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-410000000 First fish began to appear

-2000000 Homo habilis in Africa

-1700000 Homo erectus migrated from Africa

-120000 Neanderthals living in caves in Europe

-3000 Major civilisations show widespread crop use, including Chinese (millet, soybeans, rice, wheat, barley)

-1700 Windmills developed by Babylonians; they are used to pump water for irrigation

-1600 Edwin Smith papyrus containing Egyptian surgical case reports is written around this time. It is believed to be based on material dating back to 3000 BC More about: Egypt

-1552 Ebers papyrus containing magical formulae and Egyptian folk remedies is written.

-460 Birth of Hippocrates, Greek physician who taught at Cos is born. The Hippocratic Corpus of medical treatises was written by various authors between 430 BC and AD 200. More about: Hippocrates

-430 Plague outbreak in in Athens until 425 BC. An account of the epidemic is written by Thucydides More about: Greek Medicine

-384 Birth of Aristotle, Greek physicist, biologist and comparative anatomist. Died in 322 BC More about: Aristotle

-335 Birth of Herophilus, Greek physician and early anatomist. He is believed to have founded the medical school at Alexandria.

-304 Birth of Eristratus, Greek anatomist who is believed to have founded the medical school at Alexandria with his mentor, Herophilus.

-219 Arcagthus, a Greek Physician, is noted as arriving in Rome according to Pliny. He received Roman citizenship and a medical shop is set up at state expense

-25 Aulus Cornelius Celsus, author of De medicina, is active between this date and 50 AD

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