ca. 600 BC  “Ionian Awakening.” Birth of natural science.  Anaximander,Thales of Miletus

ca. 450 BC  
Rational discourse recognized as a way to learning.
Socrates, Aristotle

ca. 400 AD  
Pelagius disturbs Christianity. Teaches that Life is a “do it yourself job.” Expelled from orthodoxy by Augustine. Pelagianism remains a “heresy” today

ca. 1500  
Humanist Thomas More. His novel Utopia proposes that human society can become better than it is, designed and improved by human activity in good will with intelligence

ca. 1548  
Humanist Roger Ascham educates the children of Henry VIII. Elizabeth, absorbing Humanist thought, will become monarch, reigns over age of creativity

1594  
Richard Hooker shows Martin Luther is wrong. Reason is helpful, not to be despised. Fundamentalism and Puritanism exposed as unhelpful, destructive, to  be repudiated

1610 
 Galileo. Evidence, not “revelation”, is the foundation of reliable knowledge

1859  
Charles Darwin. "Origin of Species." Human beings are both in the world and of it, contradicting Paul's assertion in the New Testament. We humans are a part of nature, not alien to it

1876  
Felix Adler. Cultivate ethical living without reference to supernaturalism

1933 
 Humanist Manifesto 1 establishes public Humanist voice

1941  
American Humanist Association organized in Chicago. World's original Humanist organization, born in America's heartland

1982  
Humanist Fellowship of San Diego founded

2003  
Humanist Manifesto 3 the latest official statement of Humanism

2007 
 Humanist Fellowship of San Diego celebrates 25 years of representing a Humanist voice in the community, successfully reaching many people in the San Diego area and beyond