- Copper 9000 BCE
- Lead 7000 BCE
- Gold < 6000 BCE
- Silver < 5000 BCE
- Iron < 5000 BCE
- Carbon 3750 BCE
- Tin 3500 BCE
- Antimony 3000 BCE
- Arsenic < 2500 BCE
- Sulfur < 2000 BCE
- Mercury < 2000 BCE
- Zinc < 1000 BCE
- Phosphorus 1669
- Cobalt 1732
- Platinum 1748
- Nickel 1751
- Bismuth 1753
- Magnesium 1755
- Hydrogen 1766
- Oxygen 1771
- Nitrogen 1772
- Chlorine 1774
- Manganese 1774
- Barium 1772
- Molybdenum 1778
- Tellurium 1782
- Tungsten 1781
- Strontium 1787
- Zirconium 1789
- Uranium 1789
- Titanium 1791
- Yttrium 1794
- Chromium 1797
- Beryllium 1798
- Vanadium 1801
- Niobium 1801
- Tantalum 1802
- Palladium 1803
- Cerium 1803
- Osmium 1803
- Iridium 1803
- Rhodium 1804
- Potassium 1807
- Sodium 1807
- Calcium 1808
- Boron 1808
- Fluorine 1810
- Iodine 1811
- Lithium 1817
- Cadmium 1817
- Selenium 1817
- Silicon 1824
- Aluminium 1825
- Bromine 1825
- Thorium 1829
- Lanthanum 1838
- Erbium 1842
- Terbium 1842
- Ruthenium 1844
- Caesium 1860
- Rubidium 1861
- Thallium 1861
- Indium 1863
- Helium 1868
- Gallium 1875
- Ytterbium 1878
- Holmium 1878
- Thulium 1879
- Scandium 1879
- Samarium 1879
- Gadolinium 1880
- Praseodymium 1885
- Neodymium 1885
- Dysprosium 1886
- Germanium 1886
- Argon 1894
- Europium 1896
- Krypton 1898
- Neon 1898
- Xenon 1898
- Polonium 1898
- Radium 1898
- Radon 1898
- Actinium 1902
- Lutetium 1906
- Rhenium 1908
- Hafnium 1911
- Protactinium 1913
- Technetium 1937
- Francium 1939
- Astatine 1940
- Neptunium 1940
- Plutonium 1940
- Americium 1944
- Curium 1944
- Promethium 1942
- Berkelium 1949
- Californium 1950
- Einsteinium 1952
- Fermium 1952
- Mendelevium 1955
- Nobelium 1958
- Lawrencium 1961
- Rutherfordium 1968
- Dubnium 1970
- Seaborgium 1974
- Bohrium 1981
- Meitnerium 1982
- Hassium 1984
- Darmstadtium 1994
- Roentgenium 1994
- Copernicium 1996
- Flerovium 1999
- Livermorium 2000
- Ununoctium 2002
- Ununpentium 2003
- Ununtrium 2004
- Ununseptium 2010