Event in Science & History
1st - 10th Century AD
00s
28: Jjesus
crucified.
66: Mark's Gospel written
79: Pompeil & Herulaneum
destroyed by eruption of Vesuvius. Pliny the Younger provides a first detailed
written description of major volcanic eruption, the Vesuvian outburst that destroyed
Pompeii.
100s
About 100:
Paper first used for writings.
122: Romans construct Hadrian's
Wall.
132: In china, Zhang Heng
invents the first seismograph. It indicates the direction of an earthquake
by dropping balls shaken from the mouths of bronze dragons by the earthquake wave.
200s
286: Roman
Empire divided into Eastern & Western halves initially for administration.
300s
330: Constantinople
founded
389: Library at Alexandra
destroyed.
395: Roman Empire completely
split, with two sseparate emperors.
400s
400: The
term 'Chemistry' used for the first time by scholars in Alexandra.
410: Visigoths sack Rome.
432: St Patrick sets out
to convert the Irish.
433: Attila becomes leader
of the Huns.
455: Vandlas sack Rome
470: Last reminent of Roman
Empire in Italy destroyed by Cerman invaders.
500s
About 500:
The abacus.
517: Buddhism intrintroduced
into China.
525: Introduction of the
Christian calendar.
570: Mohammed born.
600s
About 600:
Invention of printing press - Chinesewoodblocks, Windmills built in Persia.
613: Mohammed begins to
teach openly.
616: Visigoths conquer Spain.
620: Flight of Mohammed
from Mecca (the hegira), this event marks the start of the Islamic calendar.
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632: Spread of Arab Empirebegins
following the death of Mohammed.
635: Unknown Chinese scholar
writes down the rule that the tail of a coment always points away from the sun.
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670: Venerable Bede born
697: Carthage destroyed
by Arabs.
699: Beowulf completed.
700s.
711: Arab
invasion of Spain.
731: Mayan Empire at the
start of its greatest flowering
732: Defeat of Arabs at
Pliters marks the limit of the western expansion of the Islam.
748: First printed newspaper,
in Bejing.
768: Charlemagne becomes
King of the Franks.
About 790: Irish
monks settle in Iceland.
800s
About 800: Spread
of Vikings begins.
827: Ptolemy's Megole
syntoxis translated into Arabic as the Almogest.
840: First Arab record of
observations of sunspots.
849: Alfred the Great born
863: Invention of Cyrillic
alphabet
880: Arab chemists distill
alcohol from wine.
900s
900: Greenland
descovered by Norse.
924: Death
of Alfred the Great of England.
929: Good King Wenceslas
murdered.
975: Modern arithmetical
notation introduced into Europe by the Arabs
982: First Viking settlement
in Greenland.
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- Compiled by D. Brewer - April 2000