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