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c. 1600 BCE
Earliest Egyptian water clocks in use.
c. 647 BCE - c. 629 BCE
Extensive collection of clay tablets acquired known as Ashurbanipal's Library at Nineveh.
597 BCE
Babylonian king Nebuchadnezar captures Jerusalem.
28 May 585 BCE
A battle between Media and Lydia broke off immediately as a result a total eclipse of the sun and the two armies made peace. The eclipse was successfully predicted by Thales of Miletus.
c. 450 BCE
Parapegma star calendar invented in Greece by Meton and Euctemon.
c. 450 BCE
First klepsydra - water timekeeping device - used in Athens.
420 BCE
Democritos develops an atomic theory of matter.
c. 310 BCE - c. 230 BCE
Life of Greek astronomer and mathematician Aristarchus of Samos.
287 BCE - 212 BCE
Life of Archimedes, physician, mathematician and engineer.
c. 275 BCE
Ctesibius invents first sophisticated multi-cogged water-clock.
c. 270 BCE
Aristarchus of Samos proposes a heliocentric world view.
c. 190 BCE - c. 120 BCE
Life of Hipparchus of Nicea, the ancient Greek mathematician, astronomer and geographer considered the greatest astronomer of antiquity and among the most impressive in world history
c. 159 BCE
First water-clock set up in Rome.
c. 110 BCE - c. 50 BCE
Tower of The Winds by Andronicus constructed in Athens.
c. 50 BCE
Antikythera instrument invented, an astronomical measuring device.
100 CE
The mathematician and astronomer Menelaus of Alexandria lived.
1799 CE
Alessandro Volta invents the first electric battery.
1821 CE
Michael Faraday discovers the principles of an electric motor.
1859 CE
Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, thereby introducing the Theory of Evolution.
1869 CE
The Periodic Table of Elements is proposed by Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev.