ART INSIDE OUT TIMELINE
BELL KRATER Greece (c.450BC)
400
Buddhism develops India (500–300 BC)
Parthenon built Greece (438 BC)
Cast iron invented China
1st highway built: Appian Way Rome (312 BC)
300
Maya calendars developed Mexico & Guatemala
Rice farming Africa
200
Great Wall completed China
Wheelbarrow invented China
100
End of Olmec culture, which made huge stone heads Mexico
1st daily newspaper Action Journal of Rome (59 BC)
0
Roman Collosseum completed Italy (AD 82)
Tikal, the greates Maya city, flourishes Guatemala
100
Paper invented China
Camels from Asia introduced Africa
200
Magnetic compass invented China
Stirrup invented Asia
300
Maya hieroglyphic writing develops Mexico & Guatemala
Gold trade strengthens new Kingdom of Ghana Africa
400
Fall of Roman Empire Europe
Mathematician Aryabhata claims earth rotates India
500
French language evolves from Latin France
Woodblock printing developed China
600
Maya build gigantic temple pyramids Mexico & Guatemala
First printed newspaper China
700
GRAVE GUARDIAN BEAST China (c. 750)
ROYAL EMBLEM STONE Mexico (c. 700–900)
800
Gunpowder invented China
Rise of Swahili culture Africa
900
Anasazi cliff dwellings built North America
Leif Ericsson reaches North America
1000
ARMADILLO Panama (c. 1000–1500)
1100
Genghis Kahn unites Mongolian tribes Asia
1100
Decline of Toltec empire Mexico
Eyeglasses invented Italy
1200
Marco Polo travels to China (1271)
Great mosque of Timbuktu begun Africa
1300
Aztec nobility drink chocolate, still unknow in Europe Mexico
THE ADORATION OF THE MAGI attributed to BOTTICINI
Italy (c. 1490)
1400
Printing press invented Germany (1456)
Columbus reaches the Americas (1492)
1500
OVAL DISH follower of PALISSY France (1575–1600)
Taj mahal built India
1600
Telescope invented Europe
1700
Declaration of Independence adopted United States (1776)
1800
Photography invented France (1826)
Secret of Chinese porcelain-making discovered Germany (1710)
Bicycle invented Scotland (1839)
FIFTY-THREE STATIONS ON THE TOKAIDO by HIROSHIGE Japan
Statue of liberty given to the U.S. by France (1886)
HAYMAKING AT ERAGNY by PISSARRO France (1892)
1st motorized flight by Wright brothers United States (1903)
1900
Lincoln penny is first U.S. coin with a portrati United States
BUTTERFLY MASK Africa (late 19th/early 20th century)
1st television broadcast Untied States (1931)
1st self-sustaining, controlled nuclear chain reaction
Chicago (1942)
Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya & many African nations gain independence
Sputnick launched into space Soviet Union (1957)
HERO CONSTRUCTION by HUNT (1958)
GOLDEN WALL by HOFMANN (1961)
CRYPTIC XV by NEVELSON (1966)
Louis Leakey finds man evolved in Africa (1967)
1st video game invented (1972)
Sears tower Built: the world’s tallest building Chicago 1974)
Kraft General Foods Education Center
opens at Art Institute of Chicago (1992)