11th century1088: Movable type in Song Dynasty China: The first record of a movable type system is in the Dream Pool Essays written in 1088, which attributed the invention of the movable type to Bi Sh ...
1st century1st century: Buttress dam in Roman Empire2nd century132: Seismometer in Han Dynasty China, built by Zhang Heng. It was a large metal urn-shaped instrument which employed either a suspended ...
7th century BCmid-7th century BC: Two-masted ships (foresail) by Etruscans in Italy6th century BCWith the Greco-Roman trispastos ("three-pulley-crane"), the simplest ancient crane, a single man triple ...
Further information: Outline of prehistoric technologyNote that the dates in the Paleolithic era are approximate and refer to the earliest discovered use of an invention, and are likely to change as m ...
The timeline of historic inventions is a chronological list of particularly important or significant technological inventions.Note: Dates for inventions are often controversial. Inventions are often i ...
First living beingsDate Event4000 Ma(millionyears ago) The earliest life appears.Further information: Abiogenesis3900 Ma Cells resembling prokaryotes appear. This marks the first appearance of photosy ...
The cladistic line of descent (taxonomic rank) of Homo sapiens (modern humans) is as follows:Taxonomic rank Name Common name Millions ofyears agoDomain Eukaryota Cells with a nucleus 2,100Kingdom Anim ...
The timeline of human evolution outlines the major events in the development of human species, and the evolution of humans' ancestors. It includes a brief explanation of some animals, species or gener ...
Timeline of paleontology6th century B.C. — The pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Xenophanes of Colophon argues that fossils of marine organisms show that dry land was once under water.1027 — The Persia ...
19th century in filmSee also: 19th century in film1886 - Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince is granted an American dual-patent on a 16-lens device that combined a motion picture camera with a projector.18 ...
In its 4.6 billion years circling the sun, the Earth has harbored an increasing diversity of life forms:for the last 3.6 billion years, simple cells (prokaryotes);for the last 3.4 billion years, cyano ...
In this timeline, Ma (for megaannum) means "million years ago", ka (for kiloannum) means "thousand years ago", and ya means "years ago".Hadean EonMain article: Hadean4000 Ma and earlier.Date Event4600 ...
This timeline of evolution of life represents current scientific theory outlining the major events in the development of life on planet Earth. In biology, evolution is any change across successive gen ...
Timeline of computing presents events in the history of computing organized by year and grouped into six topic areas: predictions and concepts, first use and inventions, hardware systems and processor ...
Timeline of communication technologyPrior to 3500BC - Communication was carried out through paintings of indigenous tribes.3500s BC - The Sumerians develop cuneiform writing and the Egyptians develop ...
