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These timelines of world history detail recorded events since the creation of writing roughly 5000 years ago to the present day. For events from c. 3200 BC – c. 500 see: Timeline of ancient history; For events from c. 500 – c. 1499, see: Timeline of post-classical history; For events from c. 1500, see: Timelines of modern history
Events in Europe such as the Galileo affair of the early-17th century – associated with the scientific revolution and the Age of Enlightenment – led scholars such as John William Draper to postulate (c. 1874) a conflict thesis, suggesting that religion and science have been in conflict methodologically, factually and politically throughout ...
The following dates are approximations. 700 BC: Pythagoras's theorem is discovered by Baudhayana in the Hindu Shulba Sutras in Upanishadic India. [18] However, Indian mathematics, especially North Indian mathematics, generally did not have a tradition of communicating proofs, and it is not fully certain that Baudhayana or Apastamba knew of a proof.
It is the world's first commercially available general-purpose electronic computer. [3] March 30 – Remington Rand delivers the first UNIVAC I computer to the United States Census Bureau. It is inaugurated on June 14. [4] May 5 – The Ferranti NIMROD computer is presented at the Science Museum (London) during the Festival of Britain.
This section provides a conversational overview of World War II in Europe. See main article for a fuller discussion. The signing of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact in Moscow, 23 August 1939. Soon after the events in Czechoslovakia, Britain and France issued assurances of protection to Poland, which seemed to be next on Hitler's list.
1914), English pioneer of soil science and engineering historian. August 15 – Kateryna Yushchenko (b. 1919), Ukrainian computer scientist and academic. [15] August 20 – Sir Fred Hoyle (b. 1915), English astronomer and science fiction writer. [16] August 31 – Doris Calloway (Nesheim) (b. 1923), American nutritionist.
Many horrific catastrophes have rocked the world and shaped history forever. However, some of these events were apparently worse than initially perceived. A Reddit question recently went viral ...
January 1 – Finland joins CERN. July 1 – Poland joins CERN . October 15 – the " Oh-My-God particle ", the first ultra-high-energy cosmic ray measured at an energy of 3 × 10 20 eV (40,000,000 times that of the highest energy protons that have been produced in a particle accelerator), is observed at the University of Utah HiRes observatory ...