-10.000 years BC: Hellian Proto-script on pebbles
- 6.000 Engraved seals in Asia Minor
- 4.500 Hellian symbolic Proto-script on figurines
- 4.000 Sumero-Akkadian script in the Middle-East
- 3.500 Ninivite Sumerian cuneiform script
- 3.110 Egyptian consonantal Thinite script, second Sumerian script
- 3.000 Invention of the papyrus in Egypt, Egyptian hieroglyphics
- 2.800 A Sumer script on clay, symbolic progression from the Pictogram
to the Phonogram
- 2.600 Egyptian hieratic hieroglyphic script
- 2.500 First Chinese script
- 2.100 Hieroglyphics written in abbreviated cursive.
Sumero-Indusian dialectal differentiation in 14 main groups:
Aryo-Indian, Iranian, Anatolian, thokarian, Armenian, Hellenic, Italic,
Celtic, Germanic, Slavonic, Baltic, Albanian, Thraco-Phrygian, Veneto-Illyrian
- 2000 Cretan Minoan hieroglyphic script
Ugaritic cuneiform script
Aramaic script, origin of the Arabe, Hebraic, Syriac, Kharosthi alphabets
that migrate later from the Nile Valley to Cameroon
- 1.900 Development of the Egyptian hieroglyphic hieratic script reserved
for priests; linear syllabary A Minoan-Cretan
- 1.750 General use of script in China
Primitive alphabetical Proto-Sinaitic script; Hittite hieroglyphic
script
- 1.600 Proto-Phoenician script
- 1.580 Cypriot syllabary
- 1.450 Oracular archaic scipt in China; Phoenician alphabet ancestor
of the modern
- 1.400 Cretan B-linear syllabary; The Kia Wen script is written on
scales of turtles in China
- 1.100 Extension of the Phoenician script to Greece
- 1000 The Iranian and the Avestic dominate in the Middle-East, combining
to the spread of the Phoenician alphabet
Monumental Meroitic script in Egypt en Egypte
Sabean script in Yemen
Paleo-Hebraic script in Palestine, foreunner of the square Hebrew
Esquimo synthetic script
Spread of the Celtic language in Europe
- 923 Greeks adopt the Phoenician alphabet
- 900 Birth of the proper Hebraic script; The Kia Wen script is written
on bronze in China.
- 896 Invention of the lithographic printing in China
- 876 Alphabetical notation of vowels in Greece to transcribe the foreign
languages
- 850 Development of the Arab and Hebraic scripts
- 800 Cursive Demotic script derived from Hieratic in Egypt écrire
le Sanskrit
- 700 Cuneiform Persepolitan syllabary
- 698 Notation of the musical scale in letters in Greece
- 648 Creation of the library in Ninive
- 628 The Greek alphabet progresses in Italia
- 600 The Aramean spreads in Chaldea
- 577 Normalization of Latin in Rome
- 575 Publication of illustrated books in Greece
- 550 The Venetian Italic spreads diversifying in Europe.
They become the Serb, Slavonic, Swedish, Swiss, Sabine, Sueve, Senonne,
Baltic, German, Gallic, Celtic, Messapian, Osco-Umbrian languages
- 538 Theagene regulates the Greek grammar
- 500 From then they write from left to right in Greece
- 473 New Chinese script Tchéou Wen
- 450 The beginning of the linguistic scientific age is signed by Leucippe
and Parménide who establish the key role of language in the description
of the world
- 344 The grammar of Sanskrit is regulated by Panini
- 313 The sharpened reed or Calame is invented to write on soft clay
in Egypt
- 305 Apogee of the Alexandria Library
- 302 Greek cursive script
- 294 Script on wax and lead in Egypt
- 265 Callimaque founds Bibliography
- 255 Invention of parchment or Pergame paper
- 250 Kharoshti is an Aramean cursive script in India
- 247 The library in Alexandria holds 400.000 rolls of Papyrus
- 242 Erathostène publishes his treatise on linguistic
- 221 Invention of paper in China
- 215 New chinese script written with a brush
- 205 Points, commas and dashes are invented in Greece
- 200 The Latin and Greek alphabets are regulated
- 191 Aristophane from Byzantium publishes his Treatise on linguistic.
Lybic and Tifinagh scripts in North-Africa
- 180 Tartessian script in Spain
- 160 Pelhevi script in India
- 124 First University in China
- 101 Denys from Thrace publishes his scientific linguistic
- 90 Ibero-celtquie script in Spain
- 68 Attius creates a publishing house of books in Rome
- 59 Creation of a periodical Newspaper in Rome
- 47 The Alexandria Library is destroyed by fire
- 39 Public library in Rome
This chronology is extracted and traduced from the Marcel V. Locquin's
book : "L'Invention de l'humanité", La nuée Bleue publisher,
1995, Strasbourg, France
To contact M. V. Locquin
