A Timeline of Young Adult

Historical Fiction Made by Epic Reads

LEGEND: Literary History Historical Events Pop Culture Wars and Battles

BC
The Bronze Age
2589 BC: Building of the Giza Pyramids begins
1800 BC: Alphabetic writing emerges
890 BC: A
 pproximate date for the composition
of the Iliad and the Odyssey
3200 BC - 600 BC
776 BC: First recorded Olympic Games
384 BC: Birth of Aristotle
30 BC: Cleopatra commits suicide

The Iron Age

600 BC - 1 BC

AD

79: Pompeii destroyed by eruption of Mount Vesuvius

Ancient Rome
80: The Colosseum is completed

200s 753 BC - 500s AD

400s

453: Death of Attila the Hun

500s

600s Dark Ages

500s - 800s

874: Iceland is settled by Norsemen

900s

1096: The First Crusade

1066-1200: Middle English develops out of Old English

1100s

1200s
High Middle Ages
1000 - 1300s
1206: Genghis Khan is declared Great Khan of the Mongols

1300s

1308-1321: Dante writes The Divine Comedy

1347-1351: The Black Death kills approximately a third of the population of Europe

1400s

Renaissance
1439: Gutenberg is the first European to use movable type printing 1300s - 1500s
1481: Spanish Inquisition begins

1500s

1503: Leonardo da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa Elizabethan Era

1536: Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, is beheaded for adultery and treason 1550s - 1603
1595: William Shakespeare publishes Romeo and Juliet

1600s

1620: The Pilgrims arrive in the Mayflower at Cape Cod

1665: First recipe for ice cream written down by Lady Anne Fanshawe
1667: Paradise Lost is published
1692: Salem witch trials in Massachusetts

1700s

The Age of
Enlightenment
1700s - 1800s
1726: Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift is published
1775: The American Revolutionary War begins
1789: The French Revolution begins
1802: Beethoven performs his Moonlight Sonata for the first time

1810s
Napoleonic Era
1799 - 1815
1813: Jane Austen publishes Pride and Prejudice
1818: Mary Shelley publishes Frankenstein
1820: Discovery of Antarctica

1830s

1839: Robert Cornelius takes the first ever selfie Romanticism

1800s - 1850
1840s

1841: The word “dinosaur” is coined by Richard Owen

1848: The California Gold Rush begins

1850s

1859: Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species

1860s

1861: American Civil War begins

1870s

1879: Thomas Edison tests his first light bulb

1880s
Gilded Age
1870s - 1900s

1888: Jack the Ripper murders occur in Whitechapel, London

1890s

1893: New Zealand becomes the first country to enact women’s suffrage
1897: Bram Stoker writes Dracula

1900s

1903: The Wright brothers make fly their first powered aircraft
1908: The Ford Motor Company invents the Model T

1910s

1912: Titanic sinks

1914-1918: World War I

1920s
Machine Age
1900s - 1945
1925: F. Scott Fitzgerald publishes The Great Gatsby
1929: Wall Street crash of 1929 and the beginning of the Great Depression

1930s

1937: The Hindenburg explodes

1939: World War II begins

1940s

1945: World War II ends

1947: Cold War begins

1950s

1954: The first national color television broadcast in the US

1956: Elvis Presley records for the first time
1959: Vietnam War begins

1960s Atomic Age

1945 - 1970s

1962: Madeleine L’Engle publishes A Wrinkle in Time

1963: Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his “I Have a Dream” speech
1969: Moon landing
1969: Woodstock Festival

1970s

1971: Go Ask Alice is first published

1973: Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon is the highest selling album
1977: Star Wars is released in theaters

1980s

1982: Michael Jackson’s Thriller becomes the best-selling album of all time
1983: The first Nintendo Entertainment System is released in Japan
1985: Margaret Atwood publishes The Handmaid’s Tale
1989: Fall of the Berlin Wall

1990s
Information Age
1970s - present
1990: The World Wide Web is invented
1991: Cold War ends
1991: Nirvana releases Nevermind
1993: Lois Lowry publishes The Giver
1995: Garth Nix publishes Sabriel
1995: Clueless is released in theaters
1997: Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone is published in the UK
1999: Britney Spears releases …Baby One More Time

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