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99,999 BCE
Written texts appear
It was the Sumerians, the ancient people who lived in southern Mesopotamia, who invented the first documented writing system: cuneiform writing. The symbols were printed with a pointed tool on a clay tablet that was then dried. -
Period: 9999 BCE to 55,555 BCE
Prehistory
It is the longest period of the Stone Age, which begins with the creation of the first stone tools created by hominids. -
Period: 3 BCE to 476
Ancient History
It is characterized by the apogee of centralized monarchies, the reappearance of large empires and cities, the expansion of European kingdoms over the rest of the continents and the appearance of the bourgeoisie, as a new social class. -
476
fall of the western roman empire
capital in Rome, In the year 476 the last Roman emperor, Romulus Augustus, was overthrown. -
Period: 476 to 1453
The Middle Ages
This long historical period, also known as feudalism, was a social, political and economic organization based on land and vassalage. -
1453
fall of the eastern roman empire.
capital Constantinople. It lasted until 1453. It is known as the Byzantine Empire. -
Period: 1453 to
The Modern Age
In this period there were great changes in science and technology, which had enormous repercussions on the work, military and philosophical life of the West. Furthermore, faith in progress, communication and reason was established, new philosophical values that soon dominated the world. -
Oct 12, 1492
discovery of America
consisting of the arrival in America of an expedition from Castile, in the Iberian Peninsula, led by Christopher Columbus by order of the Catholic Monarchs, Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon. -
French Revolution
It was a social and political conflict, with various periods of violence, that convulsed France during the Old Regime, and other countries by extension of its implications. -
Period: to
The Contemporary Age
During the Contemporary Age, industrial revolutions occurred that transformed the forms of production, work relationships and the way of life of a large part of the population.