0735 BC – 0718 BC

King Candaules of Lydia

Classical Greece

0510 BC 0323 BC
0509 BC 0027 BC

Roman Republic

Herodotus

0484 BC 0425 BC
0480 BC

Battle of Thermopylae

Thucydides

0460 BC 0395 BC
0440 BC

The Histories (c 440 BC)

The Parthenon

0438 BC
0411 BC

History of the Peloponnesian War

Aristotle

0384 BC 0322 BC
0353 BC 0323 BC

Alexander the Great

Roman Empire

0027 BC 0476 AD
1066

Battle of Hastings & Norman Conquest of England

Hundred Years War

1337 1453
1412 1431

Joan of Arc

“Renaissance” & Early Modern Period

1453 1789
1483 1546

Martin Luther

Henry VIII

1491 1547
1517

Luther’s “95 Theses” starts the Protestant Reformation

Oliver Cromwell

1599 1658
1609 1676

Gerrard Winstanley

Enlightenment & French Revolution/Napoleon

1637 1815
1638 1713

Louis XIV

English Civil War

1642 1651
1754 1793

Louis XVI

Marie Antoinette

1755 1793
1789

Edward Gibbon’s Decline of the Roman Empire

Storming of the Bastille

1789
1792 1868

Thaddeus Stevens

Sojourner Truth

1797 1893
1809 1865

Abraham Lincoln

Jean-Leon Gerome

1824 1904
1861 1877

US Civil War & Reconstruction

54th Massachusetts Infantry regiment

1863
1915

Birth of a Nation

Gone with the Wind

1939
1989

Glory