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8,000 BC - Oldest city, Jericho, has 2000 inhabitants
7,000 BC - Fired pottery invented
5,600 BC - The Black Sea Flood
4,236 BC - Egyptian Calendar begins
3,700 BC - Megalithic stone graves appear in Denmark
3,500 BC - First Sumerian writing appears
3,400 BC - Invention of the wheel
3,100 BC - First work on Stonehenge begins
2,700 BC - First pyramids built in Egypt
2,500 BC - Development of Chinese characters
2,357 BC - Chinese record mention the Pleiades star cluster
2,134 BC - Chinese astrologers failed to predict a solar eclipse
2,000 BC - Chinese report aurora sightings
1,600 BC - Sun disk and star map created in Germany
1,375 BC - First solar eclipse recorded in Babylon
1,111 BC - First naked-eye solar flares sighted by Chinese
800 BC - First sunspots sighted by Chinese
763 BC - Solar eclipse mentioned in Old Testament
467 BC - Anaxagoras possibly sees a sunspot
37 AD - Julius Caesar sends troops to chace an 'aurora'
500 AD - First report of naked-eye sunspot by Chinese
513 AD - Report of naked-eye sunspot by Chinese
786 AD - Report of naked-eye sunspot by Chinese
807 AD - Report of naked-eye sunspot by Chinese
887 AD - Report of naked-eye sunspot by Chinese
925 AD - Report of naked-eye sunspot by Chinese
968 AD - First report of corona seen during total solar eclipse
1118 AD - Report of naked-eye sunspot by Chinese
1128 AD - First sketch of sunspot sighted in England
1138 AD - Report of naked-eye sunspot by Chinese
1185 AD - First sighting of solar prominence by Russians
1290 AD - Wolf Sunspot minimum and vanishing of aurora
1381 AD - Report of naked-eye sunspot by Chinese
1436 AD - Report of naked-eye sunspot by Chinese
1440 AD - Sporer Sunspot Minimum
The Origin of the Cosmos, Earth, Sun, and Humans
The Rise of Modern Humans
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