savage, specialist in madness [34]
1843 AD	The first tunnel under a river, the Thames Tunnel, is completed [25] Daniel McNaughton, accidentally assassinates Sir Edward Drummond, private secretary to Sir Robert Peel, the British Home Secretary [34]
1843-1849 AD	Lord Gough serves as Commander-in-Chief of India [38]
1844 AD	Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation by Robert Chalmers published [25]
1845 AD	Atmospheric Railway opens on London to Croydon line [25] The Lunacy Act passed in britain [34] The Alleged Lunatics Friendly Society formed in London [34] Governor-General Lord Hardinge reintroduces corporal punishment in the native Indian army [38] [December] The Battle of Ferozshah in India, during 1st Sikh War [38]
1846 AD	German astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle discovers Neptune [23] Sir Henry Lawrence is appointed Resident at Lahore [38] The Corps of Guides formed in India [38] Maximum number of lashes permitted in British Army is set at 500 [38]
1847 AD	[19 October] Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte published [23][24] [December] Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte [24]
1848 AD	Sir Henry Lawrence knighted [38] [June] The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Emily Bronte [24] [24 September] Partrick Branwell Bronte dies [24] [19 December] Emily Jane Bronte dies [24]
1848-1849 AD	2nd Sikh War in India [38]
1849 AD	Medora, half sister to Ada Lovelace dies of smallpox [25] Following the annexation of the Punjab, Sir Henry Lawrence is appointed senior member of its board of administration [38] [28 May] Anne Bronte dies [24] [26 October] Shirley by Charlotte Bronte as Currer Bell [24]
1850 AD	The Taiping Rebellion in China [41]
1850-1856 AD	General Sir William Gomm serves as Commander-in-Chief of India [38]
1851 AD	Baji Rao II, last Peshwa of the Maratha Confederacy, dies [38]
1852 AD	Augustus Pugin committed to Bethlem [34] Pentonville prison opens [37] [27 November] Ada Lovelace dies [23][25]
1853 AD	William Shanks calculates pi to 530 decimal places with an error at 528 [23] Charles Dickens visits Park House Asylum, Highgate, London [34]
1853-1860 AD	Lord Elphinstone serves as Governor of Bombay [38]
1854 AD	The Taiping Rebellion occupies Nanjing and proclaims it their capital [41] [29 June] Charlotte Bronte marries Arthur Bell Nichols [24]
1855 AD	Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens published [23] Lord Canning becomes Governor-General of India [38] [31 March] Charlotte Bronte dies [24]
1856-1857 AD	Anglo-Persian War [38]
1857 AD	The Life of Charlotte Bronte by Elizabeth Gaskell [24] [8 April] Mangal Pande hanged for mutiny at Barrackpore, India [38] [10 May] Indian Mutiny at Meerhat, India begins [38] [6 July] Act XIV passed in Britain allowing the execution of Indians suspected of rebellion [38]
1858 AD	[July] The Peel Commission in London is set up to advise on the reorganisation of the Indian Army [38] [August] William Morris marries Jane Burden [22] [1 November] Formal announcement that authority over India will pass from the East India Company to the British crown [38] [December] Brigadier-General John Jacob dies [38]
1858-1860 AD	Second Opium War [41]
1859 AD	[8 July] 'State of Peace' officially declared throughout India [38]
1860 AD	Tongzhi emperor succeeds to Qing throne in China [41] [29 February] Herman Hollerith born in Buffalo, New York, US [23]
1860-1869 AD	The slide rule invented [23]
1861 AD	[7 June] Patrick Bronte dies [24]
1864 AD	Arts and Crafts cabinetmaker, Ernest Gimson born [22] Government forces retake Nanjing from Taiping rebels [41]
1865-1908 AD	Irishman, Robert Hart, is head of the Chinese Maritime Customs Office [41]
1868 AD	Opening of the iron and glass train shed at St Pancras, designed by WH Barlow [22]
1870 AD	Charles Dickens dies [23] Lady Byron Vindicated by Harriet Beecher Stowe published [25]
1871 AD	Elementary Education Act (Britain) [24] [18 October] Charles Babbage dies [23]
1872 AD	Mary Somerville dies [25]
1873 AD	Upward Gorse at Caterham in Surrey, built by Philip Webb for Sir John Tomes [22]
1874 AD	Thomas Watson born in East Campbell, New York, USA [23] Qing emperor Tongzhi dies in China [41]
1878 - 1888 AD	Dr George Henry Savage serves as superintendent at Bethlem Hospital, London [34]
1880 AD	Newgate prison closes [37]
1881 AD	George Biddell Airy ceases as Astronomer Royal [23] William J Hammer discovers the 'Edison Effect' which, ultimately, leads to valve technology [23]
1881-1886 AD	Clouds in Wiltshire, designed by Philip Webb, built for Hon Percy and Madeline Wyndham [22]
1882 AD	Passing of the Ancient Monuments Protection Act [22] Signs of the Times by Thomas Carlyle published [23] Herman Hollerith takes up a post at MIT [23]
1884 AD	Branch line from Oxted to East Grinstead opened [22]
1886 AD	Felt and Tarrant start selling the Comptometer in the USA [23]
1886-1967 AD	Siegfried Sasson, war poet [34]
1890 AD	US census reports tabulated on Herman Hollerith's Tabulation Machines [23]
1891 AD	[11 April] Philip Webb (with James and Margaret Beale) pays his first visit to the site for Standen House [22]
1892-1894 AD	Standen House built for London Solicitor James Beale [22]
1893 AD	The Bronte Society founded in Bradford [24] William King (Lord Lovelace) dies [25]
1893-1918 AD	Wilfred Owen, poet [34]
1894-1895 AD	Japanese forces defeat Qing empire in Korea [41]
1896 AD	Herman Hollerith creates the Tabulation Machine Company [23] Herman Hollerith gains contract to use his Tabulation Machines in Russian census [23] Olympic games revived by French baron Pierre de Coubertin [27] Sun Yat-Sen seized and held in Qing embassy in London [41]
1896 - 1964 AD	Dorothy Lawrence who, disguised as Private Dennis Smith, fought in World War I [34]
1898 AD	Thomas Watson joins sales staff at the National Cash Register Company in Dalton, Ohio, USA [23]
1899 AD	Malaria epidemic in China [41] US defeats Spain and takes over the Philippines [41] Beginning of the Boxer Rebellion in China [41] [summer] Severe drought in China [41]
1899-1902 AD	The Boer War in South Africa [17]
1899-1980 AD	Antonia White, novelist [34]
1900 AD	[8 March] Howard Hathaway Aiken born in Hoboken, New Jersy, USA [23]
1901 AD	First turbine driven passenger vessel, King Edward, introduced on the River Clyde [15] An eight nation invasion force takes Beijing [41]
1905 AD	Civil service examination abolished in China [41]
1905-1919 AD	Sir William Osler is regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford [34]
1908 AD	Qing dowager empress, Cixi dies in China [41]
1910 AD	The Top Terrace at Standen House, designed by J Cheal & Sons completed [22]
1911 AD	James Powers creates Powers Accounting Machine Company [23] [5 July] Charles Ranlegh Flint creates the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (C-T-R) from The Tabulating Machine Company, the International Time Recording Company, the Computing Scale Company and the Bundy Manufacturing Company [23] [10 October] Revolutionaries declare war against the Qing State in Wurchang, China [41]
1912 AD	Titanic sinks [9] First democratic elections in China [41] [12 February] Yuan Shikai assumes the presidency of a new empire in China [41]
1913 AD	Thomas Watson sacked from National Cash Register Company (NCR) [23] [20 March] Song Jiaoren, leader of the Chinese opposition, assassinated at Shanghai station [41]
1914 AD	[28 June] Archduke Ferdinand assassinated [15 December] Herman Hollerith resigns from the board of the Tabulating Machine Company [23]
1914-1918 AD	First World War
1915 AD	Cambridge psychologist, CS Myers, invents the term 'shell shock' [34]
1916 AD	Chinese president Yuan Shikai dies of kidney failure [41]
1916-1927 AD	A power vaccuum in China, created by the death of Yuan Shikai, leads to the Warlord Era [41]
1917 AD	Bolshevik Revolution in Russia [41]
1919 AD	Arts and Crafts cabinetmaker, Ernest Gimson dies [22] Clair D Lake designs the first automatic printing tabulator [23] [3 May] 3,000 Chinese students march to the Forbidden City to protest the trade concessions within the Versailles Treaty (May the 4th Movement) [41]
1920 AD	Sun Yat-Sen begins meeting with the Russians communists (the Comintern) [41]
1921 AD	Discovery of a single tooth in Zhoukoudian, China, begins the Peking Man discovery [41]
1922 AD	Contents of Irish Public Record Office destroyed by fire [43]
1923 AD	Howard Hathaway Aiken awarded a BSc in electrical engineering from the University of Wisconsin [23] Chiang Kai-Shek studies Soviet government and party organisation methods in Russia [41]
1924 AD	The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (C-T-R) becomes International Business Machines (IBM) [23]
1925 AD	[12 March] Sun Yat-Sen dies of liver cancer in Beijing [41] [30 May] Japanese troops fire on demonstrating Chinese workers in Shanghai creating the May 30th Movement [41] [August] Liao Zhongkai assassinated in China, eliminating Chiang Kai-Shek's main obstacle to leadership of the Nationalist Party [41]
1926 AD	[June] Chiang Kai-Shek appointed commander-in-chief of the New Revolutionary Army in China [41] [July] The National Revolutionary Army launches the Northern Expedition [41]
1927 AD	Remington Rand purchases Powers Accounting Machine Company [23] [12 April] Chiang Kai-Shek's forces strike against the Chinese communists, killing thousands [41] [December] Chiang Kai-Shek marries Soong Meiling, sister of Sun Yat-Sen's widow [41]
1927 - 1989 AD	RD Laing, psychiatrist [34]
1928 AD	Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin [34]
1929 AD	Wall Street Crash [23] [October] 25,000 rickshaw pullers riot in Beijing, attacking the newly installed electric trains [41] [17 November] Herman Hollerith dies [23]
1930 AD	[October] Chiang Kai-Shek baptised as a Christian [41]
1933 AD	Howard Hathaway Aiken enrols at Harvard [23]
1933-1939 AD	Roosevelt's New Deal implemented [23]
1934 AD	The Flying Scotsman reaches 100 mph on a stretch of track south of Grantham [15] [October] The beginning of the Long March in China [41]
1935 AD	IBM dominates market for tabulating machines with 85% share [23] Social Security Act in USA [23] [October] The end of the Long March in China [41]
1937 AD	Alan Turing publishes a paper which becomes the theoretical 'Turing Machine' [23] The Rape of Nanjing, China [41] [22 April] Howard Hathaway Aiken presents plans for the first automatic calculator to Monroe Calculating Company, who reject it [23]
1938 AD	Konrad Zuse completes a prototype binary programmable calculator [23]
1939 AD	Sigmund Freud dies in Hampstead, London [34] [1 January] William Hewlett & David Packard found HP [23]
1939-1945 AD	Second World War
1941 AD	[7 December] Japan attacks Pearl Harbour [41]
1943 AD	First test problem run on world's first automatic digital device (Harvard Mark I - IBM) [23]
1944 AD	[7 August] Harvard University announces first computer - IBM [23]
1945 AD	Allied bombing of Pompeii [21]
1947 AD	Queen Elizabeth II of England marries Philip [23] The transistor invented [23] Indian Independence [38]
1949 AD	[13 October] Mao Zedong proclaims the founding of the People's Republic of China [41]
1950 AD	[25 June] Kim Il-Sung launches an invasion from North to South Korea, beginning the Korean War [41]
1953 AD	A truce ends the Korean War [41] Joseph Stalin dies [41]
1954 AD	Beyond the Glass by Antonia White, published [34]
1955 AD	[15 December] Jens Olsen's astronomical clock in Copenhagen town hall, Denmark, is set in motion [23]
1964 AD	China detonates it's first atomic bomb [41]
1972 AD	Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger attend extensive talks in Beijing with Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai [41]
1976 AD	[9 September] Mao Zedong dies [41]
1985 AD	Titanic found [9]
1991 AD	Otzi discovered below Hauslabjoch [8] Charles Babbage's Difference Engine completely built by the Science Museum, London [25]
1997 AD	Hong Kong returned to China, ending British rule [41]
2009 AD	[May] Millvina Dean, last survivor of the Titanic dies at 97 [12]

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