Here we list significant dates from places we have been. We will keep adding to this page.

13.8 Billion Years: Age of the Universe

4.6 Billion Years: Age of our Sun

4.54 billion Years: Age of Earth

30,000 B.C. to 3000 B.C.: Stone Age

3000 B.C. to 1200 B.C.: Bronze Age

1200 B.C. to 800 B.C.: Iron Age

50,000 to 5,000 years ago, caves in the vicinity of Meteora were inhabited continuously

1356 B.C. Meteoron monastery founded

600 – 700 B.C. Delphi starts to gain relevance as a shrine and an oracle

508 B.C. The word “democracy” (“rule by the people”) was invented by Athenians in order to define their system of government

495 B.C. Pericles Is born

447 B.C. Parthenon (#3) started

399 B.C. Socrates commits suicide after the Atenian leadership turns on him

79 A.D. Pompeii buried by eruption of Mount Vesuvius

300 A.D. Diocletian builds his palace

~400 A.D. Villa Romana del Casale is built

~500 A.D. Chess invented in India

~500 A.D. Roman Empire falls

~500 A.D. Dark Ages begin

639 Solona destroyed by barbarians (the Avars)

1066 Tower of London built

1176 Cairo Citadel complex was started by Saladin in 1176 as a fortification against the Crusaders.

1345 First Chedi of Wat Phra Singh (Gold Temple)

1600 Venice is the second largest city in Europe after Paris and probably the richest in the world

1600 Antonio Contino designed and builds the Bridge of Sighs

1772 cook crosses Antarctic circle

1805 Mohammad Ali becomes ruler of Egypt. Considered to be the father of modern Egypt.

1848 The Great Mosque of Muhammad Ali Pasha (Alabaster Mosque) in Cairo is completed

1851 Prime meridian established

1869 Cutty Sark Launched in Dumbarton, Scotland

1869 Suez Canal opened for navigation (links the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea)

1892 Ben Ezra synagogue in Cairo completed. It is thought to be located on the site where baby Moses was found floating in a basket on the Nile.

1902 Aswan low dam completed

1914, June 28, Gavrilo Princip, a Bosnian Serb Yugoslav nationalist, assassinates the Austro-Hungarian heir Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo

1970 Aswan high dam completed

1949 Peggy Guggenheim moves to Venice