History of medicine: Influential people

Timeline

200,000 BCE

• Pre-human hominids lived and died, leaving remains which survived until the present day. They were probably almost identical to us, since their remains are anatomically indistinguishable from our own.

 

5000 - 4000 BCE

• c. 4500 BCE : Foundation of the civilisation of Sumer.

 

4000 - 3000 BCE

• c. 3150 : Foundation of the civilisation of Ancient Egypt.

 

500 BCE - 0 CE

• c. 460 BCE : Birth of Hippocrates.
• c. 384 BCE : Birth of Aristotle. 
• c. 300 BCE : Birth of Charaka.

 

0 CE - 100 CE / first century

• 40 CE : Birth of Pedanius Dioscorides. 

 

100 CE - 200 CE / second century

• 129 CE : Birth of Galen. 
• 150 CE : Birth of Zhang Zhongjing. 

 

600s / seventh century

• 600 CE : Birth of Sushruta

 

800s / ninth century

• 854 CE : Birth of Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi

 

900s / tenth century

• 936 CE : Birth of Al-Zahrawi.
• 980 CE : Birth of Ibn Sina.

 

1000s / eleventh century

• 1094 CE : Birth of Ibn Zuhr.

 

1300s / fourteenth century

• c. 1300 : Birth of Guy de Chauliac.
• 1385 : Birth of Şerafeddin Sabuncuoğlu. 

 

1400s / fifteenth century

• 1452 : Birth of Leonardo da Vinci.
• 1493-1494 : Birth of Paracelsus.

 

1500s / sixteeth century

• 1514 : Birth of Andreas Vesalius.
• 1519 : Death of Leonardo da Vinci.
• 1578 : Birth of William Harvey. 

 

1600s / seventeeth century

• 1628 : Birth of Marcello Malpighi.
• 1632 : Birth of Antonie van Leeuwenhoek.
• 1635 : Birth of Robert Hooke.

 

1700s / eighteenth century

• 1743 : Birth of Antoine Lavoisier.
• 1749 : Birth of Edward Jenner.
• 1760 : Birth of Hanaoka Seishū.

 

1800s / nineteenth century

• 1809 : Birth of Charles Darwin.
• 1818 : Birth of Ignaz Semmelweis.
• 1820 : Birth of Florence Nightingale.
• 1821 : Birth of Rudolph Virchow.
• 1822 : Birth of Gregor Mendel.
  
• 1822 : Birth of Louis Pasteur.
• 1827 : Birth of Henry Gray.
• 1829 : Birth of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck.
• 1843 : Birth of Robert Koch.
• 1848 : The famous injury of Phineas Gage. 
• 1849 : Birth of William Osler. 
• 1856 : Birth of Sigmund Freud. 
• 1868 : Birth of Korbinian Brodmann.
• 1881 : Birth of Alexander Fleming.
• 1882 : Birth of Harold Gillies.