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-347 - Plato died
-384  to  – 322 - Life of Greek philosopher Aristotle
-399 - Socrates died
-427 – 348 - Life of Greek philosopher Plato
-460 – 370 – Life of Greek philosopher Democritus
-500 – 428 - Greek philosopher Anaxagoras
-580 – Greek philosopher Anaximander organized a world map
-600 – Thales of Miletus
1020 - Avicenna described function of the brain
1247 - Bethlehem Hospital founded
1253 - Robert Grosseteste died
1276 - First psychlogist pope
1276 - Pope John XXI wrote a book on psychological ideas
1294 - Roger Bacon died
1308 - Duns Scotus dies
1349 - William of Ockham died
1409 - Founding of the world's first mental hospital in Spain
1462 - Platonic Academy established in Florence
1473 - Polish astronomer Nicolau Copernicus refuted the geocentric theory of the universe
1506 - Term "psichiologia" first used
1543 - Belgian physiologist Vesalius practices the dissection of cadavers
1546 - Bethlehem Hospital ("Bedlam") deeded to the city of London
1566 - First hospital in the Americas dedicated to serving patients with psychological problems
1575 - J T Freigius uses term "psychologia"
1616 - Physiologist William Harvey explained the blood's circulation
1654 - The Salpêtrière asylum was founded
1667 - First recorded example of blood transfusion as a psychiatric treatment
1677 - B de Spinoza dies
170 - Anatomy of the brain described
1738 - C von Wolff introduced the concept of measuring mental phenomena
1749 - First recorded instance of special education
1751 - First summary of the physiology of reflex
1768 - R Whytt uses the expression "motion from a stimulus"
1771 - J A Unzer uses the term "reflex"
1773 - The first US public mental hospital
1774 - F Mesmer performed first supposed cure using "animal magnetism"
1777 - F Mesmer was expelled from the practice of medicine in Vienna
1777 – Term "neurosis" first used to describe mental illness
1784 - Commission to study the scientific basis of Mesmer's cures
1786 - Galvani reports results
1786 - Hospital San Lazaro established in Ecuador
1788 - First patients admitted to the new St Bonifacio Hospital
1790 - E Darwin produces a theory of human behavior
1794 - Philippe Pinel introduces humane methods of treatment
1795 - Beginnings of study of reaction times
1796 - First executive committee meeting mental health facility
1799 - Victor, the "Wild Boy of Aveyron," captured in France
1810 - Cornerstone of modern statistics
1811 - First report of anatomical separation of sensory and motor function of spinal cord
1812 - Foundation stone for the third location of Bethlehem Hospital ("Bedlam")
1817 - E Weber was appointed Dozent
1821 - Task of physiology defined as including study of psychological matter
1822 - F Magendie postulated separation of sensory and motor function of the spinal cord
1822 - Phrenological doctrines available in America
1824 - Foundations for German psychology laid
1828 - The first clear relationship between epilepsy and a local cortical lesion
1831 - The Beagle departed England
1836 - Manuel Inácio de Figueiredo defends Passions and Affections of the Soul
1841 - First use of term "hypnotism"
1848 - England established first formal institution for people with mental retardation
1848 - Phineas Gage and brain function
1848 - Relation brain function and speech function
1850 - Fechner developed Law
1850 - Forerunner of the development of psychology in Australia
1850 - Report of nerve speed conduction
1854 - First published work on the speed of nervous conduction
1855 - Wilhelm Wundt received MD degree
1858 - Wilhelm Wundt became assistant of Hermann von Helmholtz
1859 - First public school class for children with mental retardation
1861 - Broca's area in the brain identified
1861 - Wilhelm Wundt read paper on individual differences in reaction times
1862 - Wundt teaches Psychology as a Natural Science
1866 - Materialist explanation of psychic phenomenon
1867 - Phrenology criticized
1869 - F Galton uses the normal distribution for purposes of classification
1870 - First account of electrical stimulation of the human brain
1870 - Psychiatric hospital founded in Switzerland
1873 - First thorough description of anorexia nervosa
1874 - Wundt took position in Switzerland
1875 - Wilhelm Wundt at the University of Leipzig
1876 - Francis Galton used the method of twin comparisons
1878 - G Stanley Hall received first PhD degree in psychology in the United States
1879 - Francis Galton utilizes method of word association
1879 - Term clinical psychology used for first time
1880 - Francis Galton made systematic use of questionnaires
1881 - First doctoral degree recipient in experimental psychology
1881 - S Freud received his MD degree from the University of Vienna
1882 - Anecdotal method developed
1882 - Cathartic method the foundation of psychodynamic therapy
1882 - First formal recognition of neurology as a separate medical discipline
1882 – First recognition of hypnotism
1883 - Pavlov received the MD degree
1884 - Technology increased psychological output
1885 - Janet reported first studies of hypnosis
1885 - First multifaceted abilities test
1885 - Freud first introduced to hypnosis
1885 - Galton first described the phenomenon of regression toward the mean
1886 - S Freud opened private medical practice
1886 - The first doctorate in psychology
1886 - V Horsley described early successful surgery for epilepsy
1888 - F Galton measured at his own Anthropometric Laboratory
1888 - First professor of psychology in the United States
1888 - Y Motora earns the first PhD degree in Japan
1889 - First Chinese translation of a western psychology book
1889 - First experiment leading to the discovery of sex hormones
1889 - Support for use of hypnosis to remove hysterical symptoms
1889 - T Ribot appointed Professor at the College of France
1890 - B C Reform introduces the notions of psychology in the curricula of the Normal Schools
1890 - J E Rodrigues inaugurated research about cognition
1890 - P Janet succeeds Charcot
1890 - Y Motora became Professor of Psychology at The Imperial University of Tokyo
1891 - J M Cattell moves to Columbia University
1892 - E Titchener introduces structuralism in America
1892 - Prohibition against granting PhD to women
1892 - S Freud first referred to the unconscious & unconscious motivation
1892 - World’s Colombian Exposition in Chicago featured psychology pavilion
1893 - E Cháves named first professor of psychology in Mexico
1893 - P Janet received his MD degree under Jean–Martin Charcot
1894 - C Lloyd Morgan published Comparative Psychology
1894 - Margaret Floy Washburn the first woman to receive a PhD in psychology
1894 - Psychological and physiological aspects of bicycle racing discussed
1895 - Freud conceived his dream theory
1895 - K Pearson sent the first of two papers on correlation to the Royal Society
1895 - Mary Whiton Calkins receives a doctoral degree in psychology
1896 - S Freud presented psychogenic theory of hysteria
1896 - Term psychoanalysis first used a paper by S Freud
1898 - First experiment in sport psychology
1898 - New services at the Central Asylum of Juqueri
1899 - Helen B Thompson received a doctoral degree in psychology
1900 - Carl G Jung appointed Bleuler's assistant
1900 - First women earned PhD in Austria
1900 - Term "sport psychology" coined
1900 - The first Brazilian research study published
1901 - Alois Alzheimer first interviewed a patient who became the prototypic case of Alzheimer's disease
1902 - Ebbinghaus states "Psychology has a long past, but only a short story"
1903 - Ivan Pavlov first introduced his conditioned reflex theory
1903 - William Stern uses the term "Psychotechnique"
1904 - First female president of the American Psychological Association
1904 - Ivan Pavlov received the Nobel prize in medicine
1904 - Jung published first studies on word association
1904 - K Pearson publishes a study on the inheritance of human mental characteristics
1904 - Max Wertheimer, founder of Gestalt psychology received his PhD
1904 - Oskar Pfungst examined "Clever Hans"
1904 - Spearman published his first paper on general intelligence
1904 - St Louis World’s Fair featured psychology exhibit
1905 - First presentatiob of Binet and Simon's first intelligence test
1906 - Alzheimer presented evidence of brain changes in first "Alzheimer's" patient
1907 - Henri Piéron advocated for psychology as the study of behavior
1907 - Maurício de Campos defended the thesis "Methods in Psychology"
1908 - Binet and Simon develop tests for the measurement of child intelligence
1908 - First application of psychology to law
1908 -Term "clinical psychology" coined
1909 - First psychological clinic attached to a juvenile court
1909 - Freud's lectures at Clark University, US
1909 - G Stanley Hall, W James and S Freud
1910 - Attitude test for streetcar drivers
1911 - First mental hospital in Alberta, Canada
1912 - Society for Individual Psychology founded
1913 - C Jung broke ideological ties with Sigmund Freud
1914 - A Pinto defended thesis "Of Psychoanalysis: The Sexuality of the Neuroses"
1914 - First mental hospital in Saskatchewan, Canada
1914 - H Münsterberg uses the term "Psychotechnics"
1915 - Famous “vase/two faces” figure created
1915 - H Delgado introduced psychoanalysis in Peru
1919 - K Bühler is appointed professor of philosophy and psychology in Dresden
1920 - First patient seen at the Tavistock Clinic in London
1921 - Rorschach cards published
1923 - W Radecki arrived in Brazil
1924 - Brazilian adaptation of Binet-Simon's scale
1924 - Defining lecture on Gestalt psychology
1924 - First steps in bringing gestalt psychology to the US
1925 - L Filho assumed the chair of Psychology at the Escola Normal de São Paulo
1926 - Goodenough's Draw-A-Man Test published
1926 - Psychology laboratory established at the University of Athens
1927 - Edward Titchener died
1927 - First "Hawthorne effect" experiment
1927 - H Pieron arrived in São Paulo
1927 - K Koffka emigrated to America
1927 - Psychology examination of officer candidates in the German army
1928 - First empirical psychological research on 4,000 school children in Egypt
1929 - I Pavlov addressed the 9th International Congress of Psychology
1929 - W B Cannon introduced the modern concept of homeostasis
1931 - First woman scientist elected to the US National Academy of Sciences
1932 - British physiologists Sir Charles Sherrington and Edgar Adrian won the Nobel prize
1933 - C G Jung became professor in Switzerland
1933 - Max Wertheimer and Kurt Lewin emigrated to America
1933 - W Radecki arrived in Uruguay and taught a course of General Psychology
1934 - First electrical tracing from the human brain
1934 - Alfred Adler emigrated to America
1934 - J Moreno introduced the sociometric measurement technique
1935 - B F Skinner distinguished Pavlovian conditioning and operant conditioning
1935 - E Brunswik invited to the University of California, Berkeley
1935 - FIrst modern surgery on the frontal lobes for treatment of mental disorders
1935 - First report of the "Stroop effect"
1935 - TAT Test of Thematic Apperception developed
1935 - W Blumenfeld arrived in Peru and worked at the Universidad San Marcos
1935 - W Kohler and K Goldstein emigrated to America
1936 - First prefrontal lobotomies performed in the United States
1938 - First report of treatment of a mental patient by electroconvulsive shock
1938 - Sigmund Freud's emigrated
1939 - J Dollard, N Miller and collaborators present the frustration - aggression hypothesis
1939 - Spanish psychologist Mercedes Rodrigo arrived in Colombia
1942 - Carl Rogers developed therapy centered on the patient
1942 - Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory - MMPI published
1942 -Term "psychology of behavior" introduced to Italian psychology
1943 - Allied bombing in World War II destroyed Wilhelm Wundt's original Leipzig psychology laboratory
1943 - First intentional use of LSD
1948 - Lithium first used in trial treatment of manic behavior
1949 - Swiss physiologist Walter R Hess won the Nobel prize
1949 - The US National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) founded
1949 - Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children first published
1950 - Anna Freud spoke at Clark University, Massachusetts, USA
1950 - Chlorpromazine (Thorazine) first synthesized in France
1950 - The Porteus Maze Test published
1953 - ECT therapy denounced by psychologist
1954 - A Maslow develops hierarchical theory of human personality
1954 - Leon Festinger postulates the theory of social comparison process
1954 - Thorazine approved for prescription use in the US
1955 - South-African psychiatrist David Cooper arrives in England
1956 - First modern statement of the identity theory
1957 - Antidepressant effects of monamine oxidase (MAO) inhibitors recognized
1958 - First exposition of the information-processing approach in psychology
1958 - First social hour for international visitors at the APA Convention
1958 - J Wolpe introduced the method of systematic desensitization
1958 - Pattern Completion Test (PATCO) developed
1958 - Pope Pius XII addresses IAAP meeting in Rome
1960 - American Psychological Association delegation to the Soviet Union
1961 - G von Békésy won Nobel prize for studies
1963 - First Young Psychologists Program at an International Congress of Psychology
1963 - J C Eccles, A L Hodgkins & A F Huxley awarded Nobel prize for studies of the physiology of nervous transmission
1963 - Valium (diazepam, Hoffman-LaRoche) approved for use by the US Food and Drug Administration
1964 - Emergence of humanistic psychology as a "third force" in psychology
1965 - Brazilian military regime dissolves the Department of Psychology of the Universidade de Brasília
1965 - First use of the term behavior modification in the title of a book
1965 - Robert Zajonc analyses the process of social facilitation
1966 - Psychology banned in China
1967 - H Hartline, G Wald & R Granit won the Nobel prize for their studies of the chemistry and physiology of vision
1967 - H Putnam suggests the idea of multiple realizability of mental properties
1967 - Haldol approved for use by the US Food and Drug Administration
1968 - New York Times Magazine reported a link between criminality and an extra Y sex chromosome in men
1970 - J Axelrod, B Katz & U von Euler won the Nobel prize for their studies of the chemistry of nervous transmission
1973 - K von Frisch, K Lorenz & N Tinbergen receive the Nobel Prize in recognition of their studies on the behavior of the animals
1973 -First biochemical identification of opiate receptors in the brain
1975 - First endorphin identified
1976 - The 42 member societies of IUPsyS unanimously adopt the Resolution Concerning Professional Ethics in Psychology
1977 - S Stryker distinguished between psychological and sociological social psychology
1977 - The Law of Psychologists regulates the profession of psychologist in Israel
1978 - H A Simon won the Nobel prize in economics for research into decision-making
1980 - American Psychological Association delegation visited the People's Republic of China
1980 - Behavioral and Social Sciences added as award category for the National Medal of Science Act
1981 - D Hubel and T Wiesel won Nobel prizes for their work in visual development
1981 - M Rosenzweig estimated the total number of psychologists in the world to be 260,000
1982 - The International Union of Psychological Science (IUPsyS) admitted to the International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU)
1983 - FIrst genetic test for Huntington's disease announced
1983 - First Sandoz Prize for Gerontological Research presented in Hungary
1986 - China's "Humanistic Psychology Craze" increases
1986 - Psychological consultation becomes popular in China
1989 - Mexican Ethnopsychology developed
1991 - Inaugural American Psychological Association Award for Distinguished Contributions to the International Advancement of Psychology
1991 - PSY-PUB, first international electronic mail access to Soviet psychologists
1992 - First Advanced Research Training Seminars (ARTS) held in Brussels, Belgium
1992 - First World Mental Health Day observed
1993 - Genetic code for Huntington's disease identified
1993 - Radio program, "Healthy Personalities and Life" launched in China
1994 - Roger Sperry dies
1997 - Joseph Wolpe and Hans Eysenck die
1998 - IUPsyS recognized as NGO at the United Nations
1998 - M T Bazany, one of the most important psychologists of Czechoslovakia, dies
1999 - First international recipient of the Internaitonal Humanitarian Award, American Psychological Association
1999 - Nise da Silveira, one of the most important Brazilian Jungian psychologists, dies
1999 - The United Nations declared 1999 the International Year of Older Persons
2001 - José Miguel Salazar died
2001 - Mutual Recognition Agreement of the Regulatory Bodies for Professional Psychologists in Canada
2001 - The American Psychological Association was recognized as a non-governmental organization (NGO) affiliate of the United Nations Economic and Social Council.
2002 - Psychologist Daniel Kahneman won the Nobel prize in economics
2005 - International workshop, "Building Psychosocial Interventions in the Tsunami Aftermath"
2006 - The International Union of Psychological Science (IUPsyS) launched the International Psychology Development Fund
2006 - The International Union of Psychological Science announced the Fondation Mattei Dogan Prize in Psychological Sciences
2007 - The first annual Psychology Day at the United Nations was held in New York City
2007 - The Ursula Gielen Global Psychology Book Award established by the American Psychological Association's Division of International Psychology
2008 - Professor Qicheng Jing died in Beijing, China
2010 - Psi Chi chartered a chapter in the Republic of Ireland
2012 - APA Professional Delegation to Cuba