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30000 BC Beginning of Cro-Magnon culture. Marks are made in reindeer bones to possibly record lunar cycles.
Egypt and Mesopotamia 4242 BC Earliest recorded date in history. (in ancient Egypt). Egyptian calendar which is regulated by Sun and Moon has 360 days with 12 months of 30 days. 4000 BC Astrology begins in Mesopotamia. Sumerians build ziggurats, the first astrological observatories. The Sun, Moon and 5 visible planets are used. Astrological knowledge is recorded in cuneiform on clay tablets. 3761 BC First day of Jewish calendar (according to Jewish sources). 3500 BC Systematic astronomical observations in Mesopotamia, Egypt and China. Sumerian numerical system is based on 6 and 12. 3000 BC Egypt refines calendar to 365 days. 2700 BC The Great Pyramid of Khufu is built in accordance with astronomical factors.
Babylon 2350 BC Akkadians record solar & lunar eclipses according to tablets of Sargon of Akkad. Sargon summarizes astrological records of his era into 70 tablets. His heirs add their findings to this data base and call it the Namman-Bel. 2000 BC Sumeria is replaced by Babylonia. Babylonian astrologers introduce zodiac signs and devise more accurate astronomical calculations. 1250 BC Rameses II fixes 4 cardinal points using Aries, Cancer, Libra and Capricorn. 1200 BC Babylonian Boundary stones contain much astrological imagery 700 BC Babylonian priests create ecliptic divided into 12 30-degree sections or zodiac divisions (Mul.APIN). 670 BC King Assurbanipal of Assyria expands astrological library in Ninevah.
Greece 600 BC Babylonian astrology spreads to Egypt Greece and other parts of Middle East. 535 BC Pythagoras sets up esoteric colony near Crotona in southern Italy where scholars learn about numerology, astrology and the occult arts, which Pythagoras learned during his 20 years of travels in Babylon and Egypt. 475 BC Empedocles of Agrigentum introduces the 4 elements, Fire, Earth, Air and Water, into astrology, as the 4-fold root of all things. He discovered the idea that nothing can be destroyed (or created) only transformed. 420 BC Democritus popularizes astrology for all. Xeno founder of the Stoics, gives zodiac signs Greek names. 409 BC Date of oldest Babylonian horoscope. 380 BC Babylonians begin to use 19 year cycle. 370 BC Eudoxus of Cnidus devises calendars using zodiac with 12 equal zodiac signs. Invents geometrical theory of proportion. 350 BC Petosiris, chief administrator of the Temple of Khumunu (Hermes) near Hermopolis becomes known for mastering egyptian esoteric astrology. 330 BC Alexander the Great (356-323 BC) helps to spread astrology from Babylon and Egypt throughout the Middle East. Greek Philosophers exposed to new occult ideas from Egypt and Babylon. Astrology is personalized in Greece. Alexander founds Library of Alexandria. 300 BC Greek model of Astrology reaches India. 290 BC Alexandria in Egypt becomes center of astrological research. Eratosthenes, Arristyllus and Timocharis are its leading astrologers. 280 BC Berosus, a Chaldean astrologer and priest of Bel Marduk at Babylon moves to Greek island of Cos where he sets up a school of astrology for Greek astrologers. Berosus writes The Babylonica, an enormous work about the history of astrology and life in Babylonia. He writes The Eye of Bel, based on the 70 tablets in the library of Assurbanipal, and uses it as text to teach Greek astrologers. 275 BC The famous poem Phainomena written by Aratus in 275 BC further popularizes astrology and becomes common reading material for generations of Greeks. 250 BC Antipatrus and Achinapolus continue the work of Berosus at Cos and teach medical astrology. They are the first astrologers to experiment with the moment of conception rather than birth for the casting of a horoscope. 220 BC First known picture of zodiac in Egypt is created north of Esna.
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Opdateret 08/01/2020 - ret til ændringer forbeholdes |
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