The Royal Library of Alexandria: The Largest Collection of Recorded Information…
(Circa 300 BCE)
300 BCE to 30 CE Timeline Outline
The Dead Sea Scrolls
(300 BCE –
68 CE)
The Earliest Surviving Counting Board
(Circa 300 BCE)
The Beginnings of Latin Literature
(Circa 300 BCE)
The Earliest Known Examples of Maya Script
(Circa 300 BCE)
Postal and Communication Infrastructure in Ancient India
(Circa 300 BCE)
The Beginnings of Philology
(Circa 280 BCE)
A "Wild" or "Eccentric" Papyrus of the Iliad
(Circa 275 BCE)
The Earliest Surviving Example of a Greek Chronological Table
(Circa 264 BCE)
Writing on Bamboo and Silk
(Circa 250 BCE)
The Septuagint
(Circa 250 BCE –
50 CE)
The First Truly Automatic Self-Regulatory Device
(Circa 250 BCE)
The Earliest Surviving Monolingual Dictionary
(Circa 250 BCE)
The Beginning of Latin Literature
(Circa 250 BCE)
The Foundation of Paris
(Circa 250 BCE)
The First Keyboard Musical Instrument
(250 BCE)
The Earliest Escapement Mechanism
(Circa 250 BCE)
The Earliest Evidence of a Water-Driven Wheel
(Circa 250 BCE)
The Archive or Library in the Temple of Edfu
(237 BCE –
57 BCE)
Early Example of Assembly Line Production
(215 BCE –
210 BCE)
Destroying Most Records of the Past Along with 460, or More, Scholars
(213 BCE –
206 BCE)
The Origins of Bibliography
(Circa 200 BCE)
The Very Long Process of Canonization of the Hebrew Bible
(Circa 200 BCE –
200 CE)
The Library of Pergamum (Pergamon)
(197 BCE –
159 BCE)
The Mawangui Silk Texts
(Circa 175 BCE)
Invention of the Astrolabe
(Circa 150 BCE –
100 BCE)
The Earliest Surviving Analog Computer: the Antikythera Mechanism
(Circa 150 BCE –
100 BCE)
Probably the First Trigonometric Table
(Circa 150 BCE)
The Ten Commandments: The Oldest Hebrew Manuscript Fragment before the…
(Circa 150 BCE –
100 BCE)
Acta Diurna: the First Daily Gazette
(Circa 131 BCE)
The Great Isaiah Scroll
(Circa 100 BCE)
The Earliest Bookbindings
(Circa 100 BCE)
The Earliest Treatise on Mnemonics
(Circa 90 BCE)
The Tabularium, Archives of Republican Rome, is Founded
(Circa 78 BCE)
The Book Trade in Cicero's Rome
(Circa 70 BCE)
Caesar's Gallic Wars
(58 BCE –
51 BCE)
The Earliest Bibliographical Classification System
(Circa 53 BCE –
23 CE)
Foundation of Lugdunum (Lyon)
(43 BCE)
The Writings of Virgil
(42 BCE –
19 BCE)
The First-Known Public Library in Rome
(Circa 37 BCE)
The Earliest Surviving Datable Examples of Rustic Capitals
(31 BCE –
79 CE)
Book Trade and Libraries in the Roman Empire
(Circa 30 BCE)
The Cursus publicus
(Circa 20 BCE)
The First Income Tax
(10 CE)
The Oldest Sculptural Group Found in France
(Circa 25 CE)
