may 17, 100 BC - Invention of paper
Description:
But it took 3000 years to come up with paper! Paper was invented around 100 BC in China. In 105 AD, under the Han Dynasty emperor Ho-Ti, a government official in China named Ts'ai Lun was the first to start a paper-making industryAdded to timeline:
Date:
may 17, 100 BC
Now
~ 2127 years ago