Timeline 2000-500 B.c. Babylonian civilization 600-$80 B.Cenmennnnnnenans Thales of Miletus flourishes othe. Be. Pythagorean school founded 399 Be. crates executed 388 Be. Plato founds the Academy 384 BCocnenernn voweww Aristotle born at Stagira 348/7 Be... Death of Plato 335 nc Aristotle founds the Lyceum at Athens 332.8 323 Be. Alexandria founded Alexander the Great dies after creating a vast empire; Aristotle flees Athens and dies a year later 300 Be. Museum and Library founded at Alexandtia: Euclid flourishes 212 BC... Romans conquer Syracuse; Archimedes killed 86ne. Romans sack Athens veces BO BC rns Rome annexes Hellenistic Egypt TAD. Pliny the Elder killed in the eruption of Vesuvius Ptolemy flourishes, St, Justin martyred at Rome -Library of Alexandria destroyed during civil warfare Edict of Milan legalizes Christianity in the Roman Empire Ecumenical Council of Nicaea 354-430. snnennneneneneife Of St, Augustine 410. Rome sacked by Alaric ‘020002 The Teaching Company Limited Partnership asT1718, 750-1000. 800. ©. 1020. 10205-1030, 1088... 1099. 1125-1200, Lus7, . 1200. 1208, 1209. 1288. 1215. Last ofthe (Western) Roman emperors slain by the barbarian Odoacer Bocthius executed St. Benedict writes the Rule, origin of the Benedictine Order ‘Muhammed flees to Medina from Mecea— beginning o Islamic calendar ‘Spain annexed to Islamic Empire; Muslim fleet destroyed at Constantinople by Greek fire ‘anslation movernent into Arabic \Umayyad caliphate established in Spain Al-Mansir founds Baghdad as seat of Abbasid caliphate Patriarch Timothy I debates the nature of Christ with Caliph al-Mabai using the methods of Aristotle's Topics (Charlemagne crowned Holy Roman Emperor ‘School of Chartres founded ‘Al-Hiazen (Ibn al-Haytham) active in Cairo v.Chuistian forces capture Toledo vo First Crusade takes Jerusalem; Latin Kingdom established [Latin translation mover Arabic enter Europe texts from Saladin captures Jerusalem University of Paris established; Oxford, about twenty years later ‘St. Dominic founds the Order of Preachers, (Dominicans) St. Francis founds the Order of Friars Minor (Franciscans) Baghdad sacked by the Mongols Alphonsine Tables compiled (©2082 The Teching Company Limited Partnership 1277. .Condernnation of 1277; 219 propositions condemned at the University of Paris 12705-12805...ssnnnnnsnsnneneWillem of Moerieke translates Aristotle from Greek 13208. “Oxford Calculators” active 1348... -Black Death (bubonic plague) arrives in Europe: within a few years it kills one-third ‘of the European population 1400-1500. Humanism develops as a major intellectual force, first in Italy, then elsewhere 450. Johannes Gutenberg invents moveable printing 152.0 ‘onstantinople falls to the Turks 1492 .cnrnnnnnenn {Columbus lands in the New Worlds last of the Muslims expelled trom Spain 1s17. Luther nails up his theses, 1522. Magellan's expedition circumnavigates the lobe 1543, {Copemicus* De revolutionibus and Vesalius De fabrica are published 1545-1563... v-Council oF Trent 15605-1570. Paracelsus” unpublished works begin to ‘appear in print 1572, ““Tycho's new stax” appears in Cassiopeia: he begins construction of Uranibourg in 1576 A bright comet appears and is calculated to be superlunary 1582... Start of Gregorian calen 1586, Fontana successfully moves the Vatican obelisk 1588... Tycho proposes the Tychonic system 1600. Gilbert's work on the magnet is published VOD3 orn Accademia dei Lincei fourded at Rome 1607. suowenndamestown founded in Virginia 002 The Teaching Company Limited Partoership1609 nnn Kepler proposes ellipses as planetary orbits V1 nsnnnnn -sss-Galileo’s telescopic discoveries appear in the Sidereus Nuncius 1620. _.Plymouth colony established in Massachusetts 1632. Galileo's Dialogues on the Two Chief World Systems published: the next year, he is condemned 1682. Birth of Newton, death of Galileo 1648, Van Helmont’s works published 1658... Gassendi’s natural philosophical system published 1660. Royal Society of London founded: given Royal Charter in 1662 1666. Académie Royale des Sciences founded in Paris; Paris Observatoire founded the following year .ueNewton's Principia published aris Academy reorganized