A timeline of some cherry-picked historic events from 2800 BC to 2023 AD. Data for this project was gathered partly by GitHub Copilot /: so false information could be in the data.
Dataset available in the repo: historic_events.csv
| index | type | count |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | birth | 83 |
| 1 | technology | 40 |
| 2 | programming language | 34 |
| 3 | construction | 27 |
| 4 | event | 18 |
| 5 | invention | 8 |
🟢 2580 BC Pyramids of Giza construction
⚪ 624 BC Thales birth
⚪ 570 BC Pythagoras birth
⚪ 559 BC Cyrus the Great birth
🟢 550 BC Temple of Artemis construction
🟢 532 BC Hagia Sophia construction
⚪ 522 BC Darius I birth
🟢 518 BC Persepolis construction
⚪ 486 BC Xerxes I birth
⚪ 480 BC Leonidas birth
⚪ 470 BC Socrates birth
🟢 460 BC Statue of Zeus construction
🟢 447 BC Parthenon construction
⚪ 427 BC Plato birth
⚪ 384 BC Aristotle birth
🟢 350 BC Mausoleum at Halicarnassus construction
⚪ 300 BC Euclid birth
⚪ 287 BC Archemides birth
🟢 280 BC Lighthouse of Alexandria construction
🟢 280 BC Colossus of Rhodes construction
🟢 250 BC Colossus of Alexandria construction
🟢 221 BC Great Wall of China construction
⚪ 0 AD Jesus Christ birth
🟢 80 AD Colosseum construction
⚪ 90 AD Ptolemy birth
⚪ 100 AD Julius Caesar birth
🔵 105 AD Paper invention
⚪ 356 AD Alexander the Great birth
⚪ 570 AD Mohammed birth
⚪ 780 AD Khwarizmi birth
⚪ 940 AD Ferdowsi birth
⚪ 980 AD Avicenna birth
⚪ 1048 AD Omar Khayyam birth
🟢 1078 AD Tower of London construction
⚪ 1141 AD Nezami Ganjavi birth
⚪ 1162 AD Genghis Khan birth
🟢 1163 AD Notre Dame construction
⚪ 1165 AD Altair Ibn-La'Ahad birth
⚪ 1170 AD Fibonacci birth
🟢 1173 AD Tower of Pisa construction
⚪ 1210 AD Saadi birth
⚪ 1325 AD Hafez birth
🟣 1400 AD Renaisance event
⚪ 1449 AD Lorenzo de Medici birth
⚪ 1451 AD Christopher Columbus birth
⚪ 1452 AD Leonardo da Vinci birth
⚪ 1459 AD Ezio Auditore birth
⚪ 1475 AD Michelangelo birth
🟣 1492 AD America Discovery event
🟢 1504 AD Davids Statue construction
🟢 1555 AD St. Basil's Cathedral construction
⚪ 1564 AD Galileo Galilei birth
⚪ 1564 AD William Shakespeare birth
⚪ 1571 AD Johannes Kepler birth
⚪ 1596 AD Rene Descartes birth
⚪ 1607 AD Fermat birth
🟢 1632 AD Taj Mahal construction
⚪ 1643 AD Isaac Newton birth
⚪ 1693 AD Edward Kenway birth
⚪ 1700 AD Johann Bernoulli birth
⚪ 1707 AD Leonard Euler birth
⚪ 1732 AD George Washington birth
⚪ 1736 AD James Watt birth
⚪ 1736 AD Joesph-Louis Lagrange birth
⚪ 1743 AD Antoine Lavoisier birth
⚪ 1749 AD Pierre-Simon Laplace birth
🟣 1760 AD Industrial Revolution event
⚪ 1768 AD Joseph Fourier birth
⚪ 1769 AD Napoleon Bonaparte birth
🟣 1776 AD American Revolution event
⚪ 1777 AD Carl Freidrich Gauss birth
⚪ 1781 AD Simeon Denis Poisson birth
🟣 1789 AD French Revolution event
🟢 1793 AD Louvre Museum construction
⚪ 1809 AD Charles Darwin birth
⚪ 1812 AD Charles Dickens birth
⚪ 1815 AD Ada Lovelace birth
⚪ 1818 AD Karl Marx birth
⚪ 1821 AD Dostoyevsky birth
⚪ 1831 AD Maxwell birth
⚪ 1834 AD Dimitri Mendeleev birth
⚪ 1844 AD Karl Benz birth
⚪ 1845 AD Wilhelm Rontgen birth
⚪ 1847 AD Thomas Edison birth
⚪ 1854 AD Henri Poincare birth
⚪ 1856 AD Nikola Tesla birth
⚪ 1857 AD Heinrich Hertz birth
🟢 1859 AD Big Ben construction
🟣 1861 AD America Civil War event
⚪ 1867 AD Marie Curie birth
🔵 1876 AD Telephone invention
⚪ 1879 AD Albert Einstein birth
⚪ 1881 AD Alexander Fleming birth
⚪ 1885 AD Niels Bohr birth
🟢 1886 AD Statue of Liberty construction
⚪ 1887 AD Erwin Schrodinger birth
⚪ 1887 AD Henry Mosely birth
🟢 1889 AD Eiffel Tower construction
⚪ 1889 AD Hubble birth
🔵 1895 AD Radio invention
⚪ 1901 AD Werner Heisenberg birth
⚪ 1901 AD Enrico Fermi birth
⚪ 1902 AD Paul Dirac birth
⚪ 1912 AD Alan Turing birth
🟣 1914 AD WW I event
⚪ 1918 AD Richard Feynman birth
🔵 1927 AD Television invention
🟣 1933 AD Holocaust event
🔵 1936 AD Computer invention
🟢 1937 AD Golden Gate Bridge construction
🟣 1939 AD WW II event
⚪ 1942 AD Stephen Hawking birth
🟣 1947 AD Cold War event
🟣 1950 AD Korean War event
🟣 1955 AD Vietnam War event
⚪ 1955 AD Steve Jobs birth
⚪ 1955 AD Bill Gates birth
🟡 1956 AD Artificial Intelligence technology
🔵 1957 AD Satellite invention
🔴 1958 AD Lisp programming language
⚪ 1964 AD Jeff Bezos birth
🔵 1969 AD Internet invention
⚪ 1971 AD Elon Musk birth
🟢 1972 AD Twin Towers construction
🔴 1972 AD Prolog programming language
🔴 1972 AD C programming language
⚪ 1973 AD Larry Page birth
⚪ 1973 AD Sergey Brin birth
🔵 1973 AD GPS invention
🟡 1975 AD Digital Camera technology
🟡 1975 AD Microsoft technology
🟡 1976 AD Apple technology
🟡 1976 AD Computer Mouse technology
🟣 1979 AD Islamic Revolution event
🟡 1980 AD Quantum Computing technology
🟣 1980 AD Iran-Iraq War event
🔴 1983 AD C++ programming language
⚪ 1984 AD Mark Zuckerberg birth
🟡 1986 AD Walt Disney technology
🟡 1986 AD Pixar technology
🔴 1986 AD Erlang programming language
🔴 1987 AD Perl programming language
🟡 1988 AD Photoshop technology
🟣 1990 AD Gulf War event
🟡 1990 AD WWW technology
🔴 1990 AD Haskell programming language
🔴 1991 AD Python programming language
🟡 1992 AD OpenGL technology
🔴 1993 AD Lua programming language
🔴 1993 AD R programming language
🟡 1993 AD Nvidia technology
🟡 1994 AD Amazon technology
🔴 1995 AD Java programming language
🔴 1995 AD Ruby programming language
🔴 1995 AD Java programming language
🔴 1995 AD Javascript programming language
🔴 1995 AD PHP programming language
🟡 1995 AD DirectX technology
🔴 1996 AD OCaml programming language
🟡 1997 AD Netflix technology
🟡 1998 AD Google technology
⚪ 1999 AD Gholamreza Dar birth
🟢 1999 AD London Eye construction
🟢 1999 AD Burj al Arab construction
🔴 2000 AD C# programming language
🟣 2001 AD 911 event
🟡 2001 AD Wikipedia technology
🟣 2001 AD War on Terror event
🟡 2002 AD SpaceX technology
🟡 2003 AD Tesla technology
🔴 2003 AD Scala programming language
🟡 2004 AD Facebook technology
🔴 2005 AD F# programming language
🟡 2006 AD Twitter technology
🔴 2007 AD Clojure programming language
🟡 2007 AD Iphone technology
🟡 2008 AD Airbnb technology
🟡 2009 AD Uber technology
🔴 2009 AD Go programming language
🔴 2009 AD Node.js programming language
🟡 2009 AD Bitcoin technology
🟡 2010 AD Instagram technology
🔴 2010 AD Rust programming language
🟢 2010 AD Burj Khalifa construction
🔴 2011 AD Dart programming language
🟡 2011 AD Snapchat technology
🔴 2011 AD Kotlin programming language
🔴 2012 AD Julia programming language
🟡 2012 AD AlexNet technology
🟡 2012 AD GTX 680 technology
🔴 2012 AD Typescript programming language
🔴 2012 AD Elixir programming language
🟡 2013 AD Telegram technology
🟡 2013 AD GTX 780 technology
🔴 2013 AD React programming language
🔴 2014 AD Vue.js programming language
🔴 2014 AD Swift programming language
🟡 2014 AD GTX 980 technology
🔴 2016 AD Angular programming language
🔴 2016 AD Svelte programming language
🟡 2016 AD TikTok technology
🟡 2016 AD GTX 1080 technology
🟡 2017 AD Transformers technology
🟡 2018 AD RTX 2080 technology
🟡 2018 AD BERT technology
🔴 2019 AD Zig programming language
🟡 2020 AD GPT 3 technology
🟣 2020 AD COVID-19 event
🟡 2020 AD RTX 3080 technology
🟡 2022 AD RTX 4080 technology