These timelines of world history detail recorded events since the creation of writing roughly 5000 years ago to the present day. For events from c. 3200 BCE – c. 500 see: Timeline of ancient history; For events from c. 500 – c. 1499, see: Timeline of the Middle Ages;

Further reading. Langer, William. An Encyclopedia of World History (5th ed. 1973); highly detailed outline of events online free; Morris, Richard B. and Graham W. Irwin, eds. Harper Encyclopedia of the Modern World: A Concise Reference History from 1760 to the Present (1970) online

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