SOME IMPORTANT NAMES, DATES AND EVENTS IN THE 

 HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND CIVILIZATION 



(For certain earlier events, see Chapters I and II.) 

 c. = circa, about. 



SCIENCE 



GENERAL HISTORY, LITERATURE, 

 ART, ETC. 



43 

 * 



c. 2000-1700. Ahnaes Papyrus. 



O 



m 



^ c. 640-646. Thales. 



tj c. 611-646. Anaximander. 



09 



JS 



I 



u 



* c. 588-524. 

 a c. 582-500. 

 g c. 576-480. 

 " c. 540-475. 



.H c. 539. 

 in 



c. 600. 

 c. 500-428. 

 c. 470. 



469-399. 



* c. 466. 

 J3 c. 460. 



1 c. 460-370. 

 c. 460. 



c. 428-347. 

 427-347. 

 c. 420. 

 c. 408-? 



2o 



Anaximenes. 



Pythagoras. 



Xenophanes. 



Heraclitus. 



Parmenides. 



Alcmseon. 

 Anaxagoras. 

 Hippocrates of Chios 



( Mathematician) . 

 Socrates. 

 Empedocles. 

 Leucippus. 

 Democritus. 

 Hippocrates of Cos 



(Physician). 

 Archytas. 

 Plato. 

 Hippias. 

 Eudoxus. 



449 



c. 1100. Gades (Cadiz) founded 



by the Phoenicians. 



c. 1000. Homer. David. Solomon. 



c. 850. Carthage founded. 



c. 800. Hesiod. 



c. 753. Rome founded (legend- 



ary}. 



c. 700. Nineveh flourishes under 



Sennacherib. 



c. 660. Byzantium founded. 



610. Sappho and other Greek 



poets. 



Necho II undertakes to 

 connect River Nile and 

 Red Sea by Canal. His 

 sailors circumnavigate 

 Africa. 



c. 606. Nineveh destroyed. 



c. 600. Marseilles founded. 



c. 660. Croesus and Solon, 



c. 550-478. Confucius, 



c. 638. Babylon taken by Cyrus. 



525-456. JEschylus. 



c. 500. Carthaginians explore 

 west coast of Africa. 



490-429. Pericles. 



490. Marathon, Battle of. 



c. 484-425. Herodotus. 



480. Thermopylae, Battle of. 



480. Salamts, Battle of. 



480-406. Euripides. Phidias. 

 460-385. Aristophanes. 



450-400. Thucydides. 

 c. 434-359. Xenophon. 

 c. 430. The plague at Athens. 



