Timeline

Timeline of various stuff more or less relevant to this course:

Year Event
398 B.C. Death of Socrates
346 B.C. Death of Plato
322 B.C. Death of Aristotle
197 B.C. Roman conquest of Greece
1 A.D. Birth of Jesus (approximate)
270 Death of Plotinus
305 Death of Porphyry (approximate)
312 Conversion of Constantine to Christianity
410 Sack of Rome by the Visigoths
529 Emperor Justinian closes the philosophical schools of Athens
622 Muhammad flees from Mecca to Medina
711 Muslim conquest of Spain
8th--9th centuries Aristotle translated into Arabic
1037 Death of Avicenna
1109 Death of Saint Anselm of Canterbury
11th--13th centuries Aristotle translated into Latin
1204--1261 Latin (Crusader) rule in Constantinople
1274 Death of Saint Thomas Aquinas
1347--1351 The Black Death
1453 Fall of Constantinople to Turks
1517 Martin Luther posts 95 Theses
1632 Publication of Galileo's Two World Systems
1641 Publication of Descartes's Meditations
1677 Publication of Spinoza's Ethics
1687 Publication of Newton's Principia
1714 Leibniz composes Monadology
1781 Publication of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (1st ed.)
1789 French Revolution
2026 Now


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