Diana's Timeline by Diana Lopez-Lopez _ Student - SouthGarnerHS

The Neolithic Revolution Begins (10,000 BC)

dalopezlopez2 — 2025-03-19 13:50:30 UTC

The Neolithic Revolution, also known as the Agricultural Revolution, was a wide-scale transition of many human cultures during the Neolithic period from a lifestyle of hunting and gathering to one of agriculture and settlement.

SOURCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neolithic_Revolution

Haitian Revolution begins (1791-1804)

dalopezlopez2 — 2025-03-19 13:55:14 UTC

The Haitian Revolution was a insurrection led by self-liberated slaves against the French colonial rule in Saint-Domingue. The revolution is the ONLY known slave uprising in all of world history that led to the founding of a state which was both free from slavery and ruled by non-whites.

SOURCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haitian_Revolution

French Revolution begins (1789-1794)

dalopezlopez2 — 2025-03-19 13:55:54 UTC

The French Revolution was a period of political and societal change in France that began in 1789 and ended in 1794 with the ascent of Napoleon Bonaparte. It sought to overthrow the monarchical rule in France and establish a republican government.

SOURCES: https://www.history.com/topics/european-history/french-revolution

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolution

Russian Revolution begins (1917-1922)

dalopezlopez2 — 2025-03-19 14:09:48 UTC

The Russian Revolution was a period of political and social change in Russia. It sought to abolish its monarchy and adopt a socialist form of government, following with two successive revolutions and a civil war.

SOURCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Revolution

Chinese Revolution begins (1927-1949)

dalopezlopez2 — 2025-03-19 14:14:11 UTC

The Chinese Communist Revolution was a social revolution in China that began in 1927 and ended in 1949. The revolution was led by two groups, the Chinese Communist Party and the Nationalist Party, but after the civil war between them, the Chinese Communist Party ended up becoming the ruling party of China.

SOURCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Communist_Revolution

Cuban Revolution begins (1953-1959)

dalopezlopez2 — 2025-03-19 14:17:50 UTC

The Cuban Revolution was the military and political overthrow of Fulgencio Batista's dictatorship which had reigned as the government of Cuba between 1952 and 1959.

SOURCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Revolution

The Green Revolution begins (Early 20th Century)

dalopezlopez2 — 2025-03-19 14:23:07 UTC

The Green Revolution, also known as the Third Agricultural Revolution, was a period of technology transfer initiatives that saw greatly increased crop yields. This has increased the food production and combat hunger, especially in developing countries.

SOURCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Revolution

Gunpowder is invented (9th Century)

dalopezlopez2 — 2025-03-19 21:13:03 UTC

Gunpower, also commonly known as black powder to distinguish it from modern smokeless powder, is the earliest known chemical explosive. It consists of a mixture of sulfur, charcoal, and potassium nitrate.

SOURCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunpowder

The Industrial Revolution Begins (1760-1840)

dalopezlopez2 — 2025-03-19 21:19:21 UTC

The Industrial Revolution was a transitional period of the global economy toward more widespread, efficient and stable manufacturing processes. It first started in Great Britian around 1760 before it then spread to continental Europe and the United States by around 1840.

SOURCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Revolution

Steam engine invented (1712)

dalopezlopez2 — 2025-03-19 21:24:47 UTC

A steam engine is a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid. The steam engine uses the force produced by the steam pressure to push a piston back and form inside the cylinder. This pushing force can be transformed by a connecting rod and crank into rotational force for work.

SOURCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_engine

Internal combustion engine invented (1876)

dalopezlopez2 — 2025-03-19 21:30:23 UTC

An internal combustion engine is a heat engine in which the combustion of a fuel occurs with an oxidizer in a combustion chamber that is an integral part of the working fluid flow circuit. The first modern internal combustion engine, which was called Otto engine, was designed in 1876 by the German engineer Nicolaus Otto.

SOURCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_combustion_engine

Neil Armstrong steps onto the surface of the moon (1969)

dalopezlopez2 — 2025-03-19 21:34:01 UTC

The spaceflight that was conducted from July 16 to 24 in 1969 by the United States and launched by Nasa was called Apollo 11. It marked the first time that humans landed on the Moon. Neil Armstrong became the first person to step onto the Moon's surface on July 21.

SOURCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11

Digital Revolution begins (Late 1950s- 1970s)

dalopezlopez2 — 2025-03-19 21:39:46 UTC

The Digital Revolution was a period where the development of technology transformed from mechanical and analog to digital. The introduction of digital technology changed the way humans communicate, now via computers, cell phones, and the internet.

SOURCE: https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/what-was-the-digital-revolution.html

Invention of the printing press (1440)

dalopezlopez2 — 2025-03-20 13:11:49 UTC

A printing press is a mechanical device for applying pressure to an inked surface resting upon a print medium, thereby transferring the ink. It marked a dramatic improvement on earlier printing methods in which the cloth, paper, or other medium were brushed or rubbed repeatedly to achieve the transfer of ink and accelerated the process.

SOURCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printing_press

Invention of the Machine gun (The Maxim Gun) (1886)

dalopezlopez2 — 2025-03-20 13:15:30 UTC

The Maxim gun is a recoil-operated machine gun invented in 1884 by Hiram Stevens Maxim. It was the first fully automatic machine gun in the world. And it was used in many wars including the most recent war of now, the Russo-Ukrainian War.

SOURCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxim_gun

Bombing of Nagasaki (1945)

dalopezlopez2 — 2025-05-16 21:17:43 UTC

From August 6th to 9th on 1945, the United States dropped two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II as a way of getting Japan to surrender as well as putting an end to the war.

SOURCE:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki

The Battle of the Somme begins (1916)

dalopezlopez2 — 2025-05-16 21:25:19 UTC

The Battle of the Somme was a battle that was fought by the British Empire and the French Third Republic against the German Empire between July 1st and November 18th in 1916, aiming at breaking through German defenses on the Western Front. It later became known as one of the deadliest battles fought during World War I.

SOURCE:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Somme

Protestant Reformation (1517)

dalopezlopez2 — 2025-05-16 21:40:26 UTC

The Reformation, also known as the Protestant Reformation, was a time of major theological movement in Western Christianity in 16th century Europe that started on October 31st, 1517, that posed a religious and political challenge to the authority of the Catholic Church.

SOURCE:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reformation

The Invention of the First Airplane (1903)

dalopezlopez2 — 2025-05-16 21:48:33 UTC

The Wright brothers, Orville Wright and Wilbur Wright, were American aviation pioneers who were credited with inventing, building, and flying the world's first successful airplane. On December 17th, 1903, they made the first controlled, sustained flight of an engine-powered aircraft with the Wright Flyer only four miles south of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

SOURCE:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright_brothers

Creation of the World Wide Web (1989)

dalopezlopez2 — 2025-05-16 21:57:03 UTC

The World Wide Web is a global information medium that users can access via computers connected to the Internet. Tim Berners-Lee created the World Wide Web while working at CERN in 1989.

SOURCE:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_World_Wide_Web

Creation of Atari Pong (1972)

dalopezlopez2 — 2025-05-16 22:04:08 UTC

Pong is a 1972 sports video game developed and published by Atari for arcades. It was created by Allan Alcorn as a training exercise assigned to him by Atari co-founder Nolan Bushnell, but Bushnell and Atari co-founder Ted Dabney ended up being so surprised by the quality of Alcorn's work that they decided to manufacture the game.

SOURCE:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pong

Creation of Model T (1908)

dalopezlopez2 — 2025-05-16 22:19:19 UTC

The Ford Model T is an automobile that was produced by the Ford Moto Company from October 1st, 1908, to May 26th, 1927. It was considered to be the first mass-affordable automobile which made car travel available to middle-class Americans. It was designed by three engineers, Joseph A. Galamb, Eugene Farkas, and Childe Harold Wills.

Invention of the Cotton Gin (1862)

dalopezlopez2 — 2025-05-16 22:32:35 UTC

The first man-made plastic was created by Alexander Parkes who publicly demonstrated it at the 1862 Great International Exhibition in London. The material is called Parkesine which is an organic material derived from cellulose that, once heated, could be molded and retained its shape when cooled.

SOURCE:

https://www.thoughtco.com/history-of-plastics-1992322

Invention of the Radar (1904)

dalopezlopez2 — 2025-05-16 22:36:32 UTC

The Radar is an object-detection system that uses radio waves to determine the range, angle, or velocity of objects. It can be used to detect aircraft, ships, spacecraft, guided missiles, motor vehicles, weather formations, and terrain. The first radar system was invented by German engineer Christian Hulsmeyer in 1904.

SOURCE:

https://magnifymind.com/who-invented-radar/

Facebook launches (2004)

dalopezlopez2 — 2025-05-16 22:41:49 UTC

On February 4th, 2004, Mark Zuckerberg launched a social website called "TheFacebook" (which was later renamed to "Facebook") from his dorm room at Harvard. It started off as a private network for college students before becoming a worldwide phenomenon where everyone from teens to grandmothers can use to catch up with friends and family from across the world.

SOURCE:

https://www.officetimeline.com/blog/facebook-history-timeline

Invention of the first Wheel (4000 BCE)

dalopezlopez2 — 2025-05-18 20:44:12 UTC

A wheel is a rotating component that is intended to turn on an axle bearing. The wheel can be used for many different purposes such as transportation or performing labor in machines. It's not known who invented the wheel, but it is believed that Mesopotamian cultures invented the wheel around the 4th millennium BCE.

SOURCES:

https://historycooperative.org/who-invented-the-wheel/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheel

Creation of ChatGPT (2022)

dalopezlopez2 — 2025-05-18 20:55:08 UTC

ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot built on top of OpenAI's foundational large models like GPT-4. OpenAI released an early demo of ChatGPT on November 30th, 2022, and the chatbot quickly went viral on social media. Within five days, the chatbot had attracted over one million users.

SOURCE:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2023/05/19/a-short-history-of-chatgpt-how-we-got-to-where-we-are-today/

Creation of the Iphone (2007)

dalopezlopez2 — 2025-05-18 21:03:09 UTC

On January 9th, 2007, Steve Jobs introduced the first iPhone at Macworld Expo in San Francisco. The first iPhone combined three devices into one singular product: a widescreen iPod with touch controls, a revolutionary mobile phone, and a breakthrough internet communicator.

SOURCE:

https://www.simplymac.com/iphone/the-first-iphone-was-introduced-by-steve-jobs-18-years-ago

Invention of the Cotton Gin (1793)

dalopezlopez2 — 2025-05-18 21:30:28 UTC

A cotton gin is a machine that quickly separates cotton fibers from their seeds, enabling much greater productivity than manual cotton separation. It was created by English-American inventor Eli Whitney in 1793 and patented in 1794.

SOURCES:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton_gin

https://www.thoughtco.com/the-cotton-gin-in-american-history-104722

Invention of the Telegraph (1794)

dalopezlopez2 — 2025-05-18 21:41:23 UTC

The first telegraph, which was not electric but optic, was created in 1794 by the Frenchman Claude Chappe. Chappe's telegraph consisted of a series of semaphores placed in elevated locations about ten kilometers apart. A message would be sent from one semaphore to the next and so on before finally reaching its final destination.

SOURCE:

https://www.ericsson.com/en/about-us/history/communication/early-developments/the-triumph-of-the-telegraph