Sima Qian
~145–86 BCE · Person
Han historian whose Records of the Grand Historian set the model for Chinese historiography.
On these timelines: Master, China, People
Around 145 BCE
- Qin Shi Huang unifies China (221 BCE)
- Han dynasty (202 BCE)
- Julius Caesar (100 BCE)
- Caesar crosses the Rubicon (49 BCE)
- Augustus (63 BCE)
- Great Wall of China (Qin) (221 BCE)
- Second Punic War (218 BCE)
- Han open the Silk Road (130 BCE)
- Terracotta Army buried (210 BCE)
- Great Wall first connected under Qin (215 BCE)