A chronological recollection of important events in History

  


B.C

Important Events

 

40,00,000

 

 

Use of stone tools in East Africa.

 

2,50,000

 

 

Stone Axe in Africa, Asia and Europe.

 

50,000

 

 

Animal fat was used in glowing by Mesopotamians.

 

 

45,000

 

 

Cave Paintings in Russia, Africa and Europe. 

 

30,000

 

 

Arrows were used in Sahara Desert region.

 

20,000

 

 

Bone needles were used in France.

 

12,000

 

 

Hand baskets were made in Central orient area.

 

11,000

 

 

Fish nets were made in Mediterranean region.

 

7,500

 

 

Ship was constructed near York Shire.

 

7,000

 

 

Mud pots in Iran.

 

6,000

 

 

Bone tools in Palestine.

 

4,000

 

 

Script in Mesopotamia.

 

3,500

 

 

Bronze and potters wheel in Mesopotamia.

Balance and Papyrus in Egypt.

 

 

3,200

 

 

Wheel in Mesopotamia. Ink in Egypt.

 

3,000

 

 

Soap, Plough, glass, musical instruments in

Mesopotamia. Day is divided into 24 hours in Babylonia.

 

 

2,500

 

 

Water pipes, Bath ghats in Mohenjo-Daro

Pyramids in Egypt.

 

 

2,000

 

 

Spoked wheel and chariot in Mesopotamia.

 

1,650

 

 

Knife in Greece.

 

1,500

 

 

Iron in Asia minor.

 

1,450

 

 

Water clock in Egypt.

 

1,200

 

 

Porcelain in Egypt.

 

1,000

 

 

Kite in China.

 

747

 

 

Calendar in Babylonia.

 

600

 

Locks in Egypt.

 

 

500

 

 

Magnet by Thales (A Greek Scientist).

 

490

 

 

Bridge in Turkey.

 

285

 

Light house in Egypt.

 

 

100

 

 

Paper in a tomb of China.

 

63

 

 

Short hand by Marcus.

 

 

A.D

Important Events

 

362

 

Hospital by Julius (Rome King).

 

 

500

 

 

Stencil in Japan.

 

600

 

 

Chess in India.

 

635

 

 

Pen in Spain.

 

644

 

 

Wind mill in Persia.

 

900

 

 

Camera obscure by Arabs.

 

950

 

Chinese Gun Powder.

 

 

1000

 

 

Description of lens by Arab doctor Hasan Ibn Al-Haytham.

 

 

1090

 

Compass by Chinese and Arabs.

 

 

1103

 

Crackers by Chinese People.

 

 

1289

 

 

Spectacles by Italians.

 

1326

 

 

Gun was used by Italians.

 

1450

 

 

Printing press by Gutenberg.

 

1500

 

 

Caesarean operation by Jacob Surfers (Swiss Scientist).

 

 

1540

 

 

Artificial limbs by Ambroise Paré.

 

1558

 

 

Encyclopaedia in Swiss.

 

1565

 

 

Pencil by Graphite.

 

1590

 

 

First compound microscope made by Hans and Zacharias Janssen.

 

 

1602

 

 

Thermometer by Galileo.

 

1608

 

 

Telescope by Hans.

 

1623

 

 

First calculator by mathematician Wilhelm Schickard.

 

 

1688

 

 

Reflecting Telescope by Isaac Newton.

 

1679

 

 

Pressure Cooker by Denis Papin.

 

1718

 

 

Steel pens by Germans.

 

1778

 

Steam Engine by James Watt.

 

 

1791

 

 

Metric system from France.

 

1796

 

Vaccination by Edward Jenner.

 

 

1800

 

Battery by Alessandro Volta.

 

 

1803

 

 

First Train by Richard Trevithick.

 

1810

 

 

Arc Lamp by Sir Humphry Davy.

 

1814

 

 

Plastic surgery by Joseph Constantine.

 

1829

 

 

Script for blind by Louis Braille and sewing machine by Barthélemy Thimonnier.

 

 

1831

 

 

Dynamo by Michael Faraday & Electric Bell by Joseph Henry.

 

1840

 

 

First Postal stamp Penny Black by Britain.

 

1843

 

 

Cigarettes in France.

 

1844

 

 

Laughing gas as anaesthetic by Horace Wells.

 

1846

 

 

Nitro-glycerine by Ascanio Sobrero.

 

1850

 

 

Refrigerator by James Harrison.

 

1865

 

 

Carbolic acid as antiseptic by Joseph Lister.

 

1867

 

 

Dynamite by Alfred Nobel.

 

1876

 

 

Telephone by Graham Bell.

 

1879

 

Glowing of Electric bulb for 13 1/2 hours by Thomas Alva Edison.

 

 

1883

 

 

Synthetic fibres by Sir Joseph Swan.

 

1884

 

First Fountain Pen by Lewis Edson Waterman.

 

 

1885

 

 

Motor cycle by Gottlieb Daimler of Germany and the first Petrol car was driven by Benz.

 

 

1886

 

 

Contact lens by Swiss Doctor Adolf Eugen Fick.

 

1888

 

 

Duplicating machine by David Gestetner.

 

1889

 

 

Celluloid Roll film by Eastman Dry Plate Company.

 

 

1894

 

 

Cinema using Kinetoscope by Edison.

 

1895

 

 

X-rays by Wilhelm Roentgen.

 

1897

 

 

Aspirin by Felix Hoffmann.

 

1903

 

 

First Flight by Wright Brothers

 

1913

 

 

Stainless steel by Harry Brearley.

 

1921

 

 

Insulin by Frederick Banting and Charles Best.

 

1926

 

 

Television by John Logie Baird in London and Robert H Goddard attempted fluid fuel in Rockets.

 

 

1928

 

 

Penicillin by Alexander Fleming.

 

1931

 

 

Electron microscope by M. Knoll and E. Ruska.

 

1936

 

 

Helicopter by Henrich Focke.

 

1938

 

 

First Xerox copy by Chester Carlson.

 

1945

 

 

First nuclear bomb dropping on Hiroshima.

 

1949

 

 

Viking (Rocket) launched into space to a height of 50 miles.

 

 

1952

 

Hydrogen bomb was tested by Americans.

 

 

1954

 

Transplantation of kidneys by Joseph Murry.

 

 

1957

 

 

Inter-continental Ballistic Missile tested by Soviet Union for the first time and Launching of Sputnik-1 (Space ship) by Russians.

 

 

1960

 

 

Laser by Theodore H. Maiman.

 

1961

 

 

Russian space ship VOSTOK-1 driven by Yuri Gagarin.

 

 

1967

 

First Heart transplantation by Christiaan Barnard.

 

 

1978

 

Louise Brown was hailed as the world's first "test-tube baby".

 

 

1981

 

Columbian space-shuttle.

 

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