";  Review of Historical Astrology Timeline

2000 BCE – Omen astrology – (Ubaidians in 4000BCE) and (3000BCE Sumerians had cuneiform formed were formed wedge-shapes that the impressed into soft clay for wheels.

1500 BCE – Stonehenge, Sarsen stone circle

500 BCE – Horoscopic astrology began

Early Greek Period – 625BCE to 300 BCE

585 BCE  Pythagoras, mathematician – part of the development of the 12 fold zodiac with 30 degree signs.

470 – 399 ? – Socrates

410 BCE – oldest found individual birthchart made in cuneiform.

400 – 377 ? – Hippocrates

428 – 347 ? BCE Plato

384 – 322 BCE Aristotle

Hellenistic Period – written in Greek but most of authors were Egyptians and Semites

356 – 323 BCE Alexander the Great

290 BCE Berossus of Cos – Chaldean (Babylonian) priest who came from island of Cos. Introduced first natal chart into Greece.

200 BCE – Nechpso and Petosiris – legendary Eqyptian pharaoh and priest, said to invented astrology.

200 BCE – Hermetic writings

The Roman Era – mostly a continuation of Hellenistic – only two known astrology authors, Manilius and Julius  Firmicus Maternus.

10 BCE – Manilius wrote the Astronomica in Latin

27 BCE – Beginning of Roman empire.

Approx. 7 BCE – birth of Jesus Christ

1 CE – Dorotheus of Sidon – wrote the Pentteuch,  a long astrological poem in 5 books. The oldest source of 3 triplicity rulership system.

100 – 170 ? – Ptolemy, wrote the Tetrabiblos in Greek. He was born in Egypt.

150 – 185 CE – Vettius Valens – a young contemporary of Ptolemy. He wrote the Anthology, a long writing of Greek astrology.

205 – 270 CE – Plotinus, one of the first Neoplatonists.  I his work, the Enneads, Plotinus addressed many problems raised by the astrology of his time.

232 – 304 ? C.E. Porphyry, a disciple of Plotinus, wrote a commentary of Ptolemy’s Teltabiblos.

274 – 337 CE – Constantine the Great was the first Christian emperor.

325 CE – The Council of Nicaea.

350 CE – Firmicus Matrernus – work is called the Mathesis. Wrote in Latin and rich in Hellenistic techniques.

476 CE – The end of the Roman Empire in the West

The Byzantine Period – 476 CE began

330 CE – actual city of “New Rome” known as Constantinople, the city of Constantine

This period could be called the late Greek or late classical but is called the Byzantine Period

Renaissance began - 1400

1433 – 1499 – Marsilio Ficino – translator of the Corpus Hermeticum, Plato and Plotinus into Latin

1436 -1375 – Johannas Regiomontanus – responsible for rebirth of German astrology in the middle ages.

1473-1543 – Copernicus – the first to create a mathematical heliocentric astronomy – sun centered.

1492 – Discovery of the new world

1503-1566 – Nostradamus

1564-1642 – Galileo, astronomer

1617 - Maginus – one of the first advocates of the house system Placidus or Placidian

1629 – Valentine Naibod – predicted his own death. Source of the Naibod rate of directing.

1571-1630 – Johannes Kepler, the great astronomer and reformer of astrology

1583-1656 – Morinus – a French astrologer of the court of Louis XIV. Attempted to reform astrology.

English Period and the Decline

1602-1681 – William Lilly, medieval tradition and horary artist wanted the revival of traditional astrology

1603-1668 – Placidus

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