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| c. 50 |
| | | A working week of seven days is adopted in Rome, based on the seven known planets (whose names provide the days) | |
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| 64 |
| | | A great fire in Rome is popularly believed to have been started by Nero, whom legend also accuses of fiddling while the city burns | |
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| 79 |
| | | A sudden eruption of Vesuvius buries the town of Pompeii in volcanic ash, in places twelve feet deep | |
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| c. 100 |
| | | The Celtic chieftains of Britain adapt willingly to Roman customs and comforts | |
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| c. 200 |
| | | The potato is cultivated in the Peruvian Andes | |
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| c. 300 |
| | | The Chinese transform the toe loop of nomadic horsemen into the metal stirrup | |
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| c. 400 |
| | | The Chinese solve the difficult problem of harnessing a horse without strangling it | |
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| c. 500 |
| | | Beans are gathered by the Maya from wild cocoa trees and are probably used in a chocolate drink | |
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| c. 500 |
| | | Mayan priests feature in stone carvings smoking pipes and puffing the smoke towards the sacred sun | |
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| c. 800 |
| | | The luxury of Baghdad, under the caliph Harun al-Rashid, is evident in the Thousand and One Nights | |
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