This document provides a chronology of important historical events and periods from prehistory through the fall of Constantinople, including the construction of structures like Stonehenge, the pyramids of Giza, the Parthenon, the Colosseum, Pantheon, Hagia Sophia, and dates of important rulers, civilizations, and empires like ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, Byzantium, and periods like the Roman and Byzantine Empires.
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2. Chronology
• Beginning of Prehistory 35,000 BC
• Construction of Stonehenge 2900 – 1400 BC
• Egyptian Old Kingdom 2649 – 2134 BC
• Const. of Pyramids at Giza 2550 – 2460 BC
• Egyptian Middle Kingdom 2040 – 1640 BC
• Egyptian New Kingdom 1550 – 1070 BC
3. Chronology
• Minoan Civilization 2800 – 1400 BC
• Mycenaean Civilization 1600 – 1100 BC
• Trojan War 1250 BC
• Iliad and Odyssey 8th century BC
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• Archaic Greek Period 700 – 500 BC
• Classical Greek Period 497 – 323 BC
• Construction of Parthenon 458 BC
• Life of Plato 427 – 347 BC
• Conquest of Alexander the Great 333 – 323 BC
4. Chronology
• Height of Power of the
Etruscan Civilization 550 BC
• The Roman Republic 509 - 27 BC
• Dictatorship of Julius Caesar 46 - 44 BC
• Reign of Caesar Augustus and
Beginning of the Roman Empire 27 - 14 BC
• Vitruvius wrote De Architectura ca. 27 BC
• Reign of Nero 54 - 68 AD
• Reign of Vespasian 69 - 79 AD
• Construction of Colloseum Completed 80 AD
• Reign of Domitian, Trajan, and Hadrian 81- 138 AD
• Construction of Pantheon ca.125 AD
• Reign of Septimus Severus 193 - 211 AD
• Reign of Diocletian 284 - 305 AD
• Reign of Constantine 310 - 337 AD
5. Chronology
• Reign of Caesar Augustus and
Beginning of the Roman Empire 27 - 14 BC
• Life of Jesus ca. 33 BC – 1 AD
• Reign of Constantine 310 - 337 AD
• Constantine legalizes Christianity 310 - 337 AD
• Construction of Old St. Peter’s 318 - 22 AD
• Founding of Constantinople 324 AD
• End of Roman Empire in the West 476 AD
• Reign of Emperor Justinian 527 - 565 AD
• Construction of Hagia Sophia 532 - 537 AD
• Fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman 1453 AD