World History Chronology

This list lists chronologies having various subjects and periods of observation; the object of observation is the history of the whole world : the Universe , Earth , humanity .

Content

1 Universe
2 Earth
3 Humanity
- 3.1 Background
  - 3.1.1 Paleolithic timeline
- 3.2 History
4 Events of the future
5 See also

Universe

For events dating from the emergence of the Universe, see: Chronology of the formation of the Universe
Big Bang Timeline

Earth

For events dating from the formation of the planet to the emergence of modern people, see: Chronology of Natural History
Geochronological scale
Timeline evolution

Humanity

Background

For events dating from the time of the appearance of Homo sapiens to the appearance of writing, see: Chronology of human history
The evolutionary chronology of hominid taxa
Chronology of Human Evolution

Paleolithic Chronology

Chronology of the Lower Paleolithic (3 million - 300 thousand years ago)
Chronology of the Middle Paleolithic (300-50 thousand years ago)
Chronology of the Late Paleolithic (50-14 thousand years ago)

History

These events of world history are reliably recorded from the moment of writing , about 5000 years ago (which marks the beginning of history) to this day.

For events from. 3200 BC e. to 500 g. see: Chronology of ancient history
For events from 500 to 1499 see: Chronology of the Middle Ages
For events from 1500 to 1900, see: Chronology of early modern history
For events since 1901, see: Chronology of modern history

Future Events

Timeline of the future
Timeline of the distant future