| Date | Art | Music | Philosophy | Politics | Civilisation |
| 40,000 BC | Cave paintings | _ | _ | Mammalian bickering | Tribal |
| 10,000 | _ | _ | _ | _ | Agriculture in Levant |
| [0 AD]? | _ | _ | __ | A bizarre, rum and uncanny event in Bethlehem | Roman Empire |
| 325 | _ | _ | _ | Council of Nicea | Roman Empire |
| 664 | _ | _ | _ | Synod of Whitby | Dark Ages |
| 1314 | Paintings are 'flat'. Perspective isn't used until the Renaissance | _ | _ | Knights Templar executed in France by Philip IV | Medieval |
| 1507 | Da Vinci — Mona Lisa | _ | _ | _ | Renaissance |
| 1512 | Michelangelo — Ceiling of Sistine Chapel | _ | _ | _ | _ |
| 1685 | Painter | J.S. Bach (-1750) | Berkeley (-1759) | Politico | Kings 'n stuff |
| 1687 | _ | _ | Newton — Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica | _ | _ |
| 1762 | _ | _ | Rousseau — The Social Contract | _ | Enlightenment |
| 1789 | _ | Beethoven — Opus 39 Two preludes in all 12 major keys for piano | Blake — Songs of Innocence | French Revolution | _ |
| 1815 | Goya — Tauromaquia | Schubert — Der Erlkonig | Malthus — An Inquiry into the Nature and Progress of Rent | Battle of Waterloo ends Napoleonic wars | Industrial Revolution |
| 1905 | _ | _ | Einstein — Special Relativity | _ | _ |
| 1913 | _ | Stravinsky — Le Sacre du Printemps | _ | _ | _ |
| 1914 | _ | Webern — Cello Sonata | Russell | Europe decides to blow itself up, again | Democracy?? |
| 1916 | _ | W.C. Handy — Beale St. Blues ; Bartok — Suite for Piano | Einstein — General Relativity | _ | _ |
| 1937 | Picasso — Guernica | Robert Johnson — Cross Road Blues ; Shostakovich — Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47 | _ | _ | _ |
| 1939 | _ | _ | _ | Europe decides to blow itself up, yet again | _ |
| 1945 | _ | _ | _ | Hiroshima — the Sun rises in the west | _ |
| 1973 | _ | Pink Floyd — Dark Side of the Moon | _ | Watergate scandal ; Oil crisis | Robert Anton Wilson contacts Sirius |
probably not births as the important date. better an important work.