Editor's note: This is a historical chronology principally devoted to marking milestones in human scientific achievement or observation. Detailed information related to the eons, eras, periods, and epochs of geologic time may be found in text...

• = historical event ■ = literary event • Queen Ahmose Nefertari, sister and principal wife of King Ahmose, rules as "god's wife," in a new position created by a law enacted by the King. • Queen...

1776:Signing of the Declaration of Independence. 1789:French Revolution begins with the storming of the Bastille. 1793:Eli Whitney patents his cotton gin—a machine that, by making cotton profitable, spurs the expansion of slave labor in the...

1798 Essay on the Principle of Population published by Thomas Robert Malthus, in which he warned about the dangers of unchecked population growth. 1830 World population is one billion. 1849 U.S. Department of the Interior established. 1854 Henry...

1799-1800 Combination Acts, Great Britain 1799-1827 Owen Model Communities, Great Britain, United States 1800 Gabriel's Rebellion, United States 1811-1813 Luddites Destroy Woolen Machines, Great Britain 1814 Power Loom Invented, United States...

Chronology, or general chronology, is the science of locating events in time, and is part of the discipline of history. When used for specific examples, a chronology is a sequential arrangement of events, such as a chronicle or, particularly when...