Crags Historical Timeline
Compiled by Friends of The Crags historian Neal Fitzgerald
World Events
4,500 million years ago
Earth’s crust formed
345 million years ago
Dinosaurs
65-1 million years ago
Development of mammals, fish, birds, reptiles, invenebrates and amphibians
2,500,000 years ago
Ice Age begins
1-2 million years ago
Massive climate change. Glaciers come and
go four times
1 million years ago
Homo-erectus upright ape emerges in Africa
300,000 -10,000 Years ago
Homo-sapiens evolve – earliest use of tools
70,000-35,000 years ago
Neanderthal man populates Europe and Asia
11,700 years ago
End of glacial period
8,000 years ago
Britain becomes an island
600 years ago
Ancient British tribes make and use iron
43-410AD
Romans conquer Britain
5-15th centuries AD
The Dark Ages – cultural, intellectual and economic decline following collapse of the Roman Empire
1348
The Black Death
1455-85
Wars of the Roses
1770
Captain Cook claims Australia
1805
Battle of Trafalgar
1833
Slavery abolished in Britain
1849
World’s first air raid as Austria uses 200 balloons to bomb Venice
1861-65
American Civil War
1876
Telephone invented
1901
Queen Victoria dies
1914-18
World War I
1929
Wall Street crash
1939-45
World War II
1969
Man walks on the moon
1984-85
Miners’ Strike