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==Shared Timeline==
===~20,000 BCE===
*Goats become first animal to be domesticated.
*Wolves [[Wikipedia:Domestication|domesticated]], possible in early China though specifics vary.
===~7,000 BCE===
*Birth of Agriculture
**Wheat domesticated in Levant 
**Corn domesticated in Central America
===216===
*[[Wikipedia:Galen|Galen of Pergamon]] dies
===1215===
*June 15th
**[[Wikipedia:Magna Carta|''Magna Carta Libertatum'']] signed.
===1492===
*Columbus 'discovers' North America, beginning of the [[Wikipedia:Columbian exchange|Columbian exchange]]

*Years of plague in the new world nearly wipes out all indigenous populations, millions die. 
**Causes population explosion in numerous prey species including passenger pigeons and buffalo.<ref>The buffalo wandered in because few Indians survived to hunt them. - [https://mrcaseyhistory.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/the-columbian-exchange.pdf The Columbian Exchange]</ref>
**Temperature drops due to [https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/01/world/european-colonization-climate-change-trnd/index.htmlmass population die off in the new world], arguably
[[Wikipedia:History of biological warfare| first instance of germ warfare.]]
===1564===
*[[Wikipedia:Andreas Vesalius|Andries van Wesel]] dies
===1686===
*[[Wikipedia:Nicolas Steno|Nicolas Steno]] dies
===1700s===
*[[Wikipedia:Louis XIV of France|Louis XIV of France]] turns down the offer of an Italian chemist to develop to first bacteriological weapon, the chemist is granted a pension for his silence.<ref>[https://www.britannica.com/biography/Louis-XIV-king-of-France Louis XIV Britanica entry]</ref>
===1727===
*March 31st
**Isaac Newton dies
Reference [[Wollstone|Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly]] 
===1815===
*Mount Tambora eruption 
===1816===
*[[Wikipedia:Year Without a Summer|Year Without a Summer]]<ref>Hitchcock, Susan Tyler. 2007. [http://www.worldcat.org/title/frankenstein-a-cultural-history/oclc/427507173&referer=brief_results Frankenstein: A Cultural History]. New York: W.W. Norton.</ref>
===1819===
*[[Wikipedia:The Vampyre|The Vampyre]] is published.