Events

Period of human history before records

Prehistoric period before metal tools

Human transition from foraging to settlement

Period between prehistory and the medieval era

Historical period (c. 3300–1200 BCE)

Cradle of civilization in North Africa

Bronze Age civilisation in South Asia

Historical region of West Asia

Ancient Mesopotamian civilization from 3300 to 1900 BC

Ancient Semitic maritime civilization

Archaeological period

Greek civilization from 1200 BC to 600 AD

Roman civilisation from the 8th century BC to the 5th century AD

Ancient Iranian empire, 550–330 BC

Ancient Indian empire (c. 3rd century CE – 575 CE)

Imperial dynasty in China (202 BC – 220 AD)

Historical network of Eurasian trade routes

The Americas prior to European influence

Mesoamerican civilization (c. 2000 BC – 1697 AD)

Ethnic group of central Mexico and its civilization

1438–1533 empire in South America

Empire in West Africa from c. 1226 to 1610

European history from the 5th to 15th centuries

1346–1353 pandemic in Eurasia and North Africa

Continuation of the Roman Empire (330–1453)

Religious wars of the High Middle Ages

European political entity (800/962–1806)

Period of European history (about 800–1050)

Empire in Eurasia

Turkish Empire (c. 1299–1922)

Imperial dynasty of China from 618 to 907

European cultural period of the 14th to 17th centuries

Period of European global exploration

Colonial empire between 1492 and 1976

16th-century movement in Western Christianity

1526–1857 empire in South Asia

European cultural movement

Current period of history

Territories ruled by the United Kingdom

Founding of the United States

1789–1799 sociopolitical change in France

1760–1840 agrarian to industrial era shift

1914–1918 global conflict

Country in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991

Worldwide economic depression (1929–1939)

1939–1945 global conflict

Era from 1945–present

1947–1991 geopolitical rivalry between US and USSR

Industrial shift to information technology

Spread of humans from Africa through the world

Prehistoric period, first part of the Stone Age

Earliest subdivision of the Paleolithic

Archaeological period, part of Stone Age

Subdivision of the Paleolithic, or Old Stone Age

Prehistoric period, second part of the Stone Age

Archaeological period, last part of the Stone Age (New Stone Age)

Postulated prehistoric ethnolinguistic group

Prehistoric period: Copper Age

Age of the ancient Greeks and Romans

Period of eastern Mediterranean history from 323 to 30 BC

Post-classical antiquity in western Eurasia and Northern Africa

Period in ancient Egyptian history (c. 2686–2181 BC)

Reunified ancient Egypt (c. 2000-1700 BC)

Period in ancient Egyptian history (c. 1570–1069 BC)

Hellenistic-era Greek state in Egypt (305–30 BC)

Necropolis in ancient Egypt

Polity in Africa and Arabia before 960

Phoenician city-state and empire

Wars between Rome and Carthage (264–146 BC)

Ancient kingdom in Nubia, Africa

Ancient trading confederation in the Horn of Africa (2500 BCE – 980 BCE)

Earliest known major Mesoamerican civilization

Classification term given to the first peoples who entered the American continents

Ancient Iranian kingdom (c. 323 BC – 226 AD)

Ancient state in the Caucasus

Ancient pre-Iranian civilization between 3200 and 539 BC

Ancient Georgian kingdom of Kartli

Ancient Iranian people

Iranian empire (247 BC – 224 AD)

Last pre-Islamic Iranian empire (224–651 AD)

Historical Indo-European ethnic group in present-day China

? – 108 BC state in East Asia

Chinese dynasty

Japanese prehistorical period

Period in Chinese history from 420 to 589

Chinese dynasty (c. 1600 – c. 1046 BC)

Period of Chinese history from 304 to 439

First imperial dynasty in China (221–206 BC)

Period in Chinese history (c. 770 – c. 481 BCE)

Period of Chinese history from 220 to 280 CE

Pre-unification kingdoms (57 BC–668 AD)

Period of Chinese history, c. 475 – 221 BC

Traditional first dynasty in Chinese history

Eurasian steppe confederation (3rd c. BC – 1st c. AD)

Japanese historical period from 200 BCE to 300 CE

Chinese dynasty from c. 1046 to 256 BC

Legendary, semi-mythical period in Vietnamese historiography

Programmable machine that processes data

Global system of connected computer networks

South Asian religion and philosophy

Absence of belief in the existence of deities; the opposite of theism

Pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2

Spectrum of conditions caused by HIV infection

Range of socio-political movements and ideologies

Genocide of European Jews by Nazi Germany

Economic system based on private ownership

Fundamental rights belonging to all humans

Political philosophy emphasising social ownership of production

Ideology promoting the nation-state

Far-right authoritarian political ideology

Political philosophy and movement

Current phase of the Russo-Ukrainian war

Religious and philosophical tradition

1861–1865 conflict in the United States

2001 terror attacks in the U.S.

1955–1975 war in Southeast Asia

British passenger liner that sank in 1912

Chinese ethical and philosophical system

Islamist Palestinian political and paramilitary organization

Instrument that makes distant objects appear magnified

Artistic, literary, musical, and intellectual movement

Afghan Islamist militant organization

1950–1953 conflict in Korean Peninsula

Major war in Central Europe (1618–1648)

1936–1939 civil war in Spain

Medieval Anglo-French conflicts, 1337–1453

Artistic style in Europe and colonies, c. 1600–1750

1986 nuclear accident in the Soviet Union

Systematic campaign in the Ottoman Empire

Ethnocultural movement supporting a Jewish state in Palestine

Period with less precipitation than normal

Period of sociopolitical turmoil in China (1966–1976)

Sexually transmitted infection

Ongoing armed conflict in the Middle East

Type of sexual assault usually involving sexual intercourse without consent

Philosophy dealing with absurdity of existence

International cultural movement (1920s–1950s)

2011–2024 armed conflict in Syria

Ongoing conflict since 2014

Tendency of experiences to provoke laughter and provide amusement

1990–1991 conflict in the Middle East

2010s protests and revolutions in the Arab world

Personal computer for mobile use

1775–1783 conflict in North America

Retired telecommunications software service/application

19th-century art movement

Literary and art genre with a style of humor based on parody

Polytheistic religious groups

2003–2011 conflict in Iraq

Major World War II battle from 1942 to 1943

1967 war between Israel and Arab states

20th-century avant-garde art movement

Electric light bulb with a resistively heated wire filament

Type of musical delivery involving rhythmic speech

Cultural and artistic movement

Artistic, cultural, and theoretical movement

Multi-party war in the former Russian Empire (1917–1922)

1918–1920 global influenza pandemic

2015 Islamist terror attacks in France

English charter of freedoms made in 1215

Norse seafarers, merchants and raiders

World War II Allied nuclear weapons program

Non-usage of animal products

British revolution of 1688

Major stock market crash in the United States

Tenth conflict of the Russo-Turkish wars (1853–1856)

Declaration of independence of Albania from the Ottoman Empire in 1912

First crewed Moon landing (1969)

1940–41 bombing of Britain during WWII

1457 battle of the Ottoman–Albanian wars

1979–1989 armed conflict in South Asia

Indo-European language

Avant-garde art movement in the early 20th century

1803–1815 series of wars led by Napoleon

Global war among European powers (1756–1763)

Style of medieval art

Series of wars in England, 1642–1651

European conflict from 1870 to 1871

1980–1988 armed conflict in West Asia

Signalling device to control competing flows of traffic

Idea that knowledge comes only/mainly from sensory experience

Youth movement

1939–1940 war between the Soviet Union and Finland

1815 battle of the Waterloo campaign

Transnational Sunni Islamist organization

1904–1905 conflict in East Asia

Megathrust earthquake off Japan's east coast

1973 war between Israel and Arab states

1932–1933 man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine

1982 undeclared Argentina–United Kingdom war

Modernist art movement

Faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party

Major earthquakes in the Turkey–Syria border region

1937–1945 conflict in East Asia

Political philosophy based on liberty

Theatre of war of European Axis and Soviet Union blocs

Belief in a god based on rational thought

Medieval Christian military campaigns

2011 armed conflict in North Africa

Art with a degree of independence from visual references

Artistic and social movement

Student-led demonstrations in China

Abrahamic new religious movement originating in 1930s Jamaica

1898 conflict between Spain and the United States

Empiricist philosophical theory

1890–1911 European style of art and architecture

1941 Japanese attack on the U.S.

German art school and art movement

Mass murder campaign in Rwanda

Social movement originating in the US

1812–1815 conflict in North America

Domestic terrorist attacks

1956 British–French–Israeli invasion of Egypt

Period in Europe with mass population movements, 4th – 9th century AD

Art movement and architectural style

1927–1949 civil war in China

1096–1099 Christian re-conquest of the Holy Land

Works that are experimental or innovative

2024 shooting in Pennsylvania, U.S.

Late 19th-century art movement in Europe

1848–1870 consolidation of Italian states

Shia Islamist organization in Yemen

Magnitude 7.0 Mw earthquake

2008 war between Russia and Georgia

Ammonium nitrate explosion in Lebanon

Catholic response to the Protestant Reformation

Device that converts other energy to electrical energy

Philosophical method and schools of philosophy

Armed conflict in South Asia

Legal right of women to vote

Hypothetical future global conflict

Series of civil wars in England (1455–1487)

480 BC engagement of the Greco-Persian Wars

Movement to end slavery

Clock tower in London, England

Communication protocol that allows connections between networks

Ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip