20,000,000 BC -- Recent Epoch of geeology begins; Ice Age ends;
human beings spread to all parts of the world.
30,000 -- First Illuminatus, Gruad, rules in Atlantis.
20,000 -- Mythical Lloigor inhabit continent of Mu.
10,000 -- Approximate beginning of agriculture. Estimated date of
inscriptions on stone disks by the Dropa tribe, a diminuative
people of the Bayan-Kara-Ula Mountains on the border of China and
Tibet; disks describe how the tribe came to earth in flying
machines; ancient Dropa graves contain human remains with huge
heads and small bodies. Earliest estimated date of carving of the
Crystal Skull found at Lubaantun in the Yucatan. Hyborian Age in
Europe.
9,000 to 10,000 -- Date of Plato's Atlantis.
6,000 -- Picture writing develops.
5,000 -- First alphabet begins to develop.
4,000 -- Approximate date of discovery of metals, beginning of cities,
constellations of stars first recorded. Egyptians begin
placing small pieces of crystal on the forehead of deceased prior
to mummification.
3,000 -- Approximate date of building of the Sphinx and Great
Pyramid at Giza and other pyramids elsewhere in Egypt. Indus
Valley civilization develops complex government, writing and well
planned cities. Minoan civilization flourishes in Crete.
Earliest parts of the Bible written. Beginning date of Olmec
calendar from Central America:
3113 BC. Trephination (cutting a hole in the skull) practiced by people
all over the world.
2,500 -- Sarmoung Brotherhood of Babylonia flourish according to Gurdjieff.
2,100 -- Egyptians record star configurations on which the 24 hour
day is based.
2,000 -- Stonehenge and other stone circles built in England.
1,800 -- Huge Silbury Mound constructed near Stonehenge.
1,700 -- Babylonian Enuma Anu Enlil, early roots of astrology based on
celestial phenomena.
1,500 -- Approximate date of the destruction of Thera, on which
Atlantis legends are probably based. Early references to
Mithraism on cuneform astronomical tests. Quadrants of the moon
recorded in China.
1,360 -- Akhenaton's monotheistic sun worship in Egypt.
1,344 -- Tutankhamun, Akhenaton's successor who revived polytheism,
buried at Thebes; curse reading "Death comes on swift wings to he
who opens this tomb," written on tomb doorway.
1,300 -- Approximate date I Ching written in China.
1,184 -- End of the Trojan War, Illium falls to the Greeks.
1,000 to 2,000 -- Legendary Thule civilization in the Gobi region
destroyed by a catastrophe, "possibly of an atomic nature,"
survivors migrating to Agarthi and Schamballah.
1,000 -- Huge Sacrificial Table built at Mystery Hill near North Salem,
New Hampshire.
950 -- Approximate date of building of Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem,
traditional origin of the Masonic fraternity; alleged assassination
of Temple master-mason Hiram for refusing to reveal masonic secrets.
900 -- Approximate time settlers from Europe and the Middle East
established colonies in North America.
800 -- Twenty-two "moon stations" in monthly lunar cycle recognized in
Babylonia, India and China.
753 -- Legendary founding of Rome by Romulus.
700 -- Jordanian city of Petra is carved out of sandstone by unknown
culture.
600 -- Approximate beginning of money with first coins in Lydia.
575 -- Nebuchadnezzar completes building Tower of Babel in Babylon.
500 to 600 -- Time of Buddha, Lao Tse, Confucius, Zarathustra, Orpheus,
Pythagoras, Zachariah and Daniel--an Illuminated century.
500 -- Sun-Tse's Treatise on the Art of War, first intelligence manual.
485 -- Execution of Spurius Cassius in Rome.
450 -- Development of the 12 constellations of the zodiac in Mesopotamia,
recognizing the importance of the plane of the elliptic through
which the sun, moon and planets move.
440 -- Assassination of Spurius Maelius.
400 -- Druidism in England. Astrological ideas from Enuma Anu Enlil
transmitted to India.
390 -- Approximate date Plato's The Republic written, featuring such
Illuminoid images as the Philosopher Kings, the Divided Line and
the parable of the Cave.
355 -- Plato's Timaios and Kritias, earliest accounts of Atlantis.
300 -- Invention of Mayan calendar in Yucatan, based on advanced astronomy. Fabius family of Rome reaches its greatest heights.
275 -- Approximate date Greek poet Aratus makes first sytematic record of
star constellations in Phaenomena.
273 to 232 -- Rule of Asoka, king of India who allegedly founded the Nine
Unknown.
212 -- Archimedes uses burning-glass to set fire to Roman fleet at
Syracuse, early use of lens as weapon.
133 -- Land reformer Tiberius Gracchus murdered and hundreds of his
followers killed by followers of powerful Roman patricians; death of
Scripio Africanus a few years later.
121 -- Gaius Gracchus and 3000 of his followers massacred by patricians.
100 -- The Great Teacher of the Essenes. Essentials of modern astrology
worked out.
95 -- Approximate date of assassination of Saturninus and Glaucia.
92 -- Assassination of Rutilius Rufus.
91 -- Assassination of Livius Drufus.
73 -- Revolt of gladiators led by Spartacus.
44 -- Assassination of Julius Caesar.
4 -- Birth of Jesus of Nazareth, accompanied by various Illuminoid
trappings: three early Men-In-Black disguised as the Wise Men;
strange lights in the sky; miracles such as visits from angels,
prohpecy and suspension of time are reported.
0 -- Carnation-Painted Eyebrows Society, Copper Horses, Iron Shins and
other secret societies active in China.
C.E. 30 -- Assassination of the radical Jesus, allegedly on Illuminati
orders; more Illuminoid trappings; an eclipse; an earthquake; visitorsfrom the sky roll away the stone from the sepulcher and liberate the crucified Jesus.
100 -- Hero of Alexandria devises primitive steam-engine.
125 to 150 -- Simon Magus, Menander, Valentinus and others develop
Gnostic religious doctrines of esoteric knowledge (illumination).
135 -- Approximate date Ptolemy records 1,022 stars in Almagest; also
recorded astrological ideas from Enuma Anu Enlil in his
Apotelesmatika.
150 -- Roman Mithraism competes with Christianity. Yellow Turban Society
subdues northern China, Triad cult formed in opposition.
200 -- First book of the cabala, Sepher Yetzirah, compiled.
216 to 276 -- Life of Mani, the Illuminator, who founded Manicheism,
based on ideas from Judaism, Christianity, Zoroasterism, Gnosticism,
etc.
325 -- Council of Nicaea in which Christian begins to rigidify.
500 -- Chinese use of gunpowder.
570 to 632 -- Life of Muhammad, founder of Islam.
670 -- Ca -- Estimated date of carving of stone statues found on Easter