A Thousand Years of Science and Technology

182 events · 1000–2023 · Saeculum · sample of the first 8 rows

A Thousand Years of Science and Technology. Every discovery, invention and instrument in the corpus, from 1000 to the present, as one continuous chronology sectioned by century.
Date	Event	Region	Theme
1000–1099
1000	Song Dynasty advances in rice cultivation	East Asia	Technology
30 Apr 1006	Supernova SN 1006 blazes in southern sky	Europe	Science
1013	Al-Biruni measures the earth	Central Asia	Science
1020	Avicenna begins the Canon of Medicine	Central Asia	Science
1021	Ibn al-Haytham writes the Book of Optics	Middle East	Science
1023	Jiaozi paper money issued in Sichuan	East Asia	Technology
1024	Song government formalizes paper currency	East Asia	Technology
1025	Guido of Arezzo invents musical notation	Europe	Technology

Filtered to the science and technology themes. Shows the 182 events scored 8 or higher for significance out of the 4992-event Saeculum corpus. Everything below that line — and every event on this sheet — is free to read in full on its own year and event page.

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