In 1615, in the Duchy of Württemberg, Katharina Kepler, an elderly widow, was accused of witchcraft by a neighbor. Her son Johannes, imperial mathematician and author of the laws of planetary motion, took up her defense. Jailed in 1620 and threatened with torture, she was finally released in October 1621 after fourteen months in custody, thanks to a defense written by her son. She died a few months later.
Around 2300 BCE, Enheduanna, daughter of King Sargon of Akkad, became high priestess of the Moon god at Ur. She composed hymns to the goddess Inanna and put her name to them. She is the oldest person identified as the author of a literary work, about 1,500 years before Homer.
Squeeze Earth's 4.5 billion years into a single 24-hour day. Homo sapiens shows up around 11:59:54 p.m., roughly six seconds before midnight. All of written history, from Sumerian tablets to today, fits into the final tenth of a second. A cosmic blink.