Timeline
From Dmanisi to today. Filter by era, or scroll through the whole story.
- c. 1.8 million years agoPrehistory
The Dmanisi people
The oldest human fossils found outside Africa are unearthed at Dmanisi -- the first known step of our ancestors' journey out of Africa.
Read the full story → - c. 6000 BCNeolithic
The first wine
Clay jars at Gadachrili Gora hold the oldest known traces of grape wine in the world -- a tradition that never stopped.
Read the full story → - 5th century ADEarly Christian Kingdoms
The Georgian alphabet appears in writing
The earliest surviving Georgian inscriptions date from this century -- the start of over 1,500 unbroken years of writing Georgian in its own script.
Read the full story → - 1991Modern Georgia
Independence restored
Georgia declares the restoration of its independence from the Soviet Union, ending over a century of Russian and Soviet rule.
- 2008Modern Georgia
The August War
Russia invades Georgia and begins a military occupation of Abkhazia and Samachablo that continues today.