Dates Events / Key Words

Ancient times to 600 BC

3000 BC Ancient Egyptians sophisticated medical practices
2650 BC Imhotep
3000 BC – 1100 AD Papyrus as writing material
1000 BC Chinese use compass
600 BC – 500 AD Advent of Science
Circa 385 BC Plato founded Academy
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Islamic Golden Age (8 to 14 period of cultural, economic and scientific flourishing in the history of Islam
Century)
1300 AD – 1600 AD The Renaissance
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14 Century Golden Age of Science
1453 rediscovery of ancient scientific texts was accelerated and the invention of printing
democratized learning
1450 – 1630 Maria Boas Hall
Between 1250 and 1350 Block printing on wood came to the West from China
1467 invention of wooden press reached Italy
1470s Hungary and Poland
1483 Scandinavia
1500 Presses of Europe had produced some six million books
1715 AD to 1789 AD The Enlightenment Period
1686 Issac Newton “Prinicipia Mathematica”
1689 John Locke Essay
1760 – 1840 Industrial Revolution
1905 Formulation of the theory of relativity
1953 DNA, the carrier of genetic formation
40, 000 years ago Pre-Spanish Era
1983 Caoili on the beginnings of modern science and technology in the country can be
traced back to the Spanish regime
1887 Laboratorio Municipal De Ciudad de Manila
19th Century Manila has become cosmopolitan center and modern amenities were introduced to
the city
1909 UP Las Banos
1910 UP Diliman
December 8, 1933 National Research Council of the Philippines
1946 Bureau of Science was replaced by the Institute of Science
1950 Lack of basic information, lack of support of experimental work, minimal budget,
low salaries
1958 National Science Development Board
1973 Section 9(1) of the 1973 Philippine Constitution that the “advancement of science
and technology shall have priority in the national development.”
April 6, 1968 Philippine Science Community
1969 Private universities were funded
1970s Focus on science and technology was given to applied science
1972 National Grains Authority and Philippine Council for Agriculture Research
1972 PAGASA
1973 Philippine National Oil Company
1976 National Academy of Science and Technology
1982 NSTA was reorganized (four research development councils – PCARDD, PCIERD,
PCHRD, NRCP)
 March 1983 National network
July 19 1983 Scientific Career System
1986 NSTA was replaced by Department of Science and Technology
1987 – 1992 science and technology's role in economic recovery and sustained economic growth
January 30 1987 Executive order 128
1992 Funding for the science and technology sector was tripled
1998 3000 competent scientist and engineers
April 2016 Diwata 1
June 2012 Project NOAH
2000 – 1500 BC Sculpture found in Mesoamerican sites