From Cave Paintings to the Internet A Chronological and Thematic Database on the History of Information and Media Food / Wine / Cookery / Diet Outline

Early Humans Make Bone Tools
(Circa 1,500,000 BCE)

The Earliest Hearths
(Circa 1,500,000 BCE – 790,000 BCE)

Hunting Large Animals With Spears
(Circa 500,000 BCE)

Tools for Capturing Fast or Dangerous Prey
(Circa 104,000 BCE)

Katanda Bone Harpoon Point
(88,000 BCE – 78,000 BCE)

Horse Domestication Revolutionizes Transportation, Communication, and Warfare
(Circa 3,500 BCE)

The Earliest Surviving Recipes
(Circa 1,700 BCE)

The Earliest Surviving Cookbook
(Circa 850)

The Oldest Western Medical Document after the Hippocratic Writings
(Circa 850)

Agriculture, Animal Husbandry, and Horticulture
(Circa 1304 – 1309)

One of the Oldest Known Manuscripts on Cookery in English, Written in the Form of a Scroll
(Circa 1390)

The First Technical Dictionary
(1473 – 1474)

The First Printed Book on Wine
(October 1478)

The First Separately Printed Treatise on Diet
(March 23, 1487)

The First English Cookbook, Known from a Single Surviving Copy
(1500)

The First English Book on Preparing and Carving Meat, Game and Fish
(1508)

The First Printed Book to Set Out Rules for a Healthy Diet
(1542)

The Founding Text of Modern French Cuisine
(1651)

The First Automaton to Simulate Biological Processes
(1739)

Probably the Most-Widely Read English Cookery Book of the 18th Century
(1747)

The First American Cookbook Written by an American
(1796)

Malthus on Population
(1798)

The First Book on Modern Food Preservation Methods
(1810)

One of the Major Publishing Successes of the 19th Century
(1859 – October 1861)

Animal Ecology
(1927)

Printing on Cakes
(November 20, 2001)