Timelines
Timelines make it easier to understand what happened, when it happened, and why it matters.
Timeline: David Carradine
December 8, 1936
John Arthur Carradine Jr. (later known as David Carradine) is born in Hollywood, California, the eldest child of actor John Carradine and Ardanelle Abigail (née McCool) Carradine.
c. 1941
At about age five, Carradine nearly dies by suicide by hanging; he later said the incident followed learning he and an elder half-brother had different biological fathers.
Timeline: John F. Kennedy
May 29, 1917
John Fitzgerald Kennedy is born in Brookline, Massachusetts, near Boston, to Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. and Rose Kennedy.
1922
As a child, Kennedy tours Boston wards with his maternal grandfather John F. Fitzgerald during Fitzgerald’s gubernatorial campaign, giving him early exposure to politics.
Timeline: Jesse Jackson
October 8, 1941
Jesse Louis Burns (later Jesse Jackson) is born in Greenville, South Carolina to Helen Burns and Noah Louis Robinson; he is later adopted by his stepfather, Charles Henry Jackson.
1955
As a child living under Jim Crow segregation, Jackson later recalled that the Montgomery bus boycott helped change his acceptance of segregated practices.
Timeline: Kristi Noem
November 30, 1971
Kristi Lynn Arnold (later Kristi Noem) was born in Watertown, South Dakota and raised on her family’s ranch and farm near Hazel, South Dakota.
January 13, 1990
Noem was crowned South Dakota Snow Queen while a senior at Hamlin High School in Hayti, South Dakota.
Timeline: 2026 Iran war
1953
A US- and UK-backed coup d'état deposed Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh, strengthening the rule of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi after the nationalization of Iran’s oil industry.
1979
The 1979 revolution overthrew the shah; Iran became an Islamic republic and severed diplomatic ties with the United States and Israel.
Timeline: Kepler space telescope
January 2006
Kepler’s launch was delayed by eight months due to budget cuts and consolidation at NASA.
March 2006
The project was delayed again by four months due to fiscal problems; the high-gain antenna was changed from a gimballed design to a fixed design to reduce cost and complexity, at the cost of one observation day per month.
Timeline: Srinivasa Ramanujan
22 Dec 1887
Srinivasa Ramanujan is born in British Raj in Erode (in modern Tamil Nadu) into a Tamil Brahmin Iyengar family.
Dec 1889
He contracts smallpox but recovers, and he and his mother move to his maternal grandparents' home in Kanchipuram.
Timeline: Mahatma Gandhi (life, activism, independence)
2 Oct 1869
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is born in Porbandar, in the Porbandar State of the British Raj.
1874
Gandhi's father, Karamchand Uttamchand Gandhi, leaves Porbandar for Rajkot to become a counsellor to its ruler; the family later rejoins him.
Timeline: Moon (science, exploration, and human interaction)
c. 4.56 billion years ago
The Solar System forms; isotope dating of lunar samples suggests the Moon formed around 50 million years after this event.
c. 4.51 billion years ago
The prevailing giant-impact hypothesis proposes that a Mars-sized body (often called Theia) struck the proto-Earth, ejecting material that accreted into the Moon just beyond Earth’s Roche limit.
Timeline: Colorado River history and development
c. 10,000 BCE
Paleo-Indians of the Clovis culture and Folsom culture inhabited the Colorado Plateau, marking the earliest documented human presence connected to the Colorado River region.
6000 BCE–0 CE
During the Desert Archaic period, populations increased in the region; evidence of agriculture, masonry dwellings, and petroglyphs later becomes more prominent.
Timeline: The Buddha (sources, life, and later depictions)
c. 624–544 BCE (traditional long chronology; Sri Lanka & SE Asia)
One traditional dating system, based on Sri Lankan chronicles, places the Buddha’s 80-year lifespan in this period (computed from the claim that he died 218 years before Ashoka’s coronation, with Ashoka crowned in 326 BCE in this scheme).
c. 566–486 BCE (long chronology with Ashoka crowned c. 268 BCE)
Many scholars who accept the long chronology but date Ashoka’s coronation around 268 BCE infer a later long-chronology lifespan for the Buddha in this range.
Timeline: Life (concept and study)
c. 460 BC
Democritus proposes an atomist view in which the soul (psyche) is composed of fiery atoms, linking life with heat and motion.
c. 430 BC
Empedocles argues that everything is made from four eternal "elements" (earth, water, air, fire), and that different mixtures explain different life forms.
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