| Date |
1st |
Place |
Event |
| 400 |
|
Babylon |
First five (5)
books of Hebrew Bible canonized. Other scrolls (books) existed but
wouldn't be canonized until 200 to 400 years later. |
| |
|
Greece |
Thucydides
(Greek historian) writes "History of the Peloponnesian War." |
| |
|
Mexico |
End of Indian civilization. |
| |
|
|
Use of catapults as weapons of war. |
| 399 |
|
|
Socrates death (born c.
470). |
| 395 |
|
Greece |
Death of Thucydides,
historian. |
| 384 |
|
Greece |
Birth of Aristotle. |
| 377 |
|
Rome |
Walls built around city. |
| 366 |
|
Rome |
Temple of Concordia
built. |
| 356 |
|
|
China begins building the
Great Wall against Huns. |
| 356 |
|
Ephesus |
Greek Herostratus sets
fire to the Temple of Artemis. |
| 356 |
|
Macedon |
Birth of Alexander the
Great. |
| 354 |
|
Greece |
Death of Xenophon,
historian. |
| 350 |
|
Persia |
Revolt of the Judeans
against Artaxerxes III. |
| 350 |
Y |
India |
Rain measured. |
| 350 |
|
China |
Iron used as working
material. |
| 347 |
|
Greece |
Death of Plato. |
| 343 |
|
Egypt |
Conquered by Persia. |
| 343 |
|
Greece |
Aristotle becomes the
teacher of Alexander. |
| 340 |
|
Greece |
Aristotle lays the
foundations of musical theory. |
| 338 |
|
Greece |
Conquered by Macedonia. |
| 338 |
|
Rome |
First coins. |
| 338 |
|
Corinth |
Becomes trading center. |
| 336 |
|
Macedonia |
Alexander placed on
throne by army commanders. |
| 335 |
|
Thebes |
Conquered by Alexander. |
| 333 |
|
Issus |
Alexander defeats Darius. |
| 332 |
|
Tyre |
Conquered by Alexander. |
| 332 |
|
Jerusalem |
Conquered by Alexander. |
| 331 |
|
Gaugamela |
Alexander defeats Darius. |
| 330 |
|
Babylon |
Occupied by Alexander. |
| 330 |
|
Susa |
Occupied by Alexander. |
| 330 |
|
Persepolis |
Occupied by Alexander. |
| 330 |
|
Britain |
Greek explorer Pytheas of
Massilia reaches. |
| |
|
Judea |
Trading centers in Egypt
& Cyrene. |
| 327 |
|
India |
Invaded by Alexander. |
| 326 |
|
India |
Alexander extends empire
to Indus River. |
| 325 |
|
|
Earliest extant Greek
papyrus: "Persae of Timotheus of Miletus"; Loeb: 3v. |
| 323 |
|
Babylon |
Death of Alexander. |
| 322 |
|
Greece |
Death of Aristotle. |
| 320 |
|
India |
Beginning of Mauryan
culture. |
| 314 |
|
Judea |
Ruled by the Seleucids of
Syria. |
| 312 |
|
Judea |
Ruled by Antigonus I. |
| 307 |
|
Alexandria |
Ptolemy begins building
Museum & Library. |
| 301 |
|
Judea |
Antigonus I killed; ruled
now by Egypt. |
| 300 |
|
Rome |
Roman plebeians admitted
to the priesthood. |
| 300 |
|
Mexico |
Sun temple Atetello built
at Teotihuacan. |
| 287 |
|
Rome |
Full equity between
patricians and plebeians. |
| 281 |
|
|
Antiochus I Soter
(Savior) - Seleucid King of Syria until 261. |
| 275 |
|
Egypt |
Manetho, high priest of
Egypt, writes history of Egypt in Greek. |
| 275 |
|
Alexandria |
Completion of lighthouse
at Pharos. |
| 271 |
|
Greece |
Death of Epicurus. |
| 268 |
|
Rome |
1st appearance of the
Roman silver coin, denarius. |
| 265 |
|
Rome |
1st contact of the Romans
with Greek medicine through prisoners of war. |
| 250 |
|
Alexandria |
Completion of the Greek
translation of the Hebrew Bible called the Septuagint or LXX. |
| 250 |
|
|
First Dead Sea Scrolls
are copied at Qumran in Judea. |
| 250 |
|
|
First appearance of
synagogues as places of study of the Torah. |
| 250 |
|
|
Eratosthenes suggests
that the earth moves around the sun and maps out the course of the Nile;
also makes close estimates of the earth's circumference. |
| 250 |
|
Pergamum |
Parchment produced. |
| 250 |
Y |
Rome |
1st Roman prison built, Tullianum,
built. |
| 233 |
|
|
Sun-tzu: Chinese
philosopher who wrote"The Art of War." |
| 230 |
|
Egypt |
Temple of sun god Horus
at Edfu. |
| 230 |
Y |
Greece |
Oil lamps introduced. |
| 225 |
|
|
Quintus Fabius Pictor -
the first Roman historian. |
| 221 |
|
China |
Unification of all
measurers & weights. |
| 215 |
|
China |
Great Wall (1400 miles
long) built to keep out invaders. |
