The timeline
Every era, every entry, in order. The deeper you go, the older it gets.
Early Bronze Age
c. 3200–2000 BCE · 5 entries
Middle and Late Bronze Age
c. 2000–1200 BCE · 7 entries
Iron Age
c. 1200–500 BCE · 16 entries
Classical antiquity
c. 500 BCE–500 CE · 44 entries
500 BCEClassical Greece500 BCEClassical Athens495 BCEPericles490 BCEProtagoras470 BCESocrates470 BCEMozi460 BCEDemocritus428 BCEPlato404 BCEDiogenes of Sinope384 BCEAristotle375 BCERepublic372 BCEMencius369 BCEZhuangzi360 BCEPyrrho356 BCEAlexander the Great341 BCEEpicurus334 BCEZeno of Citium322 BCEMauryan Empire310 BCEXunzi280 BCEHan Feizi
Early Middle Ages
c. 500–1000 CE · 19 entries
527 CEJustinian I598 CETang Taizong618 CETang dynasty634 CEUmar ibn al-Khattab646 CEAbd al-Malik661 CEUmayyad Caliphate742 CECharlemagne750 CEAbbasid Caliphate766 CEHarun al-Rashid788 CEAdi Shankara801 CEAl Kindi843 CEFrance848 CEAlfred the Great872 CEAl Farabi912 CEOtto I962 CEHoly Roman Empire965 CEDenmark980 CEAvicenna1000 CEHungary
High and Late Middle Ages
c. 1000–1500 CE · 36 entries
1000 CEHungary1028 CEWilliam the Conqueror1033 CEAnselm of Canterbury1058 CEAl Ghazali1122 CEFrederick Barbarossa1126 CEAverroes1130 CEZhu Xi1137 CESaladin1138 CEMaimonides1139 CEPortugal1206 CEMongol Empire1214 CELouis IX1215 CEKublai Khan1225 CEThomas Aquinas1238 CEThailand1270 CEEthiopia1278 CEAndorra1287 CEWilliam of Ockham1291 CESwitzerland1297 CEMonaco
Early modern period
c. 1500–1800 · 46 entries
1500 CECharles V1501 CESafavid Empire1502 CEMoctezuma II1523 CESweden1526 CEMughal Empire1527 CEPhilip II1533 CEMichel de Montaigne1533 CEElizabeth I1542 CEAkbar1543 CETokugawa Ieyasu1561 CEFrancis Bacon1571 CEAbbas I1581 CENetherlands1588 CEThomas Hobbes1594 CEGustavus Adolphus1596 CERené Descartes1632 CEJohn Locke1632 CEBaruch Spinoza1638 CELouis XIV1646 CEGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Age of revolutions and empire
1789–1914 · 69 entries
1789 CEFrench Revolution1798 CEAuguste Comte1804 CEHaiti1806 CEJohn Stuart Mill1806 CELiechtenstein1809 CEAbraham Lincoln1811 CEParaguay1813 CESøren Kierkegaard1815 CEOtto von Bismarck1816 CEArgentina1818 CEKarl Marx1818 CEChile1819 CEVictoria1819 CEColombia1821 CECosta Rica1821 CEMexico1821 CEPeru1822 CEBrazil1825 CEBolivia1828 CEUruguay
Twentieth century
1901–2000 · 179 entries
1901 CETwentieth century1901 CEHirohito1901 CEAustralia1902 CEKarl Popper1902 CECuba1903 CEPanama1905 CEJean-Paul Sartre1905 CENorway1906 CEHannah Arendt1908 CESimone de Beauvoir1908 CEWillard Van Orman Quine1908 CEBulgaria1910 CESouth Africa1912 CEAlbania1913 CEAlbert Camus1917 CEThe Cheka1917 CEFinland1918 CENicolae Ceaușescu1918 CEAustria1918 CEPoland
Twenty-first century
2001–present · 6 entries