| 384 BC | Aristotle is born. |
| c. 325 BC | Euclid is born. |
| 322 BC | Aristotle dies. |
| c. 300 BC | Euclid writes the Elements. |
| c. 300 BC | Dicaearchus draws his map. |
| 276 BC | Eratosthenes is born. |
| c. 265 BC | Euclid dies. |
| c. 262 BC | Apollonius of Perga is born. |
| c. 250 BC | Eratosthenes draws his map. |
| c. 225 BC | Apollonius writes the Conics. |
| 194 BC | Eratosthenes dies. |
| c. 190 BC | Apollonius dies. |
| c. 190 BC | Hipparchus is born. |
| 120 BC | Hipparchus dies. |
| c. 85 AD | Claudius Ptolemy is born. |
| c. 140 AD | Ptolemy writes Guide to Geography. |
| c. 165 AD | Ptolemy dies. |
| c. 290 AD | Pappus is born. |
| c. 340 AD | Pappus writes the Collections. |
| c. 350 AD | Pappus dies. |
| c. 370 AD | Hypatia is born. |
| c. 400 AD | Hypatia writes a commentary on Apollonius. |
| March 415 | Hypatia dies. |
| c. 780 AD | Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarazmi is born. |
| c. 810 AD | Al-Khwarazmi writes Al-jabr wa'l muqabalah. |
| c. 850 AD | Al-Khwarazmi dies. |
| 1323 AD | Nicole Oresme is born. |
| 1364 AD | Oresme writes Latitudes of Forms. |
| July 11, 1382 | Oresme dies. |
| 1492 AD | Christopher Columbus tries to sail around the world, using Ptolemy's incorrect estimate of its size. |
| February 15, 1564 | Galileo Galilei is born. |
| March 31, 1596 | René Descartes is born. |
| August 17, 1601 | Pierre de Fermat is born. |
| 1633 AD | Galileo is sentenced to life imprisonment for promoting the theory that the Earth travels around the sun. |
| 1636 AD | Fermat sends a copy of Ad locos planos et solidos isagoge to friends in Paris. |
| 1637 AD | Descartes publishes Discours de la Méthod and includes La Géometrie as an appendix. |
| January 8, 1642 | Galileo dies. |
| January 4, 1643 | Isaac Newton is born. |
| July 1, 1646 | Gottfried von Leibniz is born. |
| February 11, 1650 | Descartes dies. |
| January 12, 1665 | Fermat dies. |
| 1679 AD | Fermat's book Ad locos planos et solidos isagoge is published. |
| 1684 AD | Leibniz publishes an article on his differential calculus. |
| 1687 AD | Newton publishes the Principia. |
| 1705 AD | Isaac Newton is knighted, becoming Sir Isaac Newton. |
| November 14, 1716 | Leibniz dies. |
| May 16, 1718 | Maria Gaetana Agnesi is born. |
| March 31, 1727 | Newton dies. |
| May 9, 1746 | Gaspard Monge is born. |
| 1748 AD | Agnesi publishes Analytical Institutions. |
| May 6, 1769 | Jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette is born. |
| 1795 AD | Monge publishes Feuilles d'Analyse. |
| January 9, 1799 | Agnesi dies. |
| 1802 AD | Monge publishes Application d'algèbre à la géométrie with Hachette. |
| September 3, 1814 | James Joseph Sylvester is born. |
| July 28, 1818 | Monge dies. |
| January 16, 1834 | Hachette dies. |
| 1878 AD | Sylvester uses the word "graph" in an article in American Journal of Mathematics. |
| March 15, 1897 | Sylvester dies. |
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