Medicine & Public Health
Explore Medicine & Public Health on Ever-When, an interactive timeline of history from the Big Bang to the present day.
Key events on this timeline
- Pasteur develops germ theory of disease (1861)
- Discovery of penicillin (1928)
- Jenner's smallpox vaccine (1796)
- First public demonstration of surgical anaesthesia (1846)
- Lister introduces antiseptic surgery (1865)
- Black Death (1346)
- Vesalius's De humani corporis fabrica (1543)
- Hippocrates (460 BCE)
- Harvey describes the circulation of the blood (1628)
- Discovery of insulin (1921)
- Watson and Crick discover DNA structure (1953)
- Spanish flu pandemic (1918)
- Salk polio vaccine (1955)
- Smallpox decimates the Americas (1520)
- COVID-19 pandemic (2019)
- Koch identifies the tuberculosis bacterium (1882)
- AIDS pandemic identified (1981)
- First successful organ transplant (kidney) (1954)
- First IVF baby (1978)
- Justinianic Plague (541)
- Discovery of X-rays (1895)
- Pasteur's rabies vaccine (1885)
- Cholera epidemic of 1854 / John Snow (1854)
- Semmelweis and handwashing in childbirth (1847)
- Robert Koch (1843)
- Smallpox declared eradicated (1980)
- Alexander Fleming (1881)
- Edward Jenner (1749)
- Human Genome Project completed (2003)
- Hippocratic Corpus compiled (400 BCE)