Date
Person
Books |  | Date
    
| Era |
Year |
Title |
Person |
|
-10,000 - 999 | |
| -2,500,000 |  | Stone tools used | | |
| -1,000,000 | | fire | |  |
| -500,000 | | Hearth is used for fire | |  |
| -30,000 | | numbers recorded on bones | |  |
| -20,000 | | bow and arrow | |  |
| -10,000 |  | Bread is made | | |
| -10,000 |  | Agriculture is developed | | |
| -8,000 | | Linen is woven from flax | |  |
| -8,000 |  | Tokens used to count | | |
| -7,000 | | pottery | |  |
| -6,000 |  | wheel | | |
| -5,000 |  | astronomical observation | | |
| -5,000 | | decimal numbers used in Eygpt | |  |
| -4,000 |  | Copper is used | | |
| -3,000 | | abacus invented | |  |
| -3,000 |  | Candles | | |
| -2,600 |  | Dye used | | |
| -1,300 |  | Glassmaking known in Mesopotamia | | |
| -640 |  | Thales - bio | Thales of Miletus | |
| -580 |  | Pythagoras - bio | Pythagoras | |
| -499 |  | Anaxagoras - bio | Anaxagoras | |
| -460 |  | Democritus - bio | Democritus | |
| -427 |  | Plato - bio | Plato | |
| -384 |  | Aristotle - bio | Aristotle | |
| -365 |  | Euclid - bio | Euclid | |
| -310 |  | Aristarchus - bio | Aristarchus | |
| -287 |  | Archimedes - bio | Archimedes | |
| -276 |  | Eratosthenes - bio | Eratosthenes | |
| -150 |  | Hero - bio | Hero | |
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