philosophy timeline

551 BC Confucius' Birth h

478 BC Confucius' Death bk

469 BC Socrates' Birth

399 BC Socrates' Death

495 BC Confucius was offered an office with no real power at the insistence of these students. Therefore, he resigned his post and started traveling in search of a ruler.

534 BC Confucius started his teaching and spreaded his doctrines that a successful ruler should be measured by his abilities and bring about amassing wealth and power.

537 BC Confucius decided to devote his life to trying to right the intolerable conditions at that time.

431 BC — 404 BC The Pelaponnesian War