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Stone Age
72- c. 3.3 million BCEEarliest stone toolsTechnology
- c. 2.6 million BCE – 1.7 million BCEOldowan tool industryTechnology
- c. 2.4 million BCEPercussion flaking at LomekwiTechnology
- c. 2.0 million BCEHomo habilis and the enlarging brainScience
- c. 1.8 million BCEHomo erectus disperses out of AfricaSociety
- c. 1.7 million BCEAcheulean handaxeTechnology
- c. 1.5 million BCESystematic butchery with stone flakesAgriculture
- c. 1.0 million BCE – 400,000 BCEControlled use of fireEnergy
- c. 900,000 BCEOchre processing for symbolic useArt & Culture
- c. 780,000 BCEHearths at Gesher Benot Ya'aqovEnergy
- c. 500,000 BCEHafted spearsWarfare
- c. 400,000 BCEWooden throwing spearsWarfare
- c. 350,000 BCEPrepared-core Levallois techniqueTechnology
- c. 320,000 BCELong-distance obsidian exchangeSociety
- c. 300,000 BCEEarliest Homo sapiens fossilsScience
- c. 170,000 BCEClothing and tailored hidesTechnology
- c. 160,000 BCEShellfish harvesting at Pinnacle PointAgriculture
- c. 120,000 BCEDeliberate burial of the deadSociety
- c. 100,000 BCEPigment workshopsArt & Culture
- c. 75,000 BCEShell bead ornamentsArt & Culture
- c. 70,000 BCEEngraved abstract designsArt & Culture
- c. 65,000 BCEPeopling of AustraliaExploration
- c. 64,000 BCEBow and arrowWarfare
- c. 60,000 BCEOstrich eggshell water flasksTechnology
- c. 50,000 BCESeafaring to SahulTransportation
- c. 45,000 BCEBone flutesArt & Culture
- c. 43,000 BCESulawesi cave artArt & Culture
- c. 40,000 BCEFigurative cave paintingArt & Culture
- c. 35,000 BCETally marks on boneScience
- c. 30,000 BCECeramic firingTechnology
- c. 28,000 BCESpun fibre and textilesTechnology
- c. 26,000 BCEEyed sewing needleTechnology
- c. 25,000 BCEFired ceramic figurinesArt & Culture
- c. 23,000 BCEWild cereal grinding at Ohalo IIAgriculture
- c. 20,000 BCEPottery vesselsTechnology
- c. 18,000 BCEJomon potteryTechnology
- c. 16,000 BCEPeopling of the AmericasExploration
- c. 15,000 BCEDomestication of the dogAgriculture
- c. 13,000 BCEBread before agricultureAgriculture
- c. 12,000 BCEGobekli TepeSociety
- c. 11,000 BCEFig cultivation at GilgalAgriculture
- c. 10,000 BCE – 9,000 BCEAgricultureAgriculture
- c. 9,500 BCEEmmer and einkorn wheat domesticatedAgriculture
- c. 9,000 BCEDomestication of sheep and goatsAgriculture
- c. 9,000 BCERice domestication in the YangtzeAgriculture
- c. 8,800 BCESquash domestication in MesoamericaAgriculture
- c. 8,500 BCECopper cold-working at CayonuTechnology
- c. 8,000 BCEBricks and mudbrick architectureTechnology
- c. 8,000 BCEMaize domestication from teosinteAgriculture
- c. 8,000 BCEDomestication of cattleAgriculture
- c. 7,500 BCECatalhoyuk and dense town lifeSociety
- c. 7,000 BCEIrrigation canalsAgriculture
- c. 7,000 BCEDentistry with flint drillsMedicine
- c. 7,000 BCEPotato domestication in the AndesAgriculture
- c. 7,000 BCEBanana and taro gardening at Kuk SwampAgriculture
- c. 6,500 BCECopper smeltingTechnology
- c. 6,500 BCECheese makingAgriculture
- c. 6,200 BCEIrrigated barley of the Zagros foothillsAgriculture
- c. 6,000 BCEWoven cloth loomTechnology
- c. 6,000 BCEWine making at Areni and Hajji FiruzAgriculture
- c. 6,000 BCESilk in ChinaTechnology
- c. 5,800 BCESalt production by brine boilingTechnology
- c. 5,500 BCEThe ploughAgriculture
- c. 5,500 BCESorghum and pearl millet in the SahelAgriculture
- c. 5,400 BCECopper smelting at BelovodeTechnology
- c. 5,000 BCENorte Chico monumental buildingSociety
- c. 5,000 BCEMegalithic tomb building in Atlantic EuropeSociety
- c. 4,500 BCETeff domestication in EthiopiaAgriculture
- c. 4,500 BCEDonkey domesticationTransportation
- c. 4,000 BCEHorse domestication on the steppeTransportation
- c. 3,600 BCELost-wax castingTechnology
- c. 3,500 BCECotton spinning in the IndusTechnology
Bronze Age
37- c. 4,000 BCEThe wheelTransportation
- c. 3,500 BCESailing shipsTransportation
- c. 3,300 BCEBronze alloyingTechnology
- c. 3,300 BCEOtzi's toolkit and tattoosMedicine
- 3,200 BCECuneiform writingCommunication
- c. 3,100 BCEEgyptian hieroglyphsCommunication
- c. 3,000 BCEPapyrusCommunication
- c. 3,000 BCEStonehenge sarsen circleScience
- c. 3,000 BCELlama and alpaca herdingAgriculture
- c. 2,900 BCEGlass makingTechnology
- c. 2,900 BCESumerian city-state assembliesSociety
- c. 2,800 BCEEbers and Edwin Smith surgical practiceMedicine
- c. 2,700 BCESewn-plank seagoing shipsTransportation
- c. 2,600 BCEThe Great Pyramid engineeringTechnology
- c. 2,600 BCEStandardised weights of the IndusSociety
- c. 2,600 BCEEgyptian surveying with cord and gnomonScience
- c. 2,500 BCEIndus urban sanitationMedicine
- c. 2,500 BCECuneiform accounting and schoolsCommunication
- c. 2,400 BCEThe abacusScience
- c. 2,400 BCEUrukagina's reformsSociety
- c. 2,200 BCESumerian beer brewing and rationsAgriculture
- 2,100 BCEUr-Nammu law collectionSociety
- c. 2,000 BCESpoked wheel and chariotWarfare
- c. 2,000 BCEEnheduanna, the first named authorArt & Culture
- c. 1,900 BCEPlimpton 322 and Babylonian triplesScience
- c. 1,800 BCEBabylonian mathematicsScience
- c. 1,800 BCEChariot warfare of the steppeWarfare
- 1,754 BCECode of HammurabiSociety
- 1,650 BCERhind Mathematical PapyrusScience
- c. 1,600 BCEAlphabetic writingCommunication
- c. 1,600 BCEShang oracle bone scriptCommunication
- c. 1,500 BCELapita voyaging into the PacificExploration
- c. 1,500 BCEAyurvedic and Vedic medical traditionMedicine
- c. 1,500 BCEGlass ingot trade of the UluburunExploration
- c. 1,400 BCEHittite iron workingTechnology
- c. 1,350 BCENubian pyramid kingdoms of KushSociety
- c. 1,250 BCEWater-lifting shaduf in the Nile fieldsAgriculture
Iron Age
23- c. 1,200 BCEIron smeltingTechnology
- c. 1,200 BCEOlmec colossal headsArt & Culture
- c. 1,177 BCE – 1,150 BCEBronze Age collapse and the Sea PeoplesSociety
- c. 1,150 BCE – 800 BCEPhoenician maritime trade networkExploration
- c. 1,100 BCETuned bronze bell chimes (bianzhong)Art & Culture
- c. 1,050 BCECamel domestication for desert caravansTransportation
- 1,046 BCE – 771 BCEZhou dynasty and the Mandate of HeavenSociety
- c. 1,000 BCECoinage precursors and standard weightsSociety
- c. 1,000 BCEIron working at Nok and the Great LakesTechnology
- c. 1,000 BCE – 600 BCEThe Upanishads and early Indian philosophySociety
- c. 1,000 BCEIron ploughshares open northern soilsAgriculture
- c. 1,000 BCEZarathustra and Zoroastrian teachingSociety
- c. 1,000 BCETerrace farming in the AndesAgriculture
- c. 950 BCEAlphabetic scribal schools in the LevantCommunication
- c. 950 BCEQanat underground water channels of PersiaTechnology
- c. 900 BCEChavin de HuantarSociety
- c. 900 BCEAssyrian royal road and relay postCommunication
- c. 900 BCECavalry replaces the war chariotWarfare
- c. 875 BCETyrian purple dye industryTechnology
- c. 850 BCEHomeric epics take fixed formArt & Culture
- c. 825 BCEEtruscan cities and drainage engineeringSociety
- c. 814 BCEFounding of CarthageExploration
- c. 805 BCEHallstatt salt minesTechnology
Antiquity
64- c. 800 BCEGreek alphabet with vowelsCommunication
- c. 800 BCEGreek city-state colonisationSociety
- c. 700 BCEAqueducts and qanatsTechnology
- c. 700 BCEAssyrian siege engineeringWarfare
- c. 700 BCEEtruscan and Roman dentistry with gold bandsMedicine
- c. 620 BCEDraconian and Solonic written law at AthensSociety
- 600 BCEMinted coinageSociety
- c. 600 BCESushruta's surgical compendiumMedicine
- c. 563 BCEBuddhist philosophySociety
- 551 BCEConfucian ethicsSociety
- c. 550 BCERoyal Road and postal relayCommunication
- c. 530 BCEPythagorean number and harmonyScience
- 508 BCEAthenian democracySociety
- c. 500 BCECast ironTechnology
- c. 500 BCEPanini's grammar of SanskritScience
- c. 500 BCEIronworking spreads through the Nok cultureTechnology
- c. 450 BCEHerodotus and written historyCommunication
- c. 400 BCEHippocratic medicineMedicine
- c. 400 BCECrossbow in ChinaWarfare
- c. 400 BCEMohist logic and siege defenceScience
- c. 350 BCEFormal logicScience
- 350 BCEAristotle's systematic biologyScience
- 312 BCEVia Appia and the Roman road standardTransportation
- c. 300 BCEEuclidean geometryScience
- c. 300 BCELibrary and Museum of AlexandriaSociety
- c. 300 BCECast iron and the blast furnace in ChinaTechnology
- c. 300 BCEArthashastra and statecraftSociety
- c. 260 BCELighthouse of AlexandriaTransportation
- c. 250 BCEArchimedes screw and mechanicsScience
- c. 250 BCEAshoka's edicts and public welfareSociety
- c. 240 BCEMeasuring the EarthScience
- 221 BCEQin standardisation of script, axles and weightsSociety
- c. 206 BCEChinese belt-drive and rotary winnowing fanAgriculture
- c. 200 BCEPaperCommunication
- c. 200 BCEHorse harness and the traceTransportation
- c. 150 BCEAntikythera mechanismScience
- c. 130 BCESilk Road opensExploration
- c. 100 BCERoman concreteTechnology
- c. 100 BCEHipparchus and the star catalogueScience
- c. 100 BCERoman hypocaust heatingTechnology
- c. 50 BCEGlassblowingTechnology
- 50 BCEJulian calendar reformScience
- c. 1Roman postal serviceCommunication
- c. 50WatermillEnergy
- c. 50Roman surgical instrument kitMedicine
- c. 60Hero's steam device and automataTechnology
- c. 78Dioscorides' pharmacopoeiaMedicine
- 79Pliny's Natural HistoryScience
- c. 100Zero as a placeholder in Bakhshali arithmeticScience
- 105Standardised papermakingCommunication
- 132SeismoscopeScience
- c. 150Ptolemy's Almagest and GeographyScience
- c. 150Galen's anatomy and physiologyMedicine
- c. 200Horse collarAgriculture
- c. 200Aksum coinage and Red Sea tradeSociety
- c. 220Hua Tuo and surgical anaesthesiaMedicine
- c. 250Maya positional zeroScience
- c. 250Diophantus and symbolic algebraScience
- c. 300Maya calendar and astronomyScience
- c. 300Camel caravans cross the SaharaTransportation
- c. 350Codex replaces the scrollCommunication
- c. 400Iron pillar of DelhiTechnology
- c. 400Hypatia and Alexandrian mathematicsScience
- 476Aryabhata's astronomy and trigonometryScience
Middle Ages
64- c. 400StirrupWarfare
- c. 500Heavy mouldboard ploughAgriculture
- c. 500Wootz crucible steelTechnology
- c. 500Decimal place-value numerals of IndiaScience
- 529Justinian's codification of Roman lawSociety
- c. 550Silkworm smuggling to ByzantiumAgriculture
- c. 600Chinese imperial examinationsSociety
- c. 610Grand Canal of ChinaTransportation
- 628Rules for zero and negative numbersScience
- c. 650WindmillEnergy
- c. 650Greek fireWarfare
- c. 700Woodblock printingCommunication
- c. 700Polynesian wayfinding to Hawaii and Rapa NuiExploration
- c. 700Horseshoe and the nailed iron shoeTransportation
- c. 750Paper mills at Samarkand and BaghdadCommunication
- c. 760Arabic translation of Indian astronomyScience
- c. 800House of Wisdom translation movementScience
- c. 800Three-field crop rotationAgriculture
- c. 820AlgebraScience
- c. 830Al-Khwarizmi and the algorithmScience
- c. 850GunpowderWarfare
- 859University of al-Qarawiyyin foundedSociety
- c. 860Banu Musa's Book of Ingenious DevicesTechnology
- c. 870Al-Kindi and frequency analysisCommunication
- c. 900Distillation of alcohol and rosewaterScience
- c. 900Al-Razi's clinical case notesMedicine
- c. 950Hospitals with wards and pharmaciesMedicine
- c. 984Astrolabe workshops of IsfahanScience
- c. 1000Optics as experimentScience
- c. 1000Great Zimbabwe stone architectureTechnology
- c. 1000Norse landfall at L'Anse aux MeadowsExploration
- c. 1000Variolation against smallpoxMedicine
- c. 1000Chinese paper moneySociety
- 1021Ibn al-Haytham's Book of OpticsScience
- 1025Avicenna's Canon of MedicineMedicine
- c. 1040Magnetic compass for navigationTransportation
- 1041Movable typeCommunication
- c. 1050Champa rice and double croppingAgriculture
- 1088Mechanical escapement clockTechnology
- 1088University of BolognaSociety
- c. 1100Angkor hydraulic cityTechnology
- c. 1100Polynesian double-hulled voyaging canoeTransportation
- c. 1100Gothic rib vault and flying buttressTechnology
- c. 1150Windmill in Europe and the vertical axle in PersiaEnergy
- c. 1150Water-powered fulling and sawmillsEnergy
- c. 1180Stern-mounted rudderTransportation
- c. 1180Wheelbarrow and spinning wheel reach EuropeTechnology
- 1202Fibonacci's Liber AbaciScience
- 1206Al-Jazari's automata and crank-connecting rodTechnology
- c. 1206Mongol relay post and Pax MongolicaCommunication
- 1215Magna CartaSociety
- c. 1230Rocket arrows and fire lancesWarfare
- c. 1250SpectaclesMedicine
- c. 1250Nasir al-Din al-Tusi and the Maragha observatoryScience
- c. 1260Hanseatic League trading networkSociety
- c. 1280Mechanical clock in monasteriesTechnology
- c. 1300Blast furnace in EuropeTechnology
- c. 1300Ottoman and European cannonWarfare
- c. 1300Spinning wheel with treadleTechnology
- 1324Mansa Musa's pilgrimage and TimbuktuSociety
- c. 1338Eyeglasses spread and the spectacle tradeMedicine
- 1348Public health boards of the Black DeathMedicine
- c. 1350Quarantine at Ragusa and VeniceMedicine
- 1377Jikji, printed with metal type in KoreaCommunication
Renaissance
45- c. 1400Blast-furnace cast iron cannonWarfare
- 1405Zheng He's treasure fleetsExploration
- c. 1410Linear perspective in paintingArt & Culture
- c. 1420Caravel and Portuguese Atlantic navigationTransportation
- 1436Dome of Florence CathedralTechnology
- c. 1440Printing press with movable metal typeCommunication
- 1443Hangul alphabetCommunication
- c. 1450Inca road system and khipuCommunication
- c. 1450Terra preta and Amazonian soil engineeringAgriculture
- c. 1470Matchlock firearmWarfare
- 1492Transatlantic contactExploration
- 1494Double-entry bookkeepingSociety
- c. 1500Chinampa agriculture at TenochtitlanAgriculture
- c. 1500Benin bronze casting at its heightArt & Culture
- c. 1518Columbian Exchange of cropsAgriculture
- 1522First circumnavigationExploration
- c. 1530Paracelsus and chemical medicineMedicine
- 1543Heliocentric astronomyScience
- 1543Modern anatomyMedicine
- 1543Portuguese arquebuses reach JapanWarfare
- 1545Ambroise Pare and humane surgeryMedicine
- 1545Potosi silver and the global money supplySociety
- 1569Mercator projectionTransportation
- 1582Gregorian calendar reformSociety
- c. 1590Compound microscopeScience
- 1600Gilbert's De MagneteScience
- c. 1600Dutch fluyt cargo shipTransportation
- 1602Joint-stock company and stock exchangeSociety
- 1608TelescopeScience
- 1609Kepler's laws of planetary motionScience
- 1614LogarithmsScience
- 1620Novum Organum and inductive methodScience
- 1620Submarine navigation trial on the ThamesTransportation
- 1628Circulation of the bloodMedicine
- 1637Analytic geometryScience
- 1642Mechanical calculatorTechnology
- c. 1650Vacuum pump and the Magdeburg hemispheresScience
- 1654Probability theoryScience
- 1656Pendulum clockTechnology
- 1660Learned societies and the scientific journalScience
- 1665Micrographia and the cellScience
- c. 1670Microbial life observedScience
- 1676Speed of light measuredScience
- 1687Laws of motion and gravitationScience
- 1698Steam pump for mine drainageEnergy
Industrial Age
97- 1701Seed drillAgriculture
- 1709Coke smelting of ironTechnology
- 1712Atmospheric steam engineEnergy
- 1714Mercury thermometer and Fahrenheit scaleScience
- c. 1730Sextant and lunar-distance navigationExploration
- 1733Flying shuttleTechnology
- 1735Marine chronometerTransportation
- 1742Celsius temperature scaleScience
- 1747First controlled clinical trialMedicine
- 1751EncyclopedieCommunication
- 1752Lightning rodScience
- 1753Linnaean binomial classificationScience
- c. 1760Crop rotation and enclosure farmingAgriculture
- 1765Separate-condenser steam engineEnergy
- 1769Water frame and factory spinningTechnology
- c. 1770Canal networks and inland freightTransportation
- 1774Oxygen isolatedScience
- 1779Iron Bridge at CoalbrookdaleTechnology
- 1783Manned flight by balloonTransportation
- 1783Parachute descent demonstratedTransportation
- 1784Puddling and rolling of wrought ironTechnology
- 1785Power loomTechnology
- 1793Cotton ginAgriculture
- 1795The metric systemSociety
- 1795Food canningAgriculture
- 1796VaccinationMedicine
- 1796LithographyArt & Culture
- 1799Rosetta Stone deciphered project beginsCommunication
- 1800Electric batteryEnergy
- c. 1800Machine tools and interchangeable partsTechnology
- 1801Jacquard punched-card loomTechnology
- 1804Steam locomotiveTransportation
- 1805Morphine isolatedMedicine
- 1812Gas street lightingEnergy
- 1816StethoscopeMedicine
- 1817Bicycle ancestor: the running machineTransportation
- 1820Electromagnetism discoveredScience
- 1824Portland cement and thermodynamicsTechnology
- 1826PhotographyArt & Culture
- 1829BrailleCommunication
- 1831Electromagnetic inductionScience
- 1834Mechanical reaperAgriculture
- 1837Electric telegraphCommunication
- 1837Public education and the normal schoolSociety
- 1839Vulcanised rubberTechnology
- 1842Sanitary reform and the sewerMedicine
- 1843Ada Lovelace's algorithmScience
- 1846Surgical anaesthesiaMedicine
- 1846Sewing machineTechnology
- 1847Handwashing and puerperal feverMedicine
- 1849Safety pinTechnology
- 1851The Crystal Palace and prefabricationTechnology
- c. 1851Standard time and the railway clockSociety
- 1852Safety elevator brakeTechnology
- 1854Broad Street pump and epidemiologyMedicine
- 1854Boolean algebraScience
- 1855Modern refrigerationTechnology
- 1856Bessemer processTechnology
- c. 1857Public library movementSociety
- 1859Theory of evolution by natural selectionScience
- 1859Commercial oil drillingEnergy
- 1861Germ theory of diseaseMedicine
- 1861Colour photography demonstratedArt & Culture
- 1863Underground railwayTransportation
- 1864PasteurisationMedicine
- 1865Mendel's laws of inheritanceScience
- 1865Antiseptic surgeryMedicine
- 1866Transatlantic telegraph cableCommunication
- 1867DynamiteTechnology
- 1869Periodic tableScience
- 1869Suez Canal opensTransportation
- c. 1872Refrigerated shipping of meatAgriculture
- 1873Maxwell's equationsScience
- 1874Barbed wireAgriculture
- 1876Four-stroke internal combustion engineEnergy
- 1876TelephoneCommunication
- 1877Sound recordingArt & Culture
- 1879Practical incandescent lampEnergy
- 1879Electric tram and railwayTransportation
- 1882Central electric power stationEnergy
- 1884Steam turbineEnergy
- 1884Fountain pen and mass literacy toolsCommunication
- 1885Petrol automobileTransportation
- 1885Rabies vaccineMedicine
- 1886Aluminium smeltingTechnology
- 1887Alternating current systemEnergy
- 1888Pneumatic tyreTransportation
- 1888Roll film and the snapshot cameraArt & Culture
- 1890Punched-card tabulating machineTechnology
- 1891Escalator and moving walkwayTransportation
- 1893ZipperTechnology
- 1895X-ray imagingMedicine
- 1895CinemaArt & Culture
- 1895Diesel engineEnergy
- 1897The electronScience
- 1898Radium and radioactivityScience
- 1899Aspirin marketedMedicine
Modern Era
45- 1900Quantum hypothesisScience
- 1901Transatlantic radioCommunication
- 1901Blood groups discoveredMedicine
- 1902Air conditioningTechnology
- 1903Powered heavier-than-air flightTransportation
- 1903Marie Curie and radioactivity researchScience
- 1905Special relativityScience
- 1906Radio broadcast of voice and musicCommunication
- 1907Synthetic plasticTechnology
- 1908Model T and affordable motoringTransportation
- 1909Haber-Bosch ammonia synthesisAgriculture
- 1910Chemotherapy with SalvarsanMedicine
- 1911SuperconductivityScience
- 1912Vitamins identifiedMedicine
- 1913Moving assembly lineTechnology
- 1913Stainless steelTechnology
- 1915Continental drift proposedScience
- 1916General relativityScience
- 1917Bacteriophage therapy describedMedicine
- 1918Modern blood bankingMedicine
- 1920Commercial radio broadcastingCommunication
- 1921InsulinMedicine
- 1923Cecilia Payne and the composition of starsScience
- c. 1924Emmy Noether and abstract algebraScience
- 1925Television demonstratedCommunication
- 1926Liquid-fuelled rocketExploration
- 1927The expanding universeScience
- 1928PenicillinMedicine
- 1928Quartz clockTechnology
- 1930Jet engine patentedTransportation
- 1931Electron microscopeScience
- 1932Neutron discoveredScience
- 1935RadarTechnology
- 1935Nylon and synthetic fibreTechnology
- 1936Universal computationScience
- 1937Photocopying and xerographyCommunication
- 1938Nuclear fissionEnergy
- 1938Lise Meitner explains fissionScience
- 1941Programmable digital computer Z3Technology
- 1941Hedy Lamarr and frequency hoppingCommunication
- 1942Controlled nuclear chain reactionEnergy
- 1943Colossus code-breaking computerTechnology
- 1944Kidney dialysisMedicine
- 1944Streptomycin and tuberculosis treatmentMedicine
- 1945Atomic weaponsWarfare
Information Age
77- 1947TransistorTechnology
- 1948Information theoryScience
- 1949Stored-program computing in serviceTechnology
- c. 1950Chinese and Indian famine-resistant cropping programmesAgriculture
- 1951HeLa cells and cell cultureMedicine
- 1952Photo 51 and DNA crystallographyScience
- 1953Structure of DNAScience
- 1953Heart-lung machineMedicine
- 1954Silicon solar cellEnergy
- 1954Kidney transplant between twinsMedicine
- 1955Polio vaccineMedicine
- 1956Shipping containerTransportation
- 1957Artificial satelliteExploration
- 1957FORTRAN and high-level programmingTechnology
- 1958Integrated circuitTechnology
- 1959Float glass and the planar processTechnology
- 1960LaserScience
- 1960Oral contraceptive pillMedicine
- 1961Human spaceflightExploration
- 1962Communications satellite TelstarCommunication
- 1963Green Revolution wheatAgriculture
- 1964Shinkansen high-speed railTransportation
- 1965KevlarTechnology
- 1967Human heart transplantMedicine
- 1967Pulsars discoveredScience
- 1968The mother of all demosCommunication
- 1969Moon landingExploration
- 1969ARPANETCommunication
- 1970Low-loss optical fibreCommunication
- 1971MicroprocessorTechnology
- 1972Artemisinin isolatedMedicine
- 1972CT scanningMedicine
- 1973Recombinant DNAMedicine
- 1973Handheld mobile phone callCommunication
- 1974Ozone depletion identifiedScience
- 1975Asilomar conference on genetic safetySociety
- 1977DNA sequencingScience
- 1978GPS satellite navigationTransportation
- 1978In vitro fertilisationMedicine
- 1979Smallpox eradicatedMedicine
- 1980MRI scanning in clinical useMedicine
- 1981Personal computer standardisationTechnology
- 1983TCP/IP internetCommunication
- 1984DNA fingerprintingMedicine
- 1985Polymerase chain reactionMedicine
- 1985Birth of Brendan DeeneySociety
- 1987Antiretroviral therapy beginsMedicine
- 1987Montreal Protocol signedSociety
- 1989World Wide WebCommunication
- 1990Hubble Space TelescopeExploration
- 1991Linux and free software infrastructureTechnology
- 1994Online commerce and secure transactionsSociety
- 1996Mammalian cloningScience
- c. 1997Lithium-ion mass adoptionEnergy
- 1998PageRank and web searchCommunication
- 2001WikipediaCommunication
- 2003Human Genome Project completedMedicine
- 2004Graphene isolatedScience
- 2005Online video and user publishingCommunication
- 2006Induced pluripotent stem cellsMedicine
- 2007Multi-touch smartphoneCommunication
- 2008Blockchain and BitcoinSociety
- c. 2010Cloud computing at scaleTechnology
- 2012CRISPR gene editingMedicine
- 2012Deep learning breakthroughScience
- 2015Reusable orbital rocketsExploration
- 2015Gravitational waves detectedScience
- 2016AlphaGo defeats Lee SedolScience
- 2018Gene-edited crops reach the fieldAgriculture
- 2019First image of a black holeExploration
- 2020mRNA vaccinesMedicine
- 2021Protein structure predictionScience
- 2022Fusion ignitionEnergy
- 2022Generative AI goes mainstreamTechnology
- 2022James Webb Space Telescope imagesExploration
- 2023Approved CRISPR therapyMedicine
- 2024Malaria vaccines rolled outMedicine