Earthen Ware: Earthen ware is porous, and has limited use for liquid storage if unglazed. This is one of the earliest forms of pottery, used from the Neolithic into the modern age. Earthen ware also called terracotta was and formed ad undecorated utilizing clay that can be fired at low temperatures I pit fires or in open bonfires. The development of ceramic glaze makes it waterproof, making it a popular and practical form for pottery. The addition of decoration has developed through history.

Stone Ware: Stone ware is potter that has been fired in a kiln at a high temperature. It is stronger and non porous, making it ideal for liquids. The Chinese developed stone ware early on, which has led to the classification of stoneware as a type of porcelain. Stone ware was only developed in Europe from the late middle ages as European kilns were less efficient, and the right type of clay less common.

Porcelain: Porcelain offers strength and translucence caused by firing in a kiln between 1200-1400 °C. First made in China and perfected and exported by the Tang Dynasty (618-906 CE). Porcelain was also made in Korea and Japan from the end of the 16th century. It was not made effectively outside East Asia until the 18th century.

Pre History

300,000 BCE – Palaeolithic

12,000 BCE – Neolithic (dawn of farming and the first ceramics in the late Neolithic)

6,500 BCE – Chalcolithic (Copper)

3,200 BCE – Bronze age (Early dynasty Egypt)

1,100 BCE – Iron age

Ancient History 

700 BCE – Roman kingdom forms, first evidence of ancient Greece

500 BCE – Classical period (Establishment of Hellenism)

330 BCE – Alexander the Great

100 BCE – Roman Empire

43 CE – Rome enters Britain

300 CE – Late Antiquity

500 CE – Early Middle Ages (Saxons)

600 CE – Rise of Islam

Middle Ages

739 CE – Sack of Lindisfarne

800 CE – Charlemagne and Mercia

868 CE – Earliest printed book (China)

885 CE – Viking attack on Paris

927 CE – Anglo Saxons

1001 CE – Norse exploration of America

1016 CE – Danes rule England

1066 CE – Hastings, William the Conqueror, Normans

1099 CE – 1st Crusade

1118 CE – Founding of the Knights Templar

1147 CE – 2nd Crusade

1189 CE – Richard 1st of England, 3rd Crusade

1202 CE – 4th Crusade

1206 CE – Genghis Khan elected as Mongol ruler

1209 CE – Cambridge founded

1298 CE – Marco Polo

1299 CE – Ottoman Empire

1305 CE – William Wallace executed

1325 CE – Tenochtitlan founded (Aztec)

1328 CE – Scottish war of independence ends in Scottish victory

1337 CE – Start of hundred years war

1346 CE – Battle of Crecy (English defeat the French)

1347 CE – 1st Black Death

1381 CE – Peasants revolt of England

1415 CE – Battle of Agincourt (French defeat the English)

1429 CE – Joan of Arc, Battle of Orleans

1434 CE – Rise of Medici Family

1439 CE – Printing Press

1453 CE – End of hundred years war

1492 CE – Columbus reaches the ‘New World’

Early Modern Period

1501 CE – Michelangelo’s ‘David’

1502 CE – 1st reported African slaves to the USA

1503 CE – Nostradamus born

1509 CE – Great Plague of Tudor England

1518 CE – Dancing Plague

1524 CE – German peasants war

1531 CE – Church of England, Henry VIII

1547 CE – Ivan the Terrible crowned prince of Russia

1551 CE – North African pirates attack Malta

1553 CE – Mary Tudor

1558 CE – Elizabethan era – Queen Elizabeth I

1560 CE – Elizabeth Bathory born (Female murderer)

1563 CE – Plague

1564 CE – Galileo Galilee born

1563 CE – Siege of Malta

1572 CE – Catherine D’ Medici instigates St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre