To make it easy to find information and see how it all fits together in sequence, we are making a timeline with links to most of the other information at this site.
This section is now mostly complete but still under construction.
Note: In some cases, exact dates are not known and approximations are used.
Assume all years are AD unless otherwise stated.
3000 BC
Hinduism emerges
2000 BC
Origin of Judaism
1400-1000 BC
Zoroastrianism founded
600 BC
Aesop's lifetime (see Aesop's Fables)
500 BC
Buddhism founded by Buddha
428 BC
Plato born
384 BC
Aristotle born
350 BC
Nicomachean
Ethics written by Aristotle
300 BC
Aesop's Fables translated into Latin
3 BC
Birth of Jesus (see Christianity)
1483
Birth of Martin Luther
1509
John Calvin born
1529
Luther's Small
Catechism (includes picture of Luther)
1817
Henry David Thoreau born
Mid 1800's
American Transcendentalist movement
1906
The Jungle published
1950's
Civil Rights Movements