Every person and event in the book from 13.8 billion years ago.
Timelines
Historical Timelines
by Michael Alan Prestwood
Deep history, science, and philosophy arranged as a living research project. These timelines are the backbone of the content on TST. They center on ideas, on how they emerge, evolve, collide, and sometimes harden into human truth. Continuously researched and refined over decades, they hold the bulk of the references. If you spot an error or omission, please use the Contact Mike form to report it: these timelines are meant to grow closer to truth over time.
The Homo sapien story.
From atoms to cities.
From the first settlements to empires.
From the first settlements to empires.
An exploration of pre-Sumer possibilities.
Primates, Hominids, Hominins, & Humans.
From prehistory to post-medieval.
From prehistory to post-medieval.
From prehistory to post-medieval.
From prehistory to post-medieval.
From prehistory to post-medieval.
Animal consciousness is the combination of cognition and sensory input, with human consciousness being the most advanced on Earth.
When humanity learned things.
From 1611 to 1909.
From 1602 to 1683.
From the Big Bang to modern-life.
The people behind our great ideas.
From 7000 BCE with a focus on writing. Journalism tests public claims by gathering facts, checking sources, and bringing events into the open.
From 1755 BCE to 1964 CE.
Great thinkers, their ideas, and publications
The academic output of the greats.
From the singularity 13.8 billion years ago.
From LUCA 3.75 billion years ago to primates.
From now to the Big Freeze.
All timeline entries.
The Human Story in Time: From early artifacts to our time.