History Timeline

1 - 500 AD

3 St. Paul is born
14 Death of Augustus Caesar
46 Plutarch is born
57 First recorded contact between Japan and China
   Great Fire in Rome
68 - 69 Civil war in Rome, after death of Emperor Nero
70 Jerusalem is destroyed by Roman armies (Jerusalem at this time is the center of the Christian movement)
80 Coliseum completed in Rome
   Boadicea, leader of the Celts, rebels against the Romans in Britain
100 Greek translations of Old Testament made in Alexandria
   Birth of Ptolemy, whose explanations dominated scientific thought until the 16th century
105 Paper invented in China
120 Zhang Heng introduces the seismograph
121 - 180 Marcus Aurelius is emperor of Rome, champion of the poor
122 Hadrian's wall is built in Britain
150 Slavic people expand around Western Russia and Eastern Europe
166 - 167 Roman empire devastated by Black Plague
200 End of Han Dynasty in China
205 Plotinus is born
221 Sextus Julius Africanus writes the 'Chronologia' - a history of the world from    the 'creation' to AD 221.
224 Ardashir I founds the Sassanid dynasty in Persia, conquers Armenia, and establishes    Zoroastrianism as the official religion of Persia
262 Temple of Artemis destroyed by Goths
284 Diocletian becomes Roman emperor
300 - 900 Height of the Mayan civilization
   The Yamato civilization in Japan were building large burial structures, wider than the Pyramids of Egypt
312 Constantine the Great reunifies Rome, moves capital to Constantinople (now Istanbul, Turkey)
330 Beginnings of the Byzantine Empire
339 St. Ambrose is born
343 Birth of Kumarijiva
350 Huns invade southern Russia and occupy Ukraine
   Russia invaded by Huns and others until the mid 10th century
   Beginning of Middle Ages
   Saint Nicholas living
354 Birth of St. Augustine, greatest of all Latin Fathers and a great Western Doctor of the Church
360 Huns invade Europe
370 Birth of Alaric I (king of the Visigoths)
395 Alaric I invades Greece
396 Sparta destroyed by the Goths (King Alaric I of the Goths)
400 India has higher level of science and technology than Europe
   Beginning of the Gothic style
   Alaric I invades Italy
410 Alaric I invades Rome and pillages the city
432 St. Patrick introduces Christianity to Ireland
433 Attila the Hun invades Rome proper
450 Saxons of Germany begin invasions of Britain
   Birth of Alaric II (King of the Visigoths)
458 - 751 Merovingian dynasty rules in France
490 Persians defeated by the "White Huns"
500 Clovis, founder of France conquers most of France and Belgium. He    converts this area to Roman Catholic Christianity. He also founds the Merovingian dynasty