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Big Bang ⠀
-10 000 000 000
Stars and Galaxies ⠀
-4 600 000 000
Solar System is formed -4 570 000 000
Sun main-sequence star. -4 500 000 000
Formation of Jupiter. -4 450 000 000
Formation of Saturn. -4 400 000 000
Formation of Uranus. -4 350 000 000
Formation of Neptune. -4 540 000 000
Formation of Earth. -4 530 000 000
Formation of Venus. -4 510 000 000
Formation of Mars. -4 500 000 000
Formation of Mercury. -4 500 000 000
Formation of the Moon ⠀
-4 000 000 000
life (single-cell organisms) -3 500 000 000
fossils of bacteria, algae -2 400 000 000
oxygenation of earth -1 800 000 000
eukaryotic cells (nucleus) -1 500 000 000
multicellular organisms -1 200 000 000
sexual reproduction, evolution ⠀
-850 000 000
animals oceans (sponges, jelly) -500 000 000
First plants, fungi and animals in land (arthropods, vertebrates) -450 000 000
Ice Age, -60% of marine life -420 000 000
first forrests -400 000 000
insects+amphibians on land -360 000 000
extinction2-300 000 000
Permian period, Amphibians -250 000 000
extinction3-230 000 000
First dinosaurs on earth -200 000 000
Pangea splits. birds, flowers -150 000 000
Jurassic period, dinosaurs -100 000 000
cretaceous (t-rex), bees, ants and butterflies. ⠀
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Asteroid (Mexico → 75% all species gone -65 000 000
mammals, whales and horses -50 000 000
mammals, bats, rats, elephants -25 000 000
Apes, human-like primates -15 000 000
Age of Hominis -10 000 000
Ice Age ⠀
-3 000 000
Homo habilis (stone tools) -2 000 000
Homo erectus-500 000
Homo Neanderthal -300 000
Homo Sapiens-200 000
Stone Age, Neanderthals+Sapiens -100 000
Sapiens age -50 000
Anthropocene epoch ⠀
-8000
End of Ice Age-3000
Bronze Age-3500
wheel (mesopotamia) -3300
writing (Mesopotamia -3100
calendar (Egypt) -3000
plow (Mesopotamia -3000
silk (China) -2737
tea (China) -2000
Common Era, Anno Domini ⠀
-1000 - -600
Iron Age-1050
alphabet (Phoenicia) -900 - -600
Olmec civilization -800s - -700s
Homer -776
1st Olympic Games (Greece) -624 - -546
Thales of Miletus -600
philosophy (Greece) -600
coinage (Lydia) -570 - -495
Pythagoras -550
postal system (Persia) -509
Founding of the Roman Republic -508
democracy (Greece) -500
road system (Rome) -500
decimal system (India) -449
law system (Rome) -427 - -347
Plato -384 - -322
Aristotle -312
aqueduct (Rome) -221
Unification of China (Qin Dynasty) -105
paper (China) -100 - -44
Julius Caesar -70 - -19
Virgil -69 - -30
Cleopatra -27
Founding of Rome -6 - 65
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121 - 180
Marcus Aurelius 180
antonine plague, pandemic (5m people) ⠀
212
roman citizenship to all free men ⠀
313
religious tolerance to Christians in the Roman Empire354 - 430
St. Augustine ⠀
400
Hindu-Arabic numerals (India) 410
The Visigoths, Alaric I, sack Rome (first in 800 years) ⠀
527
Justinian I emperor of the Byzantine Empire ⠀
600
chess (India) 622
Migration (Hijra) of Muhammad from Mecca to Medina 628
zero (India) 632
Muhammad dies, succeeded by Abu Bakr as first caliph ⠀
793-1066
Viking Age ⠀
800
charlemagne, first holy roman emperor 843
The Treaty of Verdun divides Carolingian Empire into three kingdoms (Louis the Pious) 868
Printing of Diamond Sutra, oldest dated printed book (China) ⠀
904
gunpowder (China) 962
Otto I first Holy Roman Emperor by Pope John XII ⠀
1024
paper money (China) 1041
printing press (China) 1088
compass (China) 1095
first crusade to liberate Jerusalem from Muslims (Pope Urban II) ⠀
1104
Crusaders Capture Acre 1122
Concordat of Worms resolves Controversy between papacy and Holy Roman Empire 1135
Maimonides’ "Mishneh Torah" 1150
Gothic Architecture Emerges 1187
Saladin Captures Jerusalem ⠀
1206
Genghis Khan Unites Mongols 1214 - 1294
Roger Bacon 1215
Magna Carta 1240
Mongols Defeat Kiev 1258
Mongols Capture Baghdad 1271 - 1295
Marco Polo’s Travels 1273
Thomas Aquinas "Summa Theologica" 1291
Fall of Acre, End of Crusades ⠀
1300
Dante Writes "The Divine Comedy" 1315 - 1317
Great Famine in Europe 1325
Founding of Tenochtitlan 1337 - 1453
Hundred Years’ War 1347 - 1351
- Black Death, -30% europe, Sicily from Asia 1355
University of Oxford Established 1368
Ming Dynasty Begins 1376 - 1395
Acamapichtli* 1380
John Wycliffe's Bible Translation 1396 - 1417
Huitzilihuitl* ⠀
1400 - 1468
Johannes Gutenberg 1401
beginning of Renaissance 1402 - 1472
Nezahualcoyotl. 1412 - 1431
Joan of Arc. 1413
perspective in art by Filippo Brunelleschi 1417 - 1427
Chimalpopoca* 1428–1440
Izocoatl* 1439
Platonic Academy manuscripts by Cosimo de' Medici 1440–1469
Motecuhzoma I* 1440
Gutenberg's press 1443 - 1543
Nicolaus Copernicus 1452 - 1519
Da Vinci. 1453
end of Middle ages 1453
Fall of Constantinople to Ottoman Turks 1460s - 1524
Vasco da Gama 1466 - 1520
Moctezuma II 1469–1481
Axayacatl* 1474 - 1521
Juan Ponce de León 1475 - 1564
Michelangelo 1481–1486
Tizoc* 1483 - 1520
Raphael 1483 - 1546
Martin Luther 1485 - 1547
Hernán Cortés ⠀
1509 - 1564
John Calvin 1517
Luther's 95 Theses 1543
Copernican Revolution 1547 - 1616
Cervantes. 1564 - 1642
Galileo. 1564 - 1616
Shakespeare. 1564 - 1642
Galileo Galilei 1571 - 1630
Johannes Kepler 1588 - 1679
Thomas Hobbes 1596 - 1650
René Descartes ⠀
1605
Don Quixote 1606 - 1669
Rembrandt 1610
Galileo Discovers Jupiter’s Moons 1623 - 1662
Blaise Pascal 1632 - 1704
John Locke 1632 - 1677
Baruch Spinoza 1638 - 1715
Louis XIV 1642 - 1727
Newton. 1643 - 1715
- Reign of Louis XIV 1646 - 1716
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1651 - 1695
Sor Juana. 1653 - 1706
Johann Pachelbel 1678 - 1741
Antonio Vivaldi 1685 - 1750
Johann Sebastian Bach 1687
Newton’s "Principia Mathematica" 1688
English Enlightenment 1694 - 1778
Voltaire. ⠀
1706 - 1790
Benjamin Franklin 1711 - 1776
David Hume 1712 - 1778
Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1723 - 1790
Adam Smith 1724 - 1804
Immanuel Kant 1743 - 1826
Thomas Jefferson 1755 - 1793
Marie Antoinette. 1756 - 1791
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756 - 1763
- Seven Years’ War 1769
Watt’s Steam Engine Patented 1769 - 1821
Napoleon. 1770 - 1827
Beethoven. 1770 - 1831
Hegel 1775 - 1817
Jane Austen 1776
American Independence 1776
Adam Smith "The Wealth of Nations" 1789- 1799
- French Revolution 1796
Edward Jenner’s Smallpox Vaccine ⠀
1804 - 1815
- Napoleonic Wars 1809 - 1865
Abraham Lincoln 1809 - 1882
Charles Darwin 1810
Independencia de mexico 1813 - 1855
Søren Kierkegaard 1815 - 1852
Ada Lovelace. 1828 - 1910
Leo Tolstoy 1837
Telegraph Invented 1839 - 1842
- First Opium War 1840 - 1926
Claude Monet. 1844 - 1900
Friedrich Nietzsche. 1847 - 1922
Alexander Graham Bell 1847 - 1931
Edison. 1854 - 1900
Oscar Wilde. 1856 - 1943
Nikola Tesla 1859 - 1938
Edmund Husserl. 1859 - 1941
Henri Bergson. 1859
Darwin’s "On the Origin of Specie" 1863
Emancipation Proclamation in U.S. 1863 - 1947
Henry Ford 1866 - 1944
Kandinsky. 1867 - 1934
Marie Curie. 1869 - 1954
Henri Matisse 1872 - 1944
Piet Mondrian. 1872 - 1970
Bertrand Russell 1874 - 1965
Winston Churchill 1876
Bell’s Telephone Patent 1879 - 1919
Emiliano Zapata. 1879 - 1955
Einstein. 1882 - 1945
Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882
Pasteurization Process Developed 1885 - 1962
Niels Bohr 1887 - 1961
Erwin Schrödinger 1888 - 1978
Le Corbusier 1889 - 1976
Martin Heidegger. 1889 - 1977
Chaplin. 1889 - 1951
Wittgenstein. 1895
X-rays Discovered 1890 - 1969
Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 - 1970
Charles de Gaulle 1899 - 1961
Ernest Hemingway. 1899 - 1986
Jorge Luis Borges. 1899 - 1980
Hitchcock. ⠀
1901 - 1966
Walt Disney. 1901 - 1971
Louis Armstrong 1902 - 1994
Karl Popper. 1903 - 1950
George Orwell 1903
Wright Brothers’ First Flight 1904 - 1967
J. Robert Oppenheimer 1905
Einstein’s Theory of Relativity 1906 - 1978
Kurt Gödel 1906 - 1997
Victor Vasarely. 1907 - 1954
Frida Kahlo. 1910
Revolución Mexicana 1912 - 1954
Alan Turing. 1912 - 1956
Jackson Pollock 1913 - 1960
Albert Camus. 1914 - 1918
- World War I 1915 - 1982
Ingrid Bergman 1917 - 1963
John F. Kennedy 1917 - 1986
Juan Rulfo. 1918 - 1988
Richard Feynman 1918 - 1958
André Bazin 1918 - 2013
Nelson Mandela. 1922
Insulin Discovered 1925 - 1995
Gilles Deleuze. 1925 - 2008
Paul Newman 1926 - 1962
Marilyn Monroe 1926 - 1984
Michel Foucault. 1928 - 2007
Sol LeWitt. 1928 - 2019
Agnès Varda. 1928 - 1987
Andy Warhol 1929 - 1993
Audrey Hepburn 1929 - 1982
Grace Kelly 1929 - 2014
Roberto Gómez Bolaños. 1929
Wall Street Crash, Great Depression 1930 - 2012
Neil Armstrong. 1932 - 1984
Truffaut. 1932 - 1986
Andrei Tarkovsky. 1936
Turing's theory of universal classical computers 1939 - 1945
- World War II 1940 - 1980
John Lennon. 1940 - 2023
Pelé 1942 - 2018
Stephen Hawking 1945
United Nations Established 1945 - 1981
Bob Marley. 1947
Transistor Invented 1950 - 1953
Korean War 1951 - 2014
Robin Williams 1952 - 2020
Bernard Stiegler. 1955 - 2011
Steve Jobs. 1954
Polio Vaccine 1969
Humans on the Moon 1970s
Miniaturization of electronic technology 1971
ARPANET, Early Internet 1971
Intel Microprocessor 1980
Smallpox Eradicated 1983
HIV Identified 1986 - 2013
Aaron Swartz. 1989
Fall of Berlin Wall 1989
World Wide Web 1991
End of Soviet Union 1991
End of Apartheid 1999
ego ⠀
2001
Human Genome Mapped 2007
iPhone 2008
Global Financial Crisis 2011
Arab Spring 2019
Notre-Dame Fire 2020
COVID-19 2021
Mars Rover Landing works under writing are original, my notes a mix of thoughts with quotes from the artwork subject of the note. about · contact
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find the way by moonlight
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unconscious time, no peace of mind,
falling in space but still alive.
sketching the future in a single line,
everything's spinning, cannot sit down.
moments in space, places in time,
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this is a collection of notes that i've written over time, mostly for myself. in the spirit of working with garage doors open, i've published them and open sourced this website.
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