Date
|
Europe
|
Middle East
|
Asia
|
Americas
|
| B.C. |
| 3500 |
|
Egypt imports trees for
forest planting and creates a positon of chief forester
Keepers of the forests used in Assyria and Palestine
Sacred groves set aside and maintained in Lebanon |
|
|
| 3000 |
|
|
Timber Shortages in China |
|
| 2000 |
|
Timber Shortages in Eypt |
|
|
| A.D. |
| 1 |
Romans import tree seedlings from India, Africa, Spain, and Germany |
|
|
|
| 800 |
Timber shortages in central Europe |
|
|
|
| 1000 |
Timber shortages in Greece and Rome |
|
|
|
| 1165 |
Germany forbids removal of timber for agriculture |
|
|
|
| 1460 |
First recorded forest nursury, Scotland, raising trees to grow in the Highland Forest |
|
|
|
| 1500 |
|
|
|
King Nezahualcoyotl of the Aztecs enforces severe penalties for tresspass on the cheiftan's forest |
| 1637 |
|
|
|
Fuelwood shortages in the Massachusetts Bay Colony |
| 1664 |
John Evelyn publishes classic text book, Sylva |
|
|
|
| 1691 |
|
|
|
English Crown imposes the Broad Arrow Acts on it's colonies |
| 1825 |
National School of Forestry established in Nancy, France |
|
|
|
| 1827 |
War of the Demoiselles
male peasants, dressed as women, protest the violation of their rights in the forests of France |
|
|
|
