Proto-Symbols Emerge

BC 5000

Sumerian Cuneiform Born

BC 3500

Egyptian Hieroglyphs

BC 3200

Indus Valley Script

BC 2600

Linear A Script

BC 1800

Phoenician Alphabet

BC 1400

Greek Alphabet Adopted

BC 800

Latin Alphabet Emerges

BC 700

Brahmi Script

BC 300

Armenian Script Created

AD 400

Georgian Script Appears

AD 430

Arabic Script Spreads

AD 600

Glagolitic Created

AD 862

Cyrillic Script Established

AD 940

Tangut Script Created

AD 1036

Phags-pa Script

AD 1269

Hangul Created

AD 1443

Cherokee Syllabary Invented

AD 1820

Braille Invented

AD 1824

Unicode 1.0 Released

AD 1991