History Timeline

Timeline

  • c. 430 BCE - 415 BCE
    The Histories of Herodotus is published. The work is divided into nine chapters, each dedicated to one of the Muses.
  • 23 CE - Aug 79 CE
    Life of Pliny the Elder.
  • c. 50 CE - c. 120 CE
    The life of Greek historian and philosopher Plutarch.
  • c. 108 CE
    The historian Arrian studies with Epictetus, records his teachings.
  • c. 380 CE - c. 418 CE
    Life time of Paulus Orosius.
  • c. 397 CE
    Saint Ninian brings Christianity to Scotland, rise of literacy and written history.
  • 418 CE
    Completion of Orosius' famous work Seven Books of History Against the Pagans.
  • 1084 CE
    Sima Guang writes his 'Zizhi tongjian' (Comprehensive Mirror for Aid to Government), a history of China.
  • 1145 CE
    The 'Samguk sagi' ('History of the Three Kingdoms') is written by Gim Busik in Goryeo.
  • 1776 CE - 1788 CE
    Edward Gibbon publishes his The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
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