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 |