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Welcome to "History In Context". On these pages, we provide an alternative vision of history that you don't get in text books, and wherever possible we will put events in history into their proper context, so that you have a clearer overview of what was happening in other parts of the World or in other disciplines at any given time.

 

"Universal History"

From before the big bang (13.7 billion years ago)

to

the creation of our galaxy (4.56 billion years ago)

 

 

"Earth History"

From the creation of our solar system (4.56 billion years ago)

to

the evolution of the 'Homo' genus (2.5 million years ago)

 

 

 

"Stone Age & Neolithic History"

From the evolution of the 'Homo' genus (2.5 million years ago)

to

the first permanent settlements and domestication (4500 BC)

 

 

 

"Bronze Age"

From the first permanent settlements and domestication(4500 BC)

to

the first dynasty of the Pharaohs (2920 BC)

to

the start of the Trojan wars (1200 BC)

 

 
 

"Iron Age"

From the start of the Trojan wars (1200 BC)

to

the first invasions of Alexander the Great (336 BC)

 

 
 

"Hellenistic Period"

From the first invasions of Alexander the Great (336 BC)

to

the rise of the Roman Empire (63 BC)

 

 
 

"Roman Period"

From the rise of the Roman Empire (63 BC)

to

the fall of the western Roman Empire (476 AD)

 

 
 

"Middle Ages"

From the fall of the western Roman Empire (476 AD)

to

Intellectual and economic revolution in Europe (1350 AD)

 

 
 

"The Renaissance"

From an explosion of changes in economics, science, arts and politics (1350 AD)

to

the Protestant Reformation (1500-1600 AD)

to

the first dawning of the age of enlightenment (1600 AD)

 

 
 

"The Age of Enlightenment"

From the knighthood of Francis Bacon 1603 AD)

to

the beginning of the Industrial Revolution (1750 AD)

 

 
 

"The Industrial Revolution"

From the opening of the first Westminster Bridge over the Thames (1750 AD)

to

the invention of the first wireless telegraph (1750 AD)

 

 
 

"The Twentieth Century"

From the Second Boer War (1899-1902 AD)

to

the 'Millennium Bug' (2000 AD)

 

 
 

"The Tweny-First Century"

From Vladimir Putin becoming president of Russia (Jan. 1st 2000 AD)

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