Before 20th Century/HBO Timeline

This is a timeline of events that occurred before the 20th century in the HBO timeline.

Circa 2,000,000 BCE

• The first light emitted by SN 1885A, a supernova in the Andromeda Galaxy, begins its two million year journey to Earth.^[1]

1303 BCE

• Ramesses II is born.^[2]

1213 BCE

• Ramesses II dies.^[2]

356 BCE

July

21/22

• Alexander the Great is born.^[2]

323 BCE

June

10/11

• Alexander the Great dies.^[2]

1095

• Geoffrey of Monmouth is born.^[2]

1138

• The Historia Regum Britanniae (The History of the Kings of Britain), is a pseudohistorical account of British history, by Geoffrey of Monmouth is completed. It helped popularize the legend of King Arthur.^[2]

1400s

• Cartwithen Castle is built.

1636

• Harvard University is established.^[2]

1746

January

18th

• Princeton University is established.^[2][3]

1776

• The United States of America is founded.^[2]

1794

• "The Tyger", a poem by William Blake is published.^[2]

1818

January

11th

• "Ozymandias", a sonnet by Percy Bysshe Shelley, is published.^[2]

February

1st

• "Ozymandias", a sonnet by Horace Smith, is published.^[2]

Mid to Late 1800s

• Hollis Wordsworth Mason is born in Montana.

1828

February

8th

• Jules Verne is born.^[2]

1835

• George Caitlin finishes a painting titled Comanche Feats of Martial Horsemanship.^[2]

1838

July

• Bass Reeves is born into slavery in Arkansas.^[2]

1856

March

• "Ride of the Valkyries" by Richard Wagner is released.^[2][4]

1870

• Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne is published.^[2][5]

1873

• Moe Vernon is born.^[4]

1875

• Bass Reeves is recruited into the marshal service by Isaac C. Parker, becoming the first black deputy west of the Mississippi.^[2]

1879

March

14th

• Albert Einstein is born.^[2]

1882

January

30th

• Franklin D. Roosevelt is born.^[2]

1884

January

2nd

• Oscar Micheaux is born.^[2]

May

8th

• Harry S. Truman is born.^[2]

1885

January

1st

• J. Edgar Hoover is born in Washington, D.C..^[2][6][7]

August

20th

• German astronomer Ernst Hartwig detects SN 1885A, a two-million-year-old supernova in the Andromeda Galaxy.^[2][3]

1886

May

8th

• Coca-Cola is introduced.^[2]

October

28th

• The Statue of Liberty is dedicated to the United States of America.^[2]

1889

April

20th

• Adolf Hitler is born.^[2]

1890

• Claude Debussy begins composing Suite bergamasque, featuring Claire de lune.^[2]

October

14th

• Dwight D. Eisenhower is born.^[2]

1891

• O.B. Williams is born.

1896

• American businessman, Henry John Heinz, the founder of H.J. Heinz Company, conceives of the slogan "58 Varieties" to describe his company's products.^[8]

1898

• Norman Vincent Peale is born.^[2][9]

1899

July

21st

• Ernest Hemingway is born.^[2][10]

References