Time Line
B.C.
3200 Rise of Ancient Egyptian kingdoms
Egyptian Period begins
Great Pyramid of Cheops and Great Sphinx are created
3000 Early Greek civilization
1800 Stonehenge is erected
700 Greek Doric phase
525 Egypt becomes a Persian province
400 Greek Ionic and Corinthian phases
147 Roman Period begins
146 Romans conquer Greece
30 Egypt conquered by Rome
A.D.
300 Byzantine Period begins ( Eastern Roman Empire)
400 Early Christian Period begins
500 Roman Empire begins to collapse
800 Crowning of Charlemagne
Romanesque Period begins (in Northern Europe)
1066 Norman Period begins (in England)
1140 Gothic Period begins (in France, first building Choir of St. Denis, near Paris)
1175 Norman Period ends (in England)
Canterbury Cathedral is rebuilt bringing Gothic Architecture to England
Early English Period begins
1200 Romanesque Period ends (in Northern England)
1245 Building starts on Westminster Abbey
1250 Late Gothic and Flamboyant Period begins (in France)
1299 Decorated Period begins (in England)
1330 Choir of Gloucester Cathedral built (first building in Perpendicular Style)
Perpendicular Period begins (in England)
1400 Early Renaissance Period begins (in England)
1485 Tudor Period begins
1500 High Renaissance Period begins ( Italy, Michelangelo)
1530 French Renaissance Period begins
1558 Elizabethan Period begins
1600 Baroque Period begins (in Italy)
1603 Jacobean Period begins
1650 Baroque Period begins (in France)
1666 Great Fire of London
Rebuilding of London by Christopher Wren
Baroque Period begins (in England)
1715 Georgian Period begins
1750 Rococo Period begins (in France)
1811 Regency Period begins
1837 Victorian Period begins
1920 Modern Architecture
