Danielle's Garden Historical Chart

Object d’Art

Historical Date

Cross-Releted Dates and Events 

Comments Related to Objects d”art

PYRAMID/SPHINX

-3000 to –2501

 ·     Egypt’s introduction of 365 day calendar

·      Cuneiform and Egyptian hieroglyphs emerge

·      Cheops’s Pyramid and the Sphinx at Gizeh are built

RAMSES II

-1350 to -1200

·         Olmec, as first major Mesoamerican civilization, emerges in Mexico

·         Accession of Rameses II as Pharaoh in –1279

·         Battle of the Hittites at Kadesh, circa –1275/4, in the 4^th or 5^th year of Rameses rule

MAYA

-600 to –501

·         Cyprus under Egyptian rule

·         Babylonian captivity of the Jews and first Hebrew written words of the Old Testament

·         Mayan civilization is established

·         Pascal rules in Palenque over 1,000 years later, from 615 to 683

BUDDHA

-563 to –483

·         Confucius born in 479

·         Buddha preaches his first sermon at Benares in -521

GREAT WALL

-250 to 1644

·         Jesus Christ born circa –4

·         Mohamed born 570

·         Charlemagne born 742

·         Qui Shi Huang becomes first emperor of China in –221

·         Start of building of Great Wall, circa –217

·         Building of Great Wall ends when last emperor of  Ming Dynasty, Chongzhen, committed suicide in 1644

HERALDIC SHIELD AND SWORD

1100 to 1300

·         Marco Polo born 1254

·         Medieval birth of heraldry in Western Europe about 1150

·         Baron Ulrich von Lichenstein dies 1257

AZTEC

1327 to 1364

·         Great fire of Munich in 1327

·         Black Death in lEurope 1347

·         Mexico City is established by the Aztecs 1327

·         Tenochtitlan, the capital city of the  Aztec, is built in 1364

TOTEM POLE
KANGAROO
PENGUINES

1400 to 1992

·         Christopher Columbus set sail in the Santa Maria, from Palos, Spain, in 1492

·         500^th year after Columbus landed in the Americas 1992

·         Project work on Danielle’s Garden starts in 1988

·         All major commissioned works of art for Danielle’s Garden completed in 1991

·         Private family opening of garden in 1991

·         Formal public opening of garden in 1992