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Aristotle

Greek philosopher

26 dated entries naming Aristotle, drawn from 24 separate years between 387 BCE and 1978 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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4th century BC

  • 387 BCEPlato founds the Platonic Academy in Athens, where he teaches Aristotle until 347 BC.source
  • 384 BCEAristotle, Greek philosopher (d. 322 BC)source
  • 371 BCEIt is suggested that the original comet associated with the Kreutz Sungrazers family of comets passes perihelion at this time. It is thought to have been observed by Aristotle and Ephorus during this year.source
  • 370 BCETheophrastus, Greek philosopher, a native of Eressos in Lesbos, the successor of Aristotle in the Peripatetic school (d. c. 285 BC) Chanakyasource
  • 367 BCEAristotle arrives in Athens and teaches at Plato's Academy.source
  • 367 BCEThe Greek philosopher and scientist, Aristotle, goes to Athens as a pupil at Plato's Academy.source
  • 350 BCEAristotle argues for a spherical Earth using lunar eclipses and other observations. Also he discusses logical reasoning in Organon.source
  • 348 BCEAristotle leaves Athens and Plato's Academy, after which he resided in Assus in northwestern Anatolia.source
  • 347 BCEAristotle leaves Athens due to the anti-Macedonian feeling that arises in Athens after Philip II of Macedon has sacked the Greek city-state of Olynthus in 348 BC. With him goes another Academy member of note, Xenocrates of Chalcedon. They establish a new academy on the Asia Minor side of the Aegean Sea at the newly built town of Assus.source
  • 344 BCEThe Greek philosopher and scientist, Aristotle, travels from Assus to Lesbos to study natural history, especially marine biology.source
  • 342 BCEThe Greek philosopher, Aristotle, is invited by Philip II to his capital at Pella to tutor his son, Alexander. As the leading intellectual figure in Greece, Aristotle is commissioned to prepare Alexander for his future role as a military leader. (or 343 BC)source
  • 335 BCEAristotle returns to Athens from Macedon and opens a peripatetic school in an old gymnasium called the Lyceum. It contains a museum of natural history, zoological gardens and a library.source
  • 327 BCEThe relations between Alexander and Aristotle are embittered by the execution of Aristotle's nephew, the historian Callisthenes of Olynthus, who is charged with treason. Callisthenes has been accompanying Alexander to write a chronicle of the campaign.source
  • 327 BCECallisthenes of Olynthus, Greek historian, great nephew and pupil of Aristotle (b. c. 360 BC)source
  • 325 BCEAristotle writes Ta Ethika on virtue and moral character (approximate date).source
  • 323 BCEThe Greek philosopher and scientist, Aristotle, faces a strong anti-Macedonian reaction in Athens following the death of Alexander the Great. Aristotle is accused of impiety by the Athenians. However, he escapes to Chalcis in Euboea.source
  • 322 BCEAristotle, Greek philosopher and scientist (b. 384 BC)source
  • 318 BCEAristoxenus, a Greek peripatetic philosopher, and writer on music and rhythm, and a pupil of Aristotle, writes a treatise on music called the "Elements of Harmony".source

3rd century BC

  • 287 BCETheophrastus, Greek Peripatetic philosopher and pupil of Aristotle (b. c. 372 BC)source
  • 285 BCETheophrastus, Greek philosopher, a native of Eressos in Lesbos, the successor of Aristotle in the Peripatetic school (b. c. 370 BC). 288 B.C. is also given as a potential date of death.source

9th century

  • 900The Persian scientist Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi distinguishes smallpox from measles in the course of his writings. Holding against any sort of orthodoxy, particularly Aristotle's physics, he maintains the conception of an 'absolute' time, regarded by him as "a never-ending flow".source

13th century

  • 1246Robert Grosseteste translates Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics from Greek into Latin, which marks the true start of the rediscovery of the philosopher by Medieval Europe.source
  • 1270December – Crucial aspects of the philosophy of Averroism (itself based on Aristotle's works) are banned by the Roman Catholic Church, in a condemnation enacted by papal authority at the University of Paris.source

16th century

  • 1591The first of the Conimbricenses commentaries on Aristotle, by the Jesuits of the University of Coimbra, is published.source

17th century

  • 1620Francis Bacon publishes the Novum Organum (beyond Aristotle's Organon) on logical thinking. 1.source

20th century

  • 1978February 11 – The People's Republic of China lifts a ban on works by Aristotle, William Shakespeare and Charles Dickens.source

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