Timeline of Jewelry production

This is a timeline of Jewelry production from the first uses of metal in history to the Renaissance.

7000 BC - Uses of copper in Anatolia, Iran and Eastern Europe.
5000 BC - Uses of copper in Egypt.
4000 BC - Smelting technology for copper in Egypt and Iran.
3450 BC - Use of natural zinc/copper alloy in Egypt.
3500 BC - Gold makes an appearance in Egyptian jewellery.
3000 BC - Egypt and Iran makeing simple hammered iron beads
3000 BC - The Middle East employ semi-mass-production
2000 BC - First signs of the swagging technique
2600 BC - Beaded wires began to be used.
2500 BC - Egyptians using copper/lead alloys.
2500 BC - True iron production technology in Near East.
2500 BC - The intentional addition of silver and copper to gold.
2500 BC - Gold wires are characterised by seam lines that follow a spiral path along the wire.
2000 BC - Use of patterned punches
1500 BC - Earplugs and earrings become popular in Egypt.
1400 BC - Egypt Amarna period, using resin and mud for repoussé backing.
1400 BC - Deliberate addition of zinc to copper in Canaan.
1400 BC - Philistines have iron.
1400 BC - Very copper rich gold alloys popular in Egypt.
1000 BC - Persian sheet bronze work 0.05mm thick.
1000 BC - The start of true engraving.
900 BC - The Greeks have iron.
700 BC - World's oldest coinage in Lydia.
575 BC - In Greece, Jewelry is still very rare.
500 BC - Hafted hammers were being used in some parts.
500 BC - Iron in use in Britain
400 BC - Greeks using Beeswax for filler in repoussé.
350 BC - Use of combined punches and dies of bronze.
325 BC - Animal or human-headed hoop earrings were popular.
300 BC - Diadems are first seen.
300 BC - Red Coral popular in Celtic Jewelry.
AD 50 - Start of the Roman period, where addition of silver to gold becomes almost unknown.
AD 100 - Sulphur fills hollow gold items throughout the Roman Empire.
AD 150 - Tin rings found in Nubia
AD 300 - Lead becomes more common in places.
AD 400 - Pewter Jewelry is made.
AD 400 - A shale die is found in Britain.
AD 1500 - The Renaissance
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Famous jewellers

Elias Akaoui -- founder of Akaoui stores in Cairo, Egypt.
Paolo Bulgari -- Chairman of Bulgari.
Pierre Cartier -- Co-founder of Cartier SA
Peter Carl Fabergé -- Russian jeweller best known for the fabulous Fabergé eggs
Tom Shane -- Founder of The Shane Company and radio advertisement personality.
Charles Lewis Tiffany -- founder of Tiffany & Co..
Sotirios Voulgaris -- founder of Bulgari.
Scott Kay -- Founder of Scott Kay Inc., a bridal jewelry company.